^To be fair, I think Life by You did something similar with the delivery vans. Supposedly, they would stop at every home/business that needed delivering and you would be able to switch control to the delivery person who was just another character living in the neighborhood. I imagine other services, public transport, etc would have worked the same way.

It was developed with that mindset of simulating everything in real-time which is awesome on paper. But it was very laggy and we'll never know if it could have been ironed out. I'm just an advocate for a good middle ground closer to Sims 2/3. We didn't have everything simulated in real-time but it did just enough to buy into the world and gave complete freedom to make it all over however you wanted.

Paramaker stream made public!

I like this stream a lot, but I wish we were shown multiple characters being built, from the face and the body to the clothes. They probably wanted to make the stream a bit more interesting, so we got a mushroom outfit, a Y2K outfit etc.

Having said that, the customisation is on spot! There is a colour wheel for everything, even eyelashes (I think). I think some hairstyles can have like a streak in a different colour, which is cool. You can also layer makeup for a more dramatic look. Clothing can also be layered, like a shirt below a jacket. Basically everything that they have shown is there. But, hair physics are still being worked on due to clipping.

I also want a public livestream for the live mode, since that engages people to post about their game. I figured that they really need the publicity, so Paralives doesn't have the same fate as inZOI.

I think there is a live mode stream (multiple actually) and one happening tomorrow for patrons maybe? I'm sure it'll be made public before the release date draws close now that they seem a bit more confident on how things are looking and working. They released information on a new town related system Friday and I can see how much it can be expanded on in the future but will hopefully provide enough to do for most people until then.

Much of the post is off-limits for now but they revealed the public wiki to understand modding in content among other things. It's not complete but seems to be a good start!
https://paralives.wiki.gg/wiki/Portal:Modding_guides

This is really cool! You can create basically anything besides script mods (those are only in consideration). Thank you for sharing this! I would have never looked at the wiki page.

I hadn't seen an actual release date before. The wiki says 25th May.