LOL @Onverser , if you think these lots are small, you are right, every other sims game had double the size, sometimes triple the size. There were major loading issues back on 2, but they smoothed that out with 3 and still gave some big neighborhoods. I love the fast loading time with 3 and 4, but yeah the neighborhoods always felt really small if you've been playing sims since the original. Like I wouldn't expect all lots to be filled, that's what making your own or browsing other people's stuff is for, but I use the 'gallery' a little less due to there not being enough map room quite honestly, even though there's lots of expansions but really not as much on the map if you compare it to older games (so it's like there isn't as much incentive to fill in empty spot because usually if you find 2 or 3 empties per map you are doing good to find even that). My favorite is probably 3 because it hammered out what 2 had problems with (even though the content for 2 was great but those loading times were terrible), but now we get back to issues like the world feels a bit smaller even though we've accomplished faster loading times. It's hard to find a good medium. Realistically, we probably won't see much improvement there, since we are several expansions in. The neighborhoods did not feel quite as full as some of the previous games, even though letting characters go cross worlds was a big step in the right direction.