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island living or university ? (why?)
ladybreid
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I've been away awhile and can only get either or of the 2 but not both at this time. Im mostly a family player and builder.
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island living or university ? (why?) 136 votes
University
58%
79 votes
Island living
41%
57 votes
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University adds a fair bit of new game play and some of the best CAS items. The game play though I find to be very repetitive. It's all homework and not much of anything else. The on campus events are quite lame and I stopped bothering with them after my sim spent a week or two living in dorms. I couldn't be bothered with the secret society as I was focused more on my sims grades. I've actually had my last few sims get their degree while living at home cause it's actually much easier than having them move to on campus living area.
That said:
If I got IL is there a way to turn off merfolk?
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
University is excellent only if you're into the uni lifestyle and education, which I am not. I don't play games to do homework lol. But I do love the bikes.
Island Living has a lot of nice areas, sure, but most of them look like unfinished "secret-ish" locations and function only as decoration.
Don't get me started on the mermaids, they were poorly implemented into the pack imo, which is a shame because the updated model and rig is 10x better than TS3.
However, University has the ability for your sim to have a higher education. The world for university isn't that big and you have to have your cheats available and shift key then click on your sim to send them to university or it seems that it takes way too long for your sim to get accepted into a college. It's not like you can apply when your sim is a teen like in normal offline life. You don't have to live in a dorm to go to university. Teen and older can ride bikes as a mode of travel. There are fun things to do. There are many class options your sim can take. THere are oan options if your household can't afford to send yor college sim to college.
I agree University is great for the family player. Allows the kids to go to University and fun aspects to it as well.
I've had IL since it came out, but I've not had anything to do with mermaids since I just ignore those socials? I'm not sure exactly but I've never seen any in my game if that helps.
I vote for IL because if you're a family player it'll be hard to play uni unless your university students attend from home in which case you'll miss out on some experiences or you rotate away from your family and play the students alone.
No, but you don't need, i guess. I haven't ever saw a mermaid or even the island ancestors. And i've played a lot in Sulani already.
If yo don't try to find them they aren't noticeable. The island spirits.. If you live in the house with the spirit lot trait (you can remove the trait) or purposely add the trait to any other house you will see some blue lights in the house once in a while that you can ignore or interact with as you please to see the spirits.
If you don't live in a house with the trait you won't see the lights
Sorry for caps but Island Living is the worst pack as far as “bang for your buck”.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it. But it truly only feels like it includes content only worth half of full price.
I do like island living but it is definately lacking something something.
There's a decent amount for your Sims to do while attending, and I also love that you can choose your level of a challenge, whether it be your Sim taking just a couple classes or going for a full workload of four.
Personally, I have them both. I love Island Living for the beach aspect. University is great for the college aspect.