Has anyone addressed whether new winter activities will be usable outside of Mt. Komorebi?

It’s not as if you have to take a vacation to access these things, but you can. So it’s much like bowling in the sense that it would be unrealistic to do at home, but it’s easy to travel to the bowling alley when I want to. Yes, we can buy them at home but they’re massive and I only have one in the basement of my wealthiest family. Now they want to do some real skiing on a real mountain.

I didn’t use the half-pipe in Sims 3 because it just didn’t excite me like these trails do. I’d so much rather have this!

"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...

"EgonVM;c-17710562" wrote:

"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...

It's not an ocean but a lake. I assume there are no sharks there.

"crocobaura;c-17710579" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-17710562" wrote:

"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...

It's not an ocean but a lake. I assume there are no sharks there.

Actually, in Mt. Komorebi it's a river, and certain breeds of shark can tolerate freshwater for a while...

"Aeroprincess87;c-17709969" wrote:

"SappySifaka;c-17709959" wrote:

"musteni;c-17709911" wrote:

"QueenMercy;c-17709899" wrote:
It would be nice if sims could get the rock climbing skill from the rock climbing wall from the fitness sp.

I think they will but I will definitely rage if they don't. Other than that I don't think the sports can be done outside the mountain. It seems like there are specific routing options design on those slopes.

I actually saw that just within the last hour Sim Guru George confirmed on Twitter that the rock climbing wall from Fitness stuff will in fact increase the rock climbing skill.

That's good to know. I have a sim that is really into fitness but lives in sunny Del Sol Valley. I was really hoping that practicing on the rock climbing machine at the gym would help him when he decides to climb to the summit in the new world.

Yeah, I put one in the two story room in the Oasis Springs gym because I like to watch unplayed sims struggle with it.