Do you prefer open world or open lots?

I like both. I don't want every lot to be a rabbit hole but I like the ability to travel between places without a loading screen for every single transfer. I would be happy if the lots in each neighborhood were "open world" meaning I wouldn't need a loading screen to visit a friend's apartment or karaoke place in City Living, for example. If loading screens were required to travel to different neighborhoods would be fine with me. It's too restricted at the moment, for me.

Voted open lots since I don't have the faith in them building a future sims game on anything other than dx9 which is not suited for open world simulation. Open lots is fine for me, a large enough neighnourhood with lots open is enough for me to be immersed.

Open neighbourhood. Kind of halfway between TS3 and what we have now with 4.

Open world was pretty cool but it was a lag fest if you played a save for too long. Also sims could get stuck and good luck trying to find them to fix it. Everywhere you went seemed pretty empty too unless you added enough sims and made your lag worse.
I like how it is now except for the load screens between things I can see (like my neighbour's house). If they could open that up, and keep it running smooth, I'd be good with that. I like how alive everything feels now too and seeing sims when I go places. Even with the few load screens, with my laptop, they never take more than 10 seconds. Small price to pay for a smoother running experience. ;)

Really, I prefer TS4's open lots to TS3's open worlds, but that's only because of how the open worlds and story progression work together to make setting up a big, multi-household storyline basically impossible (I like my grand, multi-household stories). What I would REALLY love, though, is a better away system for TS4 and in a future game, a system that allows you to seamlessly swap between sims in different households with minimal or no loading to coordinate important story events more efficiently. Now THAT would make the game world feel more open to me.

Open lots. I prefer not having open worlds, but if we were to get it, it owuldn't be a huge deal breaker for me, as I don't hate the feature either, just prefer it the way it is now. I like the idea of open lots though a lot.

I really like open worlds, but it was just so rough in ts3 especially with an older computer. I don't know enough about computers to know how/if it could be better now. But even without that, I don't want to be limited to a single large world with a single landscape. I like the varying climes and regions neighborhoods give, but dislike having to travel to every lot in my neighborhood, especially one right down the street. Thus, I'm an advocate of the open neighborhood idea (not my own idea, saw it somewhere else on the forum but it's good and don't want to take credit). That way your entire neighborhood is open and easy to travel, while you only have a load screen for a completely different area, which makes sense to me.

I don't think what we have now in TS4 is open enough--like how you can walk all the streets in the get together world but have to travel to the pub right down the lane by that small lot. That's annoying.

I prefer something in-between. I like open lots because that's a lot less laggy and not as slow. but when your sim leaves the lot that's when it should load the openworld cell, which yeah will be slower but totally worth it. then when you enter a different lot, you go back to open lots again. Anyway that's what most other games are doing rn. And it makes a very good illusion in spite of the low LODS requirement.

I don't need open worlds. I'll play with them but when the loading screens are fast, I don't mind them or find them to break immersion for me.

I would like it if we would see neighbors walking around their yards but I'm ok with seeing them walk along outside.

Having the different worlds is more important than having an open world for me.

i guess for me i prefer the open lots and the going to different worlds. however i feel like the neighborhoods themselves would be better open since everything is pretty much loaded anyway and cuz id like to be able to go next door without a loading screen. so in a way something a bit more open but not open like the sims 3 because that was to laggy and not many sims in the lots.

Open world because I prefer it that way.