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5 years ago

Did you know that expanding and adding more neighborhoods to existing worlds is possible?

The Sims 4 Producer Grant Rodiek said on The Sims Official Forums, around the time SIms 4 was released, that expanding Neighborhoods and adding more of them in a single World is a possible thing!

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Larryad: Is it possible to at least open up the neighborhoods, so that you don’t have to incur a loading screen every time you enter a building within the neighborhood? I know that this has been stated before, but the worlds do need to be bigger. They’re tiny. Overall a great job on the Sims themselves though. I’d also like to see a Sim be able to flop down on a couch, the way they did in Sims 2. Also body hair for men please.

SimGuruGrant: We can potentially make the individual neighborhoods larger. We can also potentially add more neighborhoods to each world. The loading at this point is a fundamental part of our architecture and is unlikely to change.

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How this could improve the game and why we should be asking for this?

- If you own Get To Work: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have a shopping district with their own editable police station, science lab and hospital + lots with stores/empty for you to build stores. Example: Most simmers don't use Magnolia Promenade due to its size and lack of uniqueness. It feels like it should be either part of Willow Creek or Oasis Springs. Willow Creek would have Magnolia Promenade on its map, while all the others would have a whole new shopping district added to them.
- If you own City Living: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have a neighborhood with apartments and/or penthouses. Example: Those decorative skyscrapers from Newcrest could be a visual reference to an actual neighborhood filled with apartments for you to live.
- If you own Island Living: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have swimmable water (lakes, rivers, oceans) or have a whole new neighborhood with such thing. Example: The beach with pier in Del Sol Valley could be an actuall neighborhood with beach houses and swimmable beach.
- If you own Discover University: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have its own matching university neighborhood.
- If you own Vampires/Realm of Magic: New packs with occult creatures would expand those worlds with new neighborhoods matching the scenery and the new occult.
- If you own Jungle Adventures: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have a new neighborhood with explorable tombs. Example: Ancient castle ruins in Windenburg, haunted celebrity mansion in Del Sol Valley, and so on and so forth...

What are your thoughts on that?

Source: https://simscommunity.info/2014/09/07/sims-4-expanding-adding-neighborhoods-possible/

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26 Replies

ljbnomad
5 years ago
The name of this post made me think the poster was going to tell us HOW to expand our existing neighborhoods, like with copies or something.
Onverser
5 years ago
Well they have been expanding the neighbourhoods since the game started, the base game worlds are tiny little flat neighborhoods with literally nothing other than houses and road but now in worlds like Glimmerbrook, Sulani, Windenburg, etc. there's loads of space you can scroll around and explore things in the world
karon_shiruba
5 years ago
@Onverser I meant expanding the existing neighborhoods, like adding more neighborhoods to Willow Creek or opening up more space for you to walk on the existing ones.
karon_shiruba
5 years ago
"ManakoHime;c-17491703" wrote:
I would love to have more lots but I wonder if people with low-end computers would be able to run the game even on low settings. I always remember a friend of mine who had a low-end computer that could just run TS2 but if we ever tried to place a new lot to the world, the game would crash every single time.
I wonder if that could be another reason why, who knows lol. Wish I could understand coding better!

Well, I've talked about that before @ManakoHime They can solve this problem adding a button were you could add and remove worlds from your save file. Like... If you only wanted to have Willow Creek in your save file, you could. If you only wanted a BIG BEAUTIFUL Del Sol Valley, we could... The devs wouldn't have excuses to add small worlds over and over again.
I don't think worlds would be bigger than Windenburg, but at least that size would be amazing.
ljbnomad
5 years ago
I figured out how to make more maps / worlds based off the originals, then bulldoze the copied worlds' lots.

However, my NEXT challenge is to see what it would take to modify the World Maps (circle maps) so that each copied version of a world could have a different map image. Problem is figuring out
- How the game references the maps-to-core world, and
- How it references the maps to copied world, and
- Determining whether there is any way to access that and
- Adjust the code to accept different maps.

Any ideas? I'd make a separate post, but per the rule of this forum, it will take me a couple of weeks to earn the 50 points needed to be able to post my own thread. . . Sorry. . . :0(
karon_shiruba
5 years ago
@ljbnomad sorry, I don't understand coding/moding. Honestly, I would like more unique lots than copies of the same world (I would love that feature as well, don't get me wrong, but I would rather enjoy having expanded existing worlds/neighborhoods than anything else).