Forum Announcement, Click Here to Read More From EA_Cade.
Explain CityLiving
hellojewby
Posts: 1,316 Member
Ok I just got it. I'm poking around but..what do we do? I have an apartment. It shows different districts but what do you do after that? Am I missing something? How is this an expansion pack? There isn't anything to DO. Explain it to me. Enlighten me. Pretty please?
let's be friends on origin: hello0jewby
*Team Seasons*
*Team Seasons*
1
Comments
Have fun!
Like any expansion/DLC, it is what you make of it so you might find other ways to use what the pack provides.
Happy Simming!
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
https://simsvip.com/sims-4-city-living-guide/
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_4:_City_Living
Get out of the building and go explore the city. You should go to the small karaoke place with all the karaoke machines. Try to get your Sim the new singing skill, and then head over there and get in a contest with other Sims. The singing is so horrible it will make you roll on floor, at least it did me.
Wait for the festival announcements and visit those. You can get some new stuff not in buy mode. Such as swag. And win some free fireworks, good for starting fires, too.
Check out the new careers, you can work from home. That's a plus on those. And they aren't easily accomplished. Especially if you have toddlers in an apartment good luck with that.
The neighbor experience depends on if you have several in a building. If there is no neighbors the experience will be boring. It's when they complain that makes it fun.
If you like the flea market you should make your Sim visit one. And if you really want to play a poor Sim then have them collect stuff, and buy a flea market table and set it in the world close to home. Fill it and go run it everyday. It will stay safe and your Sim can have a yard sale as long as you have stuff for the table anywhere in any world.
Try your had at being a politician, speeches aren't easy, and who is going to listen? lol
Or be a food critic, that's an interesting one, too.
Looking for romance? Hop over to the romance festival where everyone is flirty.
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/cityliving/
My sims move to San Myshuno if they want to live in an urban apartment. They visit San Myshuno if they want to hang out in more of a city or eat at a food stall or if they want to party with karaoke. There could be more community venues. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll release an extension like Magnolia Springs. For now, as others have pointed out in another thread, you can customize certain lots with other content that you have to give the city more of the feel that you are wanting if you aren't happy with the venues that are there. I'm cool with them but I also have a bunch of other venues in the various worlds that any of my sims can visit.
If you are looking for some sort of directed gameplay, the setting lends itself to a rags-to-riches story. Start in a dingy apartment and work your way to a posh penthouse. Also, others have mentioned the work-from-home option for careers which does add flexibility.
Now, cook a dinner, and, before you eat, practice singing or playing an instrument. Before the next morning your Sim will have found all sorts of things to do.
2. Visit the festivals when they pop up, they don't change so once you've done it once you've done it all you realistically need to.
3. Experience heavily Americanized foreign 'culture'
4. Look at the fake bustling city (holds zero gameplay value whatsoever, but the developers made sure to use this as a marketing tool)
City Living is not a good EP in my opinion. There's barely anything in it, but what is there heavily borrows from the base game. Every feature was inflated far beyond their usefulness, and pretty much none of the big new features can be utilized by the player outside of the way Maxis wants them to be used. The city world itself, which was essentially Maxis top priority for the entire pack, is super small and IMO looks super ugly. My general rule of thumb with Sims 4 is if they advertise the world as a feature the pack is going to be a major disappointment. It started with Get Together which shipped with an abysmally small amount of new stuff, and continued with this pack although they put a lot of effort into reusing what was already there. Not exactly what I am looking for in a $40 DLC.
And how does this differ from any other feature in any other pack? In any other version of the game?
What do you mean?
Festivals in Sims 3 were fully customizable, and could be created and placed in any world EA or custom. For every world EA released (even store worlds) they released a separate festival lot for free for players with Seasons installed. Sims 2 didn't have festivals so there's no comparison that can be made.
There is such a thing as replay value. Something the festivals definitely do not have IMO. If we could create them ourselves it would be a different story, but as is the festivals are primarily repurposed base game stuff that will not change no matter how many times you visit them.
ETA: Building on festivals, I used to add all kinds of things in Sims 3. The seasonal lot market was phenomenal and allowed me to have dynamic changing festivals, that I could change even further if I felt bored with the selections. Sims 4 does not do this, and will not do this in the foreseeable future. Once you have visited the festivals you have done all you need to do, because you as the player have no option for any kind of different experience.
Besides apartments, festivals and that new singing skill, there really isn't much going on. The whole city is just a backdrop. It's still the same game.
Get Together is the only EP that really impacts the gameplay.