Eco Lifestyle vs Snowy Escape

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.

I decided to buy an expansion pack due to the sale, and chose Snowy Escape. I love having another world to visit and vacation in. I still haven't fully explored the pack, but I am looking forward to doing so.

I didn't choose Eco Living because I have read so many negative things about NAPs. I just wasn't ready to deal with that.

If you can get both on a sale ideally 50%. Eco lifestyle personally I hate and apart from the odd cas and bb item I don’t often use and seriously regret buying it. Snowy escape is meh and again buy in a 50% sale. The cas is ok I find bb so bland and gameplay is well not that amazing. I say this as someone who loves world orientated packs ie city living and island living so snowy escape should be my kind of pack but I find it so meh. If you want a pack there are better game packs and expansions packs to get then the 2 you have listed.

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.

Eco lifestyle seems similar to Seasons in the meaning that it has a larger impact on your everyday gameplay by giving you the tools to affect bills (utility-generating items, eco-friendly upgrades) and, to some degree, NAPs.

Snowy Escape does this to a degree with Lifestyles, but they seem a bit wonky so far. But if you like to play with active sims, or travel a lot, it's great with all the winter sports.

"InuMiroLover;c-17758192" wrote:
Snowy Escape was really the only pack this year that I was 100% pumped for after the trailer.

I have both, and I don't watch trailers anymore for quite a while. The style they do them with just doesn't work for me. I wait for the streams and written overviews to decide.

"Simmingal;c-17757746" wrote:

(i was very disappointed to find rentals not having potty and toddler bed by default though gamechangers this is my one shade for u but i guess ep didnt add new ones (which well shade to ep)so yall just forgot they exist)

You know, I'm not the first one to call for more baby/toddler items and features... don't get me wrong, I get why people want them, and there are some things that people have requested that I would definitely use, it's just not my personal top priority... but this is a good example of where it would be helpful to have a pack & play type item for toddlers at least that could be dragged into the inventory. After all, pet beds can be dragged in and out of your inventory so you can take pets camping/on holiday, right? But unless I've missed something somewhere, there's nothing similar for sims toddlers.

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. ;)