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Jungle Adventure Fans
WolfNate
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So I love Jungle Adventures (and being a Vampire AND arch is all kinds of broken but I suppose a Caster has better 'stats' to do it with the sun not being a concern) and I know both ruins and grabbing artifacts in ruins are technically the same activity cuz your exploring ruins for artifacts but do you enjoy the puzzles or do you enjoy authenticating artifacts more? Also skeletons are hilarious! So what's the funnest part of JA?
Occultism in Sims is family-friendly and should not be watered down to cater to realism players
Jungle Adventure Fans 88 votes
Archaeology
35%
31 votes
Investigating Ruins
47%
42 votes
Talking to guardians
1%
1 vote
Other that's not only wanting it for CAS/BM
15%
14 votes
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I usually send typical vacationers to the market/bar and to the museum. They spend a lot of time relaxing. Maybe they go a little bit into the jungle. Most adventurous sims go farther in. I actually haven't played with the temple. They usually go swimming at the Omniscan pools. Sometimes they go into the other paths. They often camp over night.
I have sent groups exploring the jungle a few times. Two have died. A lot of families go there and just find ways to relax and spend time together since they are on vacation. Maybe they get a little familiar with the locals.
One sim married a local and brought him back. I completely disliked the specific sim that she married. It's hard to explain, he just was not nice at all. They had a baby who is named after him, but I disliked that sim enough that when he caught on fire doing laundry, I just said, "Ok, good riddance." That's not a reflection on Selvadoradians though, just that specific character. The kid is great though and is half-Selvadoradian.
It all varies but my vacations with the sims are typically more chill. I definitely spend a lot of time with the culture. It's nice to have the option to be more adventurous and some are but typically they bring tents, get supplies and go camping. They try to see how long they can stay in the jungle. Those are only sims who are more prepared and intrepid or more expendable.
But what I love most about the actual pack is exploring the jungle: the chance cards that actually take my sims' skills into account, the survival feeling, the many screenshot/painting/photography opportunities, the creepy crawlie attacks, building basecamps and I even brought home a stray dog once.
Ruins are fun, but I tend to chance my way through the puzzles. My sim was poisoned twice but she recovered by herself both times. I thought we were supposed to seek help from locals in case of poisoning.
Skeletons, I don't like them much, but they give off an old and dusty vibe to the temples and keep my sim from feeling lonely which is good.
Others, I like the culture, wish all sims could kiss cheeks in game and the rumba is very beautiful. I think it would be nice if we could have more worlds with their own specific culture. The world is very pretty, and I love the feeling of walking in circles through the jungle. Would have been nice to see more parrots, like a tree where many parrots congregate. I love the strays and the little market place with souvenirs and supplies.
but my fave parts of JA is really rumbasim and all the new pretty objects and the world I just wish there was more to do besides exploring jungle cause idk what to do in the village with my fancy sims that are too scared to explore
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Whenever my sim is in Selvadorada, I switch between the Archaeologist aspiration and the Jungle Adventurer aspiration, depending on where they are and what they are doing.
I also like exploring the local culture and the addition of ancient curses is a nice touch. I would like to see that more in future packs.
I wish the temple offered more brain teasers though. There is really no challenge at all in fully exploring the temple. TS3 WA did that pretty well.
Additionally, since CAS and BB mode are also part of the gameplay, I’m not sure why that can’t be an option here for fellow simmers?
In fact, Selvadorada is one of my more preferable places to build. From crash sites, to secret military posts, to mysterious temples etc. JA contains a couple of my favourite build objects.
I also love that chopper that scans around some of the jungle areas. Little details like that help to get fully immersed into the game.
But I think my favorite is just exploring the jungle itself and confronting the dangers within. I like to have my Sims bring tents and coolers and take their time making their way through so they have to spend at least one night in the jungle and one in the temple and they aren't allowed to go back through the main gate, not even to use bathrooms . As they start to run out of certain supplies, the risk gets higher. The challenge is to get them all the way to the temple, through it successfully, and return to town without dying, lol. It's best with a full household, but you have to pause it a lot to prevent the Sims from running back to the rental house or the bathrooms.
Good times! It's such an awesome pack!
It's randomized every time you go back to jungle.
Well the intent is to rent a house for like a sim week and investigate jungle or the culture mostly jungle hence the name
I do this as well. I have one or two 'residentials', the rest are community lots.
I like to have one for a single sim and a couple and one for a family. I don't see the need for more. I do something similar with Granite Falls - one for families, one for couples or a single sim, plus the campground.
I do enjoy the exploration every so often, but it's a bit repetitive so I don't do it with all my sims. Archaeology I haven't fully explored yet.