Okay. Think. Vacation time. Your sim plans 3 days on a cruise ship! With excursions like scuba diving, and swimming with dolphins, maybe “hunting for treasure” pirate style with a metal detector? There be on ship restaurants, pools, spa, bars, and entertainment. Theme nights like on a cruise ship. Dinner with the Captain. Glamor night. Art auction. Singles night. Movie night. It’s really easy to make work, most of the things on a cruise ship is in the game already. Just have to work out the “ship location” and the excursion locations and actions.
New careers. Cruise ship Captain! Stewardess, deck hand, etc.
Literally this is making me excited thinking about it. Idk about y’all but this would be something different the sims haven’t done yet. I kinda don’t want university. It’s been played out. I want different. Who’s ready for a cruise?!
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When you "buy" a ticket, you get to choose between three different cruise locations, Island Voyage, Mediterranean Voyage or Alaskan Voyage.
Next you choose the ships deck level that you want to stay on. Each level has only one working rentable room/suite and they vary in size and price.
The Grand Stateroom on the Grand Deck might be the largest and most luxurious with a small deck/balcony.
The Rivera Stateroom on the Rivera Deck might have more bedrooms and be for a family to enjoy.
The Aloha Stateroom on the Aloha Deck might be smaller but have a small balcony for viewing.
The Plaza Stateroom on the Plaza Deck might have an ocean view but through portals and has no balcony.
The Fiesta Stateroom on the Fiesta Deck would be an interior suite with no view but the least expensive.
There would also be:
The Promenade Deck that has the shops, gym, spa, Med center, etc.
The Lido Deck has a restaurant and a bar and a night club with shows for entertainment.
The Sun Deck would have the pool, hot tub, shuffle board, deck chairs, etc. Any outside activities.
The ship would be the same with each voyage but the view from the ship would depend on the location you selected. Along the route, there would be spots for taking pictures of sights along the way. The ship would make only a few stops and your sim could never leave the dock where there will always be locals selling souvenirs or food stalls selling local food and local music to enjoy (something similar to the CL festivals, each with a different theme).
A Cruise Ship is really nothing but a floating resort, so maybe they could be a pack together.
Those are my ideas for a Cruise Ship Pack, what are yours?
I will suggest to add cruise to Thailand, Cambodia, South Korea and more.
Number one, it would definitely need to be a vacation destination, and I feel like it needs to only be a choice of 3 days maybe 5 days max. It not be a select an amount of days vacation cause I feel like 3 days would give the proper experience. One day on ship, 1-3 days at destination, one day back on ship, and then you are home.
Which personally, when I was on a cruise, the ship was the best part honestly. It has everything you need anyways. So again, I think if they did it for a fixed 3 day vacation, that would be fine with me.
I love the three choice destinations, and the room/suite idea. And I like the “only one working” area, that’s fine, but I would like rabbit hole neighbors in the area, so it doesn’t feel empty.
I love how you have a break down of activity decks. I really want themes too though, or like random activities that happen, like the night back on the boat on your way home be “dinner with the captain” or the next time you cruise, “singles night”. Or maybe promotional events like “book now for a romantic cruise”. And it be themed around couples. Or choose a theme you want the cruise to have before going on the cruise. That might be harder to do though. I just like how the CL pack has the festivals, but like, more options than what they have, and then put them on a boat.
I disagree about the same ships, it would be easy to change them up for different voyages. Like one ship for each location, but each ship be different. That way you have different options.
I’m a girl that likes options.
I can too. And the sunbathers. And the buffet deck. Hahaha.
And yes, there would be other sims in other "rooms" also on vacation to interact with or maybe fall in love. And yes there could be themed cruises, singles, gay, family, etc.
I don't think, other than a few color changes, the devs will want to use resources making several ships. For the most part, our sims will be in their suites or the shops or in a restaurant. There will be time spent above deck swimming, sunning, playing games. etc.
Oh I agree. The destination would just be one lot, which like a store and a tiki bar, and maybe the beach with the option to “treasure hunt” or swim with dolphins. Maybe the dolphins drown you, maybe you see a mermaid, maybe the mermaids drown you, maybe the mermaids give you the fountain of youth potion. Not a whole world, cause I agree, the cruise ship would be the “world” but that’s also why I think if we did expansion, it could be more than one ship. If it’s just game pack, I think one ship would suffice.
And again, a lot of the destination interactions could be rabbit hole themed. Like “scuba diving” and then give you a moodlet based on how it went. Like rabbit hole excursions, and then just come back with a moodlet, or maybe a pop up option and they come back with something they found while out. Those things would be easy to put into the game and make it feel more rounded.
That’s all I really need to help me build a story.
Like these ideas but we also need beach activities when the boat docks eg shell hunting,building sand castles,wave watching and sunbathing. I am down for cruises though.
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Also I want Heart Shaped Hottubs for two sims.
I would love to have scuba diving, hunting for treasure, being able to build lots on floating platforms/ships, art auction, and it would also mean the ability to combine different lot types in one. All of that sounds awesome!
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I feel like the cruise aspect could bring that tropical theme people are wanting, and add to the game in a way we haven’t seen before.
I don't want anything tropical.
IF a cruise was added, I'd really want it to be Mediterranean(or Nordic, or Kiwi)
I have no interest in the tropics at all.
Okay. Let’s not fight. I mean beach. Lol.
Don't wanna fight, just trying to keep things clear for those who came in after the movie started.
Like there would have to be different "lots" on the boat. So you can have different lot types like shops and restaurants but then also there would be loading screens and that would be annoying.
My best guess is that the "ship" itself would be a shell (like an apartment building in CL) but we could edit each suite or shop or any "public" areas on the ship but not move or expand them. The entire ship would be like one neighborhood and the suites, shops and public areas would be the lots to edit.