The purpose of Newcrest was?

"Mstybl95;14216904" wrote:
I get what you are all saying...but my reason is based squarely on my game. I share with an 8 year old who plays more often than me. So when I do go back into the game, I find she has messed with my saves and templates. So I end up starting over a lot with saves in huge letters: DO NOT TOUCH! LOL

But in reality, I have always found it hard to ignore blank space. I know it is there and I have to fill it in because it's empty. So I dislike it because I can't ignore it and just play when I know it is there. Which means I have to go out of my way to build it each time. I do not use random lots from the gallery or maxis. Every lot in every hood has always been mine. And sometimes they need adjusting, which means more work before play. So what I would have preferred was for them to plop down some lots so that it would be usable space while I figure out what I want to build there.

I'm not saying any of you should feel like this, but that's my opinion and why I dislike it.

Maybe you could teach your daughter not to play with items that aren't hers -- make a save that's for her and give it her name, and then let her go to town on that one without your interference. Never too early to teach a child about respecting personal space and other people's stuff. You could also make a save of your template and store it somewhere else on your computer, then when the time comes to play move that copy back into your Saves folder and voila! template's un-messed with. (You can do that with other saves as well -- just when you're moving the save back in you have to let the computer know to replace the old version with the new one.)

But there were so many beautiful builds on the Gallery that people were begging for more space to add those to their worlds. Plus, with the plans to add venue types (retail in GTW, spas in Spa Day, etc.) there was going to be a need for more lots for people to customize their worlds, hence Newcrest was born. That's the main reason for Newcrest -- so we don't have to bulldoze any houses in Willow Creek or Oasis Springs to add in new venues.

In my current save and in my template, I've set up Magnolia Promenade (GTW neighborhood) as an entertainment district, with a lounge, a nightclub, a bar and an ice cream stand (which I'll probably move to Oasis Springs and replace with a cafe after GT releases). I was then able to bulldoze the lounge and bar in Oasis Springs and the nightclub in Willow Creek. On the site of the nightclub I have a community garden (which may be moved to the neighborhood where the Goths live), where the bar was in Oasis Springs I have one of the spas that came with Spa Day, and the lounge lot is vacant (I may do something retail there, I haven't decided yet). I also took out the museum in Willow Creek and put in a community pool (it's zoned as a park), and built my own museum for Oasis Springs. I still have gyms in both worlds but I'm thinking of replacing the one in Oasis Springs with something else.