Anyone else pretending your sims go by plane, train, boats or bus/car when traveling between two worlds?
In my Mazaloom I organized a network of various transport options, and I like the idea of knowing the distances between misc worlds, or what world they need to go via. More on my blog. Anyone do something similar in their game?
Since Horse Ranch I'm travelling the worlds on horse back😊
I don't give much thought to how they travel but I do base travel on how much time I think it takes them to get to their destination. I have a general idea in my head how all the worlds are connected and how long it takes to get to a particular world.
There are certain locations that are local and can be traveled to at any time. Like lots in their home world or an adjoining world.
There are other locations that require more traveling and are better suited to a day trip.
Some require an overnight stay in a rental.
I pretty much use the same principle nowadays . I used to have more strict rules and even tried to make my sims pay for transport. The farther away the destination, the higher the cost to get there. The only problem was that I forgot to immediately subtract the money from their account for every trip outside of their home world .
I try to have sims stay in worlds close to the one they live in for short trips. I even made a chart to decide which worlds are close and stay longer for trips far away
Some are accessible from every world for practical reasons like shops in magnolia promenade or the cemetery in forgotten hollow. Remote locations require overnight stays.
I don't give much thought to how they travel but I do base travel on how much time I think it takes them to get to their destination. I have a general idea in my head how all the worlds are connected and how long it takes to get to a particular world.
There are certain locations that are local and can be traveled to at any time. Like lots in their home world or an adjoining world.
There are other locations that require more traveling and are better suited to a day trip.
Some require an overnight stay in a rental.
Mine is so similar to this that I am lay and simply quote 😁
Since we don't have actual cars or planes or ships in game, I admit that my sims just travel wherever they need to be and I don't give it much thought anymore. Considering how small neighbourhoods are they might as well be different areas of the same theme park and they travel just as fast by bicycle or by broom. I would love if we had more interactable means of transportation in game, like the little steam boat in Magnolia Promenade could be used for transport or maybe just for sightseeing, but I don't pretend they use means of transportation that just aren't there.
Haha @ the broom ;) Guess those can be used without a community network and tickets.
I must moderate my original input a bit. My sims will visit a bar or lounge or park etc without a lot of transport logics. They will arrive in a world (in my game they are districts") far away a few minutes after leaving home, even if it's far away. Everyday activities will be less strict, especially if the sort of location only exists one place. I might use this logical thinking more regarding bigger and repete events in life, like getting a job or when picking one of several options. In my game many jobs are tied to specific community lots, and most sims would avoid traveling through the entire nation on a daily basis, but rather get a job closer to home. Train is fine, but airplane seems a bit off 5 days a week, both ways.
I sometimes use the transport map when a household moves, depending on why they move. Or a sim might first look for friends/romances in the same part of the nation where they reside. I have a few private high schools where students can stay at home, so the traveling distance might come into play when picking the school. No rules set in stone, though.
I’m actually glad I don’t have to wait for my sims to get where they’re going. It was a big, time consuming part of TS3 that didn’t really enhance the game, for me.
I just assume human sims have cars, busses, trolleys and boats available, since we see them in the game.
My supernatural sims either teleport, use brooms, fly or use a portal system that connects their lands. The portal system isn’t actually functioning, but it gives the instant travel rationale for everyone in their world.
My main save was about aliens, and their technology is important for the general lore. I decided that the wormhole generator from GW is an alien technology basically allowing for teleportation, so the main mean of transport in that save is (canonically) teleportation :P
Mostly I just teleport my Sims around as I see fit. With the exception of destination worlds of course. But, I played the globetrotter challenge and then you are restricted to a single world for the season. I built a lot of new community lots for that 😂 Moonwood Mill got very tedious, very fast.
But I like the idea of having different regions and grouping worlds together based on scenery/climate. It does make sense. But all travel still takes one loading screen and zero minutes in game. So you'd need to either simulate (like the waiting for the bus mentioned before) or cheat that time.
Before I downloaded a taxi mod, I would make my Sims sit on a bench near the edge of the lot to wait for an imaginary bus that stopped by every half hour (game time). Then I'd press M to bring up the map right on schedule. If they were visiting a world I considered to be very far away, I would make them vacation there for at least a few days.
Sounds fun! Waiting max 30 minutes is not that much. I would have built train stations and bus stops etc in my game if we had more available lots. A bus stop can of course be just a few ground tiles of any community lot.
When I write up what happened in my game today, I most definitely have my Sims using vehicles of one sort or another. Often Erik has a personal Transporter on him so he can go all over the planet to get to his gigs. Otherwise, he uses a Hovercraft. Yes, it's set in the future, as in somewhere in the 23rd Century . . . 😉
I have the worlds loosely organized in my head according to the real life city or country I feel they're inspired by. Each save is different, so time and distance vary with each. Some saves are more reality based and others have little or no connection to the real world. There's always some use of airplanes to reach certain worlds in each save though. And some worlds are always far enough away that it requires staying over since it's not possible to complete a round trip in
I do this too! I don’t have a map or any transport mods, but in my mind I have a rough idea of where all worlds are in relation to each other, so sometimes when I want my sim to go to a world that’s further away from their home lot I’ll make it more of a “day out”, so to speak. Worlds like vacations world or Sulani and Mt. Komorebi are in my mind so far away that usually they’ll only go there on vacation for at least a week.
