Jungle Adventure, Get Famous or Get To Work?

Get to work

get to work

Like most others have said I'd say Jungle Adventure first, then Get to Work, then Get Famous.
JA is definitely one of my favourite packs and I'm always looking for a reason to visit Selvadorada. The exploring and archaeology aside, it can made a lovely honeymoon destination as well because the scenery is just so gorgeous.
As for GTW I don't use the active careers much, although I recently replayed the doctor career. Scientist is definitely the best active career and retail is pretty nice too, gives your sims a way to invest some money. One thing though, active careers do not go super well with family play, but I suppose it's doable.
GF is a good pack if you like that kind of thing, but I honestly prefer my sims to not be famous. Thankfully you can turn game off. It does have interesting costumes and over the top build/buy assets, but I doubt you'd use much of it in your everyday non-famous gameplay.

I'd say, if you have the money for it, bundle GTW, JA and a stuff pack.

I LOVE all three. If forced to rank them, I'd say Get to Work, then Get Famous and then Jungle Adventure. But I've played them all a bunch and do go back to them every now and then. I guess it depends more on your style and what you're looking for. For realism and family play, Get to Work probably offers more, with the hospital and even the cop career (I really like the interrogations).

I love Jungle Adventure. I love the culture - the food, rumbasim dance,... B&B is amazing and so is CAS. I love to expolore the jungel with my sims. The spa lake area, the osland, the temple are very nice. I love to dig for artifacts and then keep the genuine ones as a decor/trophy. Also I just recently learnt that toddlers can play with the dolls your sims can buy at the market table. I always use them as a decor.
There is so much to do and it never gets boring for me and my sims. I love to come back and so do my sims.

I actually got Jungle adventure for the build items, specifically off-the-grid stuff. I don't regret it. It's really fun for the adventuring too, though I've only barely started the adventure part. However, if it's a choice between Get To Work or Jungle Adventure, I'd say definitely get Get to Work first, it adds to all the game significantly.

If you prefer TV-style celebrity type stuff more than useful work and business, or adventuring, then you may prefer Get Famous.

"SimAlexandria;c-17479613" wrote:
Jungle Adventure is one of my favs. I love the CAS/Build and while it's repetitive it's a lot of fun and has a very beautiful world.

Get to Work jobs are fun, and if you have it your Sims can give birth in the hospital and get birth certificates as well. It comes with Aliens as well but I don't play them at all (I don't enjoy playing occult stuff really ) and unless you are in the scientist career you rarely get abducted.

Get Famous career is pretty fun too and again, the world is nice, but I'd probably only get it after getting the other packs.

I would def consider going the bundle route with Get to Work/Jungle/Stuff Pack.

Do you ahve all the other packs besides these ones?

Hey, yeah well I have all EPs except for GF and GTW, and then I'm not a huge occults fan either, so I'm not planning to buy RoM, Vampires or Starngerville (I know the last isn't occult but it isn't really my playstyle). I was wondering, do aliens just spawn as townies? I don't really want aliens walking around in my worlds, I don't know how aliens work in TS4?

"LiELF;c-17479700" wrote:
Oh! I just want to add that Get to Work comes with Aliens! So if you're looking for a new Occult to play, you can create them. There's also a hidden Alien world.

The science career is my favorite in that pack. I think it's the best one and it's fun to play.

As for Get Famous, I waited for a sale myself because I don't really care about the whole celebrity angle. But I was really, really pleased with the extensive amount of costumes! Victorian, Apocalyptic, superhero... it allows me to fill in some of the theme gaps that I want in my game. So if you like fantastical stuff, you may enjoy that too.

Thank you for both of your answers they were so helpful! I'm not really an occult player, so would want to limit how much aliens were in my game- just wondering, do they spawn as townies or come up in gameplay much, or is it pretty limited how much sims come into contact with aliens unless they are in the scientist career? Thank you :smile:

Just wanted to thank everyone so much for all of your advice and opinions, you've been so helpful and detailed!! I'm definitely planning to get JA, and probably going to bundle with GTW and Laundry Day as the stuff pack :smile:

"moo;c-17480252" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17479700" wrote:
Oh! I just want to add that Get to Work comes with Aliens! So if you're looking for a new Occult to play, you can create them. There's also a hidden Alien world.

The science career is my favorite in that pack. I think it's the best one and it's fun to play.

As for Get Famous, I waited for a sale myself because I don't really care about the whole celebrity angle. But I was really, really pleased with the extensive amount of costumes! Victorian, Apocalyptic, superhero... it allows me to fill in some of the theme gaps that I want in my game. So if you like fantastical stuff, you may enjoy that too.

Thank you for both of your answers they were so helpful! I'm not really an occult player, so would want to limit how much aliens were in my game- just wondering, do they spawn as townies or come up in gameplay much, or is it pretty limited how much sims come into contact with aliens unless they are in the scientist career? Thank you :smile:

If you have GTW, Aliens will spawn sometimes. They are supposed to spawn in disguise though, so they look like regular Sims. If you have Get Together, be careful on Alien Night at the bars. If you go to a bar on that night, there will be a lot of Aliens and more will spawn in your game.

Also you may experience the occasional Alien abduction. This happens randomly, but not frequently. Playing the science career can trigger Aliens spawning because they do become a small part of the career goals. Eventually you can create a device that keeps them from abducting anyone at your home.

Generally though, I don't find Aliens to be too invasive (haha ironically) in gameplay. But just be aware that they will turn up once in a while, especially on Alien Night at the bar.

Side note: if you play with mods, MC Command Center has a way of turning them off. It's an intricate mod though, so if you've never used them, you might need some help figuring it out.

Hope that helps!