A bit of a long wordy title but I wanted to word it in a way to foster open discussion. By mod recommendations I don't just mean mods themselves. It would be good to share resources as well. A lot of older mods have been archived together but plenty are still hosted on independent websites rather than hubs like Nexus mods or Mod the Sims.
I was looking at mods for the original Sims not too long ago and it seems like the scene has been pretty quiet for a while now with the exception of a few holdouts.
I'm not too sure how hard it would be to create mods for either game.
I imagine outfit overrides for The Sims will be relatively common because of The Sims Creator and I have seen plenty of object reimplentations in The Sims with them being hacked for additional functionality or reskinned but I feel like I haven't seen a lot of mods adding brand new content or functionality.
I haven't gotten around to trying to mod The Sims 2.
The mod in the attached photo is "Starfleet Career for The Sims 1" by Corylea. I think it was posted in 2021. Seemed fitting for Lemmy.
It definitely gets people over the first couple setup hurdles but apparently there are still issues. I believe most of them are related to things not scaling correctly but I wouldn't be surprised if The Sims 2 had the glitched shadows.
If you look at the Steam reviews you can probably find the specifics and fixes.