The whole neighborhood simulates at once!

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In The Sims 3, you still control only a single household at a time, but your neighbors advance, change, get new jobs, develop relationships, and otherwise advance alongside you -- whether you're paying attention or not. A downtown area with places to eat, shop, and work (think: bookstore, park, clothing store, movie theater, bistro) offers a central hub for socialization, though at launch (EA's targeting 2009) some buildings may be little more than facades. Sims may be able to enter a clothing store, for example, but players won't be able to follow -- that's one possible area for growth in the inevitable expansion packs.

Plusses: Allowing your Sims meaningful interaction outside of their terrarium throws some welcome chaos into what used to be a closed, controlled system. Running into an ex-husband at the movie theater with his new wife -- that's definitely something new and different and way more "human." We're also psyched for the ant-farm aspect: catching the A.I. inhabitants doing strange and unexpected things during your Sims' day-to-day downtime.

Possible Pitfalls: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around, does it make a sound? Or -- if you don't catch my drift -- if an A.I. Sim gardener falls in love with the A.I. pizza delivery boy and sets up a picnic outside the science lab, does it even matter if I don't see it happening? Keep in mind that the cost of such complexity will no doubt be incurred in system requirements. There's a reason they haven't done this before.


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[RoyalT]

Wow.

Thanks for the info! O:

[simmy_sunny]

that was interesting thanx for the info amazing how these websites have found out so much already!

[mamaha]

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[Charmedangel4543]

I think its good
THey have to update the game in a major way
and this definatley qualifies

[SimsFreak]

i am kind of worried about that, because i like to work on one family and then go and play on another, sometimes there'll be something that i want to happen later, so i just go on later and have it happen...
it is kind of good too, because i know that when i have a teenager and she is in a relationship with a boy and then she grows up but then i have to go on his family and play on his family until he grows up...
Thank God, though i have the inteenimater (which allows teens to dao adult relationship things) and aging cheats, so i can just tell him to grow up then...but it would be for the better and worst for towns to have simultaneous aging...

[Charmedangel4543]

(25-03-2008 03:09 AM)SimsFreak link Wrote:i am kind of worried about that, because i like to work on one family and then go and play on another, sometimes there'll be something that i want to happen later, so i just go on later and have it happen...
it is kind of good too, because i know that when i have a teenager and she is in a relationship with a boy and then she grows up but then i have to go on his family and play on his family until he grows up...
Thank God, though i have the inteenimater (which allows teens to dao adult relationship things) and aging cheats, so i can just tell him to grow up then...but it would be for the better and worst for towns to have simultaneous aging...

exactley how i feel

[banawa848]

NICE!!  :-*

[elm1230]

(25-03-2008 03:10 AM)Charmedangel4543 link Wrote:[quote author=SimsFreak link=topic=1116.msg21936#msg21936 date=1206410962]
i am kind of worried about that, because i like to work on one family and then go and play on another, sometimes there'll be something that i want to happen later, so i just go on later and have it happen...
it is kind of good too, because i know that when i have a teenager and she is in a relationship with a boy and then she grows up but then i have to go on his family and play on his family until he grows up...
Thank God, though i have the inteenimater (which allows teens to dao adult relationship things) and aging cheats, so i can just tell him to grow up then...but it would be for the better and worst for towns to have simultaneous aging...

exactley how i feel
[/quote]Um...just focus on your sims since they'll have there own lives.I think it's good like the real world.

[Truswagga]

that is personally my favorite feature. Did you notice that townies never willingly woohoo, make-out, or even flirt! I couldn't be a townie i would be bored to death!