I don’t know about servers etc but I feel a multiplayer experience would work best if you could simply invite other players into your save file via their Account ID. That way you could set up joint save files with a handful of friends, 100 friends or just play solo if you want.. You’d also be able to remove anyone you invite too I guess, should you fall out or decide you don’t want visitors or whatever?
Potentially have some kind of exclusive hub map where anyone could travel to, and interact with other players, but keep it to the one map. Ultimately your personal save file remains safe from trolls then, which I think is most peoples fear with an online sims game.
I don’t really get the worry about it not being kid friendly, they’ve purposefully kept the game kid friendly anyway? I don’t see the need for chat boxes or whatever, it’s not second life.. You’d simply be interacting with sims controlled by other players, and only on the online hub map. I think you’d have to be able to manually accept/reject social interactions too which could be handy and fun..
Even local multiplayer would be fun though. I miss 2 player on the old console games..
