Open world totally breaks immersion for sure

Yes 350 is quite a bunch, though I had 518 sims once in a game, I enjoy the hard work of populating every lot in the world I am playing, no empty lot and no empty house, this way only NPCs are random sims created by the game (Barcelona BTW creates a lot of NPCs because there are plenty of venues, bars, clubs, and all kind of registers, 70 community lots I think...) fortunately my i7 processor can handle it very well though I had to teach the game to acknowledge my system for what it really is, and every where my sims go, there are about 10 other sims around, let alone bars and clubs (where I use a mod) that there are about 25, and at school (where I use Zerbu´s mod for open school) and the last time I counted them there were 57 children/teens attending and really fighting to use the boards, the chess tables or the chemestry labs