Supernatural - First Impressions

[Ricalynn]

What are the new lot types? And new rabbitholes? I saw a few pictures, but is that all of them? I'm patiently waiting to get paid so I can go and buy it!

There are a lot more but I was trying to not flood the thread and there is the picture limit after all.  The new lot types as I mentioned in the Supernatural thread are Supernatural Hangout and Elixir Shop.  The theater and criminal hangout are one & the same.  There are a lot of others too but here is only a few.


Zoomsweeper Test Track - It's for trick flying those cool new brooms!


Vault of Antiquity - Sims can go here to research Supernaturals and learn Alchemy to start.  It's located behind the library and works kind of like the mausoleum.


Commonwealth Court - This building is City Hall, Military Base and Police Station all rolled into one.

[sdhoey]

Where is the Zoomsweeper Test Track located?

[Ricalynn]

Right next to the Elixir Shop which is the blue building you see. 

[fortheloveofcake]

My fairy rolled a wish to search for fairies at the Arboretum. After she came out she was already friends with a fairy that she had not known before!

[Draigh]

Hey all,
Have just been playing with the new expansion. Started as a normal human with the alchemy lifetime wish. Reached lvl 10 in the skill and got a chain of quests (delivering alchemy components to several different places) with a Philosopher's Stone as a result. So, curious as to how that one worked, I tried it a couple of times.
Now my sim is a solid gold statue (and no death flower on him). So endgame for me, because the transformation backfired.
All in all a fun expansion though.

PS
The statue of a solid golden sim is worth 50.000 simoleans, if anyone was wondering...

[Ricalynn]

Hey all,
Have just been playing with the new expansion. Started as a normal human with the alchemy lifetime wish. Reached lvl 10 in the skill and got a chain of quests (delivering alchemy components to several different places) with a Philosopher's Stone as a result. So, curious as to how that one worked, I tried it a couple of times.
Now my sim is a solid gold statue (and no death flower on him). So endgame for me, because the transformation backfired.
All in all a fun expansion though.

PS
The statue of a solid golden sim is worth 50.000 simoleans, if anyone was wondering...

Did you have an earlier save that you could just quit and go back to it?  Is he still in your portrait panel and you can see his needs and inventory and everything?  If that is still there, then there is hope he'll come out of it. (maybe)

[Draigh]

I've got a save from about 40 minutes before that. So will return to that one.
Just mentioning it here so people know to save before using the philosopher's stone. You might turn in a gold statue yourself. ;-)

[thesweetestpea]

Did you have an earlier save that you could just quit and go back to it?  Is he still in your portrait panel and you can see his needs and inventory and everything?  If that is still there, then there is hope he'll come out of it. (maybe)

Rica, I suspect but can't prove that the statue may be a gravestone and the sim may have the Transmutation ghost. Draigh, when you mouse over the statue, does it have your sim's name there?

[Ricalynn]

Artie just finished this opportunity.  I think I will save and see if it will backfire.  Experimentation may be had.  However I suspect that you are definitely right, sweetest pea.


Edit: I was able to bind a ghost to the philosopher's Stone that made that ghost join my family!  Just another thing to tell Metro.

[Draigh]

My Sim turned in a golden hued Ghost and an urn was next to him. He is dead, no doubt about that.

[Salome Toums]

The LLAMA will turn your sim into a Tragic Clown for 24 hours.  They will trip if they walk, then giggle, embarrassed.  If they're running, they'll flail their arms and yell, then trip and giggle.

Not really impressed, but not really disappointed.  I was having some troubles collecting with my Magician (who'd changed a trait to Gatherer) in Sunlit Tides.  Created a witch in Moonlit Falls (Moonlight?) - Sophia McGlitterbutt and her two cats Fruity and Meaty - and so far was pretty entertained by the zombies on the first full moon.  The second full moon, no zombies, but lots of ghosts and werewolves.  Overall, I give it a 4 out of 5 stars, but then again, I'm not dissecting the game, just playing it.  One more thing, the Arboretum has a new rabbit hole place, but I'm not too sure what it does.  Sophia explored it, but nothing came of it.

[fortheloveofcake]

Fairy Sims can explore the Arboretum to search for fairies. If they find one, they will automatically become friends with it. It is not always successful. One of my fairies did not find a fairy, instead she came out with two seeds. They can also play fairy games and enter gardening competitions at the Arboretum. I don't know if non-Fairies can really do anything there as I haven't tried yet.

[bluebelle]

Has anyone else been having trouble with the lunar cycle? Every time I come back to my game, it resets at waxing crescent, full moon in 2 days. I may have to manually set at full if I want to see zombies.

I'm having the same problem. I saved during the full moon and when I went in this morning it was back to 2 days. I didn't see any zombies though.

I don't know if it is just fairies or the fact that I gave her the supernatural fan trait, but as soon as the full moon started she kept freaking out and stopped what I had her doing. She did get a tranquil moodlet from the full moon.

[fortheloveofcake]

Children:
- Also no new clothing or hair, just the bite marks and teeth. (I was hoping for some fairy-themed clothes here. Sigh.)

This was in fact wrong, there are three full outfits for Female Children, assuming that there are a few for Male Children also, but not sure.

[cathyknits]

I've seen screenshots of fairy clothing for boys.