For me whenever I start a new save or world, the first thing I do before I start playing is always to put my own townies into the world, place useful lots like clubs, junkyards, occult lots, etc in, replace bars in community lots with the functional Late Night bars, makeover some townies, etc. So I was wondering, do others do the same? Or do you just play?

I like having the "iconic townies" in my world, but I don't use Sunset Valley much so I usually miss them, so I've got a whole collection I place in every world. The Landgraabs, the Goths, the Calientes, the Brokes, the Capp family, Agnes Crumplebottom, etc all go in, even if it's a bit weird having the Goths on a tropical island :D I also have my own custom townies, I like to recreate sims from other games so I've made some MySims characters like Poppy, Violet, Travis, Summer, etc who go into every save, I'm not very good at giving sims unique looks/personalities so if it's a character from another game they already have that.Also always place the supernatural alchemy? lot, my sims lore for it is that it just magically appears, so it's always in the most bizarre places like on an island on its own, or at the end of the swamp with nothing around it. Not sure what it's called but I also always place the penthouse exclusive lounge lot as I like that lot a lot. + I've found placing subways is a good way of getting around, especially in Isla Paradiso.

I've only ever successfully completed one build in my entire 10 years of playing this game... :D This sleazy/trashy bar, which I also created 'exotic dancers' for. So in every world I play in I always bulldoze any other bar/club (because EA ones aren't as good as mine, lol) and place mine along with the dancers. https://imgur.com/JlktXES.pngSpoiler (Highlight to read)The 'exotic dancers' aka strippers, lmao. A must for every town.https://imgur.com/T7vG1au.pnghttps://imgur.com/PEUIfNB.pnghttps://imgur.com/b3pzwgZ.pnghttps://imgur.com/mGhgsFT.pngThe 'exotic dancers' aka strippers, lmao. A must for every town.https://imgur.com/T7vG1au.pnghttps://imgur.com/PEUIfNB.pnghttps://imgur.com/b3pzwgZ.pnghttps://imgur.com/mGhgsFT.pngBut as far as placing other lots/moving in new sims, not really. I like most EA worlds as they are.

I sometimes customize worlds, but not alwaysIt depends on which world I am playing in. I like to play Glenvale County by @Rflong7 It comes with the basics for community lots, so I will add the community lots/venues I want to my game. It also comes with just one house, so I need to add houses to the game. Because the world comes unpopulated, Story Progression will need to add Sims to the game, and they will need housing.Every time I play a new game in Glenvale County, the world is different. I place community lots/venues in random locations, and will either place residential lots or use prebuilt starter homes that I have created so Sims can afford to move in.Edited to add my vote to the top as it removed it when I changed my post.

I took the second option. I didn't count stuff like not letting the game place the expansion lots and placing those I actually want to have myself, which is more or less always happening. Other than that, I have everything from very minor changes to sweeping edits.For example, my short Riverview game from a few days ago involved just placing the consignment store, a junkyard, and The Grind. I edited the bar in the center to a real one, and of course the lots I was playing on. Now that I think of it, I also placed cribs, upped the number of beds in many houses. Hmm, okay, that was more than I initially remembered.In one of my long-going games in SV, I had to edit the whole town after I deleted the whole existing population and used Porter to get the whole population in its advanced stage from a prior version of SV that became unplayable in. Most houses were edited, lots of venues placed, stuff like replacing the science center with a combined bot shop, cafeteria and the old rabbithole, etc.The upper end of the spectrum is a "town" that started on an empty map without a single building, not even rabbitholes. Although that was probably less work than editing an existing state of SV to the state I needed it in.Which means it depends.

I voted for "I sometimes customize worlds", but really, I customize them at least 80% of the time. Sometimes it's only a matter of adding lot types that the original world doesn't have, but sometimes I want a world slightly different to what we have available, and I try to create it by editing the town (I have CAW but I never managed to understand the instructions, so making my own world is not an option).For example, I like the look of Bridgeport but I don't like that there never seems to be any life in the streets. For the save I'm currently playing, I used an empty version of the custom world Laguna Coast and added Bridgeport skyscrapers to it, but I also made a main street with most of the rabbit holes, and I made these lots Visitors Allowed and added places to sit, sources of food, fun objects and lots of decor. My plan worked: townies love to hang around in these lots, and it gives me the feel I wanted: a colourful, crowded and messy city.https://i.imgur.com/LBgviu8.jpgAlso, a few years ago I played a nectar-making household in a version of Riverview I made over to resemble Champs Les Sims. I placed copied versions of Champs les Sims buildings in empty lots, built some new homes, but with most of the existing homes I just changed the roof, the wall covering and the type of fence. It did give the town a completely different feel.https://i.imgur.com/SCVhtRN.jpgI'm very slow in applying this types of changes to a world, but I enjoy it very much.I usually play without customizing when I'm playing a world with a very distinct feel (like Starlight Shores, Moonlight Falls, Monte Vista or Roaring Heights) for the first time. I like to explore these worlds for the first time through the eyes of my sims, and go into Edit Town later if I think there is something missing.

Do you customise worlds before playing?

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karritz
Legend
3 years ago
IF I'm playing in a world that came from EA then I rarely customise it. I have a mod now that stops all of the venues from being automatically placed though so that sort of customises EA worlds when I'm starting a new game. I use the mod because it is quicker to load a new game and the venues being automatically placed are usually things my sims never go near and I never want to investigate and they take up valuable real estate for builds I do want in my game. So, without the mod, after waiting ages for the game to place all of those venues I then have to take a while to bulldoze most of them.

If I'm playing in a custom player made world, I will usually choose an unpopulated world without many buildings in it. If there are sims living in it I usually annihilate them all using a mod. This is because I use these worlds to hold excess population from the world I first started playing in. One of my games has over 1,000 sims in it and it needs about 13 worlds to keep them all in the game. I don't want to have to keep adding extra sims that come with a world to this game when I'm looking for empty space for my overflowing worlds I currently have in the game.
Hedgy21
New Spectator
3 years ago
I actually only play in custom worlds now, Ridgeview in Summer by Rflong7 being my absolute favorite. Its a world with only empty lots so everything has to be 'built' up. But I like that, I enjoy deciding on the look of the town, the layout. I decide what lots to place, what style buildings, I can arrange residential lots in 'districts' and all the sims are made by me so the genetics are pretty controlled, no random alien eyes or noses that are just so insanely out of proportion it looks painful.

In fact right now I am 'renovating' my old Ridgeview save. Coming back from a long break I am looking at the world thinking, hmm needs some tweaking and some finessing. So I am customizing my custom world even further.
hiddengnomes
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago
I always want to customize worlds. Add new households/edit their appearances, add new pretty lots to the town. But thinking of how time consuming it is makes me not edit them before playing :D

Usually i'll slowly edit as I play!
ZombiePary
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I always do. Wherever I can, I download empty worlds and build them up to suit my own tastes.
I'm currently building @Rflong7 's Atira Island.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/50ae8e114453d0b52b73c1d364ccdff1/bc78391dd21ac6c1-4f/s1280x1920/b430b1257e509a76482ca9f7abb916018171e2fc.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/2e64e1b636f4f1a99e306be10ce9c182/bc78391dd21ac6c1-0b/s1280x1920/44a103d66ea67db28d983bd299dfa175cce30aac.jpg
Deafsimmer
3 years ago
I start up saves in Neverglade, so I put down community lots from expansion packs and put families into empty homes.
NikkeiSimmer
Legend
3 years ago
"Sims4MagicalTales;c-18181799" wrote:
I start up saves in Neverglade, so I put down community lots from expansion packs and put families into empty homes.

Hey, thanks for mentioning that world, looked it up, looks like a nice little world.
noveema
3 years ago
i wish i could be bothered to customize worlds! i don't focus on it enough to customize anything about the world unless its the house my family move into
LatinaBunny
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I’m not good at building and I usually don’t enjoy building in many video games, so I don’t do much changes to the default stuff in the sims games unless it’s to make certain things or paths accessible for my sims—OR, if I need to make accommodations for particular sims’ needs (like putting pools on school grounds and near shopping/community areas for my mermaid sims, for example).

I also try to download “fixed” versions of the Sims 3 worlds so I don’t have to fix them myself, and I can relax and just play with my sims. ??

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