Ranking Expansion Packs

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I feel like for me personally top 3 are correct and the rest aren't and it didn't really work for a few reasons, a. Seasons doesn't have a world so it scores a definite zero on the first category which then puts it way behind all the others, and b. I value gameplay and worlds a lot more than clothes, so some of the packs scored high on clothes and low on gameplay which totally skewed the results. For example the lowest scoring on gameplay was Snowy Escape, but it's top 4 because CAS and build buy were both 9/10, and the highest scoring for gameplay are the bottom 4 because their CAS and build buy.. kind of sucks

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When I rank the packs I usually don't look at the world or items that come with the pack. I look at the gameplay and how much I enjoy that gameplay.
Without using that chart my rankings are:
1. Island Living
2. Snowy Escape
3. Seasons
4. Cottage Living
5. Get Together
6. Discover University
7. Get To Work
8. City Living
9. Cats & Dogs
10. Get Famous
11. Eco Lifestyle

Using that chart my rankings are:
1. Island Living
2. Cottage Living
3. Get Together
4. Snowy Escape
5. Seasons
6. Cats & Dogs and Discover University (tied)
7. Get Famous
8. Get To Work
9. City Living
10. Eco Lifestyle

Here is my chart:
https://i.imgur.com/Xs18NGf.png

Since Seasons does not come with a world I wrote N/A and gave it an average score of 6 so as not to penalize the pack for that. When ranking CAS for Island Living and Get To Work I looked only at the clothes and hair for human Sims so as to make it more fair to the other packs that do not include items for the occults included in these packs.
I am not surprised that Island Living came out top since there is so much that I like about that pack and I was expecting Eco Lifestyle to still come last since nothing in that pack appeals to me at all, but it is interesting to see where packs can move in the rankings based on using different ranking methods.

How interesting.

Without the chart:
1. Eco Lifestyle
2. Island Living
3. Get To Work
4. Get Famous
5. City Living
6. Seasons
7. Snowy Escape
8. Cottage Living
9. Get Together
10. Cats & Dogs
11. Discover Uni

With the chart:
1. Island Living
2. Cottage Living
3. City Living
4. Eco Lifestyle
5. Snowy Escape
6. Get Together
7. Get To Work
8. Get Famous
9. Seasons
10 & 11. And the last two were ties, Cats & Dogs and Discover University

I did not give Seasons a world rating so that's probably why it's so low on the list, but otherwise, after thinking about it, the chart is pretty much right on. Amazing!

"Stormkeep;c-18027569" wrote:

One thing I would say about your method though, by simply adding the columns up you are giving each of those things equal weighting. I, personally, would disagree with that method.

I did have this thought as well, but for myself all four categories are important with gameplay being slightly more important. I suppose you could start at 22 and go down to 11 to add more emphasis on a category.

As for knowing what BB and CAS come with each pack, this what I did. If you go into the gallery in game and find a build that uses all the EPs you can click on the icon and it will show you all the BB and CAS that come with each pack. I actually went through each item and tallied which items I loved/used a lot and divided that number by how many items came with the pack to determine my ranking for those two categories.

"Onverser;c-18028581" wrote:

I feel like for me personally top 3 are correct and the rest aren't and it didn't really work for a few reasons, a. Seasons doesn't have a world so it scores a definite zero on the first category which then puts it way behind all the others, and b. I value gameplay and worlds a lot more than clothes, so some of the packs scored high on clothes and low on gameplay which totally skewed the results.

Fair points. I did consider giving seasons higher points for changing all the worlds, but it still ended up fairly high on my list so I didn't think it was necessary for myself so I just gave it more points for game play.

I noticed that you ranked packs not in order from 11 to 1 but more of random numbers. I did that at first and found the results weren't as accurate as when I chose to place them in a descending order from favorite to least favorite.

"RememberJoy;c-18028605" wrote:

"Onverser;c-18028581" wrote:

I feel like for me personally top 3 are correct and the rest aren't and it didn't really work for a few reasons, a. Seasons doesn't have a world so it scores a definite zero on the first category which then puts it way behind all the others, and b. I value gameplay and worlds a lot more than clothes, so some of the packs scored high on clothes and low on gameplay which totally skewed the results.

Fair points. I did consider giving seasons higher points for changing all the worlds, but it still ended up fairly high on my list so I didn't think it was necessary for myself so I just gave it more points for game play.

I noticed that you ranked packs not in order from 11 to 1 but more of random numbers. I did that at first and found the results weren't as accurate as when I chose to place them in a descending order from favorite to least favorite.

Just noticed that, I ranked out of 10 rather than best to worst