The TS3 open world was nice because if you left some sims at home while you sent other sims to a community lot, you could maintain control of everyone at once.
In TS4, if I have one sim writing a book and another sim gets invited out, I wish that writer would just keep writing until done and then see to their own needs while the other sim is away from the lot. But no. All home activities stop and you can direct them in some ways from the outside, but it’s frustrating when you had already set up their tasks and the same ones aren’t available.
I like TS4 neighborhoods with common areas, it would just be nice to have editing capabilities for these areas, or one community lot (that could be edited) opened up within that neighborhood in addition to whichever household you have loaded.
