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Small or Big Worlds?
mcorral
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Hello,
I'm must curious about your preferences and your game style. Do you prefer to have many small worlds or just fewer but bigger ones?
I personally prefer bigger worlds. I play in very inmersive way so, for example, if I'm playing a single DJ who likes to party I only play in San Myshuno, but if I'm playing a big family in the country I rarely go to San Myshuno and stay in Windenburg or Brindleton Bay. That doesn't mean that sometimes my family want to do something different and spend the weekend in another world.
Bigger worlds means you can place many Commercial Lots so you can have everything you need there and you don't have to go out of your world. You can design your world to your family preferences. That way you can play in a very immersive way.
What do you prefer?
I'm must curious about your preferences and your game style. Do you prefer to have many small worlds or just fewer but bigger ones?
I personally prefer bigger worlds. I play in very inmersive way so, for example, if I'm playing a single DJ who likes to party I only play in San Myshuno, but if I'm playing a big family in the country I rarely go to San Myshuno and stay in Windenburg or Brindleton Bay. That doesn't mean that sometimes my family want to do something different and spend the weekend in another world.
Bigger worlds means you can place many Commercial Lots so you can have everything you need there and you don't have to go out of your world. You can design your world to your family preferences. That way you can play in a very immersive way.
What do you prefer?
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Small or Big Worlds? 89 votes
Lots of small worlds
16%
15 votes
Fewer but bigger worlds
83%
74 votes
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Ultimately, neighborhoods are what actually matter, not worlds. The developers literally call each individual neighborhood as a world in game coding. What we call a world is actually a region that consists of multiple worlds.
So if the total number of neighborhoods is the same, I prefer lots of smaller worlds to allow a greater variety. For instance, if we’re going to get 10 more neighborhoods, I prefer something like 5 new worlds each with 2 neighborhoods, instead of 2 new worlds each with 5 neighborhoods.
I actually like having more worlds with lots of different settings but I generally prefer medium-to-large worlds.
The large worlds are all full of households for me. I also think that Brindleton Bay and Britechester are gorgeous though I end up wishing that I had a few more lots. At this stage, I am playing more flexibly with the individual worlds. I keep the Sulani sims entirely in Sulani and I ignore them in any other world. (Yes, it would be great to restrict travel for NPCs from certain worlds into the rest, a bit like with StrangerVille sims.)
I always end up wishing I had an extra lot or two.
Maybe I din't express myself clearly. Sorry. Of course I know the differences between Neighbourhood, World and Lot and I also know you can travel anywhere around.
The thing is that if you are playing a specific family who enjoys a specific way of life you are driven to do all activities in a specific scenery and world. For example: a big family who loves the outdoors, playing with their kids in big parks, doing outdoor activities, gardening, etc. they are more driven to do things in a countryside scenery rather than a city. They love the country so they should have all they need in the countryside: cinema, bar, parks, museum, etc, and all those places means: more lots.
On the contrary, if I'm playing a sim who loves the city and doesn't like outdoor activities but likes clubbing and enjoying the city life, this sim would not go to the country often so he/she likes to have everything IN the city: clubs, restaurants, art centre, gym, etc. Having all those things in the same world means: more lots in this world.
PD: I'm sorry but I think your picture is not right. What you call "region" is the world, and what you call world is the neighbourhood/district.
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Neighborhoods_in_The_Sims_4
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Worlds_in_The_Sims_4
I never play in glimmerbrook because it's too small. And I play big families,I need big lots. And i just love the feel of big worlds. Small ones are suffocating
Wendinburg and willow creek I play most for this reason.
But I don't have an issue with world hopping to have my sims go to museums or gyms or anything else. It actually feels more "normal" to me to have to go somewhere else for nightclubs and museums than have them all in the same the local area - and I live in an urban area, where, in theory, everything should be close by. And most things are, but not everything. Some things require me to go to a different city. A very close city, to be sure, but still a different one, with a different character and feel.
And to be blunt, my experience with country living (15 years of visiting the middle of Midwestern farm country USA every summer) is that yes, you do have to travel "to the city" to do much of anything besides eat and drink. Maybe some state/local parks which can double as history museums, but arts museums, science museums, zoos, actual nightclubs as opposed to glorified bars, gyms - these are usually "city" things. If you're lucky, there might be a second run movie theater in the next town over if it's big enough. Even expanding "country" to include suburbia, there will still be things that are only available in the city.
But maybe your experience with country living is different.
I want to be able to place two or three families and at least one community lot in the neighbourhood I am using, so 4 lots is an absolute minimum for me.
On a side note : context matters. I can understand a remote island in Sulani only having 3 lots but an urban setting like del Sol Valley should have 5 or 6.
- Midwest (Oasis Springs, Strangerville)
- Polynesia (Selvadorada, Sulani)
- Great Lakes (Everything else)
I'd love to get new additions to each region, but I do not care whether this will be one big or several smaller worlds. Unlike with Sims 3's very restrictive maps each Sims 4 neighborhood is closed anyway and I cannot see San Myshuno from Newscrest, just a generic skyline. Therefore the distance between them can be a short or far as I want it to be and therefore world size doesn't matter much to me.
I turned Windenburg into a commercial center where all the community lots are at, and all my other worlds are residential. But some, like Magnolia Promenade are pretty worthless without being able to add lots.
The capability for shopping, highways, more secluded residential space, more quiet areas for fishing, several parks and the ability to have cars and motorbikes as the area would be large enough for such things. Not to mention more cafes, libraries, museums and so forth, which can be interacted with and travel to, but can't be edited from the map at all. Having essential services intergrated into these regions would be great so it can allow for a lot more residential zones and optional zones.
Now i could forgive Maxis if they split Windenburg into three worlds, but each of them region sized of their own. having the islands to the southwest, to the east is the densely populated Windenburg city itself. The Northwest has the rolling hills and big open countryside and some seaside with nice brown sandy beaches.
Now imagine the scale that could go into the heavily underutilized and overlooked worlds like Del Sol Valley, Granite Falls or Forgotten Hollow. The effort that could go into those worlds to expand them out beyond one streets worth of houses surrounded by forests, mountains or distant buildings not providing anything would be nice.
I like to build stuff
But, elelunicy already made the point that in TS4, it doesn't really make much a difference since loading screens are present.
What I really want in an open world, again. If it's within the same "world/city/town" I want to be able to openly explore the map without a loading screen. It makes it easier to interact with neighbors and provides your sim a bit more freedom.
I wouldn't mind a loading screen if it takes me to another "world/city", like from Willow Creek to Oasis Springs, though.
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Last night in my game it was New Years Eve. I had the 6 college Sims cook up a 3 of grand meals and had some others use the phone to invite over family members. Not every showed up even though I got the message saying everyone was on their way.
In real life I come from a family of 14. I have 29 nieces and nephews. I have 21 great nieces and nephews. I wanted to have a huge legacy in my game. When Discovery was released I had already skilled up two galley Sims so I sent them to college.
When they started college they had two kids. They ended up having 6 kids while in college. I had to cheat the household size. I kept playing and now I have 6 of the kids at college. The older two kids already went to college and are married with kids. After the 6 kids moved to college their mom had triplets and is pregnant again because of MCC story progression. LOL
I was just disappointed that some family members had to be excluded from the party. Then I saw this thread and after I voted I realized that the size of the world makes no difference because you can not even invite over all the neighbors at the same time for a block party or another big celebration.