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A travel pack?
JAL
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By now we've all seen the leaks about a Horse Ranch pack and it seems fairly credible (we'll see soon enough), and we can all see the many hints at horses in Growing Together. They're plentiful.
But so are the hints of travelling. From the working suitcase to the artwork, the game is rich with hints of future travel possibilities, and what better way to gain family photos for the new frames? Now I seriously doubt that hotels and travelling will be a part of the Horse Ranch pack, so could this mean we're getting a Hotel EP or GP after the Horse Ranch pack? *fingers crosses*
Personally, I'd prefer an EP to a GP in this case. I feel the hotel experience deserves it, but mostly I just want a bigger world that is alive as a residential world as well as a vacationing world. Ideally, it would be somewhere that is far from the US, in another region of the world entirely. I'd love to see Africa or Asia to be represented, but I'd be happy with Australia or New Zealand as well. Jungle Adventure already offers us vacations in South America, so I'd hope for something new. My absolutely ideal would be India, so that we'd get some use of the CAS-items in fashion street and the decor in City Living.
Imagine this: A big world, similar to Windenburg in size, with three distinct neighborhoods, representing different aspects of India.
Area one: Touristy beach resort with large hotels(based on Goa).
This would be where the hotels are, big 64*64 lots as well as a few smaller ones. Maybe a rental or two as well. This wouldn't be where you'd meet the townies, but where the tourists are.
* Own and run a hotel or B&B (venue type that can be placed in any world including vacation worlds and that works well with spa items, espresso bar, bar, restaurant items and retail items so NPCs show up to work if you put those items there)
* Work in a hotel
* Visit hotels
* More pool items and more customisation to pools
* Aspirations to run hotels, as well as travel aspirations
Area two: Busy town center (based on places such as Mumbai and New Dehli)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65435137/chandi_chowk_cover.0.jpg)
Chaotic, busy, vibrant with streets vendors and food stalls in every corner, with small cramped apartments and luxurious penthouses.
* Street vendors and bazaar items, so we could create our own street markets
* Holi and Diwali as an events and festivals in the city, and as holiday traditions
* Hair dressing chair that can be used similarly to the manicure/pedicure chair. You can use it in your home, in a salon or on the street
* Learn about their culture, and learn Bollywood dance
* lots of indian food and spices
Area three: Relaxing mountain region (based on the countryside northern regions of India)
Beautiful scenery, could be some fantastic villas, or villages, but also rentals in this area. This would be a great way to integrate the Courtyard oasis kit better into the game as it fits with the more muslim building style in some parts of this region (after all this is where Taj Mahal is situated).
* tea as a harvestable
* cows and even elefants roaming free in the region
* you could befriend an elefant similar to how you befriend a dolphin in island living
* go hiking in the mountains and natural park, with risk of death by tiger
But so are the hints of travelling. From the working suitcase to the artwork, the game is rich with hints of future travel possibilities, and what better way to gain family photos for the new frames? Now I seriously doubt that hotels and travelling will be a part of the Horse Ranch pack, so could this mean we're getting a Hotel EP or GP after the Horse Ranch pack? *fingers crosses*
Personally, I'd prefer an EP to a GP in this case. I feel the hotel experience deserves it, but mostly I just want a bigger world that is alive as a residential world as well as a vacationing world. Ideally, it would be somewhere that is far from the US, in another region of the world entirely. I'd love to see Africa or Asia to be represented, but I'd be happy with Australia or New Zealand as well. Jungle Adventure already offers us vacations in South America, so I'd hope for something new. My absolutely ideal would be India, so that we'd get some use of the CAS-items in fashion street and the decor in City Living.
Imagine this: A big world, similar to Windenburg in size, with three distinct neighborhoods, representing different aspects of India.
Area one: Touristy beach resort with large hotels(based on Goa).
This would be where the hotels are, big 64*64 lots as well as a few smaller ones. Maybe a rental or two as well. This wouldn't be where you'd meet the townies, but where the tourists are.
* Own and run a hotel or B&B (venue type that can be placed in any world including vacation worlds and that works well with spa items, espresso bar, bar, restaurant items and retail items so NPCs show up to work if you put those items there)
* Work in a hotel
* Visit hotels
* More pool items and more customisation to pools
* Aspirations to run hotels, as well as travel aspirations
Area two: Busy town center (based on places such as Mumbai and New Dehli)
Chaotic, busy, vibrant with streets vendors and food stalls in every corner, with small cramped apartments and luxurious penthouses.
* Street vendors and bazaar items, so we could create our own street markets
* Holi and Diwali as an events and festivals in the city, and as holiday traditions
* Hair dressing chair that can be used similarly to the manicure/pedicure chair. You can use it in your home, in a salon or on the street
* Learn about their culture, and learn Bollywood dance
* lots of indian food and spices
Area three: Relaxing mountain region (based on the countryside northern regions of India)
Beautiful scenery, could be some fantastic villas, or villages, but also rentals in this area. This would be a great way to integrate the Courtyard oasis kit better into the game as it fits with the more muslim building style in some parts of this region (after all this is where Taj Mahal is situated).
* tea as a harvestable
* cows and even elefants roaming free in the region
* you could befriend an elefant similar to how you befriend a dolphin in island living
* go hiking in the mountains and natural park, with risk of death by tiger
Moreover, I advise that the cart button must be destroyed!
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Comments
Maybe, but to be fair I hope not. I want hotels to be fully fleshed out, and I think tucked away in a pack that is mainly about something else is a great way to water it down. At worst both features would be watered down. Just look at Get to work. It's three packs in one, with the result that none of them is very fleshed out. Aliens do not get a real home world where they can live, the careers are rather repetitive after a while and the retail system is in desperate need of an overhaul. I mean it's so basic it ought to have been a base game update. Infants were a bigger update than the entire retail system.
So for me, I'd rather wait and see it done right.
It could, as it has been done before, but personally I'd prefer one big world with distinctly different neighborhoods. And I've been dying for a real in depth India for some time (or Africa, the Middle East, China... just somewhere not the US or Europe).
I too saw the hints and was hoping the second EP of the year would be travel/hotels based.
I would like to see the return of 3 travel destinations like we saw in previous travel packs. I want travel based careers, ability to homeschool, and goals based on visiting specific locations.
As for the worlds, I would love to see Iceland, Thailand, Morocco, Australia.
I also think expanded archeology opportunities would be nice but maybe not within a hotels/resorts pack but rather a pack of its own.
We might still get a travel EP with more exotic locations even if they include the basis for hotels in the horse ranch EP. If this EP brings more outdoorsy activities and not just horses, I will be happy. Frankly, I am not sure they will ever add three different worlds in one pack, unless the worlds are pretty small and don't require too many specific build and Buy items, so for exotic locations I would prefer they came in their own packs. They could add them gradually, one by one, with different themes and implement hotels and travel aspirations/rewards, etc. in a GP.
My thoughts
Build- big lodge log cabin theming and glamping
Stable items
Chuck wagon style food stall
Some rustic wedding items
Activities
Horses- learn horseback riding, equestrian skill, opportunity to compete similar to sims 3, riding trails, opportunity to own stables and teach riding/skill basically fully fleshed out horses.
Trails- multiple trails similar to snowy escape that can be hiked, taken by horse, or mountain bikes. Trails would lead to a ghost town type area, an area with a swimmable waterfall pool, and one that goes to a beautiful vista with a lot.
Hayrides/wagon rides
Tire swings, potato sack races, slides, family board games,
Petting zoo- goats, ponies,
Larger campfires where at night everyone gathers around and tells stories and makes s'mores
Overnight pack trips
Fly fishing
Archery
Canoeing on a lake
Bikes/family bikes/mountain biking
Food- table that allows for large family style meals with bbq type items
-bbq smoker
- cooking classes
I would be pretty thrilled if the horses pack was part of a family dude ranch vacation experience.
Oops, you just meant a travel pack.
Well in that case maybe a Niagara Falls Vacation World.😉
Now that is the kind of travel I would prefer, both past and future era's to visit.
For travel, hotels, air bnb, hostels, etc would be nice. I want sims to be able to rent anything from a little pup tent to a yurt to a cabin or just a hotel. I mentioned in another thread about the hotel I stayed at in Guam-- Alupang Beach Tower which also has apartments.
We had a stacked washer & dryer but there was laundry service for bedding & towels. There was also a restaurant behind the lobby.
We have such nice Indian clothes in the game. I would love to see a world based on India with some of it’s customs an liveliness! I do want sims to be able to live there as well.
I completely agree! It seems such a missed opportunity.