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Fluteline24
5 years agoSeasoned Ace
"ClarionOfJoy;c-17458241" wrote:"PlayerSinger2010;c-17452797" wrote:
I don't want to be stuck in the same world. Being able to travel from Sulani to San Myshuno is amazing to me and I would hate to go back and be stuck in JUST Sunset Valley (unless you want to erase everything about your Sims relationships) for eternity.
In TS4, since the neighborhoods are so small with only a few lots and a only a few things to do in each, you would HAVE to go neighborhood jumping. Also I wouldn't even call it "traveling" in TS4. You just disappear off-screen in one world and pop up in the next after a loading screen. Pretty boring.
Since TS4 simmers keep lying about TS3, I don't mind telling the truth about it. Even without mods, your sims can still go to France, Egypt, China, the university town, and three versions of the future world, Oasis Landing. And there is actually a way to go other worlds besides those without a mod. With the Traveler mod, it's even easier to go to all the HUNDREDS of TS3 worlds made by Maxis and TS3 fans.
But I want to go on a different angle from what I've written before concerning worlds. One of the greatest features of TS3 is that almost everything can be customized and you can create your own worlds. So let's take the basegame's own world, Sunset Valley. Because of TS3's powerful editing and creation tools, Sunset Valley can be totally renovated.
Sunset Valley
(basegame original world)
https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/screenshots/sunsetvalleyview.jpg
Here are some examples of TS3 simmers' work on this world....
New Sunset Valley 2013
by SimFans.de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGkP-8lJunQ
This renovation of Sunset Valley is pretty amazing, because not only did they add new lots and added all the features from all EPs (including my favorite - diving lots!!!), they added new terrain and islands!!! I freaking love this world!
Here are more great versions of Sunset Valley....
2016 Sunset Valley
by Tunzz
(Sunset Valley "city-fied")
https://i2.wp.com/thesimscatalog.com/sims3/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screenshot-7-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C578&ssl=1
Sunset Valley Makeover
by Mark Connor
(Sunset Valley modernized)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kGiwzWcrNQE/UksB5wc7CyI/AAAAAAAEIVA/qv8XAY8RJQg/s1600/Screenshot-5.jpg
Sunset Valley 2020
by Jaga Telesin, MrsFlynn, FlynnArrowstarr
(Sunset Valley optimized, with all EPs, including diving lots!!!!)
https://www.sunset-valley-2020.com/images/bagallery/gallery-2/watermark/Screenshot-38.jpg
So even if you don't want your sims to go anywhere else, you can still do pretty amazing things with just one world to make it totally different in so many ways, making it fresh again. This is why so many people love this game and still play it after all these years.
Can you do that with TS4?, That's a big, fat NOPE!!! Lol!
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This is what I want for TS5 - to make everything customizable so that people can be as creative as they can be and even more so than with TS3. Why would I want TS5 to be anything like TS4 that wouldn't allow you this much creative freedom????
Cool, but I don't want to be stuck in the same world for all time, point blank period. Yes I want worlds to be bigger. Yes, I want worlds to be customiziable. But for the love of God, don't trap me there for all time. Let my sims go to San Myshuno for GeekCon if they live in Newcrest. Let them go live in Sulani if they're tired of the cold and snow.
But don't erase everything I've built for them like in Sims 3.
That is why I prefer Sims 4 over Sims 3.