Custom neighborhoods can also come with a story made by a player, though the mode doesn't open by default after entering the neighborhood view. When a player chooses a premade neighborhood from the main menu to play in, the player is greeted with the story mode window that introduces the captured lives of every resided family of the hood. Loading screen of a primary neighborhood. There is a technique that makes it possible to have an infinite number of neighborhoods, which involves copying an empty neighborhood folder from the Sims folder in "Program Files" and renaming it "UserData(any # > 8) Magic Town is the only sub-neighborhood that Sims can live in, but its lots must be bought with MagiCoins.Old Town is the originally unseen part of the neighborhood that Sim Lane connects to.Unleashed expands all the neighborhoods in the Sims to include the Old Town residential and community lots.In neighborhoods 3 through 8, Sim Lane will be empty. Every neighborhood has the same layout, but only Neighborhood 1 and Neighborhood 2 have pre-made houses and residents.Neighborhoods 6, 7, and 8 are added in House Party.
Later, these neighborhoods were merged to become EA Land. There were originally twelve neighborhoods in The Sims Online. Main article: Neighborhoods in The Sims Online However, vacationing, traveling to more exotic sub-neighborhoods, generally requires more planning. In most cases, traveling to a sub-neighborhood is as easy as traveling from lot to lot within a neighborhood or sub-neighborhood. The Sims 2 also allows direct travel between sub-neighborhoods that can be reached by taxicab, car, or walking. Households can be moved between different neighborhoods in the same world, or between different worlds, without issue.Īll games allow traveling between a base neighborhood and its sub-neighborhoods. Sims outside the loaded neighborhood can be partially controlled, however. In The Sims 4, Sims can easily travel and move between neighborhoods, but only those Sims in the active neighborhood can be fully controlled. While The Sims 2 allows an inhabited lot to be placed in the Lots and Houses bin, and allows that lot to be placed in a new neighborhood, actually doing that is not recommended, as it damages both neighborhoods if any household members had relationships with, or any sort of memories of, Sims or pets outside the household. Traveling between neighborhoods, in the sense of being able to go from one to another, then return home, is not possible in The Sims or The Sims 2. Visiting another lot in the same neighborhood, or going anywhere outside the neighborhood, brings a loading screen.
This is the same in The Sims 4, but Sims can also travel to public areas in the loaded neighborhood. The player will not see them again until they reappear on the destination lot. The player will see them leave the lot they are on and disappear, after which a loading screen will appear. In The Sims and The Sims 2 Sims travel from one lot to another, with nothing in between. 8 The Sims console games & The Sims Social.