Eco Lifestyle vs Snowy Escape

"Simmingal;c-17757746" wrote:
after playing Snowy Escape for couple of days some thoughts:

1.the new mascot

I love its just yamachan not some other randomly named sim in yamachan costume like with university ones

Something must have went wrong in my game because after the snow festival Yamachan appeared at the bar like this and wouldn't change back to the costume.
https://i.imgur.com/0F6zWud.png

Then another "Yamachan" turned up as the bartender. Of course without the costume. I promptly deleted them both and thankfully haven't had issues with these fake Yamachans as of late. :lol: I think I know what mod caused the issue.
I tried to play it off as Yamachan being some random sim that wanted to spread joy in the region and thus donned the costume but the game would not let me edit the random spawn in CAS.

I would much rather Yamachan never take off their costume again.

"HopeyStarr;c-17758351" wrote:

"Simmingal;c-17757746" wrote:
after playing Snowy Escape for couple of days some thoughts:

1.the new mascot

I love its just yamachan not some other randomly named sim in yamachan costume like with university ones

Something must have went wrong in my game because after the snow festival Yamachan appeared at the bar like this and wouldn't change back to the costume...

Then another "Yamachan" turned up as the bartender. Of course without the costume. I promptly deleted them both and thankfully haven't had issues with these fake Yamachans as of late. :lol: I think I know what mod caused the issue.
I tried to play it off as Yamachan being some random sim that wanted to spread joy in the region and thus donned the costume but the game would not let me edit the random spawn in CAS.

I would much rather Yamachan never take off their costume again.

in my version, Yamachan is Rey from the Batuu pack! hah. I have no idea what's causing Rey to wander, but she also showed at the bar for me, as well.

"keekee53;c-17756497" wrote:
NAP = nightmare

Nightmare Action Plans :lol:

The new Snowy Mountain world is my 2nd favorate world after Windenburg.

I got both.
Eco was never "my theme" to begin with, that said I do not dislike it, it has some cool content, but I wouldn't want to go without Snowy Escape anymore. I have been wanting a permanently snowy world for SO long, I just love that and have also gotten addicted to making my Sims take hikes :blush:
And I just love it for a vacation destination.

It's new so it's still fresh. Eco pack got dull very quickly.

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.

"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: )

"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.