I hope we get open worlds in this game.

"Sarah26Cat;c-18269407" wrote:
I hated rabbitholes in Sims 3 as well. But I loved being able to pop back and forth between my sims on various lots and not have them starting over from being run on automatic. Sims 4 tends to have everyone starving or worse when that happens. Plus it was less emersion breaking not having that screen in between. For Sims 5 I wouldn't mind it if they had several experiences as rabbitholes at first, as long as they build it in such a way that those rabbitholes would eventually disappear. Though EA probably knows their newest competitors have advertised "No Rabbitholes!" Depending on what they have so far, it makes sense for EA to try and replicate this.

You need to enable autonomy. With autonomy on, no one starves, they are very good at taking care of their own needs. As for the rabbitholes, why bother leaving the home lot in the first place? You complain that the loading screen is immersion breaking, but once you load the lot you get a fully playable lot with thigs to do. To me it felt more immersion breaking to go one minute with the car around the neighbourhood only to reach a rabbithole restaurant and then come back. It felt pointless to leave the lot and more like it was a detour from gameplay. The rabbithole theater in TS4 feels the same, you leave the lot only to then wait patiently outside the theater for the movie to finish and get your sim back. The fact is TS3 catered very well to those simmers who don't like leaving their home lot, those simmers that play full house on 64x64 lots and still complain that the lots are too small, but completely ignored simmers that play several households in rotation or those that like and enjoy to use community lots and gameplay.