Del Sol Valley

Same here. :(

I do like the world but it really does not have enough Lot space.

I am playing a couple who live in the poorer area and they split up - I was moving the ex-husband to a new home and wanted him to stay in this world, which gave me a choice of two Lots, one was already occupied and the other he couldn't afford.

I agree for an pack like this one it should have a lot of lots to work with even as an static neighborhood. However, EA/Maxis has disappointed many customers, looking at CL and what many thought EA/Maxis would provide us with the ability to build apts and also in other neighborhoods but that was restricted and I came to expect many restrictions in packs going forward. However, I am not too disappointed as I got this pack real cheap as I would never pay full price for EA/Maxis packs going forward.

For me it's not the number of neighborhoods but the number of lots in those neighborhoods which make this world feel so small. A decently sized neighborhood should have at least 4 lots, preferably 5. This way you can set up a few households and a community lot within one setting. We need enough lots to change /create within a neighborhood especially considering we have zero options to change the public area around the lots.

It would have been an awful lot better if they had reduced the size of the Lots in the 'poorer' area and put more in. So, maybe 5 or 6 smaller ones instead of the 3 we have. Too late now though :'(

I joined The Sims Forum just now so I could AGREE and post how upsetting it is on spending the amount of money we do for an expansion pack this ridiculous. I have been playing the sims since the beginning. And this is the first time I feel like they've slapped their fan's in the face with such a sad expansion. We have seen what they are capable of producing, yet this is what we receive? Three affordable lots and three higher class lots? TONS of blank space? There's beaches but no lots on them? This expansion had so much potential to be exciting but it's nothing but a complete dud. That costs WAY too much. Glad it was on sale when I purchased but I still feel duped.

I guess I should have known it was only downhill from here when the Pets expansion just lets them free roam with no real interaction.
I don't know who they let go, but someone in the sims department needs to come back and make the games actually worth while again.

I can live with the Pinnacles having few lots. But would it have killed someone to put like 6 lots in Mirage Park? Small lots preferably. I tried making 2 "low rent" houses and they still ended up pricier than I wanted despite using nothing but the cheapest objects thanks to the lot price. If we could make our own apartments, I would gladly make use of the 50x40 lot by creating public housing complex, instead of a house with too much outside space than I like.

Hopefully they plan a hotel feature, I think the big Mirage Park lot would be good for a low cost hotel :)

I don't miss fishing in this world, I think any of my sims going there being poor, would rather be a street musician etc or go fishing...

Agree there could be more lots, even if they were strictly commercial with no possibility to rezone. A club on the beach would have been awesome. Or, maybe commercial and residential lots grab just as much game resources, I have no idea.

I actually like the lot sizes in Mirage park, there just arent enough of them. Having a bit of land around the house is a nice change. The game has plenty of small starter lots in the other worlds. That the world is missing at least a dozen more lots is a massive dissappointment.

I really think it's one of their better packs in pretty much every regard, except lot size. It is disappointing, even if the pack isn't empty and actually really good and fun to play around with. But the set dressing is a little too real in this one where the world is concerned. So many lovely places my sims are running past on their jogs, yet so few of them are "real". It's a bummer & I hope they might just choose to give us a free world again sometime. Wouldn't even have to be empty, a free world in the style of Del Sol or Forgotten Hollow or whatever other small world they still plan on releasing would be cool too :D