I’m pretty certain the CDC declared even looking at it a health hazard. The resort I built myself will never see the light of day. Ultimately, for testing resorts, I decided to try out two different ones: A resort I built myself, and an existing resort near 5 stars. I ended up with six of those gnomes and I have no idea what I would do with them all. I even discovered some treasures on land… along with one hilarious stranding of a group of people that I know I wasn’t responsible for: Being able to befriend a mermaid, discover an island, and then turn my sim into a mermaid also helped after all, I was still exploring content. I was a little reluctant to give up my relaxing playtime to actually write for a bit, but ultimately managed to drag myself out of it. In fact, you can blame the relaxing tone on why this review is so late. And then it struck me: This is a vacation EP, and it was designed to avoid the Travel system for the actual vacationing. Except for the sharks, cave monster, and Fluffy constantly stalking me… it was pretty much a nice, relaxing activity. Ultimately, I found scuba diving to be relaxing. Have I mentioned this thing stalked me so much I named it? Yes, you’re looking at Fluffy! Fluffy the Kraken. Note this isn’t a bad thing aside from the seashells you can find, this method is actually incredibly relaxing to watch… as long as you don’t end up with something similar to this image making you cringe:
That picture pretty accurately describes the first couple ranks of the scuba diving skill. Holy sweet mother of… I swear, that thing is stalking me! Oh, and for kicks, here’s a pic of a ghost on an AQUAAA SLED! And one of a review sim on a speedboat.Īnd a lovely shot of my sim in one of the outfits you can design using this EP (note I am not entirely certain how much of the outfit is from this EP, but the top and shoes definitely are)Īnd, just for kicks, here’s a tiny selection of shots of a houseboat I built note that I am still in the process of improving it, so it will be a bit before it’s uploaded (mainly, once I figure out where to put the weather control device…) Overall, this makes a lot of world *coughSunlitTidescough* a bit more usable when it comes to those areas out in the middle of nowhere. Now, they just hop on their aqua sled and boat out to the island.
Sure, you can only scuba dive in Isla Paradiso, but take a place like Sunlit Tides where collecting gems can require your sim to swim. The water transportation is also incredibly useful for a lot of worlds outside of IP.
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It probably will cause me to rethink some of my building strategy and use it a lot more in commercial lots, just to enjoy the full utility of it. Bathrooms, in my builds, usually take up a lot of space I could easily use elsewhere… up until the introduction of this thing. Take, for example, the All-In-One Bathroom. What content is left is surprisingly versatile. Scuba diving rounds out most of what is left. Resorts and the new modes of sea transportation, including houseboats, definitely have most of the EP’s content. And then I got to playing around with docks, houseboats, resorts, and scuba diving… and realized the content is there, but it’s just not always obvious at first.
Let me start by saying that this EP at first struck me as content-light.