I feel so very deeply that sims who live in a world should be the only ones who naturally show up there! (besides, I suppose "not in world" sims) Am I the only one who wants this? If I could have anything, anything in the base game updates, it would be some way of making sims who live in a world, stay there unless I ask them to travel.Maybe they could implement this through a lot trait, or through settings. I just don't know of anything that irks me more than seeing Nancy Landgraab in Willow Creek Library or Eliza Pancakes at the gym in Oasis Springs, and with more worlds/expansions this problem has only become worse. Am I the only one who thinks this one change could save the game? Also IMO:If my world is empty, I don't think sims should be generated for walk-bys! We should have to earn those walk-bys by moving sims into the world! And our neighbors from the neighborhood should be much more "present" than those from other neighborhoods in the same world.In game sims are rare jewels that should require clever work to find - ie going to their world and looking for them there, not waiting for them to walk by your house.Also, travel should cost money. $50 to another neighborhood, $500 to another world. Make it difficult to find your true love/best friend or relax on the beach. It should be more of a goal.For rotational play, and storytelling purposes, if a household is left while they are on vacation and another household is played, the household on vacation should not leave the rental property until that family is played again and uses up the days they paid for that vacation while the player controls them. Give us time to get a feel for what having the Pancakes on vacation in Oasis Springs feels like for the residents who live there!

I think Mt. Komorebi must be considered as a place in another country so residents there should not be commonly seen in Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, etc.

I honestly haven't played with Mt. Komorebi yet. Still working my way through the earlier packs one by one. Does this mean that they figured out how to do it already? Maybe they could expand that system to work everywhere? Or do sims from other worlds still show up super frequently at Mt Komorebi? When I'm in Mt. Komorebi eventually I would LOVE to just see sims who are vacationing there, are "not in world" sims and sims that LIVE in Mt. Komorebi. Does that make sense? Would you want that to happen?

Let vampires travel all over, at least, since they have wings. However, I am a bit curious about Strangeville. There's a book you can get at the Curio shop that mentions being stuck in that realm, so it's weird if people travel to and from there.

"Gamer_34567544;c-17955824" wrote:Let vampires travel all over, at least, since they have wings. However, I am a bit curious about Strangeville. There's a book you can get at the Curio shop that mentions being stuck in that realm, so it's weird if people travel to and from there.100% let vampires roam. But keep the strange in Strangerville and ideally everybody home unless called out!!! Surely during a pandemic this could be addressed lol

I recently bought Eco Lifestyle and I was surprised to see the Sages from Realm of Magic roaming around in Evergreen Harbor. :/ I pretend they are just cosplaying or something.On another occasion, one of my Sims was having a nice meal in a restaurant I put in Windenburg, when a "possessed" Strangerville lady wearing nothing but her underwear barged in. How did she manage to travel all the way from Strangerville to Windenburg in that state? Is the Mother trying to take over other worlds too? :lol:

Restricting played sims from showing up on lots outside their world?

Archie_289
4 years ago
I think Mt. Komorebi must be considered as a place in another country so residents there should not be commonly seen in Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, etc.
jannaeddie
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
I honestly haven't played with Mt. Komorebi yet. Still working my way through the earlier packs one by one. Does this mean that they figured out how to do it already? Maybe they could expand that system to work everywhere? Or do sims from other worlds still show up super frequently at Mt Komorebi? When I'm in Mt. Komorebi eventually I would LOVE to just see sims who are vacationing there, are "not in world" sims and sims that LIVE in Mt. Komorebi. Does that make sense? Would you want that to happen?
User_577435777
4 years ago
Let vampires travel all over, at least, since they have wings. However, I am a bit curious about Strangeville. There's a book you can get at the Curio shop that mentions being stuck in that realm, so it's weird if people travel to and from there.
jannaeddie
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
"Gamer_34567544;c-17955824" wrote:
Let vampires travel all over, at least, since they have wings. However, I am a bit curious about Strangeville. There's a book you can get at the Curio shop that mentions being stuck in that realm, so it's weird if people travel to and from there.

100% let vampires roam. But keep the strange in Strangerville and ideally everybody home unless called out!!! Surely during a pandemic this could be addressed lol
le_TARDISgrade
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
I recently bought Eco Lifestyle and I was surprised to see the Sages from Realm of Magic roaming around in Evergreen Harbor. :/ I pretend they are just cosplaying or something.

On another occasion, one of my Sims was having a nice meal in a restaurant I put in Windenburg, when a "possessed" Strangerville lady wearing nothing but her underwear barged in. How did she manage to travel all the way from Strangerville to Windenburg in that state? Is the Mother trying to take over other worlds too? :lol:
ChampandGirlie
New Spectator
4 years ago
I would really like a setting for this. There are sometimes that I like to combine the sims from different worlds such as worlds with a similar theme or when I have a district of common areas like Newcrest in my game. I do sometimes send my sims traveling to venues in the different worlds.

If this could be a setting by world or even possibly by lot, I would interested in that. I'd be more flexible about sending sims to certain restaurants or gyms with special equipment. I think players could make that decision for themselves.
ck213
Seasoned Scout
4 years ago
I really wish they would set up a distance relationship between all the worlds and set percentages of what sims will show up there.
So a sim from a certain town would most likely show up in their town and the neighboring towns, while distant sims will rarely appear.

It's immersion breaking when you have your Brindleton Bay sim vacationing in Komorebi and then her mother shows up while she's dining in the restaurant I placed there.
Chicklet45368
Rising Traveler
4 years ago
Well, this wouldn't "save the game" for me personally.

But, it's something that has always irritated me about TS4. I tend to not have my sims travel to worlds that seem like they are not close, if they travel at all. I set up each world with no pre-mades, they're all my sims I've placed, I also have over 300 of my sims in the not in world bin, so I have plenty of player created sims to fill those roles without the game doing it. And, I've always wanted just my sims to be the visitors on community lots in my world and the walk-bys/joggers, etc.

I don't understand the dev team's thinking process of allowing all sims to freely go to all worlds. In my RL, I can assure you if I go to another city (or state) for dinner, shopping, a concert, or vacation, I will 99.99999% NOT see people from my own city also in that other city, at that restaurant, in that motel, at that particular mall or social event at the same time I am there. (Unless there's some spectacular event that is going on at that time, then I might see 1 person I know.)

I use a mod for this.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
I guess EA wants to make sure that there are enough Sims in every world without them being flooded even more with townies. If you disable all residents from showing up in every other world except their own, you either have quite empty worlds or masses of households. In fact, my favourite mod (that is no longer updated by werbeesu), was doing the opposite as it would prefer my own played households over unplayed Sims to spawn when I visited a lot. I loved seeing my own Sims around instead of just some randomly generated NPCs.
JanuaryGarnet08
New Spectator
4 years ago
"83bienchen;c-17956015" wrote:
I guess EA wants to make sure that there are enough Sims in every world without them being flooded even more with townies. If you disable all residents from showing up in every other world except their own, you either have quite empty worlds or masses of households. In fact, my favourite mod (that is no longer updated by werbeesu), was doing the opposite as it would prefer my own played households over unplayed Sims to spawn when I visited a lot. I loved seeing my own Sims around instead of just some randomly generated NPCs.

MC Command Center let’s you populate your world with either sims from your library or the gallery at large or both.