Home Hustle Negative thoughts

The pack is okay. But two things.

1. I'd thought that EA/Maxis had gotten over the severely low-poly, poorly textured objects. Recent objects have been so much better than when the game first released. As a result, Hustle and Bustle feels like backsliding. The wallpaper is especially muddy and blurry. Why?

2. It would have been nice to see something other than kitchen stuff, recipes, and yet another sale table. There are so many other themes that haven't been touched since launch -- pool activities, for example. I don't know, I just wish that EA/Maxis would pick a theme, make one great pack then, move on. That would be so much better than the sporadic drips and drops of the same themes, over and over.

Possible ideas:

• Pools: slides, waterfalls, pool bar, Marco Polo, splash wars, functional lanes, a regular diving board, super soakers.
  
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• Open water activities: kayak, paddle board, surfing.
  

• Mainly for the kiddies/teens: skateboards, hopscotch, Double Dutch/jump rope, butterfly/firefly collecting, sidewalk chalk drawings, kite flying, model train kits, RC vehicles, push and pedal vehicles for toddlers.
  

• A hobby pack: sewing, sculpting, a pottery wheel, glass blowing, jewelry-making, furniture restoration, car restoration, detailed model building -- airplanes, trains, cars. ships in a bottle.
  
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• Music: drum kit, electric bass, electric guitar, wind instruments, etc., and the ability to form anything from a garage band to a classical quartet.
  

Please consider these ideas, or any others, that have barely been touched in TS4 (if at all).