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1upMushrooms
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Hello! I posted an idea in another thread that I thought would be appropriate to have its own instead:
Any thoughts about this idea?
So an example of this that can come into play is disconnecting Oasis Springs, Newcrest, and Willow Creek from each other, having a world like Windenburg (or any world for that matter) that can link all three of those places together, almost like a vacation/downtown spot, and having Magnolia Promenade linked only to Willow Creek as its 'shopping venue'. Players can mix and match different world linkages to their choosing, or just simply have an option to connect all worlds together (like how the game is already set up).
I'd also like to add that there should've been an option to link worlds together instead of having them all interconnected. For example, some sims from Oasis Springs popping up in Willow Creek; I don't know if it's just me, but I find that a bit odd. Maybe in the future there will be some kind of way to choose which worlds can be interconnected; this can be seen like the sub-neighborhood option in TS2. Of course, sims can still invite other sims over to their worlds (maybe this can tie in to the whole pen pal system the game already has) and some neighborhoods like Windenburg, for example, can be chosen by the player to link the two worlds together?
Unless there's already an option to disconnect sims from other worlds from showing up in another.
Any thoughts about this idea?
So an example of this that can come into play is disconnecting Oasis Springs, Newcrest, and Willow Creek from each other, having a world like Windenburg (or any world for that matter) that can link all three of those places together, almost like a vacation/downtown spot, and having Magnolia Promenade linked only to Willow Creek as its 'shopping venue'. Players can mix and match different world linkages to their choosing, or just simply have an option to connect all worlds together (like how the game is already set up).
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Like it's okay to see sims from other worlds, because I would like to see sims travel from time to time.
But It is weird to me, When I see sims who live in Windenburg, come to the Club in Willow Creek, Because I think of worlds as They Are.
Oasis Springs, to me for example is Palm springs California, and Willow Creek/Magnolia promenade is kind of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Windenburg, to me France/Germany, New Crest is in like North Carolina.
So to me it's just very weird, Why would you travel all they way to windenburg to go clubbing?
It's also Weird because Active Careers. When the game sends you on patrol it sends you to a random world.
When I Live in Willow Creek, or work in Willow Creek Why am I patrolling Oasis? or Newcrest?
I personally think each world should have their own Police station, and and where you live is where you work.
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It seems like there would be an awful lot of townies generated if the neighborhoods were separated.
*opps forgot to type my point! As long as I think of the worlds as 'districts' then sims traveling between them all doesn't bother me. But if you think of them as world, well... it doesn't really make any sense whatsoever. I mean I don't get on a plane and fly for four hours just to go to the gym in Australia, heck I don't even get in my car for 2 hours and travel to the nearest next town to go to the gym...who does that? Weirder stories alright.
Either way, the result is still better than completely separate worlds.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Same!
because Winderburg's Island is a private neighborhood. I like that, I hope for more private neighborhoods in the future.
yeah neighborhoods should be connected, but the Worlds themselves should be a little disconnected.
I'm saying a Sim who lives in windenburg should rarely be called to spawn in Willow Creek.
They would have to create more sub-hoods for them. Right now they do have a Police Station and hospital for Willow Creek, and a Science Lab for Oasis. (or seemingly).
they just need to change the code and build more sub hoods to be honest. I can see it happening. it's just more work.
I just think it makes sense for it to be like that. because what if We got a Politics pack, and We got a City hall and a new active Career to be Mayor. I don't want my sim to be mayor of all the worlds.
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I like the worlds being connected too.
LOL on your analogy there (because I actually do drive about 45 min to my school's gym when I get tired from the one near my place)! I agree, the end result is better than completely isolated worlds like in TS2, but I think it can definitely be tweaked a little from the player by deciding which "worlds" can be connected and ones that simply do not.
@luthienrising
I actually thought the same thing when the game came out too! But, let's say this idea does go through somehow and you want exactly what you posted about Oasis Springs; with having an option to 'disconnect' Oasis Springs from the other "worlds" and leave it completely isolated, you can save this game while having other saved games with Oasis Springs connected to other worlds. Of course, the player can always unlink and re-link
worlds (though, this may have an impact on relationships from sims living in different worlds)