In defense of rabbit holes

"Horrorgirl6;d-973768" wrote:
The one complaint with sims 3 is the use rabbit holes.The other day the paralives team (Another simulation game) told their audience .That they will be rabbit holes. Because if everything was open up it would be hard on the computer.That made me think back on sims 3 how we had some.Personally I have no problem with rabbit holes.Since all of them were careers, and maybe a slash store .I think they only one.I kinda wanted hopen was the grocery store.I think the best for 5 would open world, and maybe later some special career lots that you can add on your own.

The problem with rabbit holes was that you were running around the world map like a headless chicken only to then stop and wait in front of a building. I don't see the gameplay in that, it breaks the immersion in the story when you have this beautiful world and then you can't go anywhere, it's like a dead end. I don't know why it was never an option to open them up in the manner of active careers, where you have the option to either follow your sim to work or do a text adventure. They could have an open world for TS5 for people who like to roam about the map, but I think all lots should be useable with a loading screen for people who enjoy the gameplay. I am not even sure how much they would have added to the "hard on the computer" part, because most people had hundred of lots in their game and if a small part of those rabbit holes were actual usable lots, it wouldn't have made a difference, all they needed to do was add the rabbit hole script to smaller objects to be placed on lots in the manner of rabbit hole rugs. They even released the cinema and restaurant in the store, so it really wasn't about being hard on the computer to load a few extra community lots. Personally, I like the way TS4 is set up, I just wish it were possible to edit the neighborhood.