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.
See this is the thing about the differences in single player Sim games and a multiplayer. I never follow rules in the games. I will call them the univereral rules that dominate time in these games. I think I might be the only player left here who never did.
If it's 3:00 A.M in my games (sort of not possible sometimes in TS3 or TS4 because of designated lot types) If I want my Sim to get up and do homework, they do.
If I want my Sim to go to a community lot and expect it to fill up even if wrong time of day (TS3&TS4) they can in TS1 and TS2.
If I want them to be at the graveyard at midnight, they are.
A multiplayer would have even stricter uninversal rules that dominate time and perhaps even real time like microtransaction and mobile games play. Have to wait a real 24 hours. No thanks. Have to wait until real time 9:00 A.M the next day, no thanks.
If my Sim's energy is enough to get out of bed and go somewhere then I expect these games to behave as TS1 did and Sims be there, because I am god of the world and if I say go somewhere then I expect it to accomodate 'my' Sim and be there.
I really can't stand real time gameplay in many games and why I have rarely bought into them and or bought any add on for them. Real Time is a pain in my opinion. And extremely boring. And even just as bad, limit what time of day my Sims can get out and enjoy a lot because oh, look, it's after 2:00 A.M. it's closed....boring. Nothing to do but go back home, no that's not sandbox in my opinion but too much reality and limiting players to play a developer game rather than their own imagination. It's why 1 and 2 are built the way they are, to allow players to play whatever they can dream up at any time of day they want it to be in their heads. Just imagine, you are awake and log on to your game, it's 2:00 A.M real time in your time zone, and the place you wanted to send your Sims (server world) is closed....noooooo, I can't support any games that do that, not even TS3 or TS4.
