Unpopular opinions?

"stilljustme2;c-16660120" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16658556" wrote:

"Huiiie_07;c-16658091" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16658036" wrote:
I’m really glad not missing open world is considered an unpopular opinion! Hope to see it return in a successor.

(this topic already exists by the way)

Just a totally off topic question @JoAnne65, but how do you post a link with your own text like you did in your post? I looked everywhere for this option but I have no clue how to do it :D

As for open world, I hope they make open neighborhoods/districts (bigger than those in TS4) in the next game, that's a piece of everyone's cake. Good for those who don't want an open world for various reasons, and a good alternative for those who want an open world.

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I’m sure I could live with some sort of a compromise tbh, what they did with Selvadorada already made me so happy. All I really need is an actual map and larger open neighborhoods with functional roads (I love the travellng with cars, bikes, broomsticks, whatever ;)). I realized this when I was playing in Bridgeport (Sims 4 had just been released). My sim was in the hills, the rich area, and he was looking at the city at the other side of the river. Then I instructed him to walk downtown (he was a homeless so I didn’t allow him to take a cab) and instead of crossing the bridge, he autonomously took the subway which is a loading screen. Then I realized I could perfectly live with that, a world divided in smaller sections, seperated by a loading screen.

I’m not bothered by loading screens by the way, that’s not the reason I regret the Sims 4 set up of neighborhoods. I’m bothered by the lack of cohesion and the fact sims in my household are uncontrollable when at the other side of a loading screen. Being able to give them instructions - basic ones like do your homework, play the guitar, eat, go to bed - already would make a difference to me. So that compromise also would have to contain that.

You can use Care for Self which supposedly means they'll eat, use the bathroom and such. Or you can have them build a skill that they already have a few skill points in but haven't maxed out. I have a few lots that have skill building items on the lot -- my Arts and Science Center in Newcrest has pretty much everything -- and I like taking several members of my household there at once. It even has a toddler/child playroom so you can take the younger folks. With everyone on the same lot you can easily switch between Sims, so a couple could be playing chess or using the observatories, someone else could be playing instruments, or on the computers in the computer lab, or working on their painting, etc. It even has a fully built and upgraded rocket ship.

That sounds like a clever solution, building places where there’s something to do for everyone but for me that’s not more than that: a solution. I don’t want to travel around with the entire household all the time. I dislike it I am not able to send the kids to bed when I’m somewhere out with my sim while they were at school all day or make them do homework. Or did they improve that, will they do that as well now? I’ve played with just one sim ever since I found out how it works in Sims 4, which means any changes and improvements will go unnoticed by me. I really hope a potential successor ( :sweat_smile: ), if not having real open world, at least has such a more flexible and intuitive system to switch between different sims in your household and make them do things, also off screen. Like how it works in Freeplay.