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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I think that there should be world openness options, where you can choose from semi-open neighborhood (what we have now), open neighborhood (as the OP suggested, the active lot, surrounding lots, and space around them all being open to explore without loading screens), and full open world (everything just there to explore with no loading outside of entering the game). That way, there would be a setting for low-spec computers, one for machines in the middle, and one for those uber-beast gaming rigs that are just shy of becoming sentient beings. I know the last setting probably can't be implemented in TS4, especially this late in the game's life cycle, but it would be a good thing to consider for TS5...if we get a TS5. They might just milk TS4 for the next 10 years instead...
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