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How far away from home do you send your Sims?
MoonlightGraham
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Sul sul, everybody. It's time for my very first poll!
We now have enough expansion packs that we can send our Sims to all kinds of cool places. They can grab a cup of coffee at a cafe in WIndenburg before they hit the gym in Oasis Springs, pop over to Mt. Komorebi for a snowboard run or two, and end their day with fun at a festival in San Myshuno. And, as of today, they can return to their cottage in Henford-on-Bagley and rest up for another whirlwind of adventure.
It's made me wonder if I'd rather set some "house rules" for how far my Sims can travel. I've considered keeping Sims who live in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi stay at home. I'm wondering if Sims based in the HoB should only travel to Britechester or Windenburg. Maybe Sims who live in the base game worlds can wander through them freely, and perhaps visit Brindleton Bay, with an occasional trip to San Myshuno or Windenburg. Granite Falls is a vacation spot; should I use Sulani and Mt. Komorebi in that way for Sims who aren't living there?
We're curious about the way you usually handle world-hopping.
We now have enough expansion packs that we can send our Sims to all kinds of cool places. They can grab a cup of coffee at a cafe in WIndenburg before they hit the gym in Oasis Springs, pop over to Mt. Komorebi for a snowboard run or two, and end their day with fun at a festival in San Myshuno. And, as of today, they can return to their cottage in Henford-on-Bagley and rest up for another whirlwind of adventure.
It's made me wonder if I'd rather set some "house rules" for how far my Sims can travel. I've considered keeping Sims who live in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi stay at home. I'm wondering if Sims based in the HoB should only travel to Britechester or Windenburg. Maybe Sims who live in the base game worlds can wander through them freely, and perhaps visit Brindleton Bay, with an occasional trip to San Myshuno or Windenburg. Granite Falls is a vacation spot; should I use Sulani and Mt. Komorebi in that way for Sims who aren't living there?
We're curious about the way you usually handle world-hopping.
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How far away from home do you send your Sims? 143 votes
I send my Sims to every world I can play in. The world is their oyster.
60%
87 votes
I send my Sims to worlds that I imagine are reasonable destinations--close to their home world, or related to it somehow. No passport required.
23%
34 votes
I don't send my Sims out of their home world if they live in a more remote/specialized world. What happens in Sulani stays in Sulani.
3%
5 votes
I don't send my Sims out of their home world. There's no place like home.
2%
Other (please explain)
9%
13 votes
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As a storyteller I often don't allow my sims to travel to Selvadorada, Sulani or Mt. Komorebi, all considered separate and faraway 'countries' in my universe. They only do that if they plan to go on holiday, with the exception of one Sim who left the desert of Oasis Springs to live it up in sunny Sulani for the rest of their life. Some of the Sims worlds are part of 'clusters' and often these Sims don't really leave the 'cluster' of worlds they're born in unless they're going on holiday. I have a very awkward rough geography of all the Sims worlds in my head that's a bit confusing to explain.
Although I do see quite a few Sims from Sulani and Mt. K in the base game worlds.
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Forgot to vote before I posted, sorry for that. I send them pretty much everywhere.
That being said, spellcasters can go wherever they want whenever they want, because, magic. I think once or twice I've also had wealthy sims whisk someone off for a romantic dinner far away... you know, in their private jet, as one does.
In my current save my family lives in Windenburg, and I send them pretty much everywhere except for Sulani and destination worlds. I prefer to not jump from world to world in one day, though; I can imagine one day trip from Windenburg to Mt. Komorebi (in my imagination it's pretty close to San Myshuno, and you can take a shinkansen (kind of), but a combination like Windenburg-Mt. Komorebi-Oasis Springs is too much. But in general, I prefer to take vacations to travel to worlds like Mt. Komorebi or Strangerville. And I don't like to send my sims far away after work, a day off seems more suitable for a "day trip".
Okay so I THINK I have a way to explain my 'rough' geography of all of the current Sims worlds...I know it won't make sense to people with in-depth geography knowledge, as I have zero, but I also don't care : P
- Sulani, Mt. Komorebi and Selvadorada are all separate countries that are quite far away from the 'core' of the Sims world. (Also including TS3's World Adventures worlds as well of course)
- I hand-wave the time it'd take to get to Sixam as 'wow look at how quick these high tech rockets can get across the galaxy!' Still not sure what comparative distance it is from SimEarth. As for Batuu, in all honesty it doesn't really exist in any of my universes, I forget it exists at all in TS4. XD
- Most of the Sims 1/2/3 neighbourhoods are just non-specifically 'sort of far out from' the TS4 'core' worlds.
- The rough 'England' analog is comprised of Britechester, Willow Creek, Newcrest, Evergreen Harbour, Brindleton Bay, Glimmerbrook, and of course Henford-on-Bagley now. Granite Falls as well.
- In the 'rough middle' between this analog and San Myshuno, there is Oasis Springs, the town of Windenburg and also Forgotten Hollow.
- San Myshuno and Del Sol Valley are very close to each other, and Magnolia Promenade is somewhat close by to them both. To the far south of this little cluster is Strangerville.
I wouldn't send them to any of the "regular" worlds (OS, WC, etc) for vacation because there isn't anything special for them to do there in my game. I don't consider having my sim walk around in Oasis Springs looking at the desert as being that special, although I see an awful lot of Sulani residents there!
I just remembered, I have sent a couple of people to Willow Creek and to Britechester, because they needed to use the Museum, the Library, the Gym, and a place I've set up with skill items in BC. But I don't count those as vacations since they were only there to fulfil an aspiration or grind away at a skill. I'll send them wherever they need to go for those reasons without even thinking about it, but not as a "fun" destination.
We'll have to see how Cottage Living plays; I might have someone vacation there sometime, and I know those residents could definitely go to Sulani, Mt K or Batuu, and maybe San Myshuno, in order to see the Big City.
Still, the idea has now been put in my head. Maybe I'll start sending people to the Spa or something, just to be pampered...
Edited to add: Well, darn, I misunderstood part of the original post. I was thinking only about Vacations, since I don't think about my sim Worlds as being that separate (except for Batuu, and IL). Basically, I send them where I need to, but I don't think of it as really traveling, since I'm sending the poor simmies off to grind away at a skill. They rarely get to sightsee, and when they do I send them on vacation.
Edited to add:
In my mind, these worlds are associated with the following RL locations:
I realize this is a very USA-centered decision, but I live in the USA, so...
Example, I have one loner sim who prefers to stay in Myshuno and another loner sim that, despite her anxiety, travels a lot because she's in a fame career which requires it. That sim loves Salvedorea as well but could care less for Sulani.
I also enjoy a change in scenery so most travel quite a bit. I find I'm most often in Myshuno, new crest, the desert and salvedorea.
Also, it's not feasible to place a library, museum, lounge, restaurant, gym, spa, in each world. So there is only one spa and it's in Willow Creek. However, I ensure there is a park in every world since I have Seasons so I know what the weather is like before setting up a social event at an outdoor venue.
I would never restrain myself from leaving if I wanted to, but that doesn't always mean I am strolling about either. A large portion of my time is on the home lot specifically, but my Sims are definitely connected to multiple worlds. Especially in larger saves I tend to sprawl.
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I send them to other worlds, and the vacation worlds I own.
but I'm quite homebody myself so honestly they don't go out of neighborhood or their home world all that often
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