Re: Will it be open world

@Anonymous , I agree with you on having each section, or district be open ... we almost have that in the Sims 4, but only the common areas, and not when we go into other houses.😢  I did not like the Sims 3 open world, but it would make more sense if we could go to the next door neighbor's house without a loading screen! 😉 

@PugLove888Yes. For me, it would be a step beyond Sims 2/ Sims 4 in that we can press the map button and "zoom out" to see the whole neighborhood *without* a loading screen. you can't do that in both games.

Note it would *not* be a stylized 2D picture of a neighborhood but more like a Sims 3 world in 3D

*Unlike* Sims 3, the whole world wouldn't be simulated. This causes massive problems...it's not optimized! I think splitting the game in sections, or districts as I call them, where it's simulated makes the most sense. Kind of like Sims 2 where you go to a community lot and you have Sims that are generated from object data to exist in that lot. This would happen but instead of a lot, it would be a section of the neighborhood.

That would be my ideal simulation game.

@Anonymous , it sounds like I would like that as well, if I'm understanding you correctly!  The reason I hated TS3's open world is that my Sim would often go to a community lot and nobody would be there.😓  I would stay for hours and nobody would come, especially at night, which was difficult for my Sims who worked a shift that was like 3 pm to 11 pm! 😠😠 Because it was after work that I would have them try to socialize. By the time another Sim would show up, my Sims would be so exhausted that I would have to have them go home! 🤦‍♀️😢  I tried getting them up early and have them socialize then, before work, but then I would sometimes run intio the same problem and wouldn't find someone to talk to before work and then their needs would be depleted going to work! 😣

The only thing I liked the open world for was searching for rocks and bugs 🥳... I'm not counting seeds because they were so tiny they were near impossible to find unless you and your Sim were right upon them! 🔎😫 I was so glad TS4 ditched finding seeds in the wild!😅

Yes, I agree that districts would be much more manageable for most computers! 😎

@jonathanemptage , Exactly! 🥰