Play to change in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack!

What a wonderful pack - SO very excited :)
Imagine all the story material hidden inside that pack... *swoon*

I may not take advantage of the gameplay in the new world but all those buildings, tools and objects will be used everywhere else in my game anyway as I did with those in StrangerVille. I expect it has to be an expansion as it probably affects all decisions in the game and maybe other packs before it too.

I see they've brought back the old fashioned TV so there may be other nice throwback objects in the game.

At the moment this just feels like Island Living that has been rewrapped to be Eco Lifestyle, especially after reading the blog. I hope I am wrong, let’s just hope there is much more details they are holding back from us

I think the people who are complaining that this pack reuses ideas are mad because they were under the assumption that this pack would be something we've never had before. It's true we've never had a pack centered around eco living but we have two other packs that already have aspects of eco living in them. And yes, seasons, university etc are all rehashes but people expected them to be and they're considered staples because they're a huge part of real life

The only real complaint I have so far is that I don't like when a pack forces me to engage with one aspect of the pack. I don't want to be forced to clean up that world to be able to use it. With Island Living, you can choose the conservationist career, but it's not like the island is a garbage patch if you decide not to go that route. I would be super disappointed if this world is just always disgusting and the only way to have a decent game there is if you go that environmentalist route.

Did anyone notice that the guy has what looks like big lobe earrings?

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/arur75dx0tgdloo/Annotation%202020-05-06%20181849.png?dl=0

I have to say I don't like them irl, they make my feel queasy.

This can be used as a post- apocalyptic story lol

Well, I was waiting for the trailer, but I'm still not sure.

Issue is not the theme. The theme is fine and I saw a lot of demand for it in the past. Just not for it to be an expansion.

My first instinct was that yeah, I'd actually prefer an eco pack over farming. BUT, even if I've never been interested in it, farming is a richer theme for an expansion.

I do want this pack because I do want new BB and CAS, and a new world (is it going to be like Stragerville where there's a plot about it?) and whatever gameplay we get out of it. A lot of the items in the trailer do look interesting to me (candles and the containers I thought would come with Tiny Living). And I'm glad people are getting the ladders they've been wanting for so long (at this point, it wouldn't have surprised me if they made a Ladder Expansion Pack). And I remember a lot of people asking for solar panels.

But thinking about spending $40 is hard enough right now, thirsty as I am for new content. And it's much harder when, well, yeah, they're just blatantly splitting similar ideas up into different packs when they should have gone all together.

(Or maybe if the new world looked just a bit more post-apocalyptic, I could have fun with that. Attempting to rebuild civilization? Fun.)

This means Happy Haunts WILL be an EP and not an SP, though, right? 'Cause that would be great news.

"IceyJ;c-17484620" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-17484402" wrote:
There is one thing I saw from the blog post.

For the first time, you can offset your bills with wind turbines, solar panels, and dew collectors.

Dew collectors may be new, but wind turbines and solar panels are in The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden stuff pack. I constantly remember receiving money instead of bills in The Sims 2 because I placed a lot of solar panels and wind turbines.
The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden stuff still exists (even in the Ultimate Collection), thus it isn't the first time.
If this blog post statement isn't a lie, please explain.

For the first time in TS4.

Yes, it may be first time in The Sims 4, it isn't specified. It is first time when things like that appear in an expansion pack, but it isn't first time it appears in the series. Specification, please.

Also there are more ways already to reduce bills. For example, frugal trait, tiny homes, enacting green energy policy in Island Living (available in conservationist career environmental manager branch) etc.

Now I'm actually wondering...
Does solar panels and wind turbines provide energy and dew collector water to off-the-grid lots? Then they'd have more use than just reducing bills for on-the-grid lots.

It would make for a cool post apocolyptic storyline