Spa day bundle or vampire bundle?

"paradiseplanet;c-16328394" wrote:
I cannot comment on perfect patio or luxury party bc I don't have them, but Spa Day is very underrated for a GP. I'll try to condense this into a few statements concerning it; you have a new spa venue, though if you don't bother to use it all the time it may not be for you. Though the yoga, meditations, and massages can give you long lasting moodlets if you want to be in a specific mood for a lot of the day, and you can have these objects all at home. The wellness skill can be extremely useful if you can take the time to lvl it up, as it can help you de-stress, randomly increase other skills, help repair bad relationships, and magically teleport.

Vampires are one of the best GPs yet (depending on if the new GP will be any better), and unlike some who report mass vampire attacks, those with save games like me rarely have reported any attacks in rl months, and the best piece of advice to probably avoid any kind of attack is to not delve into vampire lore. My save games have sims with vampire friends and everything carries on like normal. If you unfortunately experience constant attacks, I recommend getting into the lore and learning to make garlic braids (all game-created vamps and premades have no garlic immunity so they can't bite you around garlic) or delete the premade vamps right away to avoid the trigger scenarios. Apart from vamp attacks, the CAS and BB objects are great to give you Gothic/Victorian feel for your Sims and homes, and as for the vamps themselves, they and the system that revolves around their abilities and skills is top notch to develop them to their full potential.

Kid's Room is a great SP that I find using for kids all the time. The CAS stuff is great, the BB items are awesome, and the gameplay objects are highly useful and entertaining for your kids! Backyard stuff is alright, got a few uses for some of the BB items and the CAS items look nice on some Sims (I think the unisex hair that cam with it is one I love using often), but I haven't really used much of the gameplay objects in it yet, so I can't really determine its usefulness in that regard.

All in all it's how you find your playstyle to be!

I wonder if they tuned down the vampire invasions. In my latest save, Vlad came to my Sims' door in the middle of the night but didn't break in (Vampiric Entrance) because my Sim was only a teen. And he hasn't shown up at any of her other residences (I moved her from San Myshuno to a farmhouse in Newcrest to work on her gardening skill).

I like the outdoor furniture from Perfect Patio, and I've used Luxury Party for some great wedding venues (the buffet tables are awesome if you don't want to trust a caterer to make more than BLTs. B) ) If you have a Sim with the Fresh Chef trait from one of the Culinary aspirations, have them active when you trigger the buffet tables and the food won't spoil so you can take it home and not have to cook for days since it never spoils. Just make sure to bake your own wedding cake and stick it in your inventory, then you can add the wedding topper after you put it on a table. And I use a lot of Spa Days Build assets, particularly the tile floor textures for upscale bathrooms, and the wellness skill is great. I often get my Elder Sims into yoga and meditation, though I've got my current Sim building up hers because the teleportation might be useful for getting out of sticky situations in the jungle.

If Seasons does come out later this year as rumored, the items from Backyard Stuff (like the waterslide and the drinks pitcher) might be useful in cooling down on a hot day (and I like adding the drinks from the pitcher to my restaurant menus). And Kids Room might be in my top 5 SPs -- the furniture coordinates well with the Parenthood items if you ever get that GP. Since I play on Long lifespan, I usually end up with enough time for my Sim kids to do two aspirations. I'll often start my Sim children out with the Base Game furniture, then after they finish their first aspiration, I'll change out the furniture to the Kids Room set, and consider that sort of a "transition" to preteen. Haven't done much with the VoidCritters though I have them in my library Children's Center in Willow Creek and the playroom at my Arts & Science Center in Newcrest but the puppet theater is great for building Social; if you have a child and toddler in the household the toddlers really enjoy watching the puppet shows so your child can help entertain the toddler while you get tinner going or whatever.