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Public Area of Sims 4 Pic?
halimali1980
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I think this might be the public area which does not need loading screen.
It is the area in front of your house and other houses in the neighborhood
Makes sense it is this one as you cant edit it or add objects to it.
So basically the public area is your neighborhood road. Maybe when your sim wants to go into one of these lots the loading screen will come up and that lot will become your active lot while the public area will still be accessible.
It is the area in front of your house and other houses in the neighborhood
Makes sense it is this one as you cant edit it or add objects to it.
So basically the public area is your neighborhood road. Maybe when your sim wants to go into one of these lots the loading screen will come up and that lot will become your active lot while the public area will still be accessible.
Everything I post is an opinion here and I think every post of others is as well.
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Yeah kinda does,doesnt it?
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If that's it, then the public area is more limited than even my most pessimistic thoughts imagined it would be.
I can play at last TS2 TS3 and TS4 So great that toddlers are here!!!
Don't worry! I'm sure that there are some skinny plots of grass between lots that we can go to without loading screens :roll:
Isn't the whole neighborhood open, meaning that you can travel around the lots and houses in your neighborhood of up the 5 lots without loading?
Not happy.
edit~ Additional
From the little we have seen 5 lots would seem to be one side of a street at most, maybe a cul-de-sac with two either side and one at the end depending on what the layout is.
Its all seems to be speculation until EA makes full accurate non-retracted statements at this point.
Nope, the only thing you can access without loading screens is the lot you've already loaded and the public space (roads and grassy areas) within that 5 lot neighborhood. Going to another lot requires a loading screen, even if it's in the same neighborhood.
No, you have to load between every lot within the neighbourhood.
I think there are larger grassy areas in other neighbourhoods than this one because they've said some parks are on public areas, and we've seen the small sand paths etc. behind the Goth house. So it won't *just* be the road, but the road is part of the public area.
Every lot?
Is there a stage between dealbreaker and get the torches, pitchforks and rope?
I think that stage is denial, anger, and tears.
But yes, they have confirmed a loading screen between EVERY SINGLE LOT.
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http://www.homestarrunner.com/loadingscreens.html
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I am afraid that would drive me completely nuts.
UGH.
Now I think neighborhood sizes will be the same but the lot sizes within each neighborhood will be different. The lots sizes will affect the public areas space size.
The bigger the lots and the houses in a neighborhood the smaller will be the public area of that neighborhood.
To your sims, think of the lots in the neighborhood as rabbit holes that you cannot access without a loading screen.
to make it easier:
Sims 4 neighborhood is a smaller version of Sims 3 open world but without the ability to enter the lot without a loading screen
No, As you said the park is the biggest lot in Sims 4 and it is the size of a neighborhood. You cant enter it without a loading screen
No traveling from any lot to another even within the same neighborhood will require a loading screen.
Except for the public area which I believe is what in the picture you cannot go anywhere else without a loading screen
Exactly, the public area is the great outdoors outside your Sims house. No editing of any kind. Which includes no adding or subtracting any lots.
No you get a loading screen every time you change lot, this has been confirmed.
The public areas are, I believe, everything that is not a User editable Lot plus the park that takes up most of a Hood.
1- Sims can access the garden and the outer space of the lot but when trying to enter that lot an option comes up if the sim would like to enter that lot, if accepted a loading screen comes up. Its like Sims 3 where you can get into the open areas of the lot but if you want to enter that house and to see everything inside you have to ring the bell or knock the door.
2- The lot is just a complete decoration in the neighborhood. Sim cannot access the whole lot including its garden or open spaces and once you click on it the option to load up the lot will come up.
Of course both are theories but I believe that No.1 would be more probable as I can see Sims everywhere in the few pictures we have seen including the one in this thread
There is only one park in Sims 4 which is the size of a neighborhood. It is only accessible via a loading screen.
Public area might have small parks with one object or two.
for example this picture shows a lot and its surroundings. The surrounding is public area including that space with the two big trees
I actually see a lot of potential for this design beyond the base game. It has been reported that travel to another neighborhood is no different than travel time to another neighborhood in another world.
Assuming two available worlds at release. Willow Creek and some as yet unannounced world one now has 12 neighborhoods to work with 10 of which can be used to build houses and new community lot types.
Looking to the future I cannot believe they will not eventually offer some sort of CAW tool. And no doubt they will be developing additional worlds or future expansions.
My only problem is the nomenclature chosen to define these things. Willow Creek should not be called a World. It should be called more accurately a town or community. The world should be the collection of towns or communities that the game will eventually be expanded into.
I have a very serious question, go back and look at the pictures in this thread. Where are the preplaced vacant lots in these neighborhoods? There are none. The street he shows in the first picture is full of EA houses. Think about this, the houses across the street are probably considered the second neighborhood. Remember 'neighborhoods' have One to Five Lots then you are in a 'different' neighborhood with a loading screen. May be a short walk across the street but Bam loading screen, and no where do I see any vacant lots in this World at all.
http://simsvip.com/2014/07/02/the-sims-4-loading-screens-the-world-explained/
The two pictures on the right show public spaces, one is a playground and the other is a lake or river probably good for fishing.
Also if you want to see that neighborhood zoomed out..
You can see a bit more public space. Not too special looking but this is just one of the hoods.
Totally agree. Willow Creek should be called a town with 5 neighborhoods + 1 park
A world should be a collection of towns like Willow Creek
Other than that I like the view and look of neighborhood regardless to their limit. They are just nice to view at least from the few pics we have seen