From these options, which world system would you prefer for The Sims 5 to have?
1. Sims 3 Style Open World:
You can freely travel in that world and access any lot, no loading screens. However, you're locked in that world and can't use any of the other worlds in the game without moving to them or taking a vacation to them.
2. Sims 4-3 Combination:
You can access all the different worlds at any time like in The Sims 4 and each world is like a smaller open world with around 15-20 lots. These individual worlds would be open worlds but there'd be a loading screen if you wanted to get to the other worlds.
3. Sims 4 Style Closed World:
You can freely travel between worlds, but there's loading screens every time you change lots.
Which would you prefer for Sims 5? 191 votes
Sims 4 Style Closed World
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My only real request, no matter how they implement is to be able to actually edit the world and bulldoze all lots, no fake buildings that can't be removed.
Also, based on what I've read about Sims 3, the residential areas might feel alive, but the venues apparently didn't - because the AI was keeping track of all the other Sims that were in their homes. Which, to me, kinda defeats the feeling of a world feeling alive if all the venues are dead.
I don't mind the way TS4 does the areas and still have to change lots but really, these maps are so limiting - imo. Probably just my opinion.
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To me the importance of an open world is being able to control multiple Sims in different places. This is something I could do in TS3, but cannot in TS4. I know everyone has their own wishes/desires, but this is pretty much my biggest. I want to be able to control my whole household wherever they are. If I have one Sim in an active career, I want to be able to follow them to work, but still keep my other Sims active -- have them do housework, go out to a venue, whatever. This was only possible with the open world in TS3 that let you switch back and forth from one location to another. Worlds would generally need to be a bit larger than in TS4 so that you could have pretty much everything you want in a given world though.
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(Sims 3’s open world had emptiness in the world for me, so if they go open world, that programming better be great, and optimized, and make the lots very populated, especially hole businesses and businesses in general, for me to accept open world.)
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You keep repeating the same lie over and over again even when people show you evidence that what you say isn't true. You can go to the hundreds of worlds in TS3 and then come back to your homeworld without losing any relationships or whatever hard work you've left off. Maybe you don't want people to consider playing TS3 because it has so much more to offer than TS4 and that's why you lie about it.
In Sims 3 you can customize what you want the sims to do more or less often with the NRAAS Relativity mod. Set the sims social and/or fun needs to decay faster and to fill up slower. That way they will autonomously seek out to talk more and/or do fun stuff according to their traits.
TS3 simmers love and play TS3 because they know how to adjust all the features just the alway they want. So if you don't like something the way it runs, ask - chances are a TS3 simmer will know how you can make it work. In this case for sims to socialize more autonomously.
As someone who played Sims 3 for years it's not really a lie, maybe it doesn't apply on all parts but it's not untrue. You lose all your relationships completely when moving to a new town. There's no way of contacting them long distance at all they're just gone completely from your sims life and the relationship panel.
Sure you don't lose all your progress but your sim will have no relationships and they may possibly lose their job when moving to a new town if the career isn't available there so it is like starting again. I've never returned to an old town after moving to a new one so I can't say if that brings relationships back though.
I think their point is that every time you move you have to start again, make new friends, possibly get a new career, etc etc. You can't just call up a friend from another world and invite them to hang out like you can in Sims 4, you have to either move back or lose them completely.