the sims 4 forgotten hollow secret location

there's nothing to do in those lots besides fish.
maybe if they made them more interesting, players would actually use them.

The reason the developers don't do the secret lots is because about 10% of players have been to Sixam while about 5% of players have been to other secret lots. Beside from collecting, there are nothing to do in the base game secret lots.
-Info taken from The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs latest life stream

Well you can use the enable free build cheat to build on the secret lots. I've done this plenty of times in the past. Sylvan Glades was my most used. Its only a small building area but you can make it a little sim getaway. I created my sim a painting shack. Best of all its free for sims to stay. I do hope they rethink about adding more secret lots in future content. I really enjoy them as a player and a builder.

"EgonVM;c-16133233" wrote:
The reason the developers don't do the secret lots is because about 10% of players have been to Sixam while about 5% of players have been to other secret lots. Beside from collecting, there are nothing to do in the base game secret lots.
-Info taken from The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs latest life stream

And how, pray tell, do they know that? Does Origin monitor our every move? Did they take a poll? Only what they do? Maybe there should be 2 versions of this game, the current one for the marketed to teeny-boppers and one more like the prior versions for the rest of us who take gaming seriously. A secret lot in the Hollow has great potential for more than fishing and collecting.

If you play online Origin send data to EA. Its how the sims 4 did the trick or treat event last year or the year before. Players had to choose which side to pick and trick or treat other sims in game to win the items offered. They have even tracked a woohoo event before.

Hmmm... George Orwell is part of the EA team... Thanks for the word. I wonder if part of the problem is that of the three secret worlds (assuming a player knows about them in the first place) is that only one is comparatively easy to get to. One requires level 10 handiness skill, and the other a rocket ship and/or a certain level in the science career. Not everyone is going to go down either of those routes. Seems like a stacked deck to me, hard to hear about, harder to get to, and little to do once there. Like they didn't want them in the first place and made sure there would be no repeats. A pity we can't make our own, lots of potential there.

I read ‘playerbase’ as some kinda programming jargon...
... I think that’s what I want to think, anyway

"Oldeseadogge;c-16153113" wrote:
Hmmm... George Orwell is part of the EA team... Thanks for the word. I wonder if part of the problem is that of the three secret worlds (assuming a player knows about them in the first place) is that only one is comparatively easy to get to. One requires level 10 handiness skill, and the other a rocket ship and/or a certain level in the science career. Not everyone is going to go down either of those routes. Seems like a stacked deck to me, hard to hear about, harder to get to, and little to do once there. Like they didn't want them in the first place and made sure there would be no repeats. A pity we can't make our own, lots of potential there.

Agreed. I think that if they made the lots unlockable for the save once discovered by a Sim, then people might use them. Skilling up to ten or getting through a whole career with every sim you want to go visit a lot is unreasonable. Plus, they didn't put much to do or discover in the base game hidden lots.

That just sounds like stats they're pulling out of thin air.

"Well, we don't really have resources for secret lots so we'll tell the playerbase they don't want them."

They're not supposed to be EASY - but you don't need to unlock them for every generation. Just once.

So much potential in Forgotten Hallow with the Shrubbery Tapestry. Liked to have seen a secret garden'esc door revealed.