What would your dream DLC look like?
What the title says, if you were contacted by EA and given the opportunity to design your dream DLC, what would it look like?
Here is mine:
Dream Getaway
A DLC focused on vacations and hotels, or on running hotels or working in the tourism industry.
New venue: Hotels
Can be owned, or run by NPC, a part of your home (Bed and Breakfast style) or run from another lot. It can be a dingy hole with bedbugs and run down furniture or a five star luxury resort with every possible amenities. For cross pack combability items from spa day, B&H, Retail objects, restaurant objects and vendors work excellently on the hotel premises, as do bars, dj-booths and espresso counters.
New careers or businesses:
- Owner: Own and run a hotel - or several.
- Hotel employee (active career) Start as a maid at the hotel and work your way up to hotel manager.
- New rabbit hole career: Travel agent
- New freelance career: Travel correspondant
New aspirations:
- World explorer Wants to see as much of as many worlds as possible (explore as many worlds as possible, experience festivals from various worlds, eat food from every world, bring home souvenirs and photographs).
- Luxury Resort Dweller Loves the luxury, wants to be pampered, wants to spend as much time on luxury resorts (with all inclusive) as possible.
- Hotel Tycoon Wants to own the most successful hotel(s)
New world: Jalpura (based on India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) with four different neighbourhoods:
- Himadri Peaks a mountainous regions of tea and saffron plantations (new harvestables) and beautiful castles in Taj Mahal style. Dominated by the a climbable mountain (so you have one more mountain to climb), large tea gardens and Kath-Kuni Cottages: Traditional mountain homes made of alternating wood and stone layers.
- Zenith Heights The ultra-modern, wealthy urban core with penthouses with private pools, luxury city hotels with views over the city lights, fancy salons and fancy apartments.
- Hattah Bazaar The old town, dominated by the big bazaar where you can buy spices, produce, saris and have your hair cut by a barber on the street. Eat from the many food stalls, but risk upsetting your stomach when doing so. Several small apartments and a dingy hotel where you will have more company in your bed than you might ask for.
- Balcão Bay A luxury beachy area with large hotel complexes, white sand beaches with surfing and windsurfing oportunities. All about that luxury resorts and vacation feel.
Festivals:
- Festivals of light (inspired by Diwali) - Sims can place small lanterns and create vibrant sand art in the bazaar square.
- Festival of colors (inspired by Holy) - Sims can bye color dye and throw at others and have color thrown at them.
New items:
- Hairdresser station (to be used with NPC hairdressers in hotels or businesses or spas, or that you can use yourself to make money like the manicure chair).
- Windsurfing boards (can also be used in any other world with swimmable waters)
- In pool bars and barstools
- In pool platforms (like the triangular roof) so you can have shallow and deep-ends in pools
- In pool hot tubs, round and square
- Front desk (to be used in hotels to greet guests, but can also be used as ticket counters at gyms, nightclubs, museums, pools... from build mode you can set uniform for staff and what the counter regulates, everything from price to who is let in)
New functionality to old objects:
- New options for the buffet table (breakfast, lunch, Indian, Italian, Grand Meals, desserts, experimental...)
- Add a function that means buffet tables will automatically be filled on community lots based on the time of day
- Stairs that works in pools
- The option to use the fountain tool to make baby pools and place playground items in them
- The ability to talk, read or knit or use your phone when lounging on sunloungers (added to base game)
Style of pack:
- Primarily Indian architecture, decor and clothing (that tie in with city living, fashion street, courtyard oasis)
- Some more general vacation/hotel/pool items from ultra luxury to cheap motel look
