Eco Lifestyle vs Snowy Escape

"Simmingal;c-17760836" wrote:

"DevilNDisguise;c-17760813" wrote:
I wasn't excited about either pack, to be honest, but Eco Lifestyle interested me more and for the sole fact it had the voting system. I really thought it had potential, but that whole pack introduced nothing but awful bugs and glitches for me, and the votes are just plain annoying. (Who thought it would be a good idea to have a voting feature where Sims come to your lot and take everything?) The pack ended up being a bigger letdown than I had expected it to be. I don't even find the world to be that appealing and only use it for the apartments it came with.

Ironically enough, Snowy Escape didn't have my interest at all and I was completely against buying it, but I've now actually come to really enjoy it and the stuff it came with. The world is really beautiful and detailed and is probably in my top favorite places for my Sims to live now. I do believe it has its downs and some things are lacking. I also do agree with a lot of people who say its themes are recycled or too similar to certain themes and features in previous packs, but overall it hasn't really let me down.

Luckily for me, my girlfriend and I share the game and because she wanted both of these packs really bad, I got to experience them too. One didn't work out, sure, but the other definitely did and I probably wouldn't have discovered a new beautiful world otherwise.

haha yeah personally i was in denial about my need of gps (well aside from vampires which was always my fave and still is)

until very recently (like early this year) when they started putting them 50% off and i figured i might as well have 4 gps for price of one ep and now im just like bro what version of game i was even playing until now this is lit? :lol:
sometimes the theme you thought wasn't so cool at first actually turns out to be quite lovely

but it might need some extra push to make you buy it

(still dont believe im ever gonna get big enough push to go buying batuu though but we will see :lol: )

100% agree about the SW pack, hah. I end up owning all of the packs eventually, whether it's from buying during sales or from my girlfriend wanting them. She's a pretty hardcore completionist and usually doesn't play at all unless she has all packs, but even she doesn't want that one. :D To be honest, I think that pack played a big part in me being so wary about Snowy Escape, so I'm glad SE turned out better than I expected it to.

Snowy Escape is a fun pack especially if you enjoy playing families and having things to do with those families.

Eco Lifestyle is okay but not really something I bother with that much if I’m being honest. The eco footprint thing doesn’t seem to work all that well, I lost interest in it. N.A.P’s are an abomination that most people just turn off and the new world Evergreen Harbor in my opinion is not that great. It seems kind of dead in most areas like a ghost town. The CAS items and build and buy items are really nice in Eco Lifestyle, that’s a definite positive point for the pack.

I like eco Lifestyle a lot. It has furniture to my taste, and I like to play sims that are a bit like me. I'm always looking out for the environment and making sure my energy bills are really low compared to all other dutch people and I think it is really nice you can do that in the sims too now.

I like the windmills and the solar panels. They are always broken though, so it is a constant chor to live off the grid. But I guess that is realistic. I bought the eco lifestyle together with the tiny living pack and it combines really well.

The first couple of games I did not live in the new neighborhood. But my previous game I did. I loved the fact that it got greener and greener in that dumpster like neighborhood as we voted for green neighborhood plans.

In the end you would almost consider moving there in real life ;)

I did not buy or see the winter pack yet. I would like to see it though. I don't want to buy all the packs though. I'm afraid for the performance. I remember it being a huge issue in the sims 3 once I had about half of the expansions. I think the sims 4 is a lot better but I'm not rich and I think buying one or two things a year for the sims keeps it fun enough. And it keeps my computer happy as well. ;)

I’m sorry but when I play snowy escape it’s so bad it makes me cry. I was so excited for this pack but after I got it I regret choosing it over eco lifestyle. I got eco lifestyle after and I felt like I was being resurrected from hell. It’s such a detailed and well made pack. You obviously get bored of it after a while but it’s more playable and less boring than snowy escape for sure. The cas aren’t my style but I still use them sometimes. I think this pack is awesome and I also love the dumpster.

I was so disappointed by eco lifestyle when it was released due to all the bugs. Now it is actually playable with NAP turned off. It is not a great pack but it is still much better than snowy escape.

Imo Eco Lifestyle has much more to offer than SE. Eco Lifestyle has the off the grid gameplay improved with new ways of producing our own energy and collecting water (you can even live from selling the excedents), the rags to reaches gameplay improved with dumpster diving, a new way of setting ecofootprints in your neighbourhoods (green or industrial) that will give a dufferent feel to said neighbourhoods, a way to trash neighbourhoods and lots (debug trash) that also gives a different feel to those neighbourhoods, new skills that can be ways of living (fizzy drinks, candle making and furniture making), new community centers where sims really gather to work in the related skills (i love the market one; it ends up working as a real market where you can sell everything you want or buy from other, without having to wait for the flea market and without it's selling 'restrictions'), 2 new careers and 2 new aspirations, it has apartments, naps (controversial, but i love how they help me give personality to my neighbourhoods; i use them all the time)... and many more!

Snowy escape is nice and beautiful and i don't regret buying it, but it is much more constrained on it's own world. It doesn't feel as an expansion pack. To me it feels more like a game pack: a world with a few activities related to it).

The gameplay in Eco Lifestyle is so incredibly versatile it can basically fit into any form of gameplay you enjoy. Eco Lifestyle to me is an expansion I didn't know I needed, it expands the game in big and small ways. Build/Buy now has consequences depending on how you build, waste and utility management adds to the mundane chores like laundry and washing dishes, there's news ways to live off the grid, new ways to play rags to riches challenges, there's community lots that change overtime, as controversial NAP's and the eco footprint are I absolutely love them as they add extra personality and depth to the worlds my sims live in.

Ughhhh I simply love Eco Lifestyle so much.

I love both and it's almost impossible for me to choose but I had to go with EL because it just adds to overall general gameplay in any world while SE is more confined to just it's own world. It's a beautiful world and of course some of the objects can be added elsewhere but the meat of that pack (the winter sports) is just in that world and it doesn't add as much to my game play overall. The general CAS theme in SE is also beautiful but limited. You won't be needing all those winter coats for Oasis Springs. ;)

I don't like or use the NAP feature from Eco Lifestyle. It had potential to be fun, but I think they dropped the ball on it. Even still, I think I prefer Eco Lifestyle to Snowy Escape. Within a few days, I felt bored of Snowy Escape. It's just Island Living with snow, but at least Island Living came with a fun career that made it worth living in Sulani.

Not saying Snowy Escape is bad. I think it's a nice world for vacations, and I do really enjoy the hiking trails and rock climbing. Lifestyles are okay, but I think some of them really need some adjustments. In the end, Eco Lifestyle added way more to my overall gameplay than Snowy Escape did.

Snowy Escape is Island Living 2.0 with very limited features mostly tied to one world. Eco Living on the other hand allows a lot of customization in game. Refining the "profile" of different hoods with NAPS, changing environment (though I'm struggle with it) and also a lot of crafting.