Maxis Betray Lot Builders
Indeed... Sue posted a topic in the Build a Lot forum about this, basically it has very bad reprecussions for lot builders and recolourers. Maxis have altered the coding in Pets which now prevents ALL recolours from packaging with a lot. New meshes and their recolours are fine it is JUST MAXIS RECOLOURS But this means that say someone did a really fab recolour of then Glamour Life Stuff pack bedroom set and decorated a whole room around that recolour. The packaged file would still include the original Maxis meshes, but NOT that fab new recolour... ONLY the maxis default ones.
Maxis and EA led many of us to believe this was merely a bug which would be sorted with a patch but it is not. It was an INTENTIONAL code change done by Maxis, because people over on the official exchange were flooding the exchange with bloated lots packed full of recolours they hadnt taken the time to remove.
Basically Maxis, who yes, have been very supportive before have been very underhanded in this, and many of us here would NOT have bought Pets if we had known of the code change - they also plan this code change with Seasons so please be aware of this.
SO i guess the folks of TSR are going to have to think about a possible work around for lot builders to include maxis recolours - the suggestion has been made to let lot builders include the recolour files as a seperate zip file that could be uploaded. We shall see.. CycloneSue and RICCI have started threads over ont he Exchange's BBS so hop over there if you wanna scream your protests upon their ears - however, you need to scream loudly to get in about the noise of them clinking their coffers about and laughing at us all for being so darn susceptible.
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