I don't know that I miss CAW as a whole. I never got into full blown "world building" but I definitely miss, intensely, CASt, being able to place your own lots, having generic backgrounds that allow me to bulldoze everything and replace it in the style I want, being able to sculpt terrain with hills and valleys and so on. I miss ALL those tools desperately and there are times I just go back to 3 due to it but I doubt EA/Maxis cares. I don't think I'm in their target market anymore so if I play it great and if not great on their end. Also, I haven't hammered away at it as much as Toddlers have been mostly because I felt like I knew it wasn't going to be there from the start and it wasn't essentially promised they would be in the future as I think toddlers were.
That said everything added to 4 that I enjoy is balanced by something that was removed from the game so that my general feeling toward the game is neutral. I like it- blah- I don't love it. I'm mostly very much on the fence about the game as a whole and could ultimately fall either way. Like a lot of people I'm hinging on the upcoming EP and what it brings. It's the third one. It's taken an entire year and will be more than two years into the game. I feel like I ought to start loving it or spend money on something else. (Shurg) It is what it is.
