I'm interested to see how many people have played longer term in a player made world (ie having your main save in that world for more than a day), and if so which world was it and did you populate it yourself or was it already populated? :)

@GraceyManor No worries. That's why I mentioned my playstyle at the beginning of the post.Boroughsburg is all kinds of awesome, but as my PC is scheduled to see its tenth "birthday" very soon, it simply said "Nope" :wink: .

Let's see. From the top of my head, I had longer games in:Prepopulated:Niua Simoa (my current game actually)Mountain Lake (needs some minor adjustments; really fun though)Pleasantview (the remake by Pleasantsims; needs lots of adjustments)BridgewoodManave IslesHuntsboroughUnpopulated:Bellatrix (great for everything but scientists)CronorSaturenorn (needs quite a bit of setup and is rather narrow in scope)Great Bear (don't necessarily recommend it because of the routing; awesome lots though)Mariners ReachParadise (well, it's tiny and empty, or in other words, special purpose)Pigeon RockSome that technically fulfill the criteria are Strangetown, Mesa Grande, Amberville, Isle of Sims III, SimMeapolis, or Industrial Island, but those games were only test runs of an in-game week or so.

I only play in custom worlds.I don't ever play in EA worlds.Twin Towns- One of my absolute favorites, has a rural/farming area on side, anda city on the other.And great thing is, you can't see the city side from the farm and viceversa.I love towns where I have to commute to work.However,if you don't have a good PCit may lag, large world.Unpopulated- used nraas to rapid populateGreat Bear- Absolutely beautiful! It feels like I'm in New Hampshire, love mountain worldsI have no issues with routing in this world, it runs great for me.-unpopulated- used nraas to populateMountain Lake- Rflong makes fantastic worlds! Quite little mountain town with lotsof things for those that love the outdoors, I found no tweaking needed in this worldI never ever have to make adjustments to rflong's worlds.- can't remember if it was populated or not.Setra- I recently just downloaded this world, and I love it, it is quite large so if your PCisn't strong or fairly decent, it will struggle.-populatedPraaven- By far the best medieval world, if you are looking to do a medieval style gamego to praaven, no roads.Broken into multiple areas, make sure to get the updated versionas it fixes some issues.It does require a bit of setting up, such as turning all the "ruins" homesto no visitors allowed.World is unpopulated- I populated this one myself as I wanted the sims wearingmedieval CCThese are just a few.

Just to clarify my comments. I play longer generational games, and I play rotationally, which means I need everything to work. All worlds I listed work well enough, and if I play for a longer time in a world, it obviously has something I love about it. That said:The minor tweaks I mentioned for Mountain Lake:1. The world is missing a hospital. If you look at the "Edit Town" map, you can see that there is a lot reserved for a hospital/science lab combo, but that lot is taken up by a second school. The science lab got a replacement on its own huge lot, but the hospital seems to have been forgotten. By the way, I can see why a second school was seen as necessary, given the other one is in a corner of the map (that one works out okay though, given the world isn't that large).2. The cafeteria lot resets the proprietor several times per day. I looked into it, and the lot needs some furniture re-arrangements in order to get this solved. Took me a few attempts to get it right, as the lot is a tight fit, but after the rearrangements, I only get the occasional reset.3. I just mention this as an information, as this is probably caused by an EA patch and doesn't affect usability: The (museum?) basement of the central lot with the underground station and a bar on the upper floors is flooded. As I said, this is usable though. You may even find it funny.4. The routing between some (not all) fishing spots at the fishing lake next to the fishers' cabin is a bit iffy, probably because it's located at the edge of the usable map. Not much you can do about that.Obviously, none of these things deterred me from having lots of fun with the map, but they are there, at least for me. It's all relatively easy to fix though. I didn't do anything about the flooded basement. As I said, it's just kind of funny.And yes, the world is populated. My personal highlight was the former insane asylum. Those sims are funny :lol: .Routing in Great Bear:The layout wants to look realistic, which means no steep roads, not a bridge every ten meters, a nice wilderness area where you feel remote from everything. It looks awesome, and the three worlds I used by this creator contain some of my favorite lots, ever. Unfortunately, the layout causes issues with how the game works. The main living areas are (I use arbitrary directions) in the NW and SW. There's one bridge across the river in the very South. The second obstacle is a mountain range, and the road passes this in the very North. The main fishing areas are behind the mountain range in the SE. The main road forms a large S on the map and is as long as several map lengths. So your kid comes home from school and thinks it would be nice to get some fishing in. Most fishing lots are some walk distance from the nearest road in the SE. If a sim doesn't have a very fast car, most sims will decide that the fastest way from the NW corner of the map to the SE one is to walk. And walk they do, along the road, a tour through the northern mountains, back to the road and off into the wilderness. Your kid may arrive at 10 pm or shortly after midnight, but then it's fishing time, until it's deadly tired, and it's time for school. And it doesn't stand a chance to get there before school ends.And no, it isn't only your kids. If you look at what sims are doing, half the town is sometimes on their way to and from wilderness lots. Many give up at some point. As I play rotationally, I have to reset a few sims and cheat their needs every time, which gets old quickly.I hope it's clear what I meant :smile: . Nobody should take any criticism like that as personal attack. It's obvious that lots of thought, love and work went into the worlds, and I appreciate that. However, nobody is perfect. None of the worlds I mentioned is a disaster like IP, and I paid for that one.

I played for about about a real life month in Boroughsburg. I used the populated save and used mods to move my sims there. The save ended up getting glitchy so I moved my sims out and on to Bridgeport. I also played in Greymont Bay for a while to. I want to say I played 2 or 3 generations in that world. I wish that world came populated but I had fun populating it myself.

Have you ever played (long term) in a custom world?

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AstroX1424
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
"GraceyManor;c-17915465" wrote:
"Astro;c-17915391" wrote:
I played for about about a real life month in Boroughsburg. I used the populated save and used mods to move my sims there. The save ended up getting glitchy so I moved my sims out and on to Bridgeport.

I also played in Greymont Bay for a while to. I want to say I played 2 or 3 generations in that world. I wish that world came populated but I had fun populating it myself.

I love borougsburg, but my pc doesn’t like it :( sometimes I like populating a world with my own sims

When I first started playing in that world it lagged a little, oddly enough I turned down high-detail lots from 8 to 6 and it started running very smoothly.
goodfellowe
New Ace
5 years ago
Most of my saves have been in EA based worlds, with the exception of Greymont Bay! It's a little tedious populating it, but it's worth having such a beautiful, detailed town with so many things to do.

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