How far away from home do you send your Sims?

Wasn't quite sure which of those options described what I do.

As a storyteller I often don't allow my sims to travel to Selvadorada, Sulani or Mt. Komorebi, all considered separate and faraway 'countries' in my universe. They only do that if they plan to go on holiday, with the exception of one Sim who left the desert of Oasis Springs to live it up in sunny Sulani for the rest of their life. Some of the Sims worlds are part of 'clusters' and often these Sims don't really leave the 'cluster' of worlds they're born in unless they're going on holiday. I have a very awkward rough geography of all the Sims worlds in my head that's a bit confusing to explain.

However, sometimes I set some rules. For example right now I’m playing style influencer who lives in San Myshuno and he travels freely to Oasis Springs, Willow Creek or Del Sol Valley, but I only let him go to Sulani when special holidays kick in it or for a vacation. Just so I won’t get bored with too much swimming and beach fun. But usually I don’t bother with realism. ;)

@SnowBnuuy I think "Other" was probably the best choice for you, and I appreciate your explanation! I don't have access to Selvadorada (I probably will soon), and I'm starting to think of Sulani and Mt. K as "faraway places," too.

Although I do see quite a few Sims from Sulani and Mt. K in the base game worlds.

"Olalla1986;c-17938994" wrote:
However, sometimes I set some rules. For example right now I’m playing style influencer who lives in San Myshuno and he travels freely to Oasis Springs, Willow Creek or Del Sol Valley, but I only let him go to Sulani when special holidays kick in it or for a vacation. Just so I won’t get bored with too much swimming and beach fun. But usually I don’t bother with realism. ;)

Forgot to vote before I posted, sorry for that. I send them pretty much everywhere.

I used to travel a lot irl and know people who traveled a lot as well (literally lived on one side of a continent/country and traveled weekly to the other side for work), so my sims mirror my global perspective. Plus, the worlds feel too small to be played in a restrictive manner so I don't hold back. Instant travel is a unique feature of the Sims 4 that I enjoy and use to get the most out of the game.

I also have what I consider clusters of worlds that in my view are near enough to travel back and forth with ease. (E.g., Willow Creek, Newcrest, and Magnolia Promenade.) I also have a general idea in my mind of what I think the map looks like over all, which includes some worlds that might be in between two different clusters. (E.g., Newcrest, Brindleton Bay, and Glimmerbrook might not be particularly near each other, but they all might be relatively near Granite Falls.) Basically, my sims can go anywhere, but if it's a quick trip to the bar after work, or a shopping errand, I keep them in the worlds that are close to home. If they need or want to do something in a more distant world, it's at least a full day's trip, reserved for weekends or days off, if not longer. Even then, I feel like most of my sims can make it to San Myshuno on a day off; Sulani or Mt. K or Selvadorada usually require at least a long weekend.

That being said, spellcasters can go wherever they want whenever they want, because, magic. I think once or twice I've also had wealthy sims whisk someone off for a romantic dinner far away... you know, in their private jet, as one does.

It depends. Sometimes, when I play rags to riches/homeless challenge, I don't send my sims out of their world, because it feels realistic (they have no money to travel) and it adds to the challenge. Sometimes I don't want to be restricted at all.
In my current save my family lives in Windenburg, and I send them pretty much everywhere except for Sulani and destination worlds. I prefer to not jump from world to world in one day, though; I can imagine one day trip from Windenburg to Mt. Komorebi (in my imagination it's pretty close to San Myshuno, and you can take a shinkansen (kind of), but a combination like Windenburg-Mt. Komorebi-Oasis Springs is too much. But in general, I prefer to take vacations to travel to worlds like Mt. Komorebi or Strangerville. And I don't like to send my sims far away after work, a day off seems more suitable for a "day trip".

"MoonlightGraham;c-17938996" wrote:
@SnowBnuuy I think "Other" was probably the best choice for you, and I appreciate your explanation! I don't have access to Selvadorada (I probably will soon), and I'm starting to think of Sulani and Mt. K as "faraway places," too.

Although I do see quite a few Sims from Sulani and Mt. K in the base game worlds.

Okay so I THINK I have a way to explain my 'rough' geography of all of the current Sims worlds...I know it won't make sense to people with in-depth geography knowledge, as I have zero, but I also don't care : P

- Sulani, Mt. Komorebi and Selvadorada are all separate countries that are quite far away from the 'core' of the Sims world. (Also including TS3's World Adventures worlds as well of course)
- I hand-wave the time it'd take to get to Sixam as 'wow look at how quick these high tech rockets can get across the galaxy!' Still not sure what comparative distance it is from SimEarth. As for Batuu, in all honesty it doesn't really exist in any of my universes, I forget it exists at all in TS4. XD
- Most of the Sims 1/2/3 neighbourhoods are just non-specifically 'sort of far out from' the TS4 'core' worlds.
- The rough 'England' analog is comprised of Britechester, Willow Creek, Newcrest, Evergreen Harbour, Brindleton Bay, Glimmerbrook, and of course Henford-on-Bagley now. Granite Falls as well.
- In the 'rough middle' between this analog and San Myshuno, there is Oasis Springs, the town of Windenburg and also Forgotten Hollow.
- San Myshuno and Del Sol Valley are very close to each other, and Magnolia Promenade is somewhat close by to them both. To the far south of this little cluster is Strangerville.

I don't have all the packs, so I don't have as many options as I/my sims would like. ;) I've been playing in Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, and have just started playing in San Myshuno. Since my current sims are mostly steeped in the mundane world, I mostly send them off to Exotic Destinations, such as Sulani, Mt K, and the Ultimate Exotic Destination: Batuu. I have a few sims living in Mt K but they haven't been sent anywhere on vacation. I would probably send them to someplace warm like Sulani or Batuu. I haven't considered sending anyone to Forgotten Hollow or the magic world - they are too small for me to give up a house for a rental.

I wouldn't send them to any of the "regular" worlds (OS, WC, etc) for vacation because there isn't anything special for them to do there in my game. I don't consider having my sim walk around in Oasis Springs looking at the desert as being that special, although I see an awful lot of Sulani residents there! :D I might send someone to San Myshuno so they could go to some of the festivals, but I hadn't thought about it because I haven't had that pack for very long.

I just remembered, I have sent a couple of people to Willow Creek and to Britechester, because they needed to use the Museum, the Library, the Gym, and a place I've set up with skill items in BC. But I don't count those as vacations since they were only there to fulfil an aspiration or grind away at a skill. I'll send them wherever they need to go for those reasons without even thinking about it, but not as a "fun" destination.

We'll have to see how Cottage Living plays; I might have someone vacation there sometime, and I know those residents could definitely go to Sulani, Mt K or Batuu, and maybe San Myshuno, in order to see the Big City.

Still, the idea has now been put in my head. Maybe I'll start sending people to the Spa or something, just to be pampered...

Edited to add: Well, darn, I misunderstood part of the original post. I was thinking only about Vacations, since I don't think about my sim Worlds as being that separate (except for Batuu, and IL). Basically, I send them where I need to, but I don't think of it as really traveling, since I'm sending the poor simmies off to grind away at a skill. They rarely get to sightsee, and when they do I send them on vacation.

I would have chosen choice number one, with a big but: They are allowed to go anywhere, but if it's outside their home territory (Willow Creek, Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade) then they only can go on vacation. Since Newcrest is so large with so much room for all kinds of venues, it's not a problem for me to keep them to these worlds. To me these are different neighborhoods of the same "world", New Orleans. I've even decided that they are Slidell, Kenner, and Metarie, all small cities in the New Orleans Metro area. If they're going to go off to Mount Komorebi or Sulani, then they're going to stay for 4 or 5 days on a vacation. If they go to Brindleton Bay, it might be for a weekend, since to me that's New England, maybe Maine or Connecticut. Same with Del Sol Valley, that's Los Angeles. I have my own geography for the Sims 4 in my head, and how long they stay on vacation depends on whether the world is inside or outside the USA.

Edited to add:

In my mind, these worlds are associated with the following RL locations:

Willow Creek, Newcrest and Mag Prom: New Orleans metro area.

Brindleton Bay: New England, probably Maine or Connecticut.

Britechester: Harvard and Yale. :smiley:

Del Sol Valley: Los Angeles.

Granite Falls: Wyoming.

Henford on Bagley: England, of course.

Oasis Springs: Las Vegas.

Mt. Komorebi: Japan

San Myshuno: San Francisco, although it's very non-hilly for SF.

Selvadorada: Brazil

Strangerville: Roswell New Mexico.

Sulani: Tahiti.

Windenburg: Germany.


I realize this is a very USA-centered decision, but I live in the USA, so...