I feel that Island Living as a pack offers very little, so adding swimming to existing or future worlds would just diminish one of its main selling points... unfortunately. It's like if they added the ability to create apartments outside of San Myshuno.
Didn't they said they'll be working on the existing and future worlds to make water swimmable?
No they haven’t. As is, ocean swimming is a key feature of this expansion pack. If they enabled that in other worlds it would still probably require this expansion pack, unless they promote one of this packs only features to a base game feature which would play out poorly for the expansion.
Just like apartments, the ocean you can swim in will not extend to the rest of the game. I know they added “wading” but that’s not even remotely close to swimming. They just enabled it so your sim can walk through the vfx water not like they register that they’re in water by changing clothes or anything.
Not every pack, but I would expect to see it in some future worlds. Maybe not as detailed - might not have features like snorkling and all the cool tropical fish, sharks, etc. that you see in Sulani. But a basic ocean swimming, with more plain aquatic plantlife is possible. It doesn't make sense for every world, but if they did a beach resort or another coastal town it would be a missed opportunity if they didn't.
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No they haven’t. As is, ocean swimming is a key feature of this expansion pack. If they enabled that in other worlds it would still probably require this expansion pack, unless they promote one of this packs only features to a base game feature which would play out poorly for the expansion.
Just like apartments, the ocean you can swim in will not extend to the rest of the game. I know they added “wading” but that’s not even remotely close to swimming. They just enabled it so your sim can walk through the vfx water not like they register that they’re in water by changing clothes or anything.