Vintage Point

[Minty]

OK, have downloaded it & here's some notes I've made from it.

1. Loading time - the loading time was next to nothing, which is always a good sign, especially if there's a mountain range in it. Even though it is empty of buildings, considering the island's size I would still have expected it to take longer than it did.




2. The south side of the island where the mountains-hills are ends very abruptly at the back. Although it's a part of the island that's inaccessible, I would still sculpt that part to give the island a more natural feel.

3. Far, far too many lot spaces. I counted 22 & a community lot alone up at the dirt track road section alone. If you are downloading an empty world, it's a real pain being confronted with a chunk of redundant lots you want to delete to speed the game up & make it feel tidier. If you haven't put in any buildings, there's little point in putting any bar the minimum required as people can always put them in themselves in Edit Town.

It also means you would be getting rid of the bobbling (or whatever the word is) from the number of lots that have been put in unlandscaped (see below).




4. The "road to nowhere" heading into the hills-mountains has a "kink" in it about half way up that makes it impassable at that point (Minty Green is as far forward as is possible)




Again it is only cosmetic, but you may want to do something with this such as put crash barriers at this point over the road and pavements to designate it is unroutable for Sims.




5. One of the junctions has paving stones going over it. It doesn't affect the traffic (I tested all the roads & they all work perfectly), but you may want to correct that or do it to the other three junction points there as well if you're wanting to create some sort of unique feature at this point.




6. There's a festivals lot next to the hospital lot that overlaps into the sea as you can see above. Bulldozing it removes it anyway, but I'd remove that & stick it in part of the space regained from clearing out the multitude of lots I mentioned earlier.

7. Did you put fish spawners into the water? Everywhere I checked I always got the answer that there were hardly any there.

Apart from that, very well done, especially on getting the twisty road to work first time!

The good part of trying it out here is you have all of us as your guinea pigs to test it out & get feedback in peace & quiet (nosy nags notwithstanding! ) until you've got it perfect, whereas at MTS or the officials you do it wrong once & you're damned forever.

Caspin will know better than I, but I think this was why BluebellFlora didn't bother showcasing her worlds outside of her blog, she'd her own dedicated audience of testers to rely on, better than the officials where half the posts in reply to someone's "look at my new world, please give feedback" are other world makers trying to get people to do the same for theirs!