@SheriGR, I could be wrong, but I don't remember TS1 having Terrain Tools! 🤨 I thought they were introduced with TS2. 🤔
Also, while I did love TS3, I too never understood the hype. I thought the gameplay in TS2 was much better! ❤️ The absolute best thing about TS3 IMHO was the CASt color/pattern wheel! 🥳 TS3 was the first time I didn't want to play a Sims game 20 hours straight! 😃 ( I think this is how many people feel about TS4.) But it was extremely difficult to get me to stop playing or talking about TS1 and TS2! 😳:eahigh_file: (TS2 was the best for telling stories!) I felt that TS3 was empty by comparison, but still a great game. But as I added more packs to TS3 and more colors and patterns to it as well, it became almost unplayable. Most people would have given up on it if they played it on my computer. Ideally I wish we could have bits of each version of the Sims, and no computer lag! So I understand how Ts3 never stuck with you.
As for lot sizes, I don't remember how big the lots were in TS2, but I think in TS3 you could pick any size lot that you had room for, which is why they might have seemed bigger (that is if you usually picked bigger lots to place and play!) 😉
While I agree that the Terrain Tools will be better utilized on larger lots, I think a lot of talented people will still be able to make good use of them on the smaller ones! 😎 I don't worry too much about how many large lots there are in my game since most of my families reside in their own Save Game! I have a lot of save games! 😳 This started when I didn't like the idea of my families aging or moving or dying when I was playing a different family. 😬😢 I wanted to be able to play with all the Sims I made, or all that Maxis had made, or all that I had downloaded. So I just make a new family and they have their own save. Sometimes I do put other families in their world, either for a story, and experiment, or for variety, but each save is primarily devoted to a certain family. 😇 This way I never worry about not having any more large lots, and I can also test out a lot of wonderful houses and other buildings from the Gallery! 🥳 I realize not everyone can or wants to play in this way, so I hope for everybody else's sake EA includes several larger lots in the future! 🙂
And while we aren't' able to make a true split level house yet, these terrain tools are a definite step in the right direction! ❤️ I think this is going to be a very exciting update/patch! 🥳
