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Off The Grid Living
jazminesarah
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How would your sim live, like what would you put in the house and help fill their needs?
Example;
Cooking
Lights
Entertainment
Etc...
I know the waterfall and swimming in the beach fills hygiene.
Plus having the wash board and clothes line for laundry.
So excited for Island living and the trait, hopefully in another pack they’ll add more to this like solar power and windmills.
Example;
Cooking
Lights
Entertainment
Etc...
I know the waterfall and swimming in the beach fills hygiene.
Plus having the wash board and clothes line for laundry.
So excited for Island living and the trait, hopefully in another pack they’ll add more to this like solar power and windmills.
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Lights: someone said something about candles
Entertainment: beachy things, board games, outdoor games, etc
Food/Drinks:
Lighting:
Entertainment:
Hygiene:
Cooking: barbecues (the barrel one from JA), the coolers and campfires from OR, the new cooking pit. I plan to avoid fridges unless they are updated to look like cabinets or shelves or otherwise made more low-tech
Lights: candles
Entertainment: books, card tables, musical instruments like the violin and guitar, the easel, toys. Lots of choices there.
Toilet: toilet bush. I wish they'd add an outhouse or an earth toilet.
Hygiene: shower in the rain (came with Seasons), waterfall; I am surprised to hear that swimming improves hygiene, because that wasn't the case in pools, but, if true, that will make it easy to keep sims clean. I wish they'd added a hot springs hot tub.
Energy: beds, tents. They need to bring back sleeping bags and find a way to make coffee and tea without appliances.
Something was said about certain objects being updated to work off-the-grid in the next patch. Maybe that means outdoor showers, short-wave radios, plumbing-free toilets, oil lamps, pantries instead of fridges, etc. I hope so; more options are always good.
Pools do increase hygiene (I did that for my historic save), albeit very slowly. Not sure if swimming in the ocean would do that same but there’s always the waterfall and shower in the rain (which I can’t ever get to work reliably).
I wish coolers could store food like fish and meals too. I think they’re adding more campfires and the pit bbq to this pack.
What I wish is that you could search a pile of wreckage and find materials like wood, cloth, leaves that you could then use to craft basic survival needs (shelter, fishing spear or trap, all the way up to a canoe). And also get some materials from harvestable like coconut trees. Maybe you’d need to first craft/find a knife and then as you get better at “crafting”, you can make more sophisticated stuff. The woodworking table isn’t quite the same for that. That would be so great 😍
In debug you can find the "bad quality" toilet from the woodworking bench. It looks like a box with a bucket under it. I'm hoping they make it work OTG.
Would be amazing if they added more in a patch. It’s going to be such a fun lot trait to play.
Right now I could see it being a little disappointing without having the outdoor shower/toilet and just those little things to make it more realistic.
Will definitely being saving this list. I swear I haven’t even used half of this stuff and sure as hell didn’t even think about the lanterns and candles hahah.
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.Ordering Pizza.
.Grill Cooking Thingy.
.Vendor Stalls.
-Energy
.I'll just buy a bed, this isn't off the grid.
-Hygiene
.Hoping Bathtubs don't count. Otherwise I'm out of luck.
-Social
.Talking to people. Or they'll just be a loner.
-Fun
.Card Games!!!
-Bladder
.Time to find a bush!
Has ordering a pizza ever worked for anyone? I think maybe the pizza has actually shown up once out of the many years I’ve played 😜
Works for me. Not every time, but you don't pay until the delivery person shows up, so at least I'm not wasting 25 simoleans.
But I am exited to use this lot trait once and live faaaar away on an island with only the necessary things and just be a fisherman or something.
Maybe one of my elders can ever do this.
Hmmm... now the ordering pizza tactic might not work...
I was wondering about selecting odd jobs.
I voted for that too. So so excited about the Off Grid aspect of the pack. Hope we will see more little things added going forward in the game. Will play a bit with my current save in the Island to get a feel for how Off Grid works and set up a new Castaway Sim-challenge for myself. Had a blast last time and now I think it will be so much better. Just want to scout the Islands and see how it works first.
Super excited
I read in another thread that the Sim had to go to another lot to use the phone to get a job, so I don't think they will be able to order delivery.
I wonder if there will even be vehicles "driving" on the island.
I really hope phones will not work. I would love to use this trait in other worlds. I can imagine the fun of making a "medieval-type" world.
if they show up. its probably harder on a island .i'm picturing a snorkling pizza guy.
From what I've read, cell phones won't work when you're on a lot with the Off The Grid trait. But I don't see why it wouldn't work if you go into town or to another lot.