@foxybilly the bits and pieces come either from trash cans that people have thrown trash into, or by recycling items in your personal or household inventory at the recycler. There is a recycler at one of the starter community spaces, and they can be purchased in build/buy as well. For the dumpsters, you have to wait for around 30 game-minutes for the dumpsters to generate trash to rummage/dive through.
@lanlyn I understand that for some reason, when voting is turned off, the notifications still appear even though the NAP has not actually been enacted. I always play with voting on so can't confirm.
I did go ahead and buy Eco Lifestyle when Steam had it on sale recently, 50% off. I loaded up my trial household and have continued playing, testing things out. I also installed a few mods as I noticed some things I wanted toned down. So far, I'm enjoying the expansion, haven't noticed any big issues.
Eco career: Civil Designer. We did have a glitch when choosing a promotion branch later, but I think I resolved it.
My couple had been working hard, so I took them out bowling with a couple of friends.
I rearranged the large bedroom upstairs and added a second bathroom.
Dumpster Romance.
The new gardener bot. I named him Gardy.
Gardy must keep fruits and veggies fresh in the fridge.
We voted for a Maker Space on the community lot. I added a few things. In the kitchen: fridge, stove, bar counter.
Dining table, flower arranging work bench, music speakers.
Two more easels, chess table, couches, showers.
A problem with the fabricator. Showering didn't help.
Our market stand makes as much money as the careers.
@RubyxAngel I completed a rotation that exclusively focused on Eco-Living, and here are the links to my posts. They might help.
Meet Aiden Sol. He's a Merman and a Master Maker in Port Promise.
As a Master Maker, he can give sims recipes on the Fabricator. He gave my sim Arihi a Recipe Autonomously while I wasn't playing either of their households. I got the Notification because they were marked as played households. I play Rotation.
This is where I wrote most of my story for Aiden. Basically, he got in a lot of fights with the Fabricator, but I noticed that it happened less often when he was in a better mood. He bonded with flies, tried to squish roaches, and he had a visit from someone with ill intentions. Eco Lifestyle has a unique prank phone calls with actual consequences, and I had a lot of visits from the Port Promise residents. These visits weren't your average neighborhood welcome. Instead, there are sims with unique traits that will show up. Bess and her Husband are the Entrepreneurs, Knox is an Eco Master, and Tinker is a Master Maker. You can add these traits without mods using cheats.
As for the person that showed up, he's one of my Darkfin Sims, and he's in the Criminal Career. The Sims that ask about Vinny seem to be tied to crime.
As for him being in his merform when the Fabricator acted up. I used the cheats Traits.Equip_Trait Trait_OccultMermaid_Mermaidform and Traits.Remove_Trait Trait_OccultMermaid_MermaidForm to change his form. I use these cheats so often to control the form my merfolk use that I wish their was a toggle for them. I mostly use the cheat to change their form when they are laying down or other situations that wouldn't normally change their form. I've also been able to experiment with other interactions I think would be awesome in Underwater Lots between merfolk. Some interactions work better than others, but that's a topic for an Island Living thread.
Bess's Husband, Jules, supposedly scams the Port Promise Residents with his ideas on Fashion. The couple does have an interesting spin with their walking animations. Anyways, Aiden prefers the Merman fashion. He had Outfits for Eco Living and Merman Occult Attire. I used the "Try on Outfits" with the Dresser he made and this is what he chose to wear.
The thing that makes Bess and Jules so Notorious is how they scam people with their business plans. It's worth noting that you can get fizzing recipes from Bess.
This is what I did with my Build playing Eco Lifestyle. I didn't create much of a story because of some bugs that took time for the game to work through. The biggest bugs are tied into NAPs that change the World of Port Evergreen. The Port Promise Neighborhood is one of the most affected.
I did include a temporary solution that works on the PS4. A similar solution might be possible with other consoles and the computer.
Here is the bug I encountered in Port Promise. Screenshots are in the link, but essentially, the game changes the scenery after enacting two NAPs. It takes two sim weeks for the game to load all the changes to the World, but I found that most of the bugs seem to resolve themselves after the NAPs are enacted. Consequently, It takes around 28 sim Days for the world to become stable for gameplay. The pyramids flicker more as you move faster through the world. The Pyramids appear where the world gets changed by the NAPs, so some of the Pyramids immediately get removed after a NAP is enacted. Port Promise has the most significant changes and bugs the most.
Basically, this is how I felt about the Gameplay right after I finished the Rotation. I own the pack and play on the Console, so everything I share is without mods because the PS4 is not compatible with them.
From what I understand, there are more features to the game than what I got to. You can grow a meat wall with vertical grow beds and you can fabricate a device that instantly changes the Eco Footprint. Aiden is a Freelance Crafter, and I noticed that certain gigs are impossible to complete. If you place items in world, the gigs should be possible to complete. Here are a few Screenshots.
If you "Send to Client" via the computer under the "Freelancer" option you will get paid for sending the item, but you don't get any credit for it. Essentially, you get paid for your work, it won't count toward your career tasks, and you spend bits and pieces that don't get refunded. If you are low on bits and pieces, this can be a problem for completing the last freelancer task.
The Client will send a notification after it's sent via the computer, but this notification is deceptive.
But you will get paid.
It just doesn't count toward your career, and this is the real problem. You lose career progress as a result of this bug. The bug is extremely exploitable because you can send the client dozens of what they are looking for through the computer and make money for each item sent, and because it doesn't count toward the career task, it's essentially an endless source of free money as long as you have bits and pieces and the gig is active.
If you select an item in world that has the gear symbol, you can also "Send to Client"
The item disappears, you get credit for the task, and you receive the same notification from the computer.
Because I was playing a challenge for myself, I did not intentionally exploit the bug, but I'm stubborn and identified it when I got bad responses from the client after the gigs expired.
Rugs do not have an interaction in world, so those gigs will always fail. Part of me expected there to be at least a color preference since you can buy dyes to fabricate with, but it doesn't really matter what an item looks like, its color, or the emotional aura if it's a candle.
Has anyone turned a park into a community space.
I am considering putting the pack back for mainly this reason. I really liked the community spaces, but detested NAPS.
There are also a few other features I want back, like furniture making and shipping container wallpapers and doors.
The other feature of the pack I will just have to work to eliminate or minimize.
As far as converting my parks to community spaces, I want an activity space for all the districts in the town and I will create clubs that represent each district and have those sims hang out at my community space/park. This will allow my neighborhoods to feel more like neighborhoods representing the people who actually live there.
So, in the case of Willow Creek, there will be the:
-Pedula View Society
-Court Yard Lane Society
-Foundry Cove Society.
Etc. or however many clubs the game allows to be assigned as hangouts. Hopefully five.
@CK213 I almost forgot this. A single sim can only create or join 3 Clubs. So, you would need to create two sims to have 5 different clubs in one lot.
That won't be a problem.
I play multiple households that I control.
Also, I don't need more that 3 clubs at a lot at any given time, but I do hope that at least 5 can be assigned and the game just randomly pick up to three out of the five to show up. Otherwise I will just have to be selective about who can join the club. Most likely the sims that I am most interested in.
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@lanlyn I understand that for some reason, when voting is turned off, the notifications still appear even though the NAP has not actually been enacted. I always play with voting on so can't confirm.
Eco career: Civil Designer. We did have a glitch when choosing a promotion branch later, but I think I resolved it.
My couple had been working hard, so I took them out bowling with a couple of friends.
I rearranged the large bedroom upstairs and added a second bathroom.
Dumpster Romance.
The new gardener bot. I named him Gardy.
Gardy must keep fruits and veggies fresh in the fridge.
We voted for a Maker Space on the community lot. I added a few things. In the kitchen: fridge, stove, bar counter.
Dining table, flower arranging work bench, music speakers.
Two more easels, chess table, couches, showers.
A problem with the fabricator. Showering didn't help.
Our market stand makes as much money as the careers.
Meet Aiden Sol. He's a Merman and a Master Maker in Port Promise.
As a Master Maker, he can give sims recipes on the Fabricator. He gave my sim Arihi a Recipe Autonomously while I wasn't playing either of their households. I got the Notification because they were marked as played households. I play Rotation.
This is where I wrote most of my story for Aiden. Basically, he got in a lot of fights with the Fabricator, but I noticed that it happened less often when he was in a better mood. He bonded with flies, tried to squish roaches, and he had a visit from someone with ill intentions. Eco Lifestyle has a unique prank phone calls with actual consequences, and I had a lot of visits from the Port Promise residents. These visits weren't your average neighborhood welcome. Instead, there are sims with unique traits that will show up. Bess and her Husband are the Entrepreneurs, Knox is an Eco Master, and Tinker is a Master Maker. You can add these traits without mods using cheats.
As for the person that showed up, he's one of my Darkfin Sims, and he's in the Criminal Career. The Sims that ask about Vinny seem to be tied to crime.
As for him being in his merform when the Fabricator acted up. I used the cheats Traits.Equip_Trait Trait_OccultMermaid_Mermaidform and Traits.Remove_Trait Trait_OccultMermaid_MermaidForm to change his form. I use these cheats so often to control the form my merfolk use that I wish their was a toggle for them. I mostly use the cheat to change their form when they are laying down or other situations that wouldn't normally change their form. I've also been able to experiment with other interactions I think would be awesome in Underwater Lots between merfolk. Some interactions work better than others, but that's a topic for an Island Living thread.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17974288/#Comment_17974288
Bess's Husband, Jules, supposedly scams the Port Promise Residents with his ideas on Fashion. The couple does have an interesting spin with their walking animations. Anyways, Aiden prefers the Merman fashion. He had Outfits for Eco Living and Merman Occult Attire. I used the "Try on Outfits" with the Dresser he made and this is what he chose to wear.
The thing that makes Bess and Jules so Notorious is how they scam people with their business plans. It's worth noting that you can get fizzing recipes from Bess.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17976514/#Comment_17976514
This is what I did with my Build playing Eco Lifestyle. I didn't create much of a story because of some bugs that took time for the game to work through. The biggest bugs are tied into NAPs that change the World of Port Evergreen. The Port Promise Neighborhood is one of the most affected.
I did include a temporary solution that works on the PS4. A similar solution might be possible with other consoles and the computer.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17976361/#Comment_17976361
Here is the bug I encountered in Port Promise. Screenshots are in the link, but essentially, the game changes the scenery after enacting two NAPs. It takes two sim weeks for the game to load all the changes to the World, but I found that most of the bugs seem to resolve themselves after the NAPs are enacted. Consequently, It takes around 28 sim Days for the world to become stable for gameplay. The pyramids flicker more as you move faster through the world. The Pyramids appear where the world gets changed by the NAPs, so some of the Pyramids immediately get removed after a NAP is enacted. Port Promise has the most significant changes and bugs the most.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17973465/#Comment_17973465
Basically, this is how I felt about the Gameplay right after I finished the Rotation. I own the pack and play on the Console, so everything I share is without mods because the PS4 is not compatible with them.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17976124/#Comment_17976124
I own the pack, so I'll probably revisit it whenever I play Aiden's rotation again.
If you "Send to Client" via the computer under the "Freelancer" option you will get paid for sending the item, but you don't get any credit for it. Essentially, you get paid for your work, it won't count toward your career tasks, and you spend bits and pieces that don't get refunded. If you are low on bits and pieces, this can be a problem for completing the last freelancer task.
The Client will send a notification after it's sent via the computer, but this notification is deceptive.
But you will get paid.
It just doesn't count toward your career, and this is the real problem. You lose career progress as a result of this bug. The bug is extremely exploitable because you can send the client dozens of what they are looking for through the computer and make money for each item sent, and because it doesn't count toward the career task, it's essentially an endless source of free money as long as you have bits and pieces and the gig is active.
If you select an item in world that has the gear symbol, you can also "Send to Client"
The item disappears, you get credit for the task, and you receive the same notification from the computer.
Because I was playing a challenge for myself, I did not intentionally exploit the bug, but I'm stubborn and identified it when I got bad responses from the client after the gigs expired.
Rugs do not have an interaction in world, so those gigs will always fail. Part of me expected there to be at least a color preference since you can buy dyes to fabricate with, but it doesn't really matter what an item looks like, its color, or the emotional aura if it's a candle.
I am considering putting the pack back for mainly this reason. I really liked the community spaces, but detested NAPS.
There are also a few other features I want back, like furniture making and shipping container wallpapers and doors.
The other feature of the pack I will just have to work to eliminate or minimize.
As far as converting my parks to community spaces, I want an activity space for all the districts in the town and I will create clubs that represent each district and have those sims hang out at my community space/park. This will allow my neighborhoods to feel more like neighborhoods representing the people who actually live there.
So, in the case of Willow Creek, there will be the:
-Pedula View Society
-Court Yard Lane Society
-Foundry Cove Society.
Etc. or however many clubs the game allows to be assigned as hangouts. Hopefully five.
That won't be a problem.
I play multiple households that I control.
Also, I don't need more that 3 clubs at a lot at any given time, but I do hope that at least 5 can be assigned and the game just randomly pick up to three out of the five to show up. Otherwise I will just have to be selective about who can join the club. Most likely the sims that I am most interested in.