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I really want both Island Living and Snowy Escape. I didn't have either of them, but decided I would get Island Living first because it arrived first and is so beautiful. I think either of these would be good choices though. They both offer gorgeous scenery, opportunities for vacation rentals, and unique recreational activities as well as everyday communities for our Sims.

I didn't vote but here's somethings about each pack that may not be mentioned.

Snowy escape gives you a fine moodlet that when it reaches +10 your sim can surge their emotions and pick any emotion. You can't start a new game and live in the snowy region because the lots there are rental lots. You have to change the lots to residential in world management.

Island living uses the fitness skill for swimming, the higher your fitness the faster you swim. You can fish off boats in deep water. The neighbor sims will sometimes enter your home when not invited in and make them selves at home.

Echo lifestyle has the frizzer thing that can be fun if you have Strangervill because you can infect sims by using the fruit from the plants that have the infection. It has the trash thing that turns stuff in your inventory to bits and pieces which can be used in the fabracater and candle maker. The candles can be set to burn down if you want them to. There is wall planters that take one square that hold 2 plants. One NAP can break your community lots, one can make it hard to get pictures of sims without bags on their heads, and some can get stuck on your sim.

I like all 3, but eco lifestyle and sulani more.

Eco lifestyle has a ton of things that i love. The ability to use debug thrash to give neighbourhoods or just individual lots a completely different vibe... the way it improves rags to reaches gameplay with the dumpster diving. The alternative income that you can make producing your own energy. The crafts: candle making of candles that actually burn, fizzy drinks, furniture making... and the naps. While there is much controversy with naps i use them all the time. If i want a rough neighbourhood where sims fight and steal i do it. If i want a neighbourhood where i get perks for gardening, or dramatic arts, or whatever i do it... there are plenty of choices! It gives personality to the neighbourhoods.

Sulani has a wonderful world, very open... you can swim and it has a lot of beach activities. Most of my sims live here. The conservationist career is very cool. In the higher levels you can actually change politics that will affect your game.

Snowy escape, the world is also beautiful. It's focus is in the winter sports. The career isn't great. It has the mountain climbing adventure that is cool.

Island Living without a doubt. Eco Lifestyle is eh. Not the worst but I haven't touched it since release and Snowy Escape is easily one of the most overrated packs in the game imo as there is physically nothing to do but watch your sim go down a hill on a loop or climb a rock face on a loop. I was bored of the winter sports after about one try as they really aren't interesting to watch and other than that there's physically nothing to do in Mt Komorebi. The entire pack is made up of a few gimmicky little activities which weren't enough to keep me entertained for more than a few days.

Island Living also lacks gameplay, but the world is stunning and things like sunbathing, building sandcastles, snorkelling, new beach lots, homes over the sea, cleaning up the island and the tropical climate make it really unique and a fun place to play in or at least vacation in. I'd consider it an essential pack even if you just use it for vacations.

What makes it stand out from Komorebi is that it's the only island world, there's nothing else like it in game. You could find some base game Asian houses on the gallery and play them in the snow but you're never gonna get a tropical beach house without island living

I love all three, but Snowy Escape would be my first choice. Mt. Komorebi is a beautiful world and I love the Japanese theme. I really enjoy the new activities and traits. It's one of my favourite EPs so far.

Island Living would probably be my second choice. Sulani is another beautiful world that is very different from our other worlds. I enjoy taking my sims there on holiday or family days out and watching them relax on the beach and swim with dolphins. I also love the mermaids, although I wish we could play underwater with them.

Eco Lifestyle was a pleasant surprise for me. It wasn't a theme I would have picked, but I like Evergreen Harbor and how it changes over time. I also love the new careers and skills/hobbies. It's a tough choice, but I honestly don't think you can make a bad one here.

I love IL and SE, truly. I use them all the time and if I had to reinstall 4 one pack at a time they would be some of the first. However, if we are talking strictly gameplay then EL has more. I know it gets a bad rap with all the bugs it launched with, plus some people just do not like NAPs (there are a few I never use as well), but it has much more content for the other worlds than SE or IL.

SE and IL are very much destination worlds. You will have to live in or break your back visiting these worlds to get your money's worth with the packs. The skills are not completely exclusive, but if you want to swim, climb, or snowboard, only a few worlds have it.

EL, in comparison, offers its eco gameplay to all worlds. Each has an eco state now, each neighborhood can have different NAPs defining the neighborhood, and there is eco gameplay to back these up (a huge selection of upgrades, new furniture replacements like an automatic watering planter, water and power collection/production for bills, community lots). I find EL essential to do any sort of off the grid play. That is part of why I find it to be such a great pair to IL, that and conservation.

So while I love SE and IL, I cannot recommend them over EL.

I chose Island living because it's nice to be able to vacation on a tropical island. I also like snowy escape as a close second.

I find Eco Lifestyle the easiest to work into my gameplay no matter what world my sims are living in. Yes, the key "Clean up the environment" effects are unique to Evergreen harbor, but many of the NAPs (Turn of NPC voting) are applicable to all neighborhoods. And I use Solar Roofing in a lot of my builds as well (lowers electrical bills)

While both Island Living and Snowy Escape offer beautiful, rich worlds with lots of cultural details, if you're not in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi, the packs may as well not exist.

I love Snowy Escape. The world is absolutely beautiful especially the hikes. I love the snow aspect of the world as well.

Snowy Escape has a beautiful world that looks like Spring & Winter at the same time. Also, very cool Wintery gameplay for the sims.