Mod The Sims

Mod The Sims is the primary custom content site from which content was downloaded for use in all of the Gerosha Chronicles, the Ciem Trilogy in particular. It was founded in late 2004 and early 2005 by users Delphy and HystericalParoxysm, with the intent of providing a constructive alternative to The Sims 2 Exchange for players of The Sims 2 to download material from. It also became the best site available to obtain game hacks from, and remained so for a long time.

Utterly Sims
Main article: Utterly Sims

Several sites eventually branched off from it as certain members of its community found it more worth their while to expand. The Dozerfleet founder in particular found it more pragmatic to create Utterly Sims at The Dozerfleet Forum as an alternative to having to constantly try to force every single download and screenshot to meet the ever-increasing (and ever-more-arbitrary-and-contradictory) standards that MTS began adopting.

Reasons for leaving
While still keeping the CormorantEnt username at MTS to allow for downloading from it as-needed, the Dozerfleet founder has since moved all Dozerfleet-branded downloadable content off that site for good as of 2010. This had to do not only with increasing demands for quality (including the prospect of sudden permanent removal of material that formerly was standards-compliant,) but also with creative differences with certain staff members on technical issues, as well as the desire in increase Utterly Sims' marketing potential by removing conflicting interests.

Much of the conflict revolved around unwillingness by some to accept certain terms and definitions as valid when describing documented glitches with the game's Debug Mode trash can cheats. Other issues dealt with rejection of downloads for reasons that were false, and with heavy-handed and non-constructive reactions by certain staff to threads; the reactions indicating an unwillingness to read thoroughly before acting.

In addition, abusive remarks made by certain non-staff users to the Dozerfleet founder were given a free pass by certain members of MTS staff, including remarks that would have warranted action had another user been targeted with similar remarks. Further acts of targeted harassment committed against the Dozerfleet founder in MTS Social's Chat channel led to a self-exile from chat.

Sci-Fi Sims
Also alleging abuse by MTS Staff, Amyo87 of MTS splintered off to create the downloads wiki titled Sci-Fi Sims, hosted at the farm Wetpaint. Some Dozerfleet mods are also available through Sci-Fi Sims. Amyo87 is known there as AmytheJedi, and Amy's creations revolve primarily around specialized re-creation of major sci-fi films and TV shows. Her interests are primarily in Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Watchmen. Courtesy of Dozerfleet influence, the site also contains downloads of material from The Mask and Snakes on a Plane.

InSimenator
So great was the demand for InSimenator mods when they first came out that MTS risked becoming known for this one and only mod, one that was passionately condemned by Electronic Arts. The InSimenator eventually got its own site, along with a section for Squinge-related mods. InSimenator.NET, later InSimenator.org, continues to evolve as a network and website. However, it no longer supports its namesake download. TwoJeffs' Blender is promoted for use in its place.

More Awesome Than You
Not wishing to clog up and dominate the game hacks section of MTS with early versions of game mods, TwoJeffs and JMPescado branched off to create their own site with Crammyboy, and titled it More Awesome Than You (or "MATY.") While MATY has been through various transformations in appearance and content, it has remained one of the most popular go-tos for experimental game hacks. The hacks at MATY are focused primarily on removing annoying behaviors from Sims games.

Simlogical
This site since its inception became a specialty shop for IngeJones and her experiments in creating institution-oriented mods.

Helaene
Helaene being an artist for a living, she needed a way to constantly update her own website and material. For the longest time, her site was hosted on the same servers as MTS, making her officially affiliated while remaining separate. Helaene's specialty is in makeup, though she is also known for creating highly realistic skintone and eye default replacements that have allowed Sims storytellers to create more life-like photos when combined with GunMod's Radiance Lighting.

Rose Sims
Jen, being from China, wished for a site that would appeal primarily to a Chinese audience of Sims players. She also wanted a site that would specialize in her fantasy creations. Hence, she created the identity of ROSE-SIMSTV at MTS. When that didn't prove sufficient to her needs, she dropped "SIMSTV" from her alter-ego and became known simply as Rose to the outside world.

Rose currently runs Rose Sims at http://rosesims2.net. It is the primary go-to site for custom weapon and hair meshes, offering things that cannot be found even at such weapons specialty locations as VampCat's section at Sims2Workshop nor hair as elaborate as that found at PeggySims.

Simbology
This site became a specialty store in the creation of reproductive mods and semi-expansions for The Sims 2, eventually expanding its way into Sims 3 content. Jase, creator of the InTeenimator, currently hosts his popular-yet-controversial hack on Simbology. Several mods created by TwoJeffs that have been improved from their versions on MoreAwesomeThanYou have also been added, as well as a hacked plant called the Blender. Combined with Cathair2005's hacked dresser, the Blender helps function as a replacement for the now-unsupported InSimenator. Users of the Blender have noted how it is not nearly as prone to interfere with game functionality as was its spiritual predecessor, as it is more stably built and less likely to cause game crashes.

By far, the InTeenimator remains Simbology's claim to fame. This mini-expansion completely changes the game's treatment of reproductive code, allowing for Teens and Young Adults to have all the same privileges as Adults. It also includes miscarriages, abortion, homosexual reproduction, alien reproduction, teen pregnancy, birth control, and fertility treatments. When used in conjunction with certain hacks by TwoJeffs, it may also be used to regulate the births of triplets and quads.

Sexy Sims
This splinter site is unique in that it is entirely affiliated with and run by MTS staff. What sets it apart is that it specializes in sexually explicit content that would not be suitable on a site where 13-year-old members could access content simply by lying about their ages. Catching "12'ers" on Sexy Sims has proven infinitely easier than on MTS's main site, and most of them are banned accordingly.

Other sites
At least 88 prominent fansites are known to exist for the Sims franchise, some of which were never part of MTS initially and others of which are none-too-ashamed of having splintered off with it. Some remain affiliated or associated with MTS, while others have become all-but-entirely independent sites, offering only links to MTS user meshes when necessary.

A complete list of "noteworthy" fansites can be found here.