"mimilu04;c-17424108" wrote:
"Camkat;c-17424074" wrote:
For me it's a lot of reasons.
Private servers or games then? Yeah... That MIGHT work, but if you follow EA Help on twitter and see that most games their servers are down and broken dang near every weekend, I have zero trust that they could get it to work for the sims. I have no desire to be like the Fifa and Battlefield fans who can't play their games during peak times, when people have time off to actually want to play their game that they've paid for.
Maybe when people mention private servers they mean LAN (local area server), which is located on one of the players computer who then invites his friends to join. Main advantages: you do not rely on the company's servers and you have total control on who has access your server. Main issues: it requires a very good internet connection and to be a little tech savvy, as you have to deactivate your firewall.
Generally when people talk about private, or dedicated servers it means that the game is hosted on a server that people connect to. The other way you can do it is that the player hosts the game on their own computer, which is common in some FPS games.
I don't think a sims game would be possible for a player to host, because that basically means that the world disappears when the last player is closing the game.
A dedicated server could work, it could be an open environment where players could interact with each other, or it could be a hosted world where players could invite each other.
I think a hosted world sounds like the most reasonable solution, relationships and time would be controlled by the host. Maybe other players could only interact with sims that you do not have as favorites. An open environment would just be restricted or really weird where people would meet with their sims and have relationships with each other.
