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The Sims 4 City Living Expansion is available November 1, 2016. This DLC focuses on adding a new city, apartments, and producing a realistic feeling setting. The City of San Myshuno and Apartments are a central part of the addon. Players have to pay rent to live in the city and contend with noisy neighbors and landlords. Sims can easily eat lunch from a vendor, meet tourists and street performers, and pursue new city-themed careers. I'm working to add new guides daily, now that I've got a copy of the City Living Expansion.
I'm releasing a new guide every day, so check back for more! I'll update this list as new articles become available:
Summary of Features in The City Living Addon - Read on for Details:
An Apartment. This is a starter, there are much more luxurious places to live, with higher rent.
Apartments are a new feature in this Expansion Pack. You can rent one of several apartments in different neighborhoods in the city, with different rental expenses. Apartments allow you to use an elevator to leave the building without a loading screen and explore the neighborhood like usual. Building fans will have to get creative to make efficient use of the available space. As your family grows, you're likely to need a much bigger and more expensive apartment. Naturally, you can choose a furnished option when you initially put down the deposit, but you will have to pay for those items' value. Sims on a tight budget may want to buy items as they need them. A downside to apartments that seemingly could've been avoided is that players cannot simply walk into the neighbor's apartment. You're able to socialize with them in the hall or knock for a little chat, but going inside to visit does require a loading screen. See festivals for other explanations about loading screens that pertain to this DLC.
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How to Pick Lot Traits: Choose a lot's traits by clicking in the upper-left corner while in build mode. Some traits can't be changed and are unique to certain lots, such as Historical Site.
This was included as a free update for every Sims 4 owner. Some apartments come with predetermined traits that are locked, though you can change your lot's traits at any time. These provide skill boosts, and may allow you to make your building have some supernatural effects, such as gremlins or gnomes that either damage or repair objects overnight. Buildings can be earthquake-prone, have nice breezes that give your Sims a boost to exercise, or nice lighting for painting. Multiple births are also supported if your apartment or house is built on a ley line. Lot traits are changed by clicking the info panel in the top left when you're in build mode. Hover over them and click the X, unless it's one that is permanent (such as the apartment being an historical site).
San Myshuno's bridge. City Living offers some beautiful views!
The new city is a great backdrop for living out your Sims' lives. The developer definitely pulled off a city vibe, as traffic goes by in the background, the great skyline and Sims going about their daily lives all contribute to this feeling. In certain areas, Sims can partake in street painting, or buy street food from a vendor. Overall it's nice to be able to get away from the base game's small towns, and you can certainly alter some of the city to suit your design whims. Just to be clear though, you won't be able to plop skyscrapers anywhere you want - you'll build around them, there are just some lots that can be heavily customized as usual. Among the regular Sims you'll run into in San Myshuno, there are plenty of tourists, street performers, and human statues your Sim can meet. This makes each day in the city just a bit more interesting, as city life should be.
Protesting is part of the new Political Career in the City Living DLC
City Living features three new Careers - Politician (Activist), Critic, and Social Media. All three are fitting for the city life. A new feature for these careers is the ability to work from home. Each day, before your Sim leaves for work, you get to choose if it's a day they'll go in to the office, take the day off, or else work from home. Each of these have two branches like usual, so you can take the career into an entirely different direction.
A festival underway. These are great places to meet Sims and even learn new recipes as your Sim tries new foods.
Festivals are held regularly in San Myshuno. The new city's various neighborhoods are all home to different types of festivals. If a festival is held in your home neighborhood, you can visit it at the designated time without any loading screen. Traveling to a festival in another neighborhood does impose a loading screen, though in my experience they were indeed brief. Festivals last several hours and give your Sims something different to do, allowing them to connect with others Sims and sometimes enter into competitions with prizes. Checking the bulletin board outside your Sim's apartment will notify you of any upcoming festivals.
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The Sims 4 Seasons expansion now has options! Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Cottage Living Guide! Here is my guide to new features in the Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion
You can also find handy Cottage Living Cheats
I have much more to come, since you can actually write a few guides about this pack!
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Snowy Escape Cheats
Lifestyles in Snowy Escape
Climb Mt. Komorebi
Sentiments in Snowy Escape
Rock Climbing
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I've released a guide to Sentiments in The Sims 4 & Snowy Escape.
There is a new platform tool in The Sims 4. There's also a new Sentiments system, but it'll take some time to create a guide to that. Players can also use rental lots in any world now by changing lot types of builds in manage worlds.
I've created a massive List of The Best Mods in The Sims 4 that should be very helpful to new players and those who have not yet explored modding and how much it can do for your gameplay.
New - Secrets I have a new guide to secrets in the game. If you prefer, you can also watch a video about secrets in Sims 4.
Nifty Knitting is now available. Learn all about the stuff pack on my guide page here.
NEW - Nifty Knitting CheatsNew features in the Sims 4 June 2020
The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Guide
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Neighborhood Action Plans
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Juice Fizzing NEW
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This is inspired by a new series in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to the full playlist!
I now have a guide page to Tiny Living Stuff where you can learn about Murphy Beds, the new death, as well as the lot bonuses you'll receive if you manage to keep the size of your lot down with this new pack's Tiny Home Lot Type.
New I now have a guide to Making Super Sims in The Sims 4. Look for a text version within the next 72h. It won't have THAT much more info but it will help out as a checklist.
This was inspired by a series, "Let's Play a Super Sim" in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to each part for people who are interested. You can also see the Let's Play as a Playlist on Youtube.
The Sims 4 Discover University has been announced for November 15 for PC/Mac and December 17 for Xbox and Playstation 4 consoles. Click to learn more about the pack, see my summary of the livestream or read our FAQs below.
Other Guides to Discover University:
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New: Discover University FAQ: Gameplay Features
New Video The Sims 4 Discover University Gameplay Tips Video
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Comments (5)
I don't think you can be the landlord yourself, but if you don't want to deal with the landlords and have more building freedom, try renting the penthouse in San Myshuno
Hey Carl! I love your website and it's been extremely helpful these past few years. I am currently trying to complete every collection in the game and was wondering if you thought of making a page about the City Living Posters. They are listed in the game as a collection. Keep up the great work!
Sure, it's certainly worth a thought! I've passed on your comment to Carl.