Open Neighborhood Rather than Open World
In TS3 the entire world was open and i think this contributed to difficulty running the game. In TS4 the active lot and a portion of the neighborhood within the world is open. I'm not sure if this can...
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"liliaeth;c-16020325" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-16019356" wrote:
For me it's open world rather than open neighborhood and it always will. Open world only contributed to difficulties due to lousy implementing. I'm not prepared to settle for less just because they messed things up that shouldn't have been messed up. And even messed up I love it.
Except that the open world plum. The worlds in TS3 were boring, annoying, and it took my sims like half a day to get anywhere. I'd rather not waste my time with that.
Except that that's nothing but an opinion :p (take notice I wrote "for me") What's not opinion but fact is travelling time. I did a test once and it turned out open world and Sims 4's loading screen approximately take just as much time, be it in different ways (that's where opinion comes in again; I love following my sims in their car or on their bike/scooter/horse/broomstick/on foot through their worlds, for me that's just as important while playing as doing the laundry for others).
"JoAnne65;c-15549771" wrote:
I just did a 'speed' test, because I was curious what the differences effectively are between travelling in an open world and travelling between loading screens (for 'scientific' reasons, not because I care but because others seem to care; I don't mind waiting for a bit in 4 myself and I love travelling through an open world).
I made sure to be as 'honest' as possible, so all the sims testing for me were standing in their house and I included everything while timing. Also zooming out to press 'travel' in TS4, and zooming out to view town in TS3 and looking for/selecting the spot I wanted my sim to travel to. Everything was clocked from the moment I decide my sim has to travel till the very moment they arrive there.
Sims 3
I picked Hidden Springs, sending my sim from A to B.
Slowest car (3): 35 seconds real time (speed 3)
Sim time: 11:07 – 12:12 (= 65 minutes)
Fastest car (10): 21 seconds real time (speed 3)
Sim time: 17:23-17:55 (= 32 minutes)
Teleporting (cheat): 15 seconds real time (all-in, finding the spot B on the map and give order to teleport); sim time: 18:13-18:14 (= 1 minute to the very spot you want your sim to be)
Sims 4
From hallway to the café in Windenburg: 30 seconds real time
Back home: 35 seconds real time (due to walking time till loading screen, I used speed 3 of course)
Sim time going: 12:14-12:16 (=2 minutes); returning home: 2:32-2:42 (=10 minutes)
This on the same computer, obviously.
This by the way is from one far end to the other far end of the world, so maximum travelling time in that world. In an open world it matters how far your sim has to travel, which I love as well. And when you play more than one sim you don't even have to wait at all. You simply play another sim till the traveller is where you wanted them to go.
