The Copperdale World Discussion Thread

"rachelwolfe;c-18141524" wrote:
Like a lot of you, I like the new world but am concerned about the immersion-breaking nature of sending ALL teens from worlds that obviously don't fit with this to just the one high school in Copperdale. Or, are other teens from other worlds not enrolled in Copperdale High? In which case, you'd have to move to Copperdale in order to get the interactive high school experience, which also doesn't seem great to me. Or can we, as some of you have suggested, build high schools in other worlds--in which case, can we manually select which HS to send our sims to, or do they just default to the one in their world? And if so, what happens to teens whose world has no high school? I have so many questions about how enrollment works!

I have a feeling if we want the full interactive school all students everywhere will be forced to this one. We might get local schools but they won't be fully interactive like this one. Or the other problem is it won't work in worlds that don't have a 50x50 or 64x64 lot. I don't like loading screens but I would accept one here if it opened up a sort of Tardis inspired school building. You have a shell that you place in your world, then when you get there you click on the door, you go through the loading screen, now you're inside a school building that is far larger than the outside shell building was. You have to deal with loading screens but it wouldn't require a huge lot which not every world has, or has empty. You could easily place one in every world and each one could be unique to that world. In that scenario I could learn to deal with more loading screens, even though I really don't like them.

I don't see that happening. I have a feeling the school in this case is going to work like the movie studio from Get Famous. Part of that feeling comes from the opening frames of the trailer where you see the girl walking through the front doors and into the school. When it's time for school your student is beamed to the lot outside of the school building where they can hang out and talk and then they enter the school without needing a loading screen and they go about their day.