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Henford-on-Bagley is a new ridiculously small world again
Sthenastia
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To be honest farming pack wasn't on my wishlist, but when I saw the trailer I was pleasantly surprised of this expansion and now I'm sure that I will buy it. In my imagination I planned that I put some farmhouses, maybe rental lot and some community lots in HoB but not. This time our new world has only 12 lots in total and only 2 empty lots maybe. I'm tired of that. Again I need to decide what to build or destroy premade houses which I generally want to leave in my savefiles. I totally can not understand why can't we receive bigger lots especially that we have closed neighborgoods and lots. What is more, we can have only 20 sims per loading screen. Currently we have 37 empty lots in total (with Newcrest)and with a new expansion, we will have 39 empty lots per save in total. It is really, really small number especially if you have one or two free lots per map. EA really destroys my fun because of that every time, because I have to choose what is more important for me, which family should I put into the map ect. I totally don't see any adventages of loading screens then.
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3 neighbourhoods, each with five lots. Maybe one neighbourhood is empty to fill up yourself.
I have to choose which houses to keep from each pack because I love to build, so it means a lot of houses have to go to free up the space. 🙄😭
To me that’s more important! How open does it feel? Then again, I am not a builder, so that might be why
Still one more lot than Del Sol Valley, but that's not a high bar. It seems similar to Evergreen Harbor, as it has 11 + apartments (apartments don't fully count for me as I can't convert them to a community lot or do anything with them). I was hoping for at least 13/14.
Even with performance, if Mt Komorebi has 14 why couldn't this one? Even just 2 more would have helped.
It was in the one of Sim Guru Romeo's numerous post reveal tweets.
Devon Bumpkin did the pub and a farmhouse on a 64x64 lot (just 1 of these, confirmed on twitter).
Thomas TV did 3, two starter homes, one other. He said all were unoccupied, not sure if last one is a house or community lot though. I can't find it now but I thought I saw that two were 30x20 and one was 50x40, though that info has disappeared now.
HeyHarrie did 3 lots, including a blurred out home (by the looks of it) in the trailer in the town center area. Can't see any more info there.
Clare Siobhán did two lots, not seen any info for hers.
Given there are twelve total, I'm assuming the other two are empty.
Check the cottage living fact thread
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/990710/cottage-living-facts-thread#latest
Sorry, what are you saying? Romeo says there are three neighbourhoods with four lots.
I just hope that there is a neighbourhood with bigger lots, like one 64x64, one 40x30 and a couple of 50x50. I do not want another world filled with 30x20 or 20x20!
Apologies!!! I quoted the wrong person! It was meant for manicobsessive, who asked where to find the info! 🙃
Okay, thanks and no worries I was just a bit confused.
I personally don't mind the smaller world as long as it's done well. I know everyone plays differently, but for me, I know with a smaller world I will likely use every lot, but in bigger world's, such as Windenburg (which is beautiful), there are still some lots I haven't touched.
About free lots and prebuilt lots, I never hesitate deleting or modifying prebuilt lots, so I don't really see this as a problem. Over time I might also delete my own lots finding better use of a lot. Keep in mind that a pack comes with BB items only available in base game and the new pack. There is so much to be adjusted and added , especially if you own many other packs. I reckon this is the reason why so many EA made houses feels not lived in, or not even completed by a real simmer - they want us to either complete it with whatever we have at hand, or to build our own. I normally adjust the floorplans too, because I prefer smaller rooms or more rooms instead of those huge rooms that EA often gives us.
The only reason I keep at least one empty lot is to make it quicker to move in new families temporary in order to adjust their cash etc. before they move into a better home. I normally don't play starters, they all have a back story.
I can't wait to see the map of Henford - I have so many plans for it and I'll gladly rebuild whatever it takes to fit my bill:)
I will admit, when it was confirmed that there would be 12 lots, I was disappointed - though not really surprised. That said, I'm going to try and refrain from critiquing Henford-on-Bagley until I've seen the world map. It all depends on the execution and functionality for me. If the world is made up of mostly residential, and one bar, then I won't be a happy bunny (pun intended) but if one of those neighbourhoods has all the essentials such as a bar, library, gym etc, so that I don't have to leave the world to use those community spaces, then I'll be fine with that. So yeah, I think it's just the 11 residential lots and 1 bar that's starting to really peeve me (and others) off quite a bit.
Another thing that's frustrating regarding worlds, is the lack of larger ones, like Windenburg. Now I know that we're told over and over again that it's all to do with maintaining performance and being considerate of players who are using older systems, but what about considering those of us with a high end system too? The solution would be to introduce world packs or kits, something which is highly requested anyway. The developers would be able to offer us more ambitious world designs for those of us with the system to run it, and it wouldn't impact game or expansion packs.
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