New playground equipment requirements (6) are too high

I decided to make a playground, and am disappointed that the treehouse and kiddie pool don't qualify as playground equipment.

That is  a silly requirement. They should either reduce the number of required equipment to 2, or add some more basegame playground equipment. I hate it when they require lots of same type of objects for a lot to function. Let the player decide if they want more pirate ships or monkey bars or chairs on the lot. As it is it's not even possible to fit all of them on the 20x20 lot. 

Here's my playground.  As it's right by the monkey bars and jungle gym  in Newcrest I decided not to include those in my design.

The building at the top right of the screen has a changing/potty area for toddlers, as well as a soft drinks station and the pumpkin candy bowl.  I need to have sims build the treehouse.

I definitely need to do more landscaping with it but I'm out of ideas right now.

Finally have a functioning Playground, but there's not much activity. Kids and toddlers show up play by themselves and leave. Haven't seen any interactions between kids or toddlers. The Chaperone just sits on a bench. The only activity is initiated by my Sims. 

The lots has the Friendly to Cats and Dogs lot trait, but no pets or owners show up.

It's used to be a nice Park. Lots of activity. I'll play around more, but so far it's just a Zombie Kid's Playground.

I made a bug report if anyone else is seeing this: [CD] Playground lot doesn't get cats/dogs with lot trait or teens/adults | EA Forums - 12612774

Update: After playing around with Playgrounds 😉. I'm leaning towards they're working as intended. That they're meant to be just for kids and toddlers plus a Chaperone. On a smaller (20x30) lot things look busier. Not a whole lot of interaction between kids except as initiated by my sim, but maybe that's how it's supposed to be. 🤷‍♀️

my solution to this is same as stupid tv in bars.. i have small basement without acces and toss all in there🫠 now im free to build what I actually liked. 

Lovely looking playgrounds here!!!

I wish more venues worked like Wedding venues, only having one mandatory object and the rest being "suggested" (so they're still functional and can be found easily but with more flexibility). Why do I need a chess table in a park? Or a TV in a bar? It's really not that difficult: 

• Park: trees, possibly a bench
• Bar: A bar
• Nightclub: A dancefloor & a stereo or DJ booth (would require a base game dance floor)
• Pool: A pool
• Playground: 1 piece of playground equipment, and obviously kiddie pools, treehouses, marble pits and hopscotch should be included in that definition. And a few new basegame playground equipment added. 

I think it will probably make more sense when the EP comes out. 

But a basegame venue shouldn't have to rely on a pack to make sense. Then it should be locked in the pack. As soon as you move something into basegame, then it needs to be functional even if you only have the basegame. 

I hope this gets addressed soon because it's was such a miss. And even announcing it with a BG #playground build event to protect it. Will there be anything changing with the 23rd console update now and the launch of the child focused event starting the 23rd too?? Or will it stay like that till the Oct 2 update after the EP launch??

Solution could be adding 2 more playground items (1 swingset at bare minimum atp as SDX would be perfect) to the base game as a gesture to redeem the oversight and reducing the # of equip needed to 4 (instead of just going down to 1-2 and keeping the base game so empty while selling and promoting the new EP playground builds).

Players can still have purchased a number of game packs and stuff packs and still not meet the 6 requirement. Players need to purchase a full Expansion (or expansions) to get the needed playground equipment. Specifically, the EP you're selling Oct.2 will have enough though.

That's what makes this new feature "BG update" playground venue that requires 6 equipment so disappointing. It never did have BG in mind.

Please address this and make right! Hope to hear something soon! 

PS4: ROM GP, Spooky SP, Paranormal SP, Waterslide SP 

Good idea.