I just saw the poll of what are favorite worlds are, and it made me curious why the ones used the least are used less often. It could be the size, the environment, the aesthetic, or something else. Share your thoughts. What world do you never use, or use the least and why?I would have made this a poll, but we can only have 10 poll answers, so there are too many worlds. :/ As for me:I personally never use Sulani except for vacations, and it is a popular world, which is why I thought this was interesting. For me, I am just not a beach person in real life, so I am not drawn to Sulani. I also use to never use the desert worlds, cause I don't like deserts. I actually have never played in a desert world in any past Sims games. But recently I started building in those worlds, and found some story lines that helped bring them to life for me, so I have a few households in them now. I haven't moved anyone into Tartosa yet, but I think I am planning a woman running a bed and breakfast to be there eventually.EDIT: MAY 10th 8PMUPDATESince this couldn't function as a proper poll, I went through a tallied as best I could so we could get a basic overview.Because people had commentary, I had to make some judgment calls.I skipped vacation worlds, since many people would use them if they were livable.If anyone said they only used a regular world for vacations, and barely, I counted it.Regarding Magnolia Promenade: If people said they used it for retail then I didn't count it as unplayed, unless they specified they had put retail there, but didn't use it.Batuu: 5Brindleton Bay: 2Britechester: 5Del Sol Valley: 6Evergreen Harbor: 9Forgotten Hollow: 7Glimmer Brook: 10Henford on Bagley: 3Magnolia Promenade: 9Mt Komorebi: 4Newcrest: 3Oasis Springs: 4San Myshuno: 2Strangerville: 3Sulani: 3Tartosa: 1Willow Creek: 1

I have never played in Newcrest or Magnolia Promenade. I'm not a huge fan of Oasis Springs either. Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade haven't been high up my list because they came as blank worlds and over time I forgot about them. I wasn't a builder when they came out and I didn't want the hassle of having to fill all those lots. Now that I'm into building the only reason I haven't done Newcrest is because it's still in that out of sight, out mind space in my head. I really do need to go to work on it. MP isn't on my radar because I have never really gotten into playing business owner storylines. And I can never get it into my head that I can place restaurants and shops there and let NPC's run them. Out of sight, out of mind again.Oasis Springs has always struck me as being really dull. It's probably the drab desert color scheme. That view of it predates me catching the building bug so I never did anything with it. I have grown fond of other worlds so I have no attachment or attraction to it. That's why I've never gone back and spruced it up.I love Tartosa and have a story with a romance novelist set there. But as I get set to bring other characters into the story aside from my novelist and the Maxis premades, I'm running head on into the realization that it is a very small world. I can't add many characters to my story and have them live there. Not unless I bin the premades or move them into the 'not in the world' category to free up a couple of lots. It is a gorgeous world but it has a claustrophobic feeling.

Im primarily a builder so I will happily build in every world!The only worlds I dont use are the holiday ones...and if they would only let you build there I would def use them too!I only I dont see myself ever using is Batuu. I loved alot of the CAS and BB in that pack but the world and gameplay just didnt do it for me.

I don't tend to play in Del Sol Valley, I don't really like that world. I don't 'play' in Magnolia Promenade as such but that is where some retail stores are so my sims do visit there once in a while.I have one family in Glimmerbrook but don't use it other than for them, it's so small. I haven't used Forgotten Hollow much either - I like the creepy vibe there but it's just too small. It would have been great if it was bigger and I could have had my werewolves and vampires sharing the spookiness but there's not much space to add in some werewolves.

I almost never use Evergreen Harbor. The only time I had any played sims living there was back when I first got that EP and was doing a couple of test saves. I'll probably eventually find story reasons to use the town; I already do on rare (very short term) occasions. But for now it's my least used one. Well, of residential worlds, that is. My very least used one is Granite Falls.

Are there any worlds you never use?

moderateosprey
New Spectator
3 years ago
Bit late to the party here. I use them all.

Some more than others, but they all get used to some degree.
Simmingal
Hero
3 years ago
pains my heart to see so many people not using Forgotten Hollow :bawling: :heartbreak:
Poor Vlad must be so lonely with no necks in town all forgotten and alone :disappointed:
ChaoticMoira
New Spectator
3 years ago
"Simmingal;c-18108545" wrote:
pains my heart to see so many people not using Forgotten Hollow :bawling: :heartbreak:
Poor Vlad must be so lonely with no necks in town all forgotten and alone :disappointed:

That must be why he insists on welcoming every new sim to every other world. He is just lonely..

Edited: fix mistake.
Kyr0e
New Spectator
3 years ago
I'm trying to think of a world I do use, as I usually default to Strangerville, but tallying up where my various households live/have lived (as well as omitting worlds I don't have), and counting worlds I only use as commercial districts (Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade), I'd have to say I use Del Sol Valley the least, given I've never had a household there that I've played for more than a test or one-shot.

As for my reasoning...I suppose I just never play households that are into the extravagance of The Pinnacles (even my richest households have lived in either Windenburg or Forgotten Hollow, so obviously they were more suited to timeless/vintage architecture). Mirage Park is too small for its own good, despite the potential for a lower-class suburban life. The rest is all commercial. Despite having more lots than FH or GB, it feels so small and sequestered.

Are we allowed multiple? If so, then my runner-up is Glimmerbrook.
Being small is fine to an extent, but the fact that it feels more like a wooded cul-de-sac than a thru-line to another world (Forgotten Hollow feels like a place you pass through to get somewhere else) makes it feel both too secluded for its own good, and too structured for it, as well. The pavement does away with the illusion of a woodland retreat, wherein one can live in a cabin or campground, surrounded by others (like Granite Falls, but residential). I understand why it's like that, mind you, but it's such a weird combination for me. For reference, just past the portal to the Magic Realm, you can see the type of world I would have preferred it to be. It just feels like some rich person's retirement/vacation community, which it sort of is.
elliebreton
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I am really shocked at some people's lists! Like, hardly any worlds getting used at all.

I guess it's because I play rotationally and often forget that many people don't. It's a long, long time since I stuck to playing one household in one world...
ChaoticMoira
New Spectator
3 years ago
"elanorbreton;c-18113069" wrote:
I am really shocked at some people's lists! Like, hardly any worlds getting used at all.

I guess it's because I play rotationally and often forget that many people don't. It's a long, long time since I stuck to playing one household in one world...

I am surprised too. When I posted this I kinda just expected others might have one particular world they are not drawn to, but I wasn't expecting the ones that are least played to be the top of the list, and I wasn't expecting anyone to have like 4 or 5 untouched. But I am also a rotational player, and I don't see these as separate worlds, or countries that are far from each other. I see them as nearby cities one can travel between easily, so I have households all over the place.
QueenSaraphine
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
Vampire world, can’t even remember it’s name. Too dark and gloomy for me.
wahini2024
3 years ago
Mt. Komorebi, to be honest I forget I even have snowy escape. The next least would be Brindleton Bay. While I visit there I never live there, it's too cold. I find the world to be very nice really but I loathe winter irl so I never think to have sims live there. I have put more effort into it than Komorebi. I think I've only intentionally gone there 3 times.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
3 years ago
I don't know what to do with Forgotten Hollow. In my mind the whole gravestones aesthetic is something fans of vampire fiction would like, but not the vampires themselves. My older vampires enjoy the comforts of the modern world with a touch of their birth cultures (Imperial Rome and Selvadorada), and the freshly created ones identify more closely with their birth cultures than with their species.

I tried making the world into a theme park, and maybe will give it to my gaming club for the ocasional LARP, but other than that I just cannot fit it.
LatinaBunny
New Spectator
3 years ago
Being a big fan of playing mermaid/merfolk sim families, I tend to use worlds that have bodies of water to swim in, so worlds without water tend to get a bit neglected unless I play with other occults like vampires, fairies, etc.

I do usually try to add pools in the house yards for areas or parts of the worlds that don’t have nearby water sources, but I usually prefer being near the water areas, for the most part, if I have mermaids/merfolk within a family.

I think one of the worlds I haven’t used at all yet was Evergreen Harbor.

Edited to add:

Oh! And I also barely touch the City Living place. While I love the aesthetics, the foods, the festivals, and overall surroundings, I just don’t like apartments.