Preserving the cultural identity of worlds.

I focus on my own Sims, so this isn't an issue for me. I also don't like the idea of defining Sims by how they look, so if a Sim is born & raised in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi, I consider them to be from those places. With occults, even though I play vampires, I generally ignore occults so it doesn't bother me to have them be displaced.

I don't care about that in general just like in real life all I see is people, though for longer running saves I may encourage original families to have a kid here and there if I don't decide to replace anyone. Usually the same with occults or I'll add some to my rotation.

Using the ancestral flag was a lot better in Sims 3 with mastercontroller, because you could set it on a home instead of a sim. I haven't tried setting a sim as ancestral, but I think I'm about to try in on my first one, Bella and Morty's grandson. Cassandra and Alexander both only had one child each, and Cassie had the boy, so alas the Goth name is no more in WC.

Cassie has passed away, but her son is still living in Goth manor with his dad, the Bheeda spawn. The kid is an adult now and doesn't seem to be in any hurry to get married or have kids, so the manse may eventually go to his cousin. I'm not sure if she has kids or not, I need to check and do some, ahem, prodding along if neither of them have kids yet. :smiley:

Sorry, that was a ramble. As for the cultural integrity of the worlds, I do care. Thanks to the blessedly fertile Itos, Mt. Korembi is still blossoming. Whenever one marries, the spouse gets moved to Mt. Korembi from their home world. I do need to move more Japanese sims in to expand the gene pool.

Sulani hasn't fared as well, unfortunately. Its population has severely dwindled over the last 3 generations. I need to find Polynesian sims to repopulate it. So yes, I for one do care. I don't want all my worlds to be generic; if the devs went to the trouble to establish these worlds as representative of certain places and peoples, then I'd like to keep that going. I don't play with occults, so those worlds are irrelevant to me.

However, in my other worlds, I cheerfully don't care. They are quite mixed. My 3rd gen heir is the grandchild of Liberty Lee, and her father looks like his mother but alas she doesn't look much like her dad. I really wish she did, but I have a rule that as they are born, they stay.

I've honestly been too involved in my current family lately to tear myself away long enough to put new sims down in other worlds besides Willow Creek. My babies needed spouses!

TL,DR: I do care about the cultural integrity of the worlds and I'm going to be replenishing Mt. Korembi and Sulani with new sims very soon who match those intended ethnicities.

"FatTribble23;c-18075793" wrote:
Sulani hasn't fared as well, unfortunately. Its population has severely dwindled over the last 3 generations. I need to find Polynesian sims to repopulate it. So yes, I for one do care. I don't want all my worlds to be generic; if the devs went to the trouble to establish these worlds as representative of certain places and peoples,

That's pretty much where I'm coming from too. Those specific worlds arrived with a pretty specific cultural identity and losing it seems a travesty as it turns them into just "more of the same". Some replies here are alluding to it being about "appearances" but "culture" is about far more than that and, imo, it adds to those worlds that they have that cultural identity.

I’m planning for Luna Villareal to move to Sulani because she’s becoming a marine biologist. It’s not really feasible to perform the daily tasks unless she were to live there since I don’t think traveling there every day is realistic. It wouldn’t be my first choice of world for her, but the activities are locked with the world. Same with any sim who’s an extreme sports enthusiast- they’ll benefit most from living in Mt. Komorebi’s snowy area, whatever their cultural background may be. I know this doesn’t help with your MCCC question but since we are discussing it I just wanted to point out that there are some good reasons for moving there and it doesn’t have to feel controversial imo.

Totally agree @babajayne, I'm only talking about unplayed sims. Played Sims is a different story, they live where it makes the most sense from a career/hobby standpoint.

For me, preserving the culture of the worlds is important. I don't want every world to be the same, and I think keeping the culture makes the world feel more diverse. I tend to micromanage a lot, so I'm very hands on when it comes to who moves where. With my MCCC settings, Sims will never move out unless they marry, and even then, I'll make the final call where they live. For example, if a Sim from Sulani marries a Sim from Willow Creek, I'll move the Willow Creek Sim to Sulani and give them a makeover to fit their new home.

It's important to me but since I micromanage like crazy, I don't worry about losing each world's identity.

@Nightlycoffee, how do you set it up so that you get the final say? Or do you just go out to the world and look things over and move stuff around?

I never thought about this. I guess that is how I have always played. I played a lot of themed worlds and Sims had to behave and dress particular ways in the older games. I guess I did set up households in the worlds of TS4 to remain true to the worlds they lived in, in my mind. Because Nancy Landgraab really wouldn't fit in a farming world would she? So, yeah if I had Cottage Living for instance, yeah, the only people living there would be farmers. Dr. Who can live anywhere, lol, but yeah, some of my themed Sims would have to live in a particular world and because they are themed it would mean I would throw out Maxis premades etc. and replace them with other themed households. So, yeah, I guess I have been preserving the culture of my worlds since at least TS2, but not so much in TS1.

@Stormkeep Yeah, I just check manage households and move Sims around manually. MCCC has a setting to set up notifications for moving which helps a lot, too.