I gotta say @RobinGreenthumb I am loving your posts. Here there and everywhere. You have a fan.
I have been playing with this pack, world and build buy so much lately that I am over the point of playing video games too much for this past week. Losing sleep, bleary eyed but still gotta make it to the computer to play kinda too much. The story itself if you played it bam, bam, bam. I guess could be short but there is no way I'm playing it like that. I'm using the world in all it's stages, the build/buy, the objects, new animations, CAS .. ect.. but most especially the themes that we can expand on because of all of this.. including some of the more linear gameplay aspects.
I'm actually not minding and even enjoying some of the guidance I can ignore it (and do) if it suits me to do so for the story or go all in with it also.
I'm about to go back into the story after some play around in the town I think, and I already know that when I do and I beat the game so to speak... It's going to revolve again and next time go down a darker path. Then... wait for it... revolve again after that. I think I'll be slowing down during the cycles. I really only want to move it forward this time to see the end actually. Even though I have seen pictures I'm just wanting to experience the "end".
Also just the ideas this pack has and is inspiring is just pouring in. I may need a tin-foil hat to make them stop, I swear. I have saves that have been waiting for secret agents. I have saves that have been waiting for a creepy world for creepy folks to engage in creepy things in the desert. I have saves in which I want to tell stories of military types. Been wanting to play out my Little Shop families and a bunch of other that will blend well with this background.
It's been an amazing ride this week for me because of this pack.. and I see it continuing. For my health and the state of my house though it would be best if it slowed down a tad I think :).