omg i never really thought about an apartment lot type. that’s would literally be game changing

Sadly I don’t think they ever will because it was *the* main selling point for city living and an important aspect of eco lifestyle (not to the same degree as the gameplay of this pack or city livings apartments, but still one if it’s more prominent features). The suits at EA know they’d lose sales (on city living especially) if they did this, so they never will :(

@@MeganJester i don't see why they couldn't make it a lot type unlocked by either eco or city - like how the retail one comes with get to work, the restaurant with dine out etc

@@morganfaire5684 it was initially just in city living. They only expanded it to eco lifestyle because we said we wanted more apartments. They heard that request and never even considered the idea of making it base game.

@@MeganJester Then they should make apartment lots only available for those with City living. It makes sense for the packs theme, and would likely boost sales if anything.

100%

yes!!! i would love to have a latin american world that isnt just the selvadora adventure stuff

@@mariaisabel-rb1gc I'd love to see some new island world inspired by a mix of Cuba/dominican rep/bahamas/barbados cuz its really different vibe from sulani

Yeah I feel like the pack worlds I love the most are the ones that feel more unique. Tartosa, mt komorebi, henford on bagley, sulani, all feel very unique to me as someone in the US. I prefer my sims living there as opposed to willow creek, which feels like every neighborhood in the US (minus any crime or grime bc sims 4 is a happiness simulator). I know why they did it with San Sequoia. It’s a family pack, I get it. But it feels like copperdale is kinda the same thing?

@@MeganJesterI completely agree. I honestly feel like I’d be much more interested in generations ep if it wasn’t just another U.S. based world style. I mean come on there are so so many other cultures that are family focuses (more so than the us) that could have been used.

literally like when they were doing their townie makeovers could they not have fixed up some of the houses? 💀

They fixed the camera friendship “glitch” before stairs to nowhere… this keeps me awake at night

I don't understand how can The Sims Team not renovate the worlds, they didn't even re-add the pools to the houses that originally were supposed to have it like the Landgraab mansion. We've had the pool update for over 7 years!

They're basically a meme now though.

@@AlexandriaWhitney_they also “fixed” the console controls to switch around the change sim and time buttons and now it’s all messed up

So true! I was pretty young playing sims 2 on PC and not really getting into building. I then went to sims 3 on Wii and never built at all. So to be a young player and have no toilets in my house, and having a very hard time building one, I get jt

Damn I never thought of that! 10 year old me would be FRUSTRATED

i was playing sims 4 as a 10 year old and whenever there were glitches i had no idea what was happening i played on ps4 too so i couldn’t even find a different lot on the gallery because it didn’t exist yet

Then we can get different regimes may be like you can pick your age and gaming status (beginner or a pro) and then open the ability to these who will know what to do with it. Building worlds was the main thing I loved about sims 2 and after they took that away I just can’t bring myself to enjoy newer games at all.

I am definitely one of those players that would just get confused and frustrated

LA itself is a big disappointment imo, so it tracks lol.

@@heg203 this is true

The most I ever interact with Judith (the owner of the toilet-less house) is either having her in my relationship tab due to PR agency adding me to her party, actively hating her with my sim, or that one time I got Fame lvl 1 from purely becoming friends with celebs buy her a drink, or at least offer and cancel out ordering it, and you'll get her phone number, after that befriend her via phone calls and texts (pretty hard) and when you invite her just hope she'll strike up a conversation first I love how the fact sims can interact with our celebs if they talk to them first works the other way around with other celebs

THE DRIVEWAYS DONT CONNECT TO THE LOTS! I can't play there because it infuriates me so much. Why would they not just connect them?

del sol valley is an amazing world, from the view of the world ITSELF, not including the builds. the lots are too big in mirage park so it’s frustrating only build on a portion of a lot or fill up the lot with empty debug buildings. if the lots are replaced, it’s definitely a really good world, except for the fact that it’s small with no apartments/beach front houses.

Yes! That’s why it’s the first pack I ever bought

And the builds are phenomenal since they were commissioned!

Agreed I’d put sulani and henford in top tier

Which one is the Hanford is it?

@@chef-kisscottage living

that, that right there

nice to see someone else who appreciates strangerville

I love Sulani, moonwood mill, I love henford on Bagley, windenburg is pretty awesome too.

I love strangerville I replay it all the time

I do miss the ability to make apartments like you had in 3.

I love strangerville! That and San Myshuno are my most used worlds

There is a mod that makes all worlds residential, but it doesnt solve the problem

Yes this makes me so sad too

I know! I've been doing an around-the-world legacy challenge, and if Selvadorada was liveable, it'd add a much needed SOUTH (or Central) American bit of variety. We've got butt-tons of obviously-based-off-the-U.S. neighborhoods, but if we had residential Selvadorada and Granite Falls, I could say the family was moving to, like, Peru, or Canada. As it is, the family's living in all "different" places "around the world" is mostly gonna be the U.S. of A. :P

@@robinchesterfield42 I mean there is nothing stopping the Sims from having a Residential world and a explorer world in the same pack. like for Salvadoran the Residental/livable world is a more closer to the nations/regions Capital/city/town whit the world been a 4 lot in a group city/town whit a "modern" city feel to it, a 4 slot suberb, and a 4 slot wannabe wilderness livers but its only 30-90 min by train/bus from the city edge kind of deal. and the explorer(what we got now) is the pure wilderness kind of deal. Like I would also love a more explorer Sunami world.

I downloaded a mod to make them residential, and my sim’s wife (the townie Zoe Patel) is “Selvadoradian,” and her parents live there. It’s so useful and adds some much needed cultural diversity to the gameplay.

same, my legacy challenge family is in Sulani and if someone forced me to choose only one sims 4 pack to buy it would be Island Living. I love mt. komerebi too but I would place Henford on Bagley as my 2nd favorite.

SAME

They are both cool and diverse

they are the only two I have 😭

I actually kinda like that Newcrest always starts out as a blank slate and you can basically build it entirely from scratch, it makes it such a unique world with endless possibilities. I understand the critique of it being annoying having to build it over and over again but it’s so easy to just make a default save file with it filled out and use that as the jumping off point for each new playthrough, or just not use Newcrest if you don’t want to constantly add lots to it. My main critique with it is that the world around it kind of demands you build a certain way since there’s always those debug buildings around and you kind of have to copy their architectural style for it to not look out of place. I sorta wish the overworld was just empty or the debug houses designed to blend into a variety of cityscapes.

Same, I play in it more than any other world. It feels so lively. I don't care for suburban living.

@@shadybaby1515 Well, the surroundings and liveliness of the pack brings all the joy. The constant come-and-go of Events, fairs, competitions make the pack really great. They just had to create more apartments and make them better. I hate it when 9/10 apartments have these high walls and small rooms. It makes everything seem so small and weird. New packs just for apartments will hopefully come out just like Eco Living. They added two apartmentbuildings with their own destiny.

Definitely my favorite world in the game. I always pick to play in that world when starting a new save

san myshono is my fav! city living is an amazing pack overall

@@shadybaby1515 I would definitely buy another pack with apartments! Yeah not the main focus, but it’s daily living for a LOT of people irl, and it’d only make sense to be casually put into other worlds other than purely City Living and Eco Lifestyle. Also, Eco Lifestyle had apartments to show more ‘realistic’ middle-class living, so that can also be implemented into new worlds.

Cute idea.

I always put Victorian themed sims and Victorian homes in that neighborhood so it is possible, it’s just she always uses modern day themed sims

@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah that's awesome, I do mean genuinely a modernized Average Joe tho too, I think it'd be fun to intentionally make a character who like. Lives in a generic suburban trying to survive their vampire neighbors ajsjsjdj

Yes omg, a bubbly golden retriever human

that would be a lot better and waste less of my money

agreed, this world isn't that bad but it's no good either, it's just rather boring i hope for a refresh someday with more things to do like climbing, telling stories while on campfire with the others, fishing, gardening, even swimming in water it for sure needs something that feels so alive and more things to do

Agreed. No matter how I play it (sim there to fulfil aspiration, or family trip, or sending a group of friends), I get so bored! It’s not the worst if you send them there for one day, mayybe two, but after the second day I’m done. Not much to do and it all looks the same!

Her friend Hope makes the subtitles and her husband Dan edits the videos. I loved this comment so much and made me feel warmth around my heart ❤️ It’s always nice to read about such a positive experience with a person you like. And your reasoning isn’t stupid at all. I’m not autistic and I still put on Subtitles or I even use the newish transcript feature just because it’s there. I get what you mean. Simsie’s voice is so calming and relaxing and comforting to me as well

Auditory processing difficulties is a perfectly good reason to use captions when they’re available; it’s not just the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing who benefit from good captions, because you and I are examples of people who use them to give our brains an easier job 😊

i work at a disability center and am in charge of captioning media. it's really disheartening to see bad captions because i know that's it's really not that hard. especially with high budget movies/shows, it's just not accessible

I have auditory processing issues that came with my autism and I use subtitles all the time and it's so difficult to use the auto-generated ones so I also really apparently Simsie's effort in making her videos accessible

@@kathrinehmunk Yeah, me too. The auto-generated ones are often worse than useless to me, in that they tend to contain errors that just make my brain _more_ uncertain about what was actually said instead of confirming or correcting it.

Exactly!! I feel like that was maybe on purpose too. Sims team wanted us to live our Twilight dreams lmao

Bro right I was literally thinking how copperdale gives big twilight vibes when she was talking about it

I forgot about the outdoor computers at geekcon 😂Literally just adding in a sort of canopy covering would completely fix the issue, wouldn't it? or putting them into an open pavilion, which can be used for other things when there is no geekcon, so the roof can be hidden easily... Having the computers be under cover just makes logical sense, regardless of weather conditions, so I'm really not sure why they never added something in lol

Magnolia Promenade has a really annoying distant spawn point (Sims appear and vanish near the river) so I never want to live there. What I usually do is get rid of the default retail lots and replace them with more useful lots like a cafe, a restaurant, better retail lots, and/or a spa. I also made a much smaller modern two-story vet (upstairs has a small apartment for the vet Sim who owns it) on one of the 20x20 lots but you could have a one-story modern vet on the 20x30 or add a dog training yard to a vet on that big 40x30 lot but I think the 40x30 works best for an all-indoor Spa (since it rains a lot in that area lol.) Basically I'm voting for making Magnolia Promenade *usable* but not livable. It's great for adding in Chez Llama if you want to try the experimental dishes and you could probably add a bowling alley or a pool if you wanted to! I think it's best for building community lots.

@@j.stanley1669 omg i'm SO in for that refresh, if not livable atleast make this world more usable, make it visible for certain places you normally can only visit when you work there so you can also visit that place if you're NOT at work i love your ideas based on Magnolia Promenade, the pack "get to work" makes sense too, EA should see this comment

@leontineketting97 agreed on visiting the hidden career lots for all EA should definitely do that, but the devs can't add stuff from other packs into that world officially in a refresh since they can't guarantee what packs you have beyond the base game, unfortunately. Simmers don't need to worry about that, so I would love it if more of them could build lots for us to replace the defaults in MP! Like how James Turner built some other very distinct Rec Centers for that new world, using stuff from other packs! (Edit: though these were on other lots, not replacing the original rec center.) Lol, it's annoying to do it manually, though. I will say, if Maxis made at least one retail lot that sold the career unlockables and some of the items added to BG in updates, that'd be cool. We don't need 3(?) Clothing stores. Tbh I almost never visit those lots, so I can't even be sure what they sell. I suppose in the end it doesn't matter much because you can bulldoze them for your own builds, but it is disappointing.

I made a nightclub under the shipwreck, it’s one of my favorite lots to visit!

​@@itshaileyjoThat's such a great idea, I love it! Is it on the gallery?

I gotta buy this now

I just discovered it last night! i think I'll make it a boba cafe after I get the highschool living pack

Same!

Same for me! Irl i'd choose Windenburg or Brindleton Bay over a beach but in the sims 4 world i want to live in Sulani lol

I am so happy to see other Island Living enjoyers lol. When the pack first came out people didn't like it much but I love mermaids

agreed! I cried out of happiness when it came out

same for me😍😍

I must’ve missed this! When was it free ?

It was free??! 😦

@@whoisZubaydah a couple weeks ago Epic Games had a free bundle of Jungle Adventure, a kit, and a stuff pack that I think was Luxury Party

I’m really glad you were able to take advantage of the free special!

One of my favorite build and buy along it’s the foods it brought. I love playing Latino characters going back to Selvadorada to discover their roots.

Same, and Newcrest. The two worlds my sims live in like 90% of the time.

I love the cicadas during the summer nights ❤ I avoided playing there at first, but now it's one of my favourite worlds.

I don't like it when content creators rate the Vampires pack lower because yeah, maybe you don't play with occults but it introduced the best gameplay system in the game. Vampire powers and weaknesses mechanic is amazing and I'm sad that the other occults didn't get weaknesses.

I do enjoy turning Newcrest into a liveable neighborhood. I have been playing there recently - a teen & her little sister - and have had fun adding things for them to do there.

omg me too! My main house is in Oasis Spring while I built many vacation houses in New Crest so that I can play there

She’s my escape reality streamer and always gets me distracted in the best way while watching ❤

@@melinabbbbb i know! i live her so much 💜

When I’m stressed I put simsie on

I just wanted to say that I’m sorry you’re going through hard times and I’m sending love 🩷

You mean satch right?

but it’s only on one apartment. so all the others are fine, right? i personally don’t mind it, and Kayla explained why you can’t place anything on the balcony when the pack came out. it’s bc there was an error, so they kept it in as a stylistic choice.

I agree 100% about windenberg, I think I just don't like the Tudor style so I never have my sims live there. Love oasis springs, newcrest and San myshuno

Me tooo :D

I don't like it because it's somehow meant to be Italian, but Tartosa sounds not at all Italian.

Getting creative with it🤣 That's how you enjoy it