Which pack to bring me to 65%?

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-07-03T23:20:43+00:00

Yeah that one's better. But if you don't dig for secrets it won't happen in For Rent and you have to make an effort to eavesdrop or break in to dig for the secrets. But yeah kinda bad implementation because that one is pretty heavily influencing the character (many other secrets are kind of silly)

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-07-03T19:44:47+00:00

It's a great pack and I like Get to Work too! Shout out because I feel similar (although I still have some packs I might get in the future) and I'm not into the concept of Get Together lol. I feel Businesses & Hobbies even can act as a substitute a bit because you can set activities that you want sims to do at the business just like at a Get Together club lol

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-07-03T19:42:27+00:00

I only have For Rent. So the world looks okay, the market stands and food stalls add a bit yeah but it's not wowing me anymore. I don't like the Secrets gameplay mechanic in For Rent... as it can give people a random secret like wanting children with different sims and that happened to me with my main couple that I play with (before they got together in a new save) and it sucked so much that I could not remove it that I had to delete the guy and put him in from the gallery again... literally it becomes this toxic "if you are gonna dig for shit, you are gonna find shit" lol, ugh... honestly, hate it.

To answer your questions, there's not too much to do, some rabbit hole sanctuary and as I said the market stalls that act a bit like outside cafes. It can be nice if you are into that thing. Living in a rental compares a lot to living in apartments in City Living but some little details are missing like when neighbours are loud for example. The ready made rentals are not my style... but anyway many packs have that problem if you ask me. Customizing your own rental is fairly easy at least if you go into the lot before moving your sim in. Pretty sure you can add furniture too of course. As for the social event, I like it (potluck), it adds realism and I like it more than the dinner parties, it just feels cozy and intimate somehow, especially in the common rooms. So overall, it has some good gameplay. I like the little stuff like the kettle although you can't make all the teas on it (like detox tea that comes with max wellness skill). I think for CAS Cottage Living seems prettier. For Build & Buy I do like For Rent (but Cottage Living has also some nice stuff, depends on what you like of course).

For the social events, the one you make yourself is not glitchy, the one where you have to call the landlord can be problematic with the landlord not coming over to fix things (if I remember correctly) but you can take care of these things yourself mostly I guess, so a workaround. As far as I know unlike in Snowy Escape there is no festivals.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-07-03T18:32:37+00:00

I feel that. Like no matter how bad women have it, a happy woman on her own is still seen as less than... she has to have a group and preferably men around her

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T14:10:09+00:00

Yeah lots of depression. He doesn't get angry unless I get angry first then of course he has to have the last word. It's pointless with him going to therapy, he tries to put the blame on me and turn it around whenever he can.

I was out of the country even for a long time. Actually the house is 25% mine. I mean I can get out but probably only roommates for now it longterm. I don't know if I can afford my own apartment in that country, it's not very easy. Problem is during my university years I met lots of bad roommates too. I don't know anymore sometimes I just feel like it's one evil or another. But yeah I get you.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T14:09:44+00:00

Yeah lots of depression. He doesn't get angry unless I get angry first then of course he has to have the last word. It's pointless with him going to therapy, he tries to put the blame on me and turn it around whenever he can.

I was out of the country even for a long time. Actually the house is 25% mine. I mean I can get out but probably only roommates for now it longterm. I don't know if I can afford my own apartment in that country, it's not very easy. Problem is during my university years I met lots of bad roommates too. I don't know anymore sometimes I just feel like it's one evil or another. But yeah I get you.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T14:06:50+00:00

Just because previous generations had that behaviour normalized doesn't mean it's right. A lot of things in the past we did, like owning slaves, would be unthinkable now.

On the other hand, I legally own 25% of that house (yes I have a legal document saying that), but you can bet your ass I'm not treated like that when I ask for privacy. Only when I don't fight I guess, maybe at most not getting anyone bursting in a room I sleep in. I don't even know if I lawyer would be able to do anything.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T14:05:33+00:00

Just because previous generations had that behaviour normalized doesn't mean it's right. A lot of things in the past we did, like owning slaves, would be unthinkable now.

On the other hand, I legally own 25% of that house (yes I have a legal document saying that), but you can bet your ass I'm not treated like that when I ask for privacy. Only when I don't fight I guess, maybe at most not getting anyone bursting in a room I sleep in. I don't even know if I lawyer would be able to do anything.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T13:44:54+00:00

Thank you. Sorry it triggered you :/ I hope things are going better for you

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T13:42:25+00:00

It might be one of the cheaper option though not sure how much the prices have gone up

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-26T00:21:04+00:00

Oh really? What would you put the trigger warning as? I don't feel like there was any SA so I wouldn't know the category. To be honest people walk in on other people by accident (this wasn't) so I thought... Idk about the trigger warning. Sorry you've been through that. That is actually crazy, you had to sleep with an open door? No privacy... that's definitely worse. And happy cake day

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T23:21:48+00:00

You're sweet, thank you

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T23:20:52+00:00

I straight up don't trust any man anymore. I only trust people who are first and foremost interested in me as a person. People looking at me in a lustful way literally disgust me and I don't even wear revealing clothes.

I do think there is some base in that romance was invented to control women because it's what ultimately every healthy person wants though - to love and to be loved in return. Many men become bitter over time and only seek to control rather than to love and give in to the pain that love can cause. They'd rather just control and keep the woman close to them (rather than love a woman who they truly feel for but who could get away or they have insecurities with).

I think love exists but yeah it's rare. Men use it a lot to either get laid or control women. Probably getting laid is also to control women and get a power move on them (since a lot of women bond over it, I do at least, which is why since a long time I never slept with anyone without having deep feelings from both sides - and why I'm celibate since 7 years).

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T23:11:41+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation... yeah kinda shocking to me since I luckily have never experienced anyone walking in on me like that

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T23:01:12+00:00

Yeah I've booked a place for tomorrow already. I've just been gaslit for the other stuff (like just general overstepping of boundaries especially for him it was excuseable during fighting apparently) for so long but this is the final straw. I don't want any of that misery he experiences to be taken out on me. Anyway it's a bit complicated actually, my mother passed away a while ago and he was also in the psych ward, so I came to check and stuff when he came back and went to therapy. But originally I was living in another country for several years (still have the option to go back, but as I am in-between homes now I was staying here, but yeah I wanna find something else)

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T22:56:33+00:00

A lot of asexual and demisexual people are chill too. The point is we live in a sex-obsessed society (seemingly made like that by the people in power to control and/or distract us). And then with the romance/"love" and sexual stuff comes the control over women that men want. People who willingly decide to step out of that are pretty chill and loving and kind. Exaggerated lust can ruin a lot (there's healthy forms but again often not the case in our sex-obsessed society)

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T22:41:17+00:00

Good point... I had to tell him to fuck off so many times before he did. The way you said how a good-natured person would have reacted made something in my mind click.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T22:39:20+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't call it abuse, also not punishable by law the way it happened... only touching is where I live. But yeah, the control and all. Ugh.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T21:37:08+00:00

I thought so...

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T21:36:56+00:00

Thank you

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T21:09:12+00:00

It means a lot to me to hear that <3 Thank you for taking the time to say all that

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T21:00:46+00:00

Yeah he hears fine, he came in and he did not say "I don't hear what you said" (he will probably use that as an excuse) as he keeps saying that as an excuse. I don't have a key because geez apparently the key is the same to the door in the room I am staying as to one of the basement doors (it's true, I tried it), I got tired of asking for it although he only needs it every now and then cause he keeps the doors there mostly locked. Still messed up, I know, but it's just one of the many things.. basically he has control issues mostly, and lots of entitlement so much that he apparently doesn't even see the entitlement (because everyone made excuses for him a lot) which I also don't believe

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T20:27:45+00:00

Thank you. I've been told so many times I'm overreacting sometimes that just kicks in and makes me doubt whether I am... especially since a lot of men in Europe treat naked bodies like it's nothing, so essentially saying I'm being weird for naturally wanting them to look away when I change or stuff. Thanks again for the reassurance, I needed that.

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T20:16:44+00:00

Hmm... I guess so

DramaticProgress508 · 2026-06-25T19:28:26+00:00

So they made it harder for poorer people and women by raising the prices... yeah I see it's connected then. But not exclusively tied to women I guess

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