Me, personally, I don't consider the fact that some things were built pre-mesh, even pre-sculpt, to automatically disqualify them as unrealistic, or badly built, etc. If exploration is your only goal here, it's a good starting off point, if only due to the fact that it has them all categorized and saves you the trouble of using search lol. I don't recommend checking out the destination guide often, in fact, it's a pretty rare thing for me to do, BUT, if you're not looking to hang out with other people, you can actually find more places to visit(albeit it mostly empty places) that are quite lovely builds. Take the Grand Canyon sim(s) for example.much of what one can find there may be considered 'outdated' by some, but I rather enjoy the builds, the sim(s) as a whole, versus simply looking at one thing and thinking 'oh, that's a regular prim/sculpt, it's outdated'. But I can enjoy the whole pie versus simply a piece of it, so that might play a large role in my opinion. Not only due to personal taste/opinion, but also personal hardware used to see/visit/whatever Whether or not they are well done by your specific standards, however, is subjective as all get out.

There are loads of sims that are designed to replicate 'reality', or rather 'things/places you find in real life'-in fact, most probably fall under that umbrella. It depends on your definition of realistic, I suppose, as Chin stated above.

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