The Different Worlds

My regular go-to's still tend to be Brindleton Bay, Oasis Springs, Willow Creek, and Windenburg because they're big with enough lots to make them fully self-contained worlds for many of my households to live and play.

Following those, I also love:
- Sulani for its fully accessable oceans, beaches, and beautiful beachfront lots.
- Strangerville for its grungy nomad red desert surroundings.
- Henford-On-Bagley for its isolated country lots, small hamlet town, and its British/Cotswolds influences.
- Forgotten Hollow for its dark, spooky, Victorian atmosphere (even though its way way way too small for a true, full gameplay experience).

With close to 400 "played" sims in my main save, most of my worlds are pretty full, and well used.

My go-to world is almost always Willow Creek. I like the historic, small town feel it has, and usually try to embrace it, rather than change it. Most of my main sims I play with always live there. I also have a lounge, a recreation center, a restaurant owned by Bob Pancakes called, you guessed it, "Bob's Pancake House", a library and a dog park. Newcrest is another favorite. I usually use it as more of a place for venues like shops, bars, and cafes than houses. Sims from Willow Creek go there often, as I imagine the two to be quite close, and Magnolia Promenade is the "fancy" area of town with the expensive shops and restaurants. Since I bought Growing Together, I've moved many of my Newcrest venues to San Sequoia.

? I like Windenburg ? (You can't help but sing to the tune of that "Come to Windenburg" song lol), but I don't play in it that often. The Bluffs is my go-to spot for sims going on a date though, and the Von Haunt estate is often used as a wedding venue. Chestnut Ridge is really cool too! I have a barn that's been converted into a night club there. In San Myshuno, I have an arts center, and a rooftop cafe. Lots of sims live there too, and I'll probably add more apartments to it when I get For Rent one day. I haven't figured out what to do with Forgotten Hollow or Moonwood mill yet. Strangerville is also cool for its small town retro vibe. I have a 1950s style American diner there, and my werewolf lives in an abandoned warehouse (were-house?) where the crashed plane used to be. Can't figure out how those Victorian houses in Strangerville fit into my save yet, but they're really nice.

Oasis Springs is usually where my wealthier sims live (since the Landgraabs live there) but I do have a bunch of tiny houses in Johnny Zest's neighborhood. (He's since moved to San Myshuno, and started (or is trying to start) his own late-night comedy tv show.) Del Sol Valley is of course where my celebrities live (except for the two lots near Vanessa Jeong's house. Those are usually where my "fixer upper" type houses go.)

Brindleton Bay is more of a fancier town than Willow Creek and Strangerville. My snob sims hang out at a renovated Club Calico. There's also an arts center there. The museum near the lighthouse is one of my favorite default lots. It's one of only two museum lots in my main save, and I haven't ever felt the need to renovate it.

Tartosa and Sulani are usually for vacations or, for the rich sims who I imagine have their own private jets, good places to go when you're having a boring evening sitting around your 1 million dollar mansion lol. (Thanks money cheats!) The beach in Tartosa is another one of my favorite lots to visit. I'll also probably have some sims live there and make nectar now that we have it.

I hardly ever use Evergreen Harbour, since I can't seem to figure out what to put there. It's a cool world, but I never know how to use it. Copperdale is usually just for the school, but I do have a renovated ThriftTea there as well as another diner. I don't use most of the other worlds very often. Henford on Bagley will probably get used more since I got horse ranch, since its lots are bigger than many of the Chestnut Ridge lots.

The towns my sims go to the most are Glimmerbrook, Henford-on-Bagley, Windenburg, and Mt. Komorebi. They happen to be my favorite worlds. I play Spellcaster sims, so that's why Glimmerbrook is featured in my TS4 stories. Henford-on-Bagley is one of the settings in my current story. It's a pretty town based on the British Countryside. Windenburg is also European. (I imagine Glimmerbrook to be located somewhere in Europe, close to Forgotten Hollow). Mt. Komorebi is sort of a vacation place, and also where most Asian sims live (others live in San Myshuno).

Forgotten Hollow, San Myshuno, Sulani, Brindleton Bay, Willow Creek, and Moonwood Mill are okay to visit. I like the look and feel of them, but I don't play in them as often as my favorite towns. Forgotten Hollow is a place for vampires, obviously. That's also where some evil spellcasters live, as they couldn't stand the good spellcasters. San Myshuno is a bustling Asian city with tourists from other countries. Sulani is a vacation destination with lots of mermaids. At times, I have newlywed sims go to Sulani for a few Sim days. Brindleton Bay has a "small town in Maine feel," but has more lots than other small worlds. As for Willow Creek, it has this nice historical feel.

My sims don't go to Evergreen Harbor, Britechester, Strangerville, Del Sol Valley, Magnolia Promenade, Oasis Springs, and Newcrest as much as the others I've mentioned. Evergreen Harbor does have some interesting backdrops for storytelling and poses, but that's about it. Britechester is an university town. I don't like Strangerville, but the mystery in that town is interesting. If I play in Del Sol Valley, it's usually when I'm playing a celebrity sim. Magnolia Promenade is a shopping district in all of my saves. Newcrest, I imagine, is just an extension of Magnolia Promenade and Willow Creek. Oasis Springs would most likely be close to Strangerville in terms of location.

Since I don't own My Wedding Stories, High School Years, Growing Together, Horse Ranch, and For Rent, my sims never go to Tartosa, Copperdale, San Sequoia, Chestnut Ridge, and Tomarang.

So, in short, there are TS4 worlds I love, others I like on some level, and others that aren't my cup of tea.

Oh wow, I think the worlds are the best part of the game. I don't think there is a world I don't like. I love all the worlds even the less liked ones, like Newcrest, once I research and make it my own. Newcrest is like an extension of Willow Creek, all the other style of New Orlean homes, I could not fit on WC. I like how they gave us Newcrest as a blank slate to make our own. I had great times changing this map many times.

Windenberg, Oasis Springs, Brindleton Forgotten Hollow, San Myshuno Henford on Bagley are absolutely fantastic, but all the worlds have a unique greatness to them, and I love how differently they are themed.

My first favorite was Sulani because it was so surreal. Then Tartosa came, and yes, my simself relocated herself from the city on a beach house there. Chestnut Ridge was my absolute favorite when the pack came out and I would not stop playing there until very recently.

After I dropped all these townhouses in San Sequioa, I am enjoying a new found love that I can only experience in this world, and unique to this world, because It's based on San Francisco and SF is all townhouses. My new younger families are moving out of small apartments, depressing 1 bedroom starters, and lofts to raise a family in these townhouses with neighbors that are going through this same stage of life.

I really think Tomarang is beautiful, Sulani meets San Myshuno. Unfortunately my game is capping me on less than 20 residential lots for my save, so I have moved some mermaids and ex-pats there is just homes. There was a week of rentals I had there which was pretty fun I had some younger generations kind of going to live there for a season, but the residential rentals are not happening there at the moment. I resolved it's not in season- It was turning winter there- Hoping to resolve the issue soon.

I forgot- I made a tik tok on this topic a while back- here is the link- bare in mind this was before some of the newer worlds.

https://www.tiktok.com/@leucosiax/video/7223729623933259050

All of my worlds have a purpose in my game, but the ones I play in the most are the ones that are designated as part of The Myst, the magic world. Those include Glimmerbrook, HoB, Sulani, Granite Falls, Mooncrest (created by merging Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade), plus Copperdale and Britechester for schools. San Myshuno is a sanctuary city, and gets a lot of play. Moonwood Mill is an ally. Forgotten Hollow is its own thing. All the rest are human worlds, with Windenburg and Selvadorada being Myst adjacent, thus having some connections and magical aspects. Windenburg gets a lot of play because that’s where I’ve placed The Blue Moon Tavern. Oasis Springs and Strangerville harbor aliens.

I use the All Worlds Are Residential mod to bring Granite Falls and Selvadorada into my game as something more than vacation destinations.