Suggestions for improving historical gameplay
We're not a major group of players who play historical gameplay, and I just recently started myself, but we are still fairly many, who play in a vast array of ways. So how could the experience of the ...
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I agree that we need more stuff. And it would be nice to turn off some interactions. In the meantime, it always helps me to consider the game world as an alternate world that the sims live in, and not just an extension of mine. In their world, cowplants exist, death has a physical form, and townies dress in strange clothes. When I’ve played a historical save, I start with the assumption that certain aspects of sim society advanced at the same pace as ours, while others stayed in the past. Therefore, my 1960’s surf band was completely able to communicate with cell phones, search for jobs on a computer, and socialize with townies who had a different dress style. It would be anachronistic if I played them as living in my world. But, since this was their world, it made total sense for them. It works for me until we have other options.
