Well, that was what Graham just explained lol. The whole point he made is that no, you don't have to face two loading screens. You go to the map, click the gym, and it will load the new neighborhood (district) with the gym as the "active" lot. One loading screen. To switch to another active lot within that neighborhood, or two switch to an active lot in another neighborhood...you still face one loading screen.

This. Thousand times. Please release a video of the actual gameplay and give us hope!

No. My understanding is that this idea is actually what Graham is trying to clarify.

If you're in Neighborhood A, and want to visit Bella and Mort in Neighborhood B, you don't have to load Neighborhood B and the Goth house separately. Instead it loads up Neighborhood B and the Goth house at the same time. Not sure if you just "pop" to in front of their house a la The Sims 2, considering the environment of the Neighborhood is always open. Can't say for sure though.

The Sims 2 had almost the same system. You would go to a different neighbourhood (Blue Water as example) and it would load the neighbourhood Blue water and the active lot back to back. Its actually one load screen then...

Ikr!? I don't understand why it's so difficult to make little developer diaries or gameplay demos or something! They are so secretive, but we are DYING for info! Explaining things like the closed world just makes it sound terrible...if it really works well in the game, then make a quick video to show off how it works! Literally take FIVE minutes and just record the screen while someone is playing!

And instead of "no comment" when people ask about pools, why don't they just say, "Honestly, we are having issues implementing it. Right now it's really unstable and buggy and we don't want to make any promises because it might not end up in the base game." I would have sooo much respect for them for being honest!

Just to add MaxBacon, you will never load to a neighborhood, you will always chose what lot you want to visit and if you want to roam the neighborhood, you do it from that chosen lot. That is the public spaces, they don't need loading.

Yup @Wedry that's the doubt for now, if i grab my car to vist the Gym i want to see my Sim to actual drive the car till there, and not just appear there after the loading screen, so there is some actual sense on have transports (if there are transports).

Also the tram we saw on the videos i'm wondering now if there is actual usage of it to travel to places... Or if it's just a visual thing to make world feel pretty.

Because a lot of people would say, "things being unstable and buggy never stopped you putting them in the game before".

I disagree that morale is low. It's much better than it was immediately after E3 ended but before SimGuruGraham started giving out more information. I'm personally someone who never bought TS3 and figured TS4 would be more of the same, but I'm much more intrigued than I was last week.

Lmao I mean...true. People always have snarky comments to make, but the community response can't be worse than when they say "no comment" to everything!

Maybe pools are not supposed to be in the base game from the start.
I think Pools are one of the things they did from TS3 base game to make one "Seasons" expansion with one big-summer hit new feature: Pools

If you think well, i guess it makes sense. Also Seasons must be some of the first expansions to be added to the game, it does have one amazing effect on the game, on TS3 i could not see myself playing without Seasons after it launched.

I always get dozens of asks a day on Tumblr with general questions about TS4 and what we know about it. Since E3, however, I've gotten two types of asks:

1) People who are depressed about loading screens in TS4
2) People who are confused about how the closed neighborhood works

Before E3 we knew almost everything we know now, except for the loading screen/closed neighborhoods jazz. And everything we know about that seems to be changing hourly. Graham posts on here to clarify, but he's already explained it so many times in so many ways that people are just confused and what they know is all over the place. I think that we went from disappointment (end of E3) to confusion and panic (now).

Lordy, it's only been a couple of days since this:

http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...830#post4409830

I think the tram definitely has an use. I actually theorize it will play a big role in traveling to different roles. Having just for decoration public transit would just be so disingenuous, if that makes sense.
Also sorry for being the 85th person to answer your question, I didn't see other people had replied.

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I think morale is also going to be low at pre release for games like these. People invest a lot of time and energy and creativity into The Sims, and it's hard to move from one game to another. I have a feeling morale will skyrocket when they release a real gameplay video, but until then, ambiguity leads to a lot of negativity and apprehension.

Apprehension is the word of the moment.
As far i'm understanding how it's going to work as just explained, only with that gameplay video (seems a mirage) that actually shows all this in action all this madness inside my head will clear up and close this topic for me, what no post from gurus seems to be able to do till now.

I'm not getting that. I'm getting a lot of excitement in general, a gazillion Mac questions because they want it but have a Mac and a few people who are very vocal in their dislike/disappointment. I personally have reservations but I honestly don't think those are shared by the majority.

Hmmm...maybe my blog attracts negative fans because I'm an extremely negative person...lol.

Maybe we can take the train and visit other worlds? How cool would that be?

This left me CTFU! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1...eature=youtu.be
SIMS 4 DAT @$$ PARODY Trailer of Create-A-Sim!

It's a tram! Not supposed to travel great distances!
Trams are used on my city as a traditional to get around the center of the city (where cars a not allowed) and tourists take pics.

Why are they called worlds? They are not worlds. They are just towns/cities. Worlds are places like Twilight Town, Castle Oblivion, etc. from Kingdom hearts.

it is confirmed that you can go from one world to another (when we get another one or another one is announced). Possibly by tram, but maybe by boat.. or just regular old car.

Their choice of words is so confusing, especially if all "worlds" are connected this time around. Why not just call them towns?

I guess they wanted to make the transition from TS3 to TS4 easy, but.. something got lost in the process.

So...Ryan's having an affair with Bella Goth!?