I WILL NOT PURCHASE SIMS 5 IF…
Sims 4 is not completed. & if Sims 5 has less realism. I will be done purchasing the game and it’s packs if EA continues to ignore the sims community then I will continue to ignore their trash files �...
Forum Discussion
"simmerorigin;c-18198575" wrote:
Going off your first point, it's important for everyone to understand that the technology of preloading sections of an open world map and then loading another section as your character travels across an invisible boundary is pretty old. It's widely used in open world games to have a massive open world map but only simulate and process the relevant section that your character is in. Sims 5 Rene needs to do this rather than the Sims 3 method of trying to simulate everything at once, a method that is NOT optimized in the slightest and limits the total number of Sims that can exist in the town.
Oh I'm perfectly ok with only the immediate area that my sim is in being "open". I don't need the ENTIRE WORLD to be open and active when I can't even see what's going on. And I don't even mind hitting a loading screen when jumping to a new "area" that's across the current world, such as the island in Windingburg where a loading screen makes sense because there's no road that you could imagine your sim drove there on (in my head I would imagine they took a boat to the island or hopped on a plane and that's why there's a loading screen), But when I'm on that Island, I should be able to freely walk and enter any lot within that area without hitting a loading screen until I travel out of that area. So a loading screen for that is fine. But what is totally 100% immersion breaking for me personally, is hitting a loading screen to literally walk 5 tiles away to enter the next building, so close you would not "driving" to that area.
THAT's what I thought TS4's "open neighborhoods" were going to be like.
I want to see my neighbors doing stuff at their house! Not just joggers or random people walking by. I want to see my neighbor sims "doing stuff" ... Getting thier mail, enjoying their pool, kids playing on the swingset in the backyard, neighbors coming home from work and walking up their front door, neighbors outside raking leaves, working in their garden, shoveling snow. Neighbors conversing with other neighbors outside.
I hate how every single lot in TS4 feels like it's separate world that is the only place that's alive.
