Should I buy University or Eco?

I like them both, but without the information on your preferences I would pick Eco. I have played since day 1 and have not had problems I could not deal with. The items and mechanics allow for nice off the grid play, plus an eco feature for every world, several new traits, many craftable items, and I think more random, sassy phone calls came with Eco (the entrepreneur character called my Sims saying a $1 would make him as happy as her and it asked if I would hang up or give her the dollar; I gave her the dollar and she thanked him and asked if he felt happier).

I'd argue all these things are easier to use than DU's main mechanic. Although you can go to university with a YA, A, or an Elder, that is only three stages and it takes a while to work through. You can do it at home to have a more inclusive family, but you can get into the meat of Eco far easier. The main reason you would pick it over Eco is the sale, you need the realism, or you die hard want robots (unless the theme is just your thing).

I think DU is a better choice right now because of some of the nastier EL bugs (I haven't seen that many, but I haven't played in Evergreen Harbor yet), plus it seems to be part of the natural progression of life. I have a save where my Sim is attending UBrite; I'm thinking of starting another save with one of my long-time test Sims who is about to age to YA so she can attend one of the two universities.

While the major features of both this eps don't work the way i was expecting, i can work around DU's issues with mods while EL's i can't, so i ended up disabling or just ignoring those features in this pack.

I play DU with a mod that only allows the acess to the higher positions in a career if having a degree and i have another mod to decrease the number of credits needed to get the degree. So, it ends up being realistic and a must in my gameplay but only with mods.

Eco lifestyle was kind of a disapointment. The eco footprint is always changing to the point it doesn't make sense and it depends a lot in building and not only in our sim's houses but also in all the neighbourhood's. Having to tweak all the neighbourhood's houses is a chore! I would prefer if it depended more in gameplay. In the other hand Naps are impossible to play. It's just having the neighbours act like robots. I thought it would spawn stuff related to the winning nap in the neighbourhood, so that it looked different and offered more stuff to do related to the naps, but it's just a mess...

There are, of course, other features in each expansion that can make or break it for you. It would take me forever to analyse that.

But in what concerns to main features both need tweaking. It's just that DU's issues are not really issues, but preferences that can be worked around while EL has big issues that can break immersion and i haven't found any work arounds...

Eco lifestyle is too buggy at the moment.

Eco Lifestyle needs so many mods to get rid of the annoying spammy NAP behaviors. It's great besides for the annoying Neighborhood Action Plans. The developers really need to go back to the drawing board on those. DU is very versatile as a pack since you can attend university while at home. I really enjoy it and I think it edges out Eco.

They fixed the glitches in Discover University.
Eco Lifestyle is still new with lots of glitches that came with it.

I took a break, too, from February to June due to the whole pandemic crisis and some career problems I had to work through, so I know exactly how it feels, I'm glad you're back and enjoying the game.

I don't own Eco Lifestyle yet, but I'll buy it in a few days (thank you, Amazon Gift Card, hahaha), so I can only speak for Discover University. I bought it in December, some weeks after its release date, and I use it in all my save files to this very day. It's a fairly versatile pack with somewhat predictable gameplay but able to push your Sims stories forward, should you choose to do so. All the degrees work pretty much in the same way, but the way they are incorporated into careers is what makes the bigger difference. I don't know if you use Mods, but I found one that makes specific degrees necessary for specific careers, and it's made my game much more challenging and rewarding.

Another aspect I really like is the fact that you can attend university from home and go to classes the same way Sims go to rabbit hole careers. It's not as exciting as living on campus, but you can choose to play as a single parent, have a dog or cat, a part-time job, and so on. Attending classes from home leaves my Sims with more free time to earn income and work on their skills. I play many save files this way, even making my Sims earn degrees way well into their adulthood -never too late to make your Sims dreams come true, right?

Most of the bugs and glitches that came with Discover University have been fixed, if not all (I never had issues with it, that's why I'm not completely sure), so that's an advantage over Eco Lifestyle which, judging from various threads on these forums, are still ridden with lots of glitches. If you are 100% sure you're going to like the new features and/or absolutely need the CAS and BB Mode objects, then I say you go for it. I just don't see how much replayable Eco Lifestyle can be after weeks and months of gameplay -the main features seem a bit uncreative to me, but it's only my personal opinion after all.

Happy Simming whatever you decide!

Now that I finally have the Eco Lifestyle bugs under control, I wholeheartedly support that choice! Eco Lifestyle is really fun!

even do i voted for eco living i would say bough are worth buying

"musteni;c-17602298" wrote:
I think eco has better content and is more flexible. But there are still bugs...

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