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Sulani was wasted.
Bluebeard45
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Sulani is a beautiful place but could have been more. It would have made a excellent vacation place and maybe buy a second home on the beach.
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My sims only visit there if they want a tan. I've never had my sims live there. I only use the tanning and pool toys that came with that pack. Thankfully I got it on sale at 50% off.
Like Sk8rblaze said, the Sims 3 Island Paradise makes Island Living look like swimming in a puddle.
Anyway, I really enjoy Sulani. Had it been a vacation world it would have felt like a waste to me and had the expansion been vacation focused it would have been a whole other pack to judge.
I also loathe the vacation mechanic and never went on vacation in any Sims game.
Outdoor living is absolutely pointless and the only pack I truly regret buying.
So I guess we're all different
I wouldn't exactly say it was wasted. But definitely a missed opportunity for more.
I'm still on the fence about getting Island Living... I really want mermaids, but... I don't really care much for Sulani.
My Mood:
Island Living made me realize that The Sims team should rethink what an Expansion Pack means, no feature of Island Living was usable in the base game, no water area in the base game is swimmable, all "unique culture" and "festival" is Sulani exclusive, Boat and Diving is Sulani exclusive again, a rabbit hole fisherman and lifeguard career, the only thing that can be used in other world is Mermaid, Outdoor Shower and that sulani cooking pit.
Also there isn’t much to do in Sulani, and most of it is rabbit holes (careers, scuba diving, exploring, etc). Even mermaid can’t swim underwater which is.....kind of the whole point of......mermaid ??
@izecson I agree with you on EPs. GPs almost expand the base game more than EPs.
You can use the tents & equipment like the freezer boxes in Outdoor Retreat for a weekend stay, without paying rent, on one of the beaches or using one of the Spas to make somewhere to relax, have yoga classes, a sauna, a massage and by making a few changes, make a deck into the sea with a bar and have your Sims loaf there on their deckchairs and go for a swim. If you add a bedroom and extra kitchen you can even stay at the spa for days.
If you have StrangerVille you can add to the off the grid items in that off the grid lot.
And that sand that comes with Sulani you can use for the kids in the back garden in your own home Newcrest Villa and make them a sandpit to play in.
There's lots you can do if you use your imagination.
I have seen this since the release of IL and I just can't relate. I have absolute no idea what you and others talk about.
What?
A full sized world, a several new careers, a HECK of a lot of CAS and build items and tons of new animations and interactions.
There is absolutely to say this should be a game pack is just wrong.
We got a lot of CAS and build items with stuff packs like Tiny Living and Knitting Stuff, so I don't think that makes it an EP. Even without the hotels and vacations, they could have added more stuff to make it feel like a whole experience. The furniture is all resort like and expensive looking, but there are no resorts and the area is quite poor. They didn't even include any hammocks and they are a staple of such regions. And Hula dance.
It was a shock when I saw the ocean of Sulani for the first time. "A bathtub" another forum member called it. What an appropriate description. No wonder there weren't many water activities such as surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, more types of boats, or actual scuba diving. They would have looked out of place. Plus, no hotels. Still no hotels.
The depth of water, the depth of snow, the depth of gameplay -- for some reason, TS4 has a serious problem with depth in general.
I understand the comments about the shallow gameplay, but it really suits my style. I like full households and playing 8 Sims at once. I dig raising kids, and Sulani is a GREAT place to do it. Whenever I play, it’s like I’m living on the beach. I built their house over the water. There’s tons of room for a garden. And my legacy challenge is a special Mermaid edition. Once my founder became a Mermaid, every child has been born a Mermaid, even those with one non-Mermaid father. Their house has direct access from their bedrooms to the water. It warms my heart to watch them all swim together, and then hang out in clusters and chat while bobbing in the water. It’s also really cool that they can call clear skies with the blow of a horn, or make it rain as a lazy way to water the garden.
Have you ever stuck around long enough to see the turtles’ march to the sea? It’s pretty cool. I took pictures.
While I'm really glad Sulani is a residential world and not a vacation one, I agree that this would have been a perfect time to introduce the ability to buy a second home - a holiday home in Sulani and any of the existing residential worlds.
I'm disappointed that diving was not developed as a skill, and there is no underwater environment for both mermaids and regular sims to explore. That was a bizarre exclusion that still baffles and frustrates me every time I play in that world, though I think the world itself is beautiful and I love being there.
I would have loved sims to do the hula, walk on fire rocks, play ukulele and sit cross-legged! I'm still hoping they will add a Tourist Accommodation System we can use in all the worlds.
No. I quit Sims 3 after Supernatural. I was just tired with it and it's limitations.
I typed a very long rant about everything I hate about this pack, but I was rambling. I basically wish this pack didn't exist. I would rather not have gotten a tropical pack for TS4 than have gotten this disgrace. With everything that's going on with TS4's lacklusterness six years since its launch, I wish I never purchased TS4. I wish I could get a refund. I was an unwavering optimist about TS4, always seeing its potential and defending it. This optimism died the moment it was made clear that IL was a disgrace, and JTB was the nail in the coffin. The developers have turned me to loathing TS4 after all my loyalty. That says A LOT.
Pirates!! http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/906481/pirate-gp-smuggling-dueling-live-on-ship-or-build-own-and-more#latest
That is still an expansion though. There's two types of expansions: one that enhances and adds to what's already there, and one that adds something completely new to the game. Island Living is in the second category.
The focus of the pack is living in an island, so the stuff that comes with it is centered around living on an island. The stuff that comes with it isn't for a blue suburban in Willow Creek it's for living on an island. Thats kind of the whole point. It'd sort of defeat the point of the pack if it was full of stuff for suburban houses as that has zero relevance to island living and there is many other packs that are for that.
I don't like Discover University for the same reasons, but it's a university pack so obviously all the stuff is gonna be primarily for university gameplay as that's the core theme of the pack and not suburban family life.