OK: I enjoy playing the world but it could do with more depth, literally of the sea levels with deep sea diving possible. An expansion should have been large enough to do this. Those ideas of surfing, and two person boats should have been there.
A little more cruelty with stupid actions like touching a lava bomb having more of an effect. How about making it explode, destroying the house maybe or giving someone a virus or opening up to become a monster making for the sea and afterwards becoming a danger to divers? Getting to kill it a new pastime.
Earthquakes and volcanos are all very well but not all that effective. SimCity4 had fantastic volcanos and meteors. How about bringing those in.
It's all a bit too sweet at the moment, no danger when every other game around at the moment is killing in their millions! One can always choose to do dangerous things or not anyway.
Maxis do need someone to co-ordinate the packs too. Those helpful firefighting neighbours in Sulani could always translate into helpful neighbours in other worlds, not in Sulani costume until we get proper firefighters. Waiting for fires to be extinguished is a bit of a bore.
Why do Teams like Maxis think that young people, especially girls, these days are not as bloodthirsty in gaming as their predecessors were? They need to work on that.