



Once you select your lot, you will discover a clean, easy to follow build menu with several new features. A plumbob floats above the map view to indicate where your "active" household is located, but you can very easily enter any lot, occupied or not, and make any changes you desire. You simply enter the lot and make whatever changes you like or even swap out the home entirely with something from the gallery, making it much easier for a player to customize the neighborhood. There is no need for a clipboard because you do not need to move them off lot to change or edit the homes of any sim in the world. I was particularly pleased to learn that from "manage worlds" you can go in and build on any lot, regardless of whether or not there is a sim family there in residence. The new "manage worlds" function is basically your EDIT TOWN mode. I was expecting this as we did not get the ability to edit world files with The Sims 3 until expansions were released. There is no way to edit the terrain or the world files at this time, so you will have to keep your creativity to one of the lots for now. For a list of all of the tool hot keys CLICK HERE In fact, most of the controls you are familiar with from The Sims 3 are here which I found made for an easier learning curve. There are just a handful of empty lots to choose from however, you can use the bulldozer tool and delete any existing lot to make room for your own creations. Since 5 of those lots are venues, that leaves you about 20 lots to work with in sizes ranging from 15x20 to 50x50. I like that even with a base game, we get two completely different environments in which to explore and create.Įach world is divided into small neighborhoods with about 25 lots total in each world. Will you decide to build in the lush New Orleans flavored Willow Creek.or is the painted desert of Oasis Springs? The choice is yours. There are 2 different worlds to choose from, each with its own distinctive feel.
