Why are they called "worlds", and not "towns"?

I've always wanted a "world" map. If you don't own the specific pack that has the new area, I imagine the section would have clouds covering it; I don't want a grayed-out section with a lock that disrupts immersion and intrusively encourages the player to buy the DLC to expand the map.

The advantage of this world map is adding a sense of connectedness. For the next-gen Sims game, I hope each neighborhood (e.g Willow Creek) would be in 3D and explorable with a mouse like in Sims 2 and 3. But there would be a loading screen to travel between each neighborhood that is accessed interactively with a rabbit hole train station in each neighborhood. Additionally, I would love a time progression upon arriving in a different neighborhood.

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Could go even more into what a "world" is.

For example the "Rock Music" world. (Fat bottom girls make the rocking world go round) :D The "animal world". The "Arab world", the "western world", the "ancient world", the "vegan world", the "Sims Community" world. ;)

Or if in love, someone could be the 'world' to you.

Many examples. "World" basically means something that is percieved by someone and/or a group.

In "Lord of the Rings", the Hobbits world was their Shire.

"simmerorigin;c-18160736" wrote:


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I like that map

"simmerorigin;c-18160736" wrote:
I've always wanted a "world" map. If you don't own the specific pack that has the new area, I imagine the section would have clouds covering it; I don't want a grayed-out section with a lock that disrupts immersion and intrusively encourages the player to buy the DLC to expand the map.

The advantage of this world map is adding a sense of connectedness. For the next-gen Sims game, I hope each neighborhood (e.g Willow Creek) would be in 3D and explorable with a mouse like in Sims 2 and 3. But there would be a loading screen to travel between each neighborhood that is accessed interactively with a rabbit hole train station in each neighborhood. Additionally, I would love a time progression upon arriving in a different neighborhood.

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I love the map. Also the idea of the clouds covering areas and then as you buy each new pack, an area gets unlocked.

A train station in each town would be good. As long as Sims can go up and buy tickets! Maybe even one train is playable, along the Orient Express theme. ?

Well if each place the sim can travel to is a world, then the entire collection of them must be a galaxy, which explains why they don't use cars - obviously they are travelling in spaceships.

I've come to automatically mentally substitute town/city/village/etc for "world" and think of them as existing in a single Sims 4 World.

"Cybersbe;c-18149415" wrote:
It's an artifact from the Sims 3, which similarly used the term "world".

Admittedly, it made a little more sense there since you couldn't really travel to different towns/cities, whereas in this game the only barrier between a Willow Creek Sim and a day at the beach in Sulani is whether or not you have Island Living.

Yeah but even in Sims 3, I still felt like it should've been called towns/cities. But it is true about not being able to travel.

I have always assumed it's because they are different "worlds" in the travel menu. Separate worlds that you can move to back and forth. I think it kinda fits seeing that they don't have anything in common.

In Sims 3, they were technically cities or suburbs, not necessarily worlds. On the side of the world's name, there was a symbol that represented what type that world was.

Um...I've actually never thought about it before but now that you did I don't know actually why it's like that. I could see like the actual vacation part to be worlds, but not like the normal neighborhoods or towns etc. Probably something they never thought about changing.