Adventures

[Willsie]

I just got WA and I just want to adventure what place should I go to first.

[donatello]

Hey. Welcome to the forum, by the way. It really is a good idea to have some simoleons handy so your sim can afford the basics for survival. I'd say have about §5000 plus your travel cost (different for every location). In foreign countries they supply you a scooter or bicycle while there, but if you want to use your own vehicle, you must put it in your sim's inventory. Use your phone or computer to "Travel" and the locations will come up. Select your location. If you're a gardener, take a load of fruit along in your sim's inventory. It will save loads of simoleons in dried food. Then when you arrive, go to the general dealer and buy a tent, and if you didn't bring food along, buy about 2 medium dried food per day. Then you return to base camp (where you arrived after traveling) and click on the mailbox/"adventure board" and then "check for adventures" and you're on your way!

[donatello]

I find Egypt to be a very interesting first location. After that the adventure line will guide you. China's tombs are more strangely configured than that of Egypt. And France is more interesting as a change of pace, and is a good third location.
EDIT: I totally forgot to mention Shower-in-a-can. About 10 should do for your first trip to Egypt (traps are gonna hit you like crazy until you start to expect them, and learn to deal with them instead of dreading them). They are §120 each. See why you need all that money to travel properly?

[Anushka]

I'd recommend that you should visit China first, and in first hour of the game lol. There you should grab books from bookshelfs in Base Camp and sell them when you go back home (for up to 20k value, if lucky even more). Base camp will provide everything you need (and some distant locations also have decent beds, fridge and nice bathrooms). Also, adventure chain is the best to start there, it will guide you to learn martial arts, collect things and solve some simple tombs usually with decent loot. I wouldn't go to other worlds without Pangu Axe you got in China trough adventure as many tombs require having it to smash boulders, plus you'll have to go to France to finish some China adventures later (and get rare grapes even without much trouble). Just make shore you buy martial art equipment to learn it on cooling time back home as it will help with fighting mummies and increase the athletic while practicing it, plus you'll love to zeneport when neccessary.
I usually do France second and Egypt last but all are pretty and if you are not up to tomb raiding then you can check whichever scenery and landscape you prefer

[Willsie]

Ok thanks.

[thelittlepakeha]

Agree with China. My tactic was to keep going there until I had the magic axe that breaks boulders (Pangu's Axe). Then I went to France and Egypt. However if you want to do photography, go to Egypt first to get the book and the expensive cameras, because you'll see a lot of the photos while you're traveling.

[Wai]

There are benefits to each location.

The base camp is best appointed and more comfortable in France, its easier to get around the town and there are some nice, valuable metals to collect in very accessible locations.  Use this one if you want to increase skills by reading, cooking etc. while there.  Take the needed books with you and a stereo if you want to do athletics.

However, as has already been mentioned, China has that nice "free books" bonus and easier tomb raiding.  It also has a very useful incense burner which speeds up reading and gives a nice 10 happiness points when in the room with it  (1000 simoleons).  I always buy one to take with me when I go to the library, gym etc.

Egypt  is where you buy the good camara, if you want to do the photography skill, and the snake charming basket, but the base camp is very basic.  The first couple of tombs are very easy too.  Sadly very little easily accessible valuable metal and gems though, so I find this the least profitable destination.

I usually take a trip to China right at the start of the game to lift those books.  You won't need much money, just a few hundred to buy a tent if you want to use one insead of a bed for a few days when you return home.  Otherwise, you shouldn't actually need a tent for the first tomb adventure in any location.  Harvest a couple of wild plants before you go, good free food.  There is a good community lot with loads of fruit and veg to harvest in China though the plants are likely to have no produce on the first day of your first trip. (The current gardening bug rather ruins this though as you will have to harvest each plant individually.)  There are some good harvestables in France too.

If you do an adventure in any of the locations you will make some decent money.  Get your metal smelted or gems cut, while there if you are tight for cash then sell the ingots or gems.  However, it's more profitable to bring them home and transfigure them into tiberium.  I have never taken a trip where I have returned poorer than when I left.

You need to decide the purpose of your first trip and plan it before you leave.  Buy a stereo wherever you are going.  Then buy the basics like guitar or skill books or portable computer if you intend to use some of the time for learning. A trip to the library to read a book, or a class is pretty useful too.  For Example: if I plan to harvest then I will read the first chapter of gardening before I go.  Collectables will not appear on the map until the second day of your first trip.

[Willsie]

Ok thanks this was all really helpful.