Tropical Island EP Speculation
So if EP 7 does turn out to have a tropical island theme, what are you hoping to see included? Things I'd like to see: Swimmable oceans and assorted water activities (snorkeling, water games, ...
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General Wants:
Basically, I want a lot of things to do on my tropical adventure. Give me a reason to keep coming back to this place, besides the atmosphere.
Mermaids:
EDIT: I just saw this on mobile and this post is a monster. Spoiler tagging it for easier reading.
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- Vacationing. Even if we're the new neighborhood isn't a vacation world, I want the option of being able to rent hotels and treat your stay here as a proper vacation.
- Speaking of, let's get hotels or beach houses we can stay in. You can rent out rooms in hotels for a certain price every night, and they can be built in any neighborhood. Bonus points if we can buy and manage the hotels and choose how much everything costs.
- Surfing, hopefully with its own skill.
- Surfing competitions, complete with cash money prizes.
- An equivalent to the Selvadoradian Culture skill.
- You can swim in water. If you have Cats & Dogs, you can now swim at their beaches.
- Deep-sea diving and explorable underwater lots.
- Underwater cities and ruins. Bonus if the culture skill lets us decipher glyphs and get some lore. Also, we can hold seminars and teach other sims about the culture.
- Simslantis. Triple-bonus if we can guy a lot and live there if we're a mermaid.
- Pirates, even if they're just a tourist trap thing, like in Bon Voyage.
- Beaches with the ability to make sandcastles, bury other sims in sand, hunt for treasure and other collectibles.
- New collectibles: starfish, seahorses, new fish, coral, crabs, seaweed, kelp, seashells, artifacts, glass.
- New small pet: parrots, seagulls and other birds.
- Monkeys or chimps. Either they're an NPC, a pet you can take care of, or a sim you can control. Castaway did the latter, and IIRC they even had little chimpanzee jobs they could go to.
- New aquariums
- An overhaul on fish: you can feed them or they'll die, and they can breed over time.
- It'd be cool if we could have pet sharks and dolphins too. I mean, why not? They're cute.
- Luaus.
- Hula dancing.
- Golf.
- Death by drowning.
- House boats.
- Tons of sight-seeing locations. Maybe they have selected spots where we pose for pictures. I hate having to turn the camera on and off, then moving my sim to very specific spots in the hopes of getting a good shot. It's so tedious.
- Add posing to a sim's pie menu, with several poses to choose from.
- Volcanoes. I don't know how you'd implement these, but I want them.
- Cruises, maybe? Community lots you can't leave until it docks, or just timed events. They could have specialty cruises, like all-male or all-female cruises, a singles-only love boat, a family-friendly trip, a booze ship, or a round-the-clock party.
- Boat tours. You get on one of those glass-bottom boats with some other sims, and a tour guide shows you some cool sights and animals. It works best if you're playing in first-person mode.
- The ability to buy postcards and send them to other sims.
- A Lifeguard career. Splits into Bay Watcher (regular lifeguarding stuff) and Bay Watcher at Night (lifeguarding, but you're also a detective for some reason.)
- Traits: Loves Water, Hydrophobic, Fan of the Strange (makes your sim seek out occult sims of all types), Boring (your sim can bore other sims. They like day-to-day activities like doing laundry, but hate exciting/out-there activities like deep-sea diving.)
- Lifetime rewards: Iron Lungs (can stay underwater longer without breathing), Hold Your Breath (can stay underwater indefinitely, lets you live in Simslantis.)
- Face boards. Just something to spice up our pictures.
Basically, I want a lot of things to do on my tropical adventure. Give me a reason to keep coming back to this place, besides the atmosphere.
Mermaids:
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- You can customize their looks greatly, including how many scales they have in sim form.
- They require moisture every so often, or have to swim and enter their mermaid forms every couple of days. If not, they get uncomfortable/tense moodlets and die.
- Basically just copy a lot of The Sims 3's ideas.
- Can't drown and can dive deeper than other sims.
- Can sleep in bathtubs of water, or in pools.
- Skill tree perks: enchanting voice/songs, the ability to stay on land indefinitely, finding rarer fish while fishing.
EDIT: I just saw this on mobile and this post is a monster. Spoiler tagging it for easier reading.
