Too many "fake" houses.

"elelunicy;c-17553129" wrote:

"Onverser;d-977948" wrote:
(also, why is it so limited in newer worlds? In Windenburg and San Myshuno some of the neighbourhoods have up to 8 lots but all of the newer neighbourhoods are restricted to 6 at a maximum)

Because back in 2015/2016 there were only like 100 lots in total across all worlds. Then they realized that as they added more lots to the game, loading times/performance began to suffer as a result. If they continued to add 30 lots per world, TS4 would have well over 500 lots across all worlds by the end of its lifespan. Their solution was decreasing the number of lots in newer worlds, in hope that by the time TS4 ends, it would only have 300 lots in total, as opposed to 500+ lots.

Essentially, the number of lots in a certain neighborhood or a certain world doesn’t matter much. What matters is the total number of lots across all worlds, as this directly increases the save file size/loading times, and negatively affects performance. It wouldn’t make any sense to put 8+ lots in a single neighborhood, when their goal is to keep the total number of lots low.

I wish they would leave this up to players to decide how many lots they are going to populate in their neighbourhoods. There are some neighbourhoods I like more than others, and would love to have more playable lots in them. Also, it bothers me because some of these new fake houses appear to use quite a lot of build/buy items as their textures are way more detailed than standard fake houses.