For rent info thread

"RememberJoy;c-18324971" wrote:

Wouldn't that be a lot of sims to be on the same lot? We can potentially have up to 48 sims, and I think that would strain most computers. Would they disappear into their darkened apartment when not being visited and appear after knocking on the door? What about transferring from playing one family to another? I'd love not having any loading screens, but I'm not sure how that would work.

@RememberJoy In Sims 2, if your active sim was in their own apartment, you could see the walls and floors of the other apartments if you hovered over them, but not the sims or furniture inside. If you knocked on the neighbor's door and they let you in (which they might not do, depending on the relationship) the furniture and sims would magically appear all of a sudden. Once you decided to leave and your sim stepped outside of the neighbor's apartment, everything would disappear again.
Now, when it came to switching control between households, it worked pretty much the same as in City Living. You had to exit to the neighborhood view (loading screen one), select the other household from there and load back in (loading screen two). I would be pleased as punch if they found a way for us to switch control directly from the other apartment, with only a single loading screen. That's not a deal breaker though. My big hang-up is having to go through a loading screen when all my sim wants to do is watch action movies on their neighbor's big screen TV, or swipe a helping of their leftover grilled cheese.