So I found this interesting...

So I was watching a new interview video that one of the other forum members posted. And I realized that although there is 5 lots per 5 hoods (not counting the 6th park hood), Ryan also said that the sims will be able to travel between worlds as well instead of having to erase the sims friends and memories to do that. For me that totally amends the fact that there are only going to be 26 lots in the base game.... How do you guys feel though?

I still wish there were more lots plus the traveling feature because how many worlds are there going to be with the base game and i just dont know how this will add up in the future with as any buildings ea like to give us will we have the room to add?

With hopes it was either a misinterpretation or a badly worded way of describing it. If by lots they just mean residential, I may be more content (leaving room for x number of community lots). If not... well let's see.

Maybe they mean as far as the base game goes, there are 5 lots per neighborhood at first, but I am sure there is a minimal amount of empty lots you can add to like in the Sims 3. They said that residential and commercial make up the 5 lots. I would guess with the new building tools there are a lot of empty lots to build on, they probably want to give us plenty of room to try those new tools out!

So I found this tweet .......................................................

Grant Rodiek ‏@SimGuruGrant
@TheSimCommunity Our new engine allows you to live in one world, visit another, and move between worlds. It's so much better.

Does this mean more than one world in the base game, which means more districts to visit and more lots to play

I've been hearing rumours about a second world in the base but didn't the gurus address that somewhere? Not that I can remember what they said for the life of me @___@

In any case, they may just be preparing the travel system for future worlds as well.

Honestly the amount of lots per world doesn't bother me too much, though it entirely depends on how many community lots (outside of those areas I remember mentioned that aren't necessarily lots) there are in one world. If, say, there are 5 community lots per world, that leaves 20 lots for residential, which is enough for me, especially since we can supposedly travel between worlds so easily. If I don't like the community lots in one world, I'll just go to another world. This also depends on how smooth and FAST loading the other world would be...

I just realized as I was typing this, when new expansions come out there's always things like new lots or content. WELL if there's new lots, instead of placing them in our current world we can just travel over to the world that has these new lots. That would definitely save space for more houses. Of course this all depends on if some expansion packs come with new worlds and has those lots in them, which... they better.

I'm super excited for the way we can travel and move between worlds. It's what I wanted back in TS2 and now I can just let my game grow instead of feeling like I have to start all over every time an EP comes out with a new world. I'm super happy about this!

So long as the loading screens don't turn into the nightmarish wait like I remember them to be in the Sims 2 (and eventually the Sims 3, but it was only one loading screen so long as you weren't vacationing a lot or going to the future) I'm okay with the separating.

I'm okay with closed neighbourhoods and more limited lot numbers etc as long as load times don't end up rediculous.