Should I buy University or Eco?

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.

Wow, went for my lunch and came back to a pretty overwhelming win for the uni EP. Makes my decision easy then!

I actually really really like EL and don't seem to be having many issues with it but I'm kind of addicted to having my sims have degrees ? I keep telling myself no, because when they do the degree, I'm kind of stuck to their household for a bit, but then I just do it all over again ??‍♀️ I really really enjoy this pack, love that there are two unis, love having my sims live on campus in uni housing or in dorms, off campus while having a full-time job, still living with their parents, or trying to make a career change. They study drama, bio, psychology, law - speaking of which, I love they can be teachers, lawyers and engineers now. Love robotics, love locking certain career paths from sims that don't have degrees....... Yeah I really love DU and use it all the time. So I'm voting for that :)

Neither are the best in my opinion. Both have the issue of being short term gameplay that gets old quickly.

There's basically nothing in University that you can use if your sim isn't in university, although I had some fun sending my sim to university I don't see myself going back and playing through university again. Reminds me of Strangerville in that way. The university world and stuff just sits unused in my game as I have zero use for it.

Eco Lifestyle is bad. NAPs are a nightmare and saving the environment is boring. If you like building it's nice ig but otherwise not worth it

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.

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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