I so wish they created more styles for the style category and reorganized the items in the existing styles, or at least let us make our own collections like in 2 and 3.

I see they've made a bunch of new colour swatches for the base game tombstone and urn, but I'm unable to change swatches for them at all. Even the occult tombstones that could already be recoloured (e.g. spellcaster) can no longer be changed. Anyone else running into the same issue?

I don't know if the following is true or not. Last time I was on Twitter my account was banned for "picking on" EA. Once the ban was removed, I deleted my account. Anywho... apparently a angry TS4 mob ran Ninja off of Twitter over locking out snow in this new 'expansion' pack. There is a mod for PC and Mac players. SOL for console players...

SimGuru Deactivates Account Amid Severe Harassment from Simmers, EA Help responds bugs & More !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxEWFUbr-0

Is this the same angry mob that gets off on sending death threats to the TS4 modding community because they dare go on vacation? I don't remember any of this kind of crap going on for TS1, TS2 and TS3 and yet people like myself that call shit out are the 'toxic' people. Yeah, okay... I don't have to like / agree with anything that EA /Maxis does, but I don't go around threatening people. I say my piece and go about my life; it's a stupid video game.

Let me get this straight. TS4 community gets pissed off when there are dry spells of any kind of TS4 news, but angry mobs making death threats over the lack of snow in a video game is somehow going to make gurus or any of team Maxis want to be on social media? Somehow I don't think it is going to work out the way people ( the angry mob) thinks it is going to...

Layne has a bucket list goal to to be a parent. Great. Easy. Nyon lives in the same house and is engaged to Olive, who has a son.
To fulfill the needs, you can adopt. Perfect. Easy win.

Layne adopts Nyon as a caregiver. Nyon is now an adoptive dependent of Layne.

Wrong. Layne cannot give any assets to Nyon, nor can he be fulfilled as a parent.

If saying the type of person who could easily issue terrible threats and insults over something so trivial, a game, the weather in the game, the lack of snow in a region, is a little braindead, it's no lie. Too stupid to know how to play the game itself, to get what they want. If they have the Seasons pack, to have Snow, then place a frikken Weather Machine in the region and get all the snow you want whenever you want. Want snow in StrangerVille at the height of the Motherplant's raging red storms, place and use a Weather Machine. Quite freaky to see. Want snow in Star Wars pack to make Batuu seem more like Hoth, place and use a Weather Machine. Done deal, I know it because I've done it and seen it.

And if Maxis want the new death pack world to have a constant autumnal feel, great, so be it. Place and use a Weather Machine if you want to make a difference. On this issue I would not call EA/Maxis too lazy to do a full weather system in any new dlc region. On the contrary. I'll say yeah, the autumnal theme is great and all, but you got more chance of selling packs like Snowy Escape if you are limiting certain weather types for other world regions in new packs. I see it as more of a business strategy than it is being too lazy. Plus modding snow into the new death world is easy peasy, Maxis could do it in five minutes if they wanted autonomous regular snow there. Too lazy for a five minute coding job? Even Maxis aren't that bad... mostly. There's already a mod that does it, - not five minutes after pack released... see - for those players oblivious to what the in-game Weather Machine is capable of because they're too busy online issuing death threats.

From the reports I've seen, I understand that it rains far too often in the new death world. Weather Machine to the rescue once again. "We're having a Heatwave, a tropical heatwave..." Although given the amount of corpses accumulating in that area, I strongly advise against initiating heatwaves. The STINK would become unbearable!!! I can see now why you might want, and need, snow. Get those corpses frozen up good. The whole region acting as one big, giant chilly morgue. Makes a whole lotta sense now that I think on it. Snow, needed for sure. Not just aesthetically pleasing, but practical in prevent the vomit-inducing stench around town and the warm, soggy corpses spreading diseases. Dammit, the area needs permanent snow! Why didn't Maxis see this coming?!!! Lazy so-and-sos.

SatchOnSims states that the bucket list feature is shallow gameplay. Some goals are not aligned with traits while other goals are weird and almost unnecessary. He said in the video that he could not wait for modders to revamp the bucket list feature.

However, the funeral event is progressing as it should with no bugs or buggy AI behaviour.

The world does not have the full season cycle (no fall or winter, only rain), so SatchOnSims speculated that the reason for this are time constraints.

EDIT: The tarrot card system is shallow, with more care put into the design of the cards rather than the gameplay. But, the world, although small, has more things to explore like the festivals and collecting tarrot cards (although for nothing).

Time constraints? It actually takes longer to code it out of a region than it would to use the default coding for each region to leave it in. Hence it's not time constraints nor laziness, given it takes more work and time to remove it. Albeit five minute to edit it out of the new death world region. The amount of time it takes for a seasoned modder to put it back in, no pun intended on the use of seasoned. (Okay, maybe a bit if a pun. ) It just is purposeful, from the Maxis point of view to have a permanent autumnal theme for the land of death. (As originally depicted from the tales of the ancient Greeks and there musings on the Underworld. Before early Christianity turned it into all out Hell. Though, ironically, the deepest, worst circle of Hell according to Dante is nothing but a landscape of ice and snow. So why can't Maxis give us snow too! )