“Feedback on Reddit Q&A: Keep inZOI Open World”

I don’t want to see any loading screens either. I already find it slightly annoying we sometimes get a loading screen when switching between two zois at different lots. That’s the maximum amount of loading screen I am willing to take.

It’s not even about the loading screen or 2 seconds of waiting for me. It’s about the nature of an ‘instanced’ lot. Instanced lots only function when you’re there with your camera and zoi. Meaning that if you go out of it because you want to control another zoi in your household that is back home or somewhere else in the world, you’ll leave the instanced lot and it will most likely become ‘frozen’ or rabbithole-esque until you go back there again. This is a nightmare for anyone who wants to seamlessly control multiple zois that are in different places in town.

Please look to Sims 3 for inspiration instead. Sims 3 has many features that make it so the entire city isn’t fully simulated at once, but it still feels like a seamless open world experience. I can send one Sim to the park and the other sim to the café and only those two lots will be fully loaded and simulated in while the rest is in a partially-loaded (low-render) stand-by mode. Please look into solutions like that instead of instanced lots hidden behind loading screens!

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