The only thing of value out of Lucky Palms was the wishing well. I loved my evil well child, even after she killed most of Lucky Palms... but she wasn't $30 good.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/spirits_oracle/Sims%203/7c73cf87-44cb-4644-bd68-b487af03995b_zps3b9mzagy.jpg
So in terms of value versus value, Strangerville for $20 is the better deal for me because almost all of the Strangerville assets are of use to me.
And seriously, you think this dress from LP is better than this one from StrangerVille? I mean if you do, that's fine, but you will definitely be happier in TS3 where you pay $30 and get 1 dress and 1 tuxedo as your CAS assets. Me personally, I'll stick with Strangerville, since its $20 price tag netted me 40 CAS assets. While Strangerville didn't have much for kids, it has a lot more than Lucky Palms did, which was zero items.
https://na.lvlt.sims3store.cdn.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/sims3store/skins/afBody60sModDressEightBall/Thumbnail_300x300.png
https://eaassets-a.akamaihd.net/content.ts4/config/web/gp07/3c1af1f2-00000002-000344f0.jpg
I have more lots than I know what to do with in TS4. The last thing I want is a gigantic world with more LOTS! We're not stuck in one world in TS4. We can travel between worlds at the drop of a load screen, so we don't need the amount of lots in a world that we needed in TS3. You can't compare the two games in this way, because they function in entirely different ways when it comes to worlds.
