"Karon;d-975442" wrote:
- If you own Island Living: Every world (or most of them), including DLC worlds, would be updated to have swimmable water (lakes, rivers, oceans) or have a whole new neighborhood with such thing. Example: The beach with pier in Del Sol Valley could be an actuall neighborhood with beach houses and swimmable beach.
I was still new to all this when Island Living went down, so I doubt I could find it, but I seem to remember reading something about how that was the plan - that all water would be swimmable - but adding deep water swimming (as opposed to just wading) to the other worlds broke existing saves, which is why they didn't include it even though they wanted to.
Also it's possible that they discovered back when they were working on Get To Work and intending to add Magnolia Promenade to Willow Creek - only to find it also broke existing saves. Which is why it's a tiny separate lot and the area where the police station and the Hospital is looks like it could house another lot, and why the police station, hospital, and Lab aren't casually visit-able, despite apparently being set up for it.
If I'm following the Sims 4 timeline correctly, then Grant's statement in that quote may well have been before they realized that while, yes, adding new neighborhoods for new saves was possible, it broke existing ones. Assuming, of course, that such is the case, for which I only have some educated speculation.
