San Sequoia World Discussion

At first I appreciated when they started adding more set dressing to the worlds to make them look fuller, but now I feel like we've pushed it too far to the point where the worlds are more set dressing than actual usable/playable/buildable areas and it's getting frustrating. It pushes all the usable lots so far away from each other, which makes walking around take forever, and the sims are more spread out making everywhere look like a ghost town. It also makes building lots more restrictive if you want them to fit within the style of the surroundings. There's a commitment to the style of a town, but so many towns look like a variation of Willow Creek or Granite Falls or a mashup in-between, so they all end up feeling the same regardless. I know the design is usually very US-centric, but even within the US there's a variety of biomes that are being neglected.

If this town truly is inspired by San Francisco, it definitely could've sported a more hilled environment with tall townhouses/apartment complexes at the very least. I'm always an advocate for adding more apartment buildings especially in these smaller towns, but for some reason the only non-City Living pack that has them is Eco Lifestyle. They established that non-San Myshuno worlds could have apartments too, but then never used them again. I wish I knew why...

With the size of this town, I plan on using it the same way I currently use San Myshuno. Mainly a tourist destination with lots of community lots and maybe a few houses where they fit.

Just from watching the livestream I could tell the place is a bit of a ghost town. Even with the joggers. I couldn't help but be frustrated when they were showing off how you could walk on the pier/docks area. Because it's like.. and do what there? If we're gonna have all these empty shells pretending to be establishments, could we at least make them rabbit holes at this point? Or window shops/counters(like in RoM)? Could also lead to less reliance on the kiosk pop up shop stands which have become a plague in my opinion. Also those fake chairs/tables they're adding more often should ALWAYS be usable. I can't take all the fake set dressing anymore. I know people have conflicting opinions on rabbit holes, but I'd rather have something like TS3 rabbit hole lots built into the world as opposed to the empty shells we're dealing with now. Maybe the movie theater is them testing it out. Unfortunately that means we'd have to wait for future packs to have more of these lot types available in-world since we can't put them down ourselves (if they bring it back at all...like the apartments...).