"sunblond;c-17253924" wrote:
I've seen saves on Mod the Sims or Tumblr that were blank.
Yeah, here is one.
http://modthesims.info/d/629606/world-of-wips-all-neighbourhoods-bulldozed.html
Again, the point is that I shouldn't need to either make or download and maintain a blank reserve save (which, if downloaded, will require additional work to install so that the save number doesn't conflict with my existing game saves). There should be options to decide how full or empty my game is when I start out...or, as @Cinebar said, at least bring the bulldoze button back to the lot menu in "Manage Worlds" so cleaning up unwanted pre-made builds isn't so tedious.
With the sizes of newer worlds shrinking and larger lots being both rarer and more likely to end up pre-built and pre-occupied, the problem of pre-made clutter is just becoming more and more pronounced. Having no Create-A-World and worlds with fixed lot sizes and placements has actually done more to make TS4 feel claustrophobic than the lack of open world ever did, because not only are your stuck playing in a world that someone else already built and populated, but you can't even add more lots to it of your preferred size like you can with the pre-built worlds in TS2 and TS3. It puts world creators like me in a "cursed if you do, cursed if you don't" situation where a reserve save ends up being too high maintenance (every time you get a new pack with a world, it's time for evictions and bulldozing again...which is tedious...plus, again, the extra mindful saving and the save file renaming you have to do for installing someone else's save from the internet), but starting a new save normally leaves you with the same horrible tiny lots to start out with and the trouble of plopping your sims on a blank/cheap lot and cheat coding/delete and bulldozing your way onto a good lot because the devs hog all the good spots with their pre-made content. Newcrest is the exception, but it's one world, one environment type, the only one that comes clean...
Really, is wanting to start my game with clean worlds at the touch of a button instead of having to do extra manual save manipulation and maintenance so wrong? So unreasonable?
