WORLD PACKS? BIGGER WORLDS? PLEASE

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I'd be happy if they allow us to place smaller lots on the area occupied by the really large lots, so instead of one 64x64 lot, we could have 4 15x15 lots.

You can put a small house on a big lot, but you can't put a house that is bigger on a small lot.

A lot that big is usually a park, and we already have the free roam area set up as parks with grills, picnic tables, kids play areas, wild flowers, public toilets and what not. Most lots included with the game are big lots. Some people prefer to play and build small houses on small lots. As we can't place our own lots wherever we like and there's a fixed space for lot placement, I jut think it would be nice if we were able to place more than one lot on the same area, depending on what size of house we want to build. I don't want to replace a big lot with a small lot, I just want to be able to split up the big lot into smaller lots and place them there like we did in TS2 and TS3.

In TS2, when Apartment Life was released, I would lay down the biggest lot possible, build a good number of houses, and stuff it with as many sims as my poor computer's CPU can handle, making it like a mini world of its own. It even had it's own grocery store since the Open For Business EP allowed you to set up a store in a residential/apartment lot.

Would you be able to do that in TS4? If so, give it a try!

TS2 didn't have compulsory lot types. And it had proper apartments. TS4 is a completely different beast. The bowling alley needs somewhat larger lot size because of it's length, but all other individual businesses could fit perfectly onto 20x20 lots and smaller.

I've looked around and found at least two TS4 builders who have been able to place several homes in a large 64x64 lot:



Springdale Court
by melcastro91
https://www.thesimsresource.com/scaled/2933/w-600h-450-2933207.jpg

Gated Community
by Cyberdoll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSLrve4MO_Q


So hopefully this will give you ideas.

Thanks but I am not looking to build homes. Besides there is still an 8 sims limit even on a large lot and no proper apartment doors.

*Sigh* Wish TS2 was still easily available. I was able to stuff 40 sims in that lot I mentioned before. I built 5 homes and the grocery store on that lot.

Is there a mod that will allow you to place more than 8 sims on a lot? If so, then you will be able to download and use those lots already posted if you don't want to build.

I really don't want 40 playable sims on the same lot. It would create too much chaos. I just want small lots that are easy to see and follow what everyone is doing. When I play a household, I don't really care what the other playable households are doing. If I see them randomly around town I might befriend them and ask them over to visit but otherwise I let them be. Big lots are nice when you need to build a bigger house like a mansion or castle, or a community park, but they are generally wasted on businesses such as cafes, restaurants, shops, bars as the objects you can place on them are limited and anything extra you add either won't function as intended or will interfere with the other objects. Also, it takes a lot less time to build and decorate a smaller lot so they are quite a time saver when you can't spend the whole day playing.

I wasn't suggesting that you stuff 40 playable sims on the same lot. I'm just saying that is was what I did. :)

I guess I wasn't clear in what I meant. What I meant is that you should make do with what the game has. If you can't have smaller lots, then make do with the larger one and put more homes in that. Then if there's a mod for it, you can place more than eight sims in that lot to live in those homes (or just make it eight sims if you're happy with that). It would be great because you can have each household visit the other homes without loading screens!

I don't mind loading screens and I don't have that many sims that I need to place more than 8 of them on one lot. Also, how do you handle that many playable sims on one lot? Anyway, my sims use their home lot for basics like eat, sleep, watch TV. For things they don't have on their lot, they travel to community lots, and here lies the problem. Due to lot type, you can't successfully combine different functions on one lot, so you need to build 2-3-4 different lots for things that could have easily been placed and used on the same lot in TS2. Hence, not enough lots or lots that are too big for their purpose.