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I'm a high powered business tycoon with a pen of Venezuelan beavers requiring frequent care. And a short attention span. I can't sit down and watch a 45-minute video when there are hostile takeovers to be finalized!
Has anyone on the internets written a summary yet? I found a series of nice screenshots, but Google is failing to deliver me written words.
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Has anyone on the internets written a summary yet? I found a series of nice screenshots, but Google is failing to deliver me written words.
Your assistance would reflect very well on your Christmas bonus. I am not an ungenerous CEO.
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Resorts are not just rabbitholes. There is a rabbit-hole building that is required to be on all resort lots, it can be upgraded 3 times and has something to do with how many visitors you may have at any one time. This is the "room" your vacationers get when they buy the "standard room" for their stay. The higher level rooms are room you design yourself on your lot. You may use blueprint or design your own. For the rabbithole building, once you upgrade to the third level, your rabbithole becomes a spa as well and operates just like any homeworld spa.
The term Pool Slides was misleading. There will be no big amusement ride type slides. Bummer. However, there is now a blueprint tool for pools. Yay!
The management of your resort is a bit more complex than I had thought it would be. There is a whole panel that comes up allowing you to micro-manage if you like. You can hire maintenance workers for repairs and clean up - kind of reminds me of rollercoaster tycoon that way only the workers have sim minds and don't always do what they are supposed to. You can specify which sim you want to hire from a list.
The pool bar allows you to hire a bartender. Oh, and if you have Late Night, if you place a pool bar on your lot, you will be able to hire a bartender for that as well. Hm. Kinda cool.
Ummm... the hot coals pit thingie has three levels of heat and is a mini-skill (or whatever they're calling it). Didn't specify how many levels there are, but I would think it is similar to skating, etc.
You do not have to own a resort to visit one. I guess the world ships with a resort already made, and your sims can just go visit if you want to use it like a vacation. And, you can build resorts in any home world. Yay!
Your sim-visitors' thought bubbles will tell you what they are thinking about your resort and its amenities. Like that.
Oh and... AQUA SLEDS.
Both resorts and residential lots can be built out over the water. It is a new lot type - half land, half water lot. Resorts are venues.
And I thought I heard them say you can own more than one resort. Yay!
OK - SP coming soon has monsters costumes, cowboy costumes, villans, etc. Some wild west stuff, some monster set stuff. But it was just pictures of the concept art so it's hard to say anything about that.
And...
THERE BE DRAGONS!!!
New World being released online sometime soon (Spring) called Dragon Valley. OMG - I sound like I'm 12 but I don't care - baby dragons!!!! And a medieval feel/look, and it said something about elves at the end with the "play with" thing they do. It said dragons, eggs, blah blah blah Elves blah blah blah. Not that it was boring, I just didn't catch it all.
But DRAGONS!!!!!
I missed where you can own more than one resort...and I'm glad that "managing" doesn't mean your Sim has to spend all day there like with the stores in Open For Business. This will be great for my Sims that have a lot of extra money (I have a couple of really rich families).
Kind of like the combo rabbit hole/open feature -- so you don't have to try and design every single room, just the "deluxe" rooms, with private balconies and everything. (Cool feature would be a mini-bar, or hope we can use the mini-fridge from Uni Life in the deluxe rooms. And looking forward to designing my resort workers' uniform -- hope there'll be a lot of items unlocked for career wear because I want to put the maids in the seashell bra and skirt from Seasons.
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At this point, neither do I.
Big thanks to the folks who wrote their own summary here. You didn't have to do that!
I know but I'm squeeing all over the place.
Wow. That's sounds really odd.
Anyway - did you see the part about DRAGONS?????? Squeeeeeeee!!!!!!
Just be sure to put newspapers on the floor first. Thanks again for that summary!!
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