"Neia;c-16213444" wrote:
"JoAnne65;c-16212843" wrote:
Sims 4
From hallway to the café in Windenburg: 30 seconds real time
Back home: 35 seconds real time (due to walking time till loading screen, I used speed 3 of course)
Sim time going: 12:14-12:16 (=2 seconds); returning home: 2:32-2:42 (=10 minutes)
This on the same computer, obviously.
Since I saw you bring this comparison a couple of times already, I thought I'd mention something odd about it. Why aren't you teleporting instead of taking the scenic route in TS4 ? You don't have to walk to the edge of the neighborhood to travel, you know ? You can press M straight from your bedroom, appear at the door of the cafe, have fun there, press M again from the bathroom and appear at your home door.
That saves you five seconds returning home then: 30 seconds (the way it is when you go there). I included this extra time when I tested Sims 3 as well.
I made sure to be as 'honest' as possible, so all the sims testing for me were standing in their house and I included everything while timing. Also zooming out to press 'travel' in TS4, and zooming out to view town in TS3 and looking for/selecting the spot I wanted my sim to travel to. Everything was clocked from the moment I decide my sim has to travel till the very moment they arrive there.
In fact you can even narrow the locations where you teleport to even more specific in Sims 3, because they teleport to the exact spot where you want them to go. In Sims 4 they end up where the loading screen takes them.
The reason I keep presenting this comparison by the way, is because others bring it into the discussion as an argument. I’m one of those players who considers travelling gameplay, so I couldn’t care less personally. But on top of that, it appears to be untrue loading screens save the player time when compared to open world.