Island Paradise, does it still have the glitches?

For me, I generally stay away from Isla Paradiso because I love the elements. In sims 3, you can't travel to different worlds without planning a vacation or using mods.(unless your sim decides to move to a different world) In sims 4, you can live in Sulani and still visit the other worlds and vice versa.

EX: the couple in my avi currently resides in Del Sol Valley- hubby is an actor- and they visited Sulani for their 'honeymoon'.

I rarely play IP unless I go in and fix it up. I can't do without the items that come with it though. I love building resorts in the other worlds. I use CAW worlds and use a lot of buildings and buy items that came with IP.

Sunlit Tides is where my sims reside if I want the island feel. I am not really into diving spots, but I love surfing and boating!

It's worth it to me anyway ;)

I use ciane's fixed save file and the game runs just fine. I'd say get it and show us pictures of your new houseboat. :smile:

Would never recommend this pack!

Recently I did serious attempt to make that world playable. Deleted all the lots that needed to be, used the world fix and used the recommended Nraas mods etc. The world was still an unplayable, broken, buggy mess and after rolling back to my original post fix save three times I gave up.

The fixes did reduce the lag but it still lagged. I ran Overwatch at least 2 or 3 times a Sim day to find stuck and missing Sims to try and elevate the lag (this is what I call my emergency fix when things start going wrong running Overwatch normally fixes it). Without fail there was always somebody stuck or missing. As soon as Sims had to travel from the main island to one of the smaller islands there would be lag with the boat. I know I saw somebody recommending to turn those boats off but I didn't see how the Sims would travel between the big and small islands that would cause more issues so I left that running.

The game crashed all the time. At first I thought it was this and then it was that then I realized no it is the world itself. The last straw was when I loaded the save and found my Sim now one with the stadium and unplayable. I used Nraas to reset her, this caused Nraas error trap to freak out and the game crashed, save deleted.

I hated the houseboats (not played in this world but another IP type world). To start off I wasn't so keen on the rocking effects. I generally found them annoying and clunky to maneuver (if you have pets think horses and large dogs). I also got it into my head to have a Sim take her boat out to a dive spot and then from there she could get out and dive and swim. It turns out you can't do anything with these boats except move them from port to port.

I haven't gotten the opportunity to play the lifeguard career properly as it wasn't really working well in other neighbourhoods, as well as the diving skill. I'm hoping to retry them when I'm in a neighbourhood that isn't landlocked again.

This is an overstuffed badly implemented stuff pack. I always wished they had included a basic "bonus" beach world in WA where you could do some beach and water activities.

If you really want it and can get it cheap like I was able to, do it. Some of the smaller feature are usable in other towns add to the game play, if you want a Sim that likes that sort of stuff.

Buy the pack. This is my favorite pack. True, the world is glitched and requires some work to make it playable, but it has great gameplay. I love the scuba diving, snorkeling, boating, and mermaids. The houseboats are great and you can use everything in any world except for the dive spots, but you can make your own in worlds with deep water. Many world builders have added dive lots to their custom worlds, so you don’t have to play in Isla Paradiso if you choose not to use the fixed versions.

IP is a little glitchy, I didn't find anything that stopped me from playing it. My sim dived several times without problems, I wanted him to get all the new fish. He fought the sharks several times and won. I did delete some of the ports and houseboats that were said to cause lag.

get the IP, it's worth it. just use the fixed version of the world, or eve better, get a custom world that includes content from the IP, like simlau isles
http://mysimrealty.com/WORLDS_SimLauIsles.html

honestly by the end of sims 3's life the custom worlds were better than the official worlds, i think the devs just gave up and slapped any old thing together without any quality control or testing whatsoever they just wanted to be done. custom world maps however are always made with love & passion they're almost always better than anything the devs made (by the end). :) imo

I have to join in the chorus of praising NRAAS for fixing most if not all of my issues in IP and the world itself is beautiful and by far the prettiest of Maxis worlds that I own (there are a few on the store I still don't have.) I love scuba diving, resorts, houseboats, regular boats, water skiing, and many other things about the expansion. Mermaids are kinda lame if you have an aversion to cheating in any way - their life span is the same as a human's and they don't get anything that humans or other life states can't earn (diving) or buy with lifetime reward points (steel lungs) and whether or not you buy the lifetime reward "permanent mermaid" they suffer greatly from dehydration any time it's warm outside, they're near a campfire or bonfire or flamefruit, etc. but that's just my opinion about the mermaids. It is my second most favorite expansion I think, though, and my absolute favorite Maxis world out of all of the expansions. :)


Also, contrary to other players experience on this thread, I can do everything from my houseboat. I can fish, I can swim from it, I can snorkel from it and I can and have parked it directly over dive spots. You can even store a speedboat on your houseboat. Their only limitation is number of levels and actual size. If you're a player that likes huge humongous houses with lots of levels then you might find them a bit confining, as you are limited in the number of floors you can have (one basement level and three (I think) above deck levels. But even with a family of 5 sims and a dog and only 2 above deck levels and one basement I had plenty of room, including a rooftop garden and a full rec room in the basement complete with a pool table, a large bar area, a TV/game area, a guest room and an alchemy room. To avoid the rocking boat thing I just keep my camera zoomed in on my sims and my walls all the way up or in cutaway mode :)

"AbellaKellaher;c-17200991" wrote:
I have to join in the chorus of praising NRAAS for fixing most if not all of my issues in IP and the world itself is beautiful and by far the prettiest of Maxis worlds that I own (there are a few on the store I still don't have.) I love scuba diving, resorts, houseboats, regular boats, water skiing, and many other things about the expansion. Mermaids are kinda lame if you have an aversion to cheating in any way - their life span is the same as a human's and they don't get anything that humans or other life states can't earn (diving) or buy with lifetime reward points (steel lungs) and whether or not you buy the lifetime reward "permanent mermaid" they suffer greatly from dehydration any time it's warm outside, they're near a campfire or bonfire or flamefruit, etc. but that's just my opinion about the mermaids. It is my second most favorite expansion I think, though, and my absolute favorite Maxis world out of all of the expansions. :)


Also, contrary to other players experience on this thread, I can do everything from my houseboat. I can fish, I can swim from it, I can snorkel from it and I can and have parked it directly over dive spots. You can even store a speedboat on your houseboat. Their only limitation is number of levels and actual size. If you're a player that likes huge humongous houses with lots of levels then you might find them a bit confining, as you are limited in the number of floors you can have (one basement level and three (I think) above deck levels. But even with a family of 5 sims and a dog and only 2 above deck levels and one basement I had plenty of room, including a rooftop garden and a full rec room in the basement complete with a pool table, a large bar area, a TV/game area, a guest room and an alchemy room. To avoid the rocking boat thing I just keep my camera zoomed in on my sims and my walls all the way up or in cutaway mode :)

That's my experience too (=the bolded text). :)

And you can move the houseboat to any place you like on the water parts of the map, not just the ports.