Henford-on-Bagley is a new ridiculously small world again

"JemmaTheSimmer;c-17907485" wrote:

"Bobisbae;c-17907473" wrote:
It depends on the size of the lots. None of them should be 20 × 20 of even 30× 20 imo. They all need to be 40 × 30 and above so we can actually have land to grow.

I'm OK with a few of the ones in the central village area being smaller. A pub, plus I'll probably add a couple of other community lots there too. Those ones are fine being smaller and make sense.

The ones in the countryside area being small makes no sense though. They mentioned an area with all the large lots. So if there is a large lot area, probably a central village area by the green too. I'm curious to see what the third area is though.

I like the idea of a varied world. I'm not planning to run 10 farms in Henford. I will use some of the farm stuff in other worlds such as Brindleton Bay and Willow Creek. I'll need to make a plan on who shall produce what, as I have on the most common vegetable species. My sims buy "farming rights" allowing them to deliver larger amounts of a specific produce to "the community". Others can still produce anything for their own consume. Besides, I imagine my region will need more milk and eggs than llama wool, meaning more farmers should have cows and chicken than llamas. I love this kind of planning, but I prefer spreading it to several worlds (districts), so I'll be fine with one typical farming hood within Henford. There should be rom for small households there, too, not focusing on farming.

My reaction was the opposite. Twelve lots seems like a good number to me. Three neighborhoods, four lots each, that's more than enough for my own personal gameplay. I also like playing on smaller lots, so while I've gathered there are some bigger lots in the game including a 64x64, I'm still hoping there are a few smaller lots so that I can have that tiny, cozy cottage feel. Not every lot necessarily needs to be able to fit animals and wide gardens. I imagine that more should be bigger than shouldn't, since that's basically the point of the pack, but if one or two lots are super small so that I can make a Tiny Home sized cottage (so my old laptop can not die trying to run the game), that would be perfect for me.

Dont care for world sizes, never did. I think this just means people should get used to the current sizes, because they keep saying they cannot make bigger ones anymore.

"SERVERFRA;c-17907418" wrote:
I am glad that the new world isn't 5 lots. 12 lots is so much better. However, for a farming world it should've been more like 15 to 18 lots. Hopefully, the 12 lots will be big like 50X50, 50X40 & no smaller than 40X30. Also, I hope the lots will be far apart from one another.

Unfortunately, the team is way too obsessed with the pathetically tiny 30x20 lots if the last packs are of any indication.

"Mareah;c-17907497" wrote:
Dont care for world sizes, never did. I think this just means people should get used to the current sizes, because they keep saying they cannot make bigger ones anymore.

Why, though? Was that ever mentioned? I'd understand it back when 32-bit support was a thing, but now?

This is the one disappointment for me. I wish every world that comes in an expansion could be the size or willow creek or oasis springs

I don’t mind the size. English countryside villages tend to be small, just a cluster of houses sometimes, so having tons of amenities like a gym (a rare sight in such a village) would kill my immersion.

I will say regarding performance, that before I got my current gaming PC I had a lot of issues with lag playing with the premades. For one save I downloaded a totally blank world and my game ran so much faster with just a couple of built on lots and a limited number of sims. So the other worlds do have an effect.

The lots can be infinitely duplicated by creating new saves, so if I have at least 10 lots I can usually explore what I would want to in that particular save. In my saves where I use Henford-on-Bagley, I can extend into the similar looking Glimmerbrook to be “the next village along” if needed.

I've been thinking on this, I think I can make 12 work OK. I'm planning this out now lol.

I figure I probably want a pub, library and cafe in the center of the village, that leaves space for one house there. More community lots would be nice there but I can make do with those.

I want to add a vet, and probably a community space in the countryside (Market or garden would work well) . Maybe a community space in the farming district and a vet in whatever the last one is. Need to see how the districts work out.

Given villages don't have tons of community lots, it makes sense to have to go into the city for anything major. I grew up in an English village, which had a library, shop, post office, two antique stores, one restaurant and church growing up. And it was a bigger village than this one looks like. It since has had 3 cafes added and the post office has closed along with the antique stores. Oh it also had 4 pubs, I think it's down to 2 now. It originally had 9 pubs I believe, most with bedrooms B&B style, as it was a common stopping point between a nearby town and a city back in the horse and carriage days. So for once I'm not mad about having another bar/pub lol.

Tbh I'm loving how this pack is feeling like my life. This and University are the only packs that resemble anything like my life, I'm surprised how much I seem to be into it. Guess I didn't realise how nice it is to have actual representation of your life again.

Considering it is meant to be a village I think 12 lots seems fine if you compare it to the town and city worlds. The only world I think needs more lots is del sol valley with that being a city world.

It really feels like they're blurring the lines between pack types at the moment, Strangerville was a game pack and had 12 lots... I feel like with this pack they blew the budget on animating and making animals and then there wasn't anything left for anything else..

Given the fact that this world is mainly just reused assets (the trees, grass, etc is just what we have in Willow Creek) I feel like they really could've expanded it a bit further though, like is it really that hard to just make the playable area a bit bigger and fit a couple more lots in? :| They added a whole Willow Creek 2.0 for free, and they're only reusing world assets again like they did with that world so it shouldn't be that hard to make it a bit bigger