I feel that Island living is really underated. I comes with alot of good gameplay for all lifestates, toddlers can play in water, build sandcastles, etc the whole faimly feels involved with the gameplay and I love the "community" aspect. Mermaids I wil agree were poorly done. But the rest of it was done very well including the counters which are the best in the game. CAS was very nice for all ages, BB was good all-round. Anyone else agree?
@PugLove888I love the pack. When ever someone hates on it I always back it up!! I agree markerting shouldnt have focued on mermaids
@simsplayer818 , I never tried it with the Simple Living lot trait! ๐ค๐ I hope it works because I think we all can agree with you that a simple campfire to cook things like fish and hot dogs is pretty much as simple as it gets!
That is really beautiful that this pack helped you get through Lockdown! ๐ฅฐ
@gooochyeee , it is a beautiful pack and has some unique gameplay! I do understand their wanting to market the Mermaids, but you are right in that they should have focused on the more developed aspects of the pack! Well, at least the Mermaids look fantastic! ๐
Yeah, I agree that the marketing was off. It does feel like they planned more at some stage that didn't make it into the pack (Sulani culture, mermaids, one of the maps is named something that implies that resorts were planned at one stage), but what they have... I love that it's not, you know, WASPy North America. I love that the Welcome Wagon an the neighbors are different. I do love mermaids and play mermaids a lot, but I also harp on their tombstones and bassinets and lack of skill tree.
BUT. I love that you can change Mua Pe'lam with gameplay, and feel like Island Living introduced a lot of features that were expanded on in Eco Lifestyle (another pack I like a lot and use a lot and bought for my off-grid mermaids). The active career is great, and I've copied you, @PipMenace, and bought Caldera Camp as a "business" (one of my conservationists is rich) and then I made a club and have my Conservationists have "club meetings" when they go to work, so they see their coworkers. I use the club "together" whenever a work action has that option, so they're all taking samples from the ocean together, etc.
I do, however, have to UI cheat away the WFH task "go snorkeling" for my mermaid Conservationist still...
