"verfens;c-17710476" wrote:
I expect it to work exactly how swimming did in Island living. Most existing worlds just don't have the areas for it with it in mind (base game worlds don't have oceans esp, therefore it couldn't be considered a base game update- it'd actually be updating GT,C&D because the other worlds don't have a beach area to access the deep water without adding the new ladder to the fish area,) and to get it, they'd have to spend time messing about with it. Newer worlds are being built with this in mind, though, Brietchester has a swimmable lake, and Mt. Komorebi has a swimmable river. They might add hiking trails to new worlds, maybe they could give OR some polish by making the hiking paths functional in the Deep Woods area of Granite Falls? Skiing, Snowboarding, and rock climbing though? Locked to the map.
I do think its a bit unfair, though, this isn't exactly something that the sims team can win with. If they add it to other, new packs, they'd be accused of recycling content. I doubt that the slopes exists necessarily as a debug option that could be functional.
There is swimmable ocean in the new world. So I have a question. Are there any sharks?
The reason I ask that is that Britechester has swimmable oceans where sims can encounter sharks in UBrite and Foxbury (they can be also pulled underwater and drowned in Foxbury). It seems like there is ocean danger levels in Britechester like in Sulani. There are safe waters (no shark encounters at all) in Ohan'ali Town and Gibbs Hill, middle waters (shark encounters happen, but no sims will be pulled underwater) in Lani St. Taz and University of Britechester, and dangerous waters (shark encounters happen and sims may get pulled underwater if they stick around too long) in Mua Pel'am and Foxbury Institute.
Part of me hopes, that these water danger levels in Britechester are unintentional...
