Just Found out, Scuba Diving is a rabbit hole!!!

"yupp;c-17104979" wrote:
I’m totally fine with it being a rabbit hole. In the sims 3 it always lagged. I loved island paradise but could barley play it because of how much it lagged, and I was playing on a pretty good computer.

The issues with lag in Isla Paradiso were with some pretty bad routing errors in the world -- including doors that didn't work, some landscape they would get caught in, and even a shower that was placed backwards. There are repairs to the world, but IP vanilla lags hard. In custom worlds with dive lots, lag truly isn't an issue which makes me think the lag wasn't caused by the dive lots.

"Felicity;c-17105313" wrote:

"yupp;c-17104979" wrote:
I’m totally fine with it being a rabbit hole. In the sims 3 it always lagged. I loved island paradise but could barley play it because of how much it lagged, and I was playing on a pretty good computer.

The issues with lag in Isla Paradiso were with some pretty bad routing errors in the world -- including doors that didn't work, some landscape they would get caught in, and even a shower that was placed backwards. There are repairs to the world, but IP vanilla lags hard. In custom worlds with dive lots, lag truly isn't an issue which makes me think the lag wasn't caused by the dive lots.

Oh yeah, I totally understand. It was such a beautiful pack but very difficult to run. So what I guess I meant is I don’t mind it being a rabbit hole because I won’t miss it since I never really played it much in the sims 3 due to my game constantly lagging when I played that world.

It's not a deal breaker for me but it would've been cool to have.

Maybe just wishful thinking but if they could add an active dive lot later on, (which I doubt) I would settle with something like the hidden lots(sylvian glade/forgotten grotto). You could be diving and come across a trench (then going through chance cards) that leads to an underwater cave.

"So_Money;c-17104842" wrote:
This is so unsurprising that it’s impossible to be disappointed.

Agree lol. Im buying this pack because the world looks very pretty . And the furniture and new buy items are attractive. The actual gameplay is a little underwhelming.

I also already own all the sims 4 packs, it would be awkward to stop now :) I don't like seeing greyed out icons.

"Dannydanbo;c-17104576" wrote:

"kaiwrysims;c-17103835" wrote:

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"kaiwrysims;c-17103795" wrote:

"luthienrising;c-17103757" wrote:
Snorkelling doesn't look like a rabbit hole, though, and there are reefs to snorkel at. I'm assuming that'll work with first-person mode too :) I can live with a deep-see diving rabbithole if I can first-person snorkel at a reef.

I didn't know they go underwater when snorkeling. I just want them to explore underwater. Deep or not.

Don't understand tho why scuba diving is a rabbit hole because there usually isn't rabbit holes in sims 4 but we'll see. I would expect them to just not include it at all. Like what's the point of becoming a diving instructor if we don't see our sims do anything?

There are lots of rabbit holes in this game. School, work, concerts and other events. One more shouldn't be a surprise. :)

Yeah work and school are rabbit holes but i don't think any new careers added to eps are rabbit holes. They're usually semi active.

And I don't think we have concerts in the game or unless I missed that

Most of the part time jobs are rabbit hole jobs.

Yeah you're right. They never added part time jobs to eps so I was expecting it to be semi-active. Though someone said that for lifeguard you unlock new beach interactions so I'm fine with it being a rabbit hole in that case.

Not sure about diving though. I hope we can at least do something special with it even if we can't go underwater with them.

"yupp;c-17104979" wrote:
I’m totally fine with it being a rabbit hole. In the sims 3 it always lagged. I loved island paradise but could barley play it because of how much it lagged, and I was playing on a pretty good computer.

I was too but it was not your system, it was more of an developmental issue than what your system had. I cannot overlook that one issue as it was EA/Maxis that was driving the program.

That is why I learned to look beyond the hype and not buy the program out right with limitations and if I like the program even with it's limitations I will never pay the asking price and get it cheaper which I will.

"logion;c-17105010" wrote:

"yupp;c-17104979" wrote:
I’m totally fine with it being a rabbit hole. In the sims 3 it always lagged. I loved island paradise but could barley play it because of how much it lagged, and I was playing on a pretty good computer.

I do not understand why you can't have both for the sims4, features like underwater scuba diving and the game not lagging. Other games can do it.

I agree and it has more to do with expertise and tweaking the develoer does and when I hear how the game will be more buggy it certainly does not put the developer in an good light as it for me tells me the developer does not know how to use modern machines or technology to achieve an program with excellent features and not just content that is more candy for the eyes and it takes more that to wow me.

"kaiwrysims;c-17103795" wrote:

"luthienrising;c-17103757" wrote:
Snorkelling doesn't look like a rabbit hole, though, and there are reefs to snorkel at. I'm assuming that'll work with first-person mode too :) I can live with a deep-see diving rabbithole if I can first-person snorkel at a reef.

I didn't know they go underwater when snorkeling. I just want them to explore underwater. Deep or not.

Don't understand tho why scuba diving is a rabbit hole because there usually isn't rabbit holes in sims 4 but we'll see. I would expect them to just not include it at all. Like what's the point of becoming a diving instructor if we don't see our sims do anything?

You can't go under water when snorkeling. The air tube has to remain above water in order to breathe! Watching my Sim snorkeling will do it for me, too. I learned how to scuba dive way back in high school, but in order to get certified required we actually went into the ocean. I said NO. I have body-surfed in the Pacific Ocean, but I literally hyperventilate whenever I get out above my head. (I can only last about fifteen minutes and then it's like somebody is stepping on my chest!) I'm a good swimmer, and ocean water causes greater buoyancy, but it's not my territory. That belongs to the fish. Suffice it to say, I'm not a beach person … . :open_mouth:

No way, you're lying? Some give picture or video