About Paradise Island:
I do not recommend this game because of one reason: it glitches so much. There is a lot of lagging. If you are reading this and thinking, oh it probably doesn’t matter, this person probably has a bad pc. But please listen. I thought the same thing because it looked so fun and it totally is its just so annoying because it pauses every 2 minutes and i have to wait so long just to get back to what I was doing. Other than the lagging, the game is really fun. You get alot of cute extra clothes and hairstyles and the world is really nice. Just wish the lagging wasn’t there, I would play it way more often. Thanks for reading. This expansion makes me really sad, because it’s so interesting, and has a lot of really cool mechanics like resorts and mermaids but it really just flopped really hard. I would recommend this pack only if you wanted to use mods that help the game run smoother, if you want pure vanilla, don’t pick this up. At the bottom I’ll give mod recs and a fix you can do if you decide to try (or maybe you already have it, and are just looking at reviews for fun). (P.S if you have seasons, I’d recommend turning off winter/fall and snow for any households in Isla Paradiso) The biggest flaw in this pack is that to use it to it’s full potential, you NEED to be in it’s world, Isla Paradiso; Since it was the very last pack added, Isla Paradiso is the ONLY world that has the dive spots despite nearly every other world having beaches on the ocean. The world can be very laggy from the usable size and the sheer amount of things that are added into this pack. Mermaids are cool, it are a little tedious/challenging to make your sim into a mermaid, and come with new consequences and abilities. FYI mermaids can walk on land, their legs will have scales and reflect the color of their tail. When your sim becomes a mermaid, hydration replaces their hygene which if they become dehydrated, they can die, but even when they are hydrated they need to swim in the ocean or else they’ll turn back into a normal sim (there is a lifetime reward to prevent this). They also don’t get much from normal food and require fish and kelp to raise their hunger. The main pro to being a mermaid is being able to stay under water indefinitely and swimming faster. Other than that, they can summon sharks if they are evil or mean-spirited to attack other sims. Other than that there’s not a whole lot. Note that other occults (werewolves, genies, plantsims etc.) cannot also be mermaids without mods. The resort system is very complicated, and I haven’t explored it too much. Just know, they can be very very expensive and often don’t pay back that money (there is one free resort for purchase called Hobart’s Hideaway that you can use) and require finances (workers, food, pools and bedrooms). Your resort relies on reviews and stars; You can only gain or lose half a star per day, as well as gives you reviews, telling you what was or wasn’t good about the resort. This system would actually be really really fun if Isla Paradiso wasn’t a nightmare to live in (you can build resorts in any world, but there are only pre-built ones in Isla Paradiso which come with a few stars). This pack also added a house foundation of stilts, making it easier to build houses off the beach, and there are many houses in the world built like this. One of my favorite parts of the pack is HOUSE BOATS which are literally houses that you build on the water, require a steering wheel somewhere on the lot, and you can go out on the water and dock them anywhere. It’s a really fun idea, if again, wasn’t ruined by the fact these can really only be done in Isla Paradiso. Overall, everything about this pack is actually spectacular and super gameplay heavy (you actually have to work for your rewards, mermaids and 5-star hotels) but it just can’t live up to it’s full potential because the game just can’t handle the amount of world there is. Isla Paradiso is a gorgeous and horrible world. There’s a reason this pack is mostly negative, and it’s for a good reason. If you are confident that you can get this pack to run ok, go for it, it’s a really good pack. I’d recommend “nraas errortrap” and “ellacharmed’s IslaParadiso.world with Fixes” for mods to try and help. If these still aren’t helping, or you don’t want to mod your game, you can also delete several houses that seem to have routing problems: Icatcha, Scott, Los Amigos, and Medina. If there’s still problems, you can delete The Romantic, and The Prince.
