HelloI generally don't like NAPs in Eco Lifestyle because they are very intrusive. Seeing sims do pushups always and everywhere or getting a violin and playing it out of nowhere breaks the immersion, but I'm also disappointed that you can't disable NAPs effects WITHOUT disabling environmental footprint. My question is, what are the NAPs that are actually good and non intrusive in your opinion? Because I want to set 4 of them and them just disable the townies voting but I can't decide.

Everything except Sharing is Caring and Bags on Heads. These two are the only game features I want to see nerfed.

"alanmichael1;c-17879438" wrote:Everything except Sharing is Caring and Bags on Heads. These two are the only game features I want to see nerfed.You don't mind the random pushups (please ma'am this is a restaurant), violins (which doesn't make sense for non-musician sims), random fights, random making out?

Safe ones are Self sufficiency, Tech support and the two specific to the Evergreen Harbour (Modern development and Green initiative).Maybe also Green gardening (put a planter box and insect box somewhere), Clean energy and Upcycling initiative (buy the required objects), Eco friendly appliances (need eco upgrade parts). Juiced community makes sims in the neighborhood (excluding the active household) dazed, what adds extra steps in socializing with them to get them back into Happy. Water and energy conservation cause power/water outs, so are definitely intrusive. All NAPS I didn't mention force townies (and your own sims, if you have free will on) to perform certain actions.Of the intrusive ones I like creative arts best, because it pushes townies to do the take photos animation now and then. It makes them look like tourists.

"nasch_katze;c-17879613" wrote:Thanks for all of your recs. Just to make sure, there's no way to disable NAP effects from the game, right? If you turn off NPC voting and don't have your household vote, your primary neighborhood will not have NAPs. I'm less sure about other Neighborhoods, but I have NPC voting off and haven't run into any of the obvious ones in the course of play.Edit to add - just as a warning, it will still say that X NAP was voted in, but when you go to check via mailbox as to which NAPs are active, it will show none.

I like to use Clean Energy Production one in combination with off the grid lot trait, I think it adds nice challenge in creating and live on a self-sustainable lot. On such lots I don't use the appliances that function off the grid. This one is my favorite.The water and power conservation can add some challenge under some circumstances. The ones that can increase bill too, if you play in a way that doesn't accumulate wealth fast. The rest (aside from eco living world specific) I don't use that often. The ones that influence skills are nice in some cases, even if for just role playing purposes. I wish the fitness one would do something else than sims randomly doing pushups, that got annoying pretty fast. The sharing is caring one got a big X from me, doesn't suit my game playing style at all. I'm too scared to try Foodies Unite, don't want sims start cooking maniacally non-stop.

Eco Lifestyle: what NAPs do you use?

alanmichael1
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
"nasch_katze;c-17879446" wrote:
"alanmichael1;c-17879438" wrote:
Everything except Sharing is Caring and Bags on Heads. These two are the only game features I want to see nerfed.

You don't mind the random pushups (please ma'am this is a restaurant), violins (which doesn't make sense for non-musician sims), random fights, random making out?

The other NAPs are ok to give neighbourhoods a certain flair. In my played world I prefer the ecological NAPs (water saving, gardening) and of course free love ?
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I think they are all intrusive in some way. I had the power and water conservation NAP in Evergreen Harbour and was playing in the apartment with the non-functional balcony. All I can say is that my sims ended up showering at the community garden place and eating at the restaurant. I like when the sims find that random tablets dropped in the parks that nobody picks up. You can discover different fish if there are notes on them in the tablet. The random blobs of clay dropped or forgotten on your lots are annoying as you cannot delete them. Listening to bad violin playing is not fun and trying to run a shop full of customers doing push-ups instead of shopping is discouraging. The gardening NAPs will make other sims come and harvest your plants. So you really need to be careful what NAPs you enable, if you enable them, in your neighbourhoods. It might work if you enable one NAP per neighbourhood like the sports one in a neighbourhood where you have a gym, or the gardening one in a neighbourhood where you have a community garden.
Jyotai
4 years ago
The only one that really bugs me is the fighting one. It interrupts everything. My sims spend all their time watching fights and will nearly let themselves starve to death before they do anything other than watch a fight - and in any crowded location there is a fight going off every few seconds. I've even seen a lone sim fight itself...

I always use a cheat to remove that one if I find it.

The bags on head one, I don't care for, but it adds weirdness so I'm not annoyed about it being there like I am with the fights. If the fights didn't interrupt all the other nearby sims I could 'go with the weird' on them too.

(Is there a mod that will do that, remove the 'react' of nearby sims?)
comicsforever
4 years ago
none well the drinking one

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