Should I buy IL if I hate supernatural stuff?

Luckily, you don't need a mermaid to talk to the dolphins :) They DO get instant besties with the dolphins though, for humans it takes quite a long time. Dolphins don't stay very long, so you don't get to interact with it too much at a time.

"Aine;c-17136614" wrote:
Probably not a good idea to pay 40 bucks for sunbathing and swimming in not even all the worlds but only one?

Well, you do also have all the build supplies, a 14 lot town, and you can use float on’s in pools, even jets ski’s if the pool is big enough. You have a boat ( for ocean use ), can set fish traps ( not sure if you can use traps in other worlds or not, but since some say you can wade in some spots in other worlds, I’m thinking they might work there too.). You have some new cute hairstyles and clothes, 4 new plants, some new part time careers and one new active career. New deaths, if you like that sort of thing. Beach combing, finding mysterious boxes that have some cute items in them. Walking along the beach and picking up shells. A new lot trait, a new aspiration, 2 new people traits and new food recipe’s. There are also festivals in the town ( though I haven’t been to one yet). So, it’s a bit more than ocean swimming and sunbathing. And i’m Sure there are probably more things that I haven’t discovered yet. I have been concentrating on my fisherman (working as a part time fisherman, setting traps and fishing in Sulani) who lives in Brindleton bay, and his wife ( collecting shells ). The husband loves beach combing autonomously but when I ask the wife to do it, she finds it gross.... lol. I don’t use supernaturals (or haven’t yet anyway). I own Vampires though, love all the holes and cracks in the walls, the new plants, and Forgotten Hollow ( moved the Goths there with their house and all). Vampires have rarely bothered me. My sims were only bitten twice ( while sleeping) and since then I keep my doors locked at night and have had no problems. I have not seen a mermaid yet ( though I have met the one in the trailer.... she looks like a normal person, even when swimming.)

I don’t think you notice many mermaids when playing non-mermaid sims. I’m not a big fan of occults either and don’t find they intrude at all in my game when I have played non-mermaids also ones I have made have shown up in other worlds and they behave and look like non-mermaid sims. However I have played a mermaid household I made just to see what they were like and really liked playing them. They are the first occult form I have in sims 4 as I don’t have vampires or get to work. I think it’s the best of both worlds where you can play them if you are an occult fan but they have no impact on your game if you are not and don’t play them. I hope this helps

Honestly, I wouldn’t buy it at full price, ever. I’m not gonna tell you that you shouldn’t buy it altogether because some have loved it but please do you and your bank account a favor and get it for $30 or less. You don’t usually notice many mermaids unless swimming deep in the water and then there’s the occasional mermaid.

As far as I played. Mermaids show up only when your sim finds out another sims is a mermaid, turns into a mermaid, or alreadg a mermaid.

I largely dislike the supernatural stuff (I DO have one vampire, but I bought Vampires mostly for the neighborhood and the build/CAS stuff), and plan on getting IL at some point -- again, for the world, the setting, the build/cas stuff, and so on.

"OnendOnliYazzie;c-17140294" wrote:
just stay in your disguise and I won’t feel compelled to go into manage households and delete you lol

hahaha! Love this.

Today my Spock Sim fire danced and talked to dolphins. Buying this pack was totally worth it for the giggles. ?

"ddd994;c-17137038" wrote:
I wouldn’t just in case, they totally break immersion ?? not unlike Santa Claus, the magic gnomes and weather machine from Seasons; or those totally realistic illnesses the cats and dogs get, turning them bright blue and giving them rainbow droppings; the wishing well, the money tree, cow plant, tree of emotions, death plant - Er the Grim Reaper? Resurrection potions, Elixirs of Life, I mean even the way the sims get dressed.
But ya know, mermaids are the deal breaker lol and not the talking dolphins?

Jokes aside, how do “realism” players even play the sims? You must have to avoid sooo many aspects of the game, there are literally “supernatural” elements everywhere..? Like it’s a big chunk of the sims experience you’re refusing to engage with?

That is so true! This game is so wacky, if you want realism you're going to have a hard time having your immersion breaking every 15 secs or so. I like the style, I play with all things weird, but sometimes I wish they would tone it down a bit. I spend like 3 hours in cas making a pretty sim then I go into live mode to see them doing weird face expressions all the time :| and the way they talk with their whole bodies omg how it's not tiring? Just chill why don't you. But anyway, yeah you totally have a point there.

I don't think I've seen a single mermaid, unless they were 'disguised' (in which case, it doesn't matter - they were normal Sims in my game). My Sim did have a rabbit hole mermaid experience in the cave - she came out with a 'sad' moodlet from the siren's song and a whole bunch of mermadic kelp. (It's impossible to get rid of the stuff - you can't throw it away, sell it from your inventory, or even put it in the treasure chest. Maybe you can put it in the fridge, but I didn't want my Sims accidently eating it. I finally had to drag each of the ten bits of kelp from the inventory to the floor, go into build mode, and delete each bit.)