12 years ago

Isla Escudo: A Caribbean paradise for your Sims RELEASED

O.k. queue the mood music!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwLhFO2f88

I proudly present...

Isla Escudo!

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DOWNLOAD IT HERE http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8298635

Beta Download: https://www.mediafire.com/?b56f2dpubbvqyai

This world is not populated!

Isla Escudo is a beautiful Island republic consisting of two main states. The first is the main Isla Escudo with the greater majority of the population. The second is St. Agatha Isle. Loosely based on Jamaica. The Island was first settled by an ancient civilization consisting of both mermaids and humans. When colonization hit, the ancient civilization receded into the water. Isla Escudo was colonized by the Spanish. Isle of St. Agatha was first colonized by the dutch but later taken over by the British. Eventually, both countries revolted from their respected superpower and formed one republic. Thanks to the help that the mermaids provided in the revolutions, the two civilizations are very friendly and the mermaids opened up their underwater world to the humans when SCUBA technology became possible. Now the old world republic is trying to come to grips with modern technology.

I'm proud to say that there is NO 3RD PARTY CUSTOM CONTENT in this world. It's amazing how difficult that was to pull off. There aren't even any corrupt files attached to the world, just the world file, and the image file. :D

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD THIS WORLD-
All EP's are used in some way except ITF, however the ones that are used heavily are Ambitions, World Adventures, Supernatural, Island Paradise (this one is absolutely necessary), Late Night, and University.
I don't know if seasons is necessary. All I used were a few objects and the wildflower spawners.
You could live without University Life or Ambitions to an extent. Showtime was used, but just for the decorations.
I stayed away from Stuff Packs, but an occasional item from Town Life, or Master Suite may pop up.
I used content from Dragon Valley, Barnacle Bay, and Riverview
Monte Vista is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY You cannot download this world without it.
miscellaneous store content is sporadic yet not necessary. I'll come up with a list of recommended objects around launch date.

Original Post--

No, I'm not ditching Baie Acadienne, it's almost done actually! I just need to finish the beach area, finish a few houses, and then add spawners, then it's time for beta testing! :D

God I hate Isla Paradiso, I just hate it so much (sorry world team, but I was really disappointed). So I started this a couple of days ago and I'm really happy with where it's going. This is an old forgotten colonial outpost in the Caribbean, it also will have ancient ruins. It's going to have about 5 islands in the open ocean. And they are seriously going to be in the middle of the ocean. You will hardly be able to see the main Island from them. I'm not going to have uncharted islands (I find them to be stupid) but there will be dive lots... hopefully.

One thing I hated about Isla paradiso was so much modern housing. That's not going to happen here. Everything is either colonial or ancient! :D And this world actually has a decent amount of trees! :D

EP's required:
All except ITF.

I may include items from other EP's but they will not be required. Same applies with the stuff packs and store content.

THIS WILL REQUIRE MONTE VISTA THOUGH

Pictures up to 6/30/13

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fkasimzsz
12 years ago
Niac, this world looks amazing! I love the detail, especially! :-)

Bookmarked!
Societygarlic
12 years ago
Hopefully we see an update soon, it's a lovely world
Societygarlic
11 years ago
I hope this world is still getting finished, niac
Societygarlic
11 years ago
The mountain looks great! Yay that is a huge update. I'll try and make a lot too :D
Niac1234
11 years ago
DijanaMenatas wrote:
Maybe it will finally be time for me to try a mermaid. My sim had a mer-baby in IP, but I couldnt figure out how to harvest the kelp...either it was glitched for me and I couldnt click it, or I was dumb and it could only be harvested by mermaids anyway.

I love mermaids. I haven't tested the world with a mermaid yet though. The problem is that they don't ever use the boat, even if it's a long travel, so it takes a long time for them to travel in archipelago worlds such as this one.

I've just finished my second dive lot. It's a shipwreck. Next two will be Atlantis ruins, and mermaid city. I'm running out of ideas though, I still need three more dive lots. Anybody have and withstanding ideas that they would like to request?
Punium
11 years ago
All in all I think my favorite thing about this world is the way the city hall looks. And I haven't even played in it. Keep up the good work.
grandmakittycat
11 years ago
I have no idea. I have never had either problem occur before. :?
Writin_Reg
11 years ago
Yep - in roadless worlds you can only move sims using edit town by evicting them from their home to the clipboard, then placing them where you want to move them to. You have to have roads to move a sims as this always happens otherwise. I found that out when I played MoonValley.
Bouquetcatcher
New Spectator
11 years ago
KathiT53 wrote:
:( You really should tell people at the outset that the Expansion Packs are required to play this world. According to the write up in the exchange, the world only needs the basic game. Wrong!!

Unfortunately the listing of items used in a world (or any creation) is very buggy on the site, that is not the creator's fault. Those listings almost always contain items/expansion packs that were not used and do not include ones that were. While it may have been a bonus for niac to have included the info in the description he wrote, I can see that he was going for a roleplaying type of description.

Just a suggestion, but I've found that when I'm interested in a world I now Google it to try to find the creator's thread and/or website on it as that will give me a LOT more info than the poorly designed Exchange pages. Niac does go over what he used and what's required at the beginning of this thread. I've had many worlds I downloaded and couldn't play because I didn't look into them further :(.

Sadly I don't think you'll be able to play this world without at least Island Paradise and the Monte Vista world from the Store. The world is HEAVILY dependent on IP which is probably why it's crashing on you :(. If you'd like another world to play in, Riverview in the Store is free (and actually quite nice). Or, look around for expansion packs on sale for really cheap - a lot of them are now, or you can get some bundles with more than one EP. Most EP's come with a world. Also, and this is a bit more work, but you can visit the CAW forums and look at worlds lists, or just post a thread asking for help finding base-game only worlds. I KNOW there must be some good ones there. Best of luck!
MarrisaPlays
12 years ago
I think it looks cute so far just curious why not have supernatural also? atleast because some of the objects from supernatural would do great for the elegant but not modern houses.