Could you explain in more detail, why you chose to NOT allow players (aka your customers, the ones who actually spent their money on the game and/or packs) to create our own apartments?
This game is NOT online, it does NOT use EA's servers, it is completely dependent on the player's own hardware, so therefore the excuse that was explained by a guru years ago regarding the design choice of apartments doesn't fly. He stated that if a player made a 5 story tall building with a 100 windows the game would take a performance hit.
Why can't we, as the player (who knows better than anyone how our own systems perform and what capabilities we personally have) be the one who decides what is too taxing for our system and if what we do in our game, makes the game take a performance hit then we know we need to scale it back.
Why did you force this restriction on us?
I would also like to know the reasoning why you also took away the ability to alter the neighborhoods? I personally hate the fake buildings and it ruins many of my own design choices and creativity because I can't change the world to how I want them look, and I'm stuck "Playing With Life" in a world YOU, as game designers, determined I should.
An explanation of these few things would help make me not be so resentful of how TS4 has taken so much creativity away from the players who paid money for this game.
EA Staff (Retired)