We know that, for many of you, Mods are an important part of your game experience.

Maxis strives to support the creativity of our community. “Mods”: A blanket term referring to any player-made content for the game – this includes both Custom Content and Game Mods.For example: a new trait, new console cheats, objects with new functionally, new UI functionality, etc. These Mods may include script code, but not always. “Game Mods”: These are Mods that add features or change functionality of the game.For example: new hair, new clothing, new furniture, etc. Sometimes just referred to in The Sims community as “CC”.

Let’s start by defining some terminology: