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Some EP are incomplete without an others
Sthenastia
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My first expansion was Get Famous EP which I have received without any better research before. I need to say, that it was mistake. Why? In clubs were microphones, but without City Living, our Sims can't sing. In the gym in DSV we have some rugs as yoga mats, which is obviously unfunctional if you don't have Spa Day. I don't have to add that DSV is ridiculously small and my sims had no space to live and I had no space to add more clubs. Please be aware, that I had only Base Game worlds and Dal Sol Valley. In my opinion Get Famous needs to be improved because this pack has no sense without another packs. I think, that EA knows that only small amount of community has only this pack and they assumed that people will buy another packs to fill (or have another packs which can fill) Get Famous gaps.
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Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
At least many of the packs either are or will be on sale soon. Many of us paid full price for most of our packs. The game has been around since 2014. If it’s lots you want, I believe ‘Get Together’ has the most lots, and comes with night club and cafe venues, a DJ booth ( that your sims can use to make money ), and a dance floor. You can even do dance off’s and team dance.and it also comes with the club system. Each sim can belong to 3 clubs I think. It also comes with a 4 person video game, and a few other games. It also comes with some nice wall paper. At least when you buy other packs you will be happy that they are integrated. You will find that many packs come with new and different fish, new types of produce, new types of recipes or new collectible items.
You might want to research Carl’s sims or the sims community ( and I’m sure there are others ), they have good descriptions of the packs. And you tubers, and streamers talk about the different packs as well. In fact , EA has done livestreams for most packs.
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Having rugs as stand-in's for a gym like yoga mat's I wouldn't really call missing gameplay opposed to just having set dressing, which there's a lot of that in Maxis some maxis builds. Don't think anyone would feel this incredible need to buy Spa Day because of fake rugs arranged to look like yoga mats. GF I feel does a very good job in intergrading cross pack functions very fluidly. Only other one I feel does this very well too is Seasons.
So, to "judge" the pack is incomplete is a little bit unfair. We've talked about the size of the world before & obviously, you can add in your own club either by building it or download it from the gallery. Yes, I do understand, not everyone has the pack, but to judge it incomplete without the other packs is not equivalent to have the Cat & Dog with the Pet's stuff. It's totally different in comparison to those.
Since you're pretty new to the game, I reckon to watch the packs review first before purchasing your next pack.
In theory, there is some good in packs being integrated together. Means the more you add, generally, the more they complement each other. But there is no denying this is also a strategy to break things up and sell more. The My First Pet controversy, along with some of the choices for Kit Packs, have been a pretty clear indication that sometimes it's not about integrating packs as they go, it's about cutting up stuff that would have been integrated anyway and selling it in separate packs.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Speaking of, that's a cool idea. If you have defeated the Mother, having an actual "Infected" as a Supernatural Type would be cool.
At the end of the day, Superstar STILL is the best fame EP ever made. Get Famous could've been great, and celebs are pretty cool, but the acting career is mediocre and it's the ONLY career included in the pack, unlike previous fame EPs which included three (Superstar: actor, singer and model; Showtime: singer, acrobat and magician).
Yeah agreed. It still has an gameplay path you could take to be honest. If there is an incomplete pack I will agree on Island Living. I mean with eco lifestyle I could have a goal like, I would create the dirtiest world in the sims, but in Island Living? Whenever Ii place my sims in sulani I was like, What's next? Atleast snowy escape has hiking and climbing mountains.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Everyone is different. I consider Island living a must-have and 90% of my Sims live there. It is by far the best and most beautiful world in the game for one thing, plus it has no snow, which is amazing.
In fact I consider it one of my top three absolutely essential packs together with City Living and Get Together. All other packs including Seasons are far far less important.
I agree! I love sulani so much
As for what looks like a yoga studio in the Gym, I am actually glad it is there. If you have spa day you can easily swap them out with real yoga mats and an instructor shows up, so it saves you from having to build a room in the gym. However, if you don't have spa day you can have your sims do push ups in that space. Or place hot tubs in there.
As for the worlds, I think it is best to think of each GP/EP's worlds as towns/cities that integrate into a larger world.
If you only have Base and GF then you have three maps to play with. Since there is a large museum in Del Sol Valley you don't need one in Willow Creek & Oasis Springs - I actually merged all of my museums into that museum sans the ones in San MyShuno - City Living and Brindelton Bay - Cats & Dogs because of their extra functionality. My version is in the gallery if you want to look at it.
Same with the Lounges and Bars. Determine which ones you like and get rid of the others. I would keep the Studio PBP Lounge in Del Sol Valley but you can get rid of the other one and place it's lot type on a lounge in Willow Creek or Oasis Springs. Once you consolidate the community lots it will free up some lots for you to customize as you see fit. Also New Crest is a blank town for you to design as you want. You don't have to have the same lots in the other towns/cities. I converted the Museum in Willow Creek into a house for my famous writer sim. I did the same thing with the gym.
It is actually great you only have one EP for now. It gives you a chance to really play all the features of that EP. I hope you have fun with GF.
When you are ready to purchase additional packs, another place to look at getting discount prices for sims EPs is CD-Keys. They have good deals on EPs, but I would wait for a sale for GPs, SPs and kits (if they go on sale), as Origin tends to have better prices. For instance when Origin ran a 50% off sale for Eco Lifestyle, which lowered to the cost to $20 in the US, CD-Keys price was $12.79.
Cheers
Did the person who made that map stop doing updates for new packs? It was pretty cool to see the worlds all connected, but I don’t think they kept it up.
looks that way from this.
there appear to be some missing