It was one of those things where we really wanted to focus on what it means to live in a city, day-to-day, why are cities special and different from living in a residential neighborhood in, say, Willow Creek or Oasis Springs. Really, unless you live in like LA or certain parts of New York, you probably donвЂ™t see celebrities too often. Like, I donвЂ™t ever see celebrities in San Francisco, and IвЂ™ve lived here 11 years. The other thing is that, I think celebrity mostly makes sense for the city because itвЂ™s something that weвЂ™ve done in the past for Sims, but I donвЂ™t necessarily it has a whole lot to do with the city per say. We want you to go to the streets and see whatвЂ™s there and just have a lot of fun.вЂ™ So itвЂ™s sort of a mix of those two features. WeвЂ™ve got the вЂ“ weвЂ™ve got weird new characters that walk around, weвЂ™ve got tourists that walk around, and so we have sort of like the bullet point, back-of-the-box features that appear.Д«ut we also just have a lot of subtle gameplay design focused toward вЂWe want you to leave your apartment. We have a new buster stand where you can go out there or we have the electric piano that you can take out. WeвЂ™ve got protests, which supports our new career, which is something you do out on the street. WeвЂ™ve got murals, where you can go sell your graffiti. That was inspired by like artists you see in the city in Paris where theyвЂ™ll be out in the street selling their paintings. We designed the ability to go have a cart where you could sell paintings and crafts and goods. Well, here we designed things like basketball, the basketball court where you can go play on the street. And so the last pack we tried to make sort of a European-style world. And something weвЂ™ve really tried to do better at with The Sims 4 is to better acknowledge and represent the world that is our players. The other thing is weвЂ™re a very global game, and I think something in the past that we havenвЂ™t done as well as move past is the sort of Americana of the game. So it was sort of a mix of something that our fans like, something that was the right place in the ark for the technology, something that spiced up the day-to-day life of our sims, and also something that was a really cool challenge that we thought we could succeed and beat, and all those things aligned and it was just sort of the right play. It didnвЂ™t even really look remotely like a city, and we were sort of вЂ“ we were hoping that we could one-up ourselves, and I really think we did this time. Sims can buy, build in, and sell vacation homes regardless of visa level, as long as they are in the same location as the home.The other thing is that, we were inspired by Late Night, which also happened to be the third expansion for The Sims 3, and it tried to do a city as well, but it didnвЂ™t do a city very well at all. Vacation homes can be used to store relics that have been found during adventures. Sims can buy more than one vacation home at a time however Sims can only live in one vacation home at a time.

As the Sim's visa level increased, more items are unlocked for purchase.ДЇinally, at the third level, Sims can buy a vacation home as their second home. At the first level, Sims will have a benefit of buying items from the special merchant that can be seen wandering around.

Visa levels can do more than just increase the amount of time Sims can spend abroad. The benefits stack from each Sim traveling to a destination, so by having 8 Sims travel with level 3 visa level, each possessing the lifetime reward and certificate, it is possible to have a maximum of 12 + (8 x 3) + (8 x 3) = 60 days of vacation.

Both benefits add additional 3 days to the vacation length. In addition to higher visa level, vacation length can be increased by having the Prepared Traveler lifetime reward and certificate of partnership of specified destination, which can be purchased from the special merchant. Involving a Sim in the culture of a location by completing adventures gains visa points which increase their visa level. A visa indicates a Sim's progress at each exotic location in The Sims 3: World Adventures and provides benefits such as adventure rewards, longer vacation time, and unlocked adventure opportunities.

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