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Anyone wanting a more "Downtown" world/neighborhood?
Dayvon64
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As much as I love how some of the worlds/neighborhoods are diverse, I feel like there is a lack of feeling like you're in a downtown area. I'd love skyscrapers and feeling like everything around you is just moving fast paced. San Myshuno almost gives this effect, but it also feels like you're separated from it all. I don't know if anyone else feels that way, but it doesn't exactly put you in the center of it all. Maybe I just want more of what San Myshuno has but just surrounded by more buildings.
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You can also get all of The Sims 3 til Jan 5th for I forget, maybe it was $65? on Steam, or on Origin each pack that is usually $20 or even more, is like $10 for now, but if you want a lot of or most of them you'll spend several times the $64 even doing it on sale, on Origin, compared to that incredible Steam deal.
With Sims 3 there are a bunch of NRAAS mods you have to run to keep the game maintained but there are super helpful people here as well as Youtube videos all about which mods those are, and what steps to do to keep the game running well.
In case you're interested. Sorry if that was too much detail but I know what you mean about wishing San Myshuno were a "real" city like Bridgeport. San Myshuno is great to look at and has a lot to offer, but most of it you can't really interact with.
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There is no loading screen in TS3 because most of the businesses are rabbit holes. It doesn't matter that you can hop to any lot on the map without a loading screen because, once you get there, you are stuck outside on the side walk any way. That's not gameplay. And the clubs and bars in TS3 are always either deserted of sims or just closing if not already closed so you can't enjoy them. And if you visit them in due time you get stuck in the elevator until closeout time anyway.
That's not actually true if you are using the mods he explicitly mentioned.
This isn't really the place to argue over the pros and cons of the two, quite different, games though.
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There is no center of it all in San Myshuno, especially if people create residential lots out of the few lots available. And some of those lots aren't naturally suitable to be business lots as they are located in apartment buildings. So yes, there isn't really a downtown experience to San Myshuno, mostly because there isn't really a downtown. I would love a new neighbourhood that looks like a downtown with lots of ground level lots, to create shops, restaurants, etc.
Hopefully we'll see at least a few more new Worlds before they leave TS4 to wither on the vine and a more authentic downtown feeling will be one of them. Honestly, it's one of the biggest gaps in the worlds we've had so far, so it would make the most sense.
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Maybe a round map could work, you have a couple of skyscrapers in the middle and the area around allows the player to move around and zoom out and see the whole map and the player could also move the camera between the skyscrapers.
Going to a city should be full of hustle and bustle; things to see, do, and go to should be everywhere you turn; you should feel immersed in something much bigger than yourself and that is pulsating with life, a place with much to offer with many options to choose from. EA promised a lot when they introduced San Myshuno, but delivered little. A theme that unfortunately has many variations world by world.
One thing I give to Sims 3 is the open world aspect. You're literally in world surrounded by buildings rather than feeling like it's just a background. Even when you had buildings you couldn't fully go into, rabbit holes fulfilled those desires quite a bit. Sitting outside at a bistro was nice because you'd be able to watch the cars go by and feel the world was alive.
I'm a sucker for rabbit holes and believe adding more would add so much more depth to the game. Imagine having an apartment that set sort of in the middle of the city "neighborhood" and you would have buildings all around it. These buildings would be of varying sizes, a park between them, and most of the buildings would be rabbit holes while the rest could be your average nightclub/bar/etc that you'd go through a loading screen. That way if you were at one of those buildings that require loading screens, you'd still have a park and a ton of other rabbit hole locations to utilize.
I'd argue the Sims 3 was the worst for that. Bridgeport is just a suburban community with tall buildings, hardly any any different from all the other worlds in The Sims 3.
The streets in Bridgeport were incredibly empty, and devoid of life. There is no hustle and bustle one would expect in a real city, no traffic either. People didn't walk past your lot. They just teleport into their magical slot cars that phase through each other and zip along to the next lot they are going to, teleport out and run inside, the open world mechanic didn't really do Bridgeport any favours - and this isn't just from the bugs/game performance angle, even from a theoretically perfect angle, it was still incompatible as the speed of time in game necessitated everyone rush into their teleporting slot cars just so sims could get anywhere in a reasonable time.