Why MultiPlayer Won't Work
These are my musings, thoughts, observations after being a part of this community for more than twenty years. I will start with the example of the player who says they never build anything, so a s...
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"Idontrcall;c-17421748" wrote:
How does time work in multiplayer? Like if I had a sim and they were sleeping, but other players were awake, would I just have nothing to do unless I woke my sim up? I don't think I could fast forward through the sleep because that would interfere with the other players. I have no real experience in games like this, so I don't know if there is a workaround.
There is none. You are trapped in the given world. It the online multiplayer I tried your sim is just an entity roaming the countryside/town looking for things to do. There was no such thing as 'needs' of any sort. Sometimes you needed to form some sort of partnership with another player to get something done, or that other player approached you for that purpose. For all practical purposes you are merely one more puppet in a world full of them.
