More lots

@AndyZhang2896, like @SheriGR  said, I don't know how many of your ideas would be feasible.  But I do know that a lot of people have stated that they had wished that both Brindleton Bay (Cats & Dogs EP) and Del Sol Valley (Get Famous EP) had had beaches that were usable! This was wished for even before Island Living, and of course after it! 

And you're right, apartments would be the hardest.  San Myshuno is distinct because of the apartments there, so adding them elsewhere makes City Living not as unique. ☹️

And you are also right in that most people Download houses from the Gallery or build there own to replace the Maxis-made ones they don't' like.  Mostly I just change the colors of the furniture , walls, and floors, and ad some clutter.  But there are even people on You Tube who demonstrate how they improve the original Maxis houses! 😎

Love the picture!  Can you tell us where this is ...the color of the water and the style of the houses remind me of Florida. 🥳

@SqueamishNerd  Yeah, I think that is what @SheriGR mean, turning the faux houses into actual editable lots.

@PugLove888 What @SheriGR say probably true, altering existing editable lots may mess up that lots, so this means 20x20 national park in Del Sol Valley can't be enlarged. But I think adding new lots to existing world won't do much harm. Every existing house will stay the same with new lots added around them. But I'm not a programmer and I don't know if that is possible. It's more possible to add totally new world with empty lots like Newcrest tho, than fixing the existing world as you guys said.

I took it from Google and yes, it says it's on Florida!

@AndyZhang2896, yes, I'm not a programmer either, but like you said, I think sometimes it is easier to just start anew and make a separate town/neighborhood/world, than it would be to alter an existing one.  That way you at least don't have to worry about messing up any existing lots, and you can also get more lots with a new town as well! :eahigh_file:  I don't know if our assumptions are correct about this, but either way it would be nice to have more lots. 😉

Thanks for telling us about the picture! 😇  I've only been to Florida twice, once to Orlando and once to the Keys... This pic especially reminded me of the Keys and driving from them through Miami and to Ft. Lauderdale!  The Florida Keys are wonderful! ❤️

@SqueamishNerd  I ever heard that. A small world for the sake of performance, but somehow I find this illogical. They should have improved the performance instead of minimizing the world. I think that excuse is just too bad. I can't imagine all of the future packs have less content, fewer lots, reduced quality for the sake of performance.

They have made the world not open, and that's okay. Many say TS3 is unplayable because of open-world (I can't relate because I'm a new sims player and didn't own TS3 EP). And now a smaller world? color wheel is gone. What's next? 😞

I think TS4 need to do a survey, to see their demography, what computer specification majority have. It's good that TS4 can run on lower specs computer, many people can play it, but that good thing doesn't come without a price (smaller worlds, less content, etc).

@SqueamishNerdIn TS3, can you travel from Sunset Valley to another world (let's say, Isla Paradiso)? I never have EP in TS3 so I don't know.
If can't, then I prefer TS4 over TS3 even at the cost of open-world. It will be pretty boring living in Isla Paradiso forever and if wanted to live in another world, need to start a completely new game. Big nope.

I hope they update the map too. I want to see a more lively Starlight Boulevard. The one we have now feel so bland and dead. The Pinnacles also looks flat, and bare without tree, but when we enter into the live mode, The Pinnacles isn't flat, Bailey-Moon Manor is on lower terrain than Chateau Peak, the surrounding also full of trees and beautiful. I don't think updating maps will put a weight in the game especially it's a 2 dimension image.

Another interesting thing to add is the map will change depending on the season (this mean TS4 Team need to create 4 maps for each world). And would be better again if the maps also look different depending on the weather (rain, sunny, thunderstorm, blizzard, etc), this means far more maps for a single world.

Oh, and we will know immediately what the weather is from the map without going into live mode!

@AndyZhang2896I also hope that they will make so that you don’t have to have a loading screen in the same neighbourhood, or at least that if you go from one house to another, in the same neighbourhood, the first house is still loaded. I wonder why that’s not the case, because now it seems like the whole neighbourhood is loaded again when going from one house to another house in the same neighbourhood.