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Katofhyrule12
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2 years ago

Sims 3 Lucky Palms

It is total rip off to pay full price for Lucky Palms all these years later, but ... I am not in great place mentally this week, so I splurged. In this IRL world that has gotten so much crazier since 2020, what is anything worth? So ... I stopped thinking about what anything is worth, and what is fair and not fair, and what might still work or not work by even next week, and I did what I wanted to do, today. And what I want to do today is play in Lucky Palms

I assume that we can garden in Lucky Palms since I see that there is a community garden. Are there any issues with heat and drought that affect gameplay for plants and people and animals and anything else? The real Las Vegas gets up to 117 degrees and that has a huge impact on so many daily activities, but this is the Sims and I am assuming that little of IRL 117 degrees applies.

I want to play rags-to-riches.

I bought Gold, but it looks like the casino is not automatically placed. Is there a lot that is the intended site for the casino? I don't really care about the casino right now, but I have bought quite a few items that cannot be applied to the large purchase later and I did not dare just buy the standard version.

Are there any micro homes on the gallery that are appropriate for Lucky Palms? The only available house on the docks has a lot of wasted space. I'd like to add something micro to the empty dock lot. I cannot garden there, though, unless I maybe added pots? I am not sure what a desert farm would look like and where it should be placed.

Las Vegas has so much fake everything that I guess anything goes, but buildings with ridiculous and out-of-place themes tend to be grouped together. It would be a lot of work, but I could create a neighborhood of almost anything, I guess. Maybe a neighborhood of earthship type home would be fun. Is there anything from the future packs that could be adapted to Lucky Palms? As I am writing, I think that is what I want to do. I think I want to add some type of sci-fi hippie type farm.
  • "MantleJackal;c-18304354" wrote:
    Worlds have whatever weather and climate you set in options. So if you leave everything at default settings for every world you play in, than the weather will be the same regardless if it's a desert world or a tropical one.

    If you want to have accurate weather for the world you're playing in you'll have to tweak the settings yourself.

    And yes that is frost. Don't be surprised when you see foggy windows, breath clouds, and snow in the desert. :wink:


    Thanks so much! Deserts do get surprisingly cold at night because of the lack of cloud cover to hold in any warmth and at higher elevations, but frost on the first morning of fall did not seem appropriate. I will go into settings. I assumed that Sims 3 climates were tweaked like the Sims 4 worlds.
  • "PalmArrow;c-18304398" wrote:
    @Katofhyrule12 , I wish that Sims 3 climates were tweaked for different worlds like in Sims 4, but they are not! You can use Options to tweak them a little (you can disable certain seasons and certain types of weather), or use the NRAAS Tempest mod to tune them more precisely.


    Thanks so much for the link! I think I am going to skip it for now, but I am glad that it exists and I might change my mind. Part of the reason that I bought Lucky Palms was for a weather change. Lucky Palms is expensive! It is good for people to know that they will not be getting sunny weather if they buy this world! I don't regret buying the world. I like it for other reasons. But this is a bit of a disappointment.

  • "DivinylsFan;c-18311700" wrote:


    Yes indeedy.

    Including snow. Think Colorado, Utah, parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Although they have some barren, desert-like landscapes they do get snow.

    I like the old Spanish fort idea. There's loads of those to find in pictures for inspiration.


    Yes, Vegas gets snow! Thanks for the idea to look at pictures of forts! I just remembered that I got some wedding stuff on a sale. It will take a bit of tweaking, but I can make this work.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt-bGTKVB58

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