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For me the top pack is Realm of Magic because I like the theme. If I could only get one DLC this would be it. And some other game packs like Spa day, Jungle adventure and werewolves would also be ranked somewhere between the must have category. Being an EP doesn't make a DLC better than the smaller ones!
I rank EP's by groups. The individual order within a group can vary, depending on my mood and current story. Gameplay is the main reason for my ranking, followed by the world. CAS and build/buy can have some influence but not much.
Must haves
- 1. Get together: the world and club system are great and feel like they belong to base game
- 2. Cottage Living: I love the simple living lot trait, the farm animals and the world
- 3. Get to work: I couldn't play without retail system and aliens
- 4. Seasons: overal making the game feels more alive with weather and a sense of time with holidays
- 5. Growing together: lots of little features that add to the overal game like milestones, better infants, ...
Great packs
- 6. snowy escape: I like walking in nature and mountain excursions
- 7. Island living: the world and general vibe of a tropic environment and mermaids
- 8. Discover university: from time to time it's fun to play students, 3 new jobs and robotics
- 9. Horse Ranch: horses are fun to focus on from time to time. The small animals, wine making and world are great too.
- 10. City living: the only real city environment and the best festivals so far
OK packs
- 11. Enchanted by Nature: I loved the idea of fairies but this pack adds much other things I don't need (ailments, apothecary, more gnomes). If spellcasters could walk around the new world without being confronted with fairy discrimination and prejudice, this would be one category up
- 12. Life and Death: not totally my vibe but it is a well rounded pack that does it's theme very well
- 13. Eco lifestyle: recycling can be interesting. Great build buy elements and a world that can be run down are it's strong points. NAP's are turned off permanently as well as eco footprint are turned of by default
- 14. bussinesses and hobbies: businesses are well made but I miss the option to set up one without an owner. The title with hobbies in plural is misleading
- 15. Cats and dogs: great pack but just not my thing. The world is pretty
Could do without
- 16. Get famous: great pack just not my thing. I do like the costumes and appreciate the option to turn off fame
- 17. Lovestruck: not my cup of tea.
- 18 For rent: I don't touch the main feature because I don't want to break my game and there is hardly anything outside of the main feature
- 19. high school years: this will forever be the pack that intentionally tried to end excitement for werewolves, the pack with the forced update, the pack with the sneaky and unmentioned change to days in each lifestyle and the pack that introduced the phone obsession that makes my game unplayable without mods. If it wasn't for these issues, it would still be a theme I don't care about
With two trailers Adventure Awaits sounds promissing. I expect it to be somewhere in the upper half of my list but wait until it is actually released before I add it to my list.