@kremesch73 - That settles it, I'm getting TS2 on the App store!
Mac players have always gotten the short end of the stick with world editing, so I've been feeling the pain of no CAW since TS3. But at least there were world editing tools, and the ability to nuke all the buildings and replace them with our own lots wherever we wanted. Though I have to admit that TS3 took so long to bulldoze and place new lots on my computer that I never had the patience to do that anyway. However, we got so many amazing worlds available on the Store, and each EP came with a great new world, so I never felt the same need to completely design a new world. I thought it was an incredible system in TS3 with having new worlds available on the Store - that way we could really pick and choose which worlds we wanted and which ones we weren't bothered with. (Lunar Lakes is still my all-time favourite.)
But TS4 has neither CAW nor the Store, so we are stuck with the precious few worlds there are. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that there aren't even blank world templates like in TS2, and no ability to place lots, so players are stuck with the lot sizes and numbers we have already designed for us. In TS2 I loved designing run-down Downtowns. I loved giving the houses addresses and making street plans and everything. My sister had one Sim who was notorious for getting married, having kids, then jumping ship to a brand new town where she could start the whole thing over again. It was always fun designing new worlds to match those themes. And don't even get me STARTED on our ability in TS2 (and TS3 with the Store worlds) to have multicultural worlds. It is so strange to me that there is NO Asian world or clothing in TS4 since that has been a staple since TS2. (Never played TS1 so can't speak for that.) Urban and rural play have also long been staples of the Sims games for handheld and console, with Bustin' Out and the Urbz, so it's a real shame that TS4 doesn't let us recreate these settings.
Well, I could fume about this for another hour but I'd better get to work... :sweat_smile:
