So my last attempt to reinstall the whole thing ended in complete failure. But of course I didn't give up, instead I uninstalled everything deleting all trace of it on my system and then set the whole thing up again, step by step. Well, actually I'm still at at. I want to make sure it won't go crashing on me when I get back to my precious game so I created a new game especially for testing purposes. It's going good enough so far, I set up most of my CC except the game mods. I have terrible luck with them, going one step forwards, two steps back. It's working fine but as soon as I place a few mods - it crashes so I have to go back and try again. It's kinda frustrating.
Also currently going through all of my CC. I actually deleted the DCC cache. It was about time, really. My standards have increased a lot. Also this wonderful tool called S3PackageViewer enbles to extract single items from the set. Yay! So I am going through the set one by one saving the stuff that I might actually use. I also am finally able to name the packages to my liking. So now I have the decentwardrobe, lamekitchensink and okcookingstove. Then I basically went through all the Store stuff, deleted what I didn't want and downloaded what I wanted.
But that aside I'm still having fun with the game. I finally decided to explore the acrobat career. My boy is fabulous) Sexy outfits ftw ♥ Last one is custom though.
I decided not to fiddle with Seasons for now but I did patch up to 1.42 which brought some nice new features. Those include... swimming in the sea (about time!), new attraction system and... bananas! )) Also I got the basketball set.