New Version of Oceanview is Officially Released

When I last posted in July, I was working on a new world, Sim Acres. However, I got sidetracked over the summer with Oceanview, my very first world. What wound up happening was that I learned so much while making Sim Acres and Riverside that I went back to Oceanview to apply what I had learned from those two worlds to improve on it.

Well, after much further ado, I am happy to say that the new version of Oceanview is out and ready to be downloaded.

Specifications:
Below are the specs and some other important information you need to know:

• Populated
• Requires the following EPs--Ambitions, Late Night, World Adventures, Generations, Showtime, Seasons and Pets
• May include some Registration Rewards content from Ambitions, Late Night, World Adventures, Generations, Showtime, Seasons and Pets
• Requires Riverview, from the Sims 3 store
• Completely CC-free!
• Has a tiny handful items from these SPs--High End Loft Stuff, Fast Lane
• Is a very large world--166 lots, so best for midrange PCs and up
• Is a Late Night world, meaning that there will be no spawning wildlife (sorry)

[Download Oceanview Here]

Okay, so you're probably wondering what I changed. Below is a rundown:
Enhanced Terrain Painting
The mountains in Oceanview only had the barest paint. I added more terrain paint so they look better:

♫ The hills are alive with the sounds of music! ♫

A more vibrant Downtown area
Downtown didn't have enough of a big city feel, so I moved some of the houses to a different area and added more Late Night skyscrapers and a mixture of rabbit holes to the Downtown area.

An overview of the new and improved Downtown district

New venues
Originally, the only venues in Oceanview were the ones from Bridgeport and Starlight Shores. I figured that players familiar with both towns might be bored seeing them again in Oceanview, so I created several new venues to throw into the mix.

New dive bar venue

New dance club venue

New Fusion club venue

New watering hole venue

I also added two Showtime-themed stages for performing sims, as well as two platforms for bands:

New Fire Station
I have replaced the EA firehouse with a brand new one built from scratch:

New firehouse, Ladder 67

New Apartments
There are several new skyscraper apartments in Downtown with great aerial views of Oceanview. I made them mostly affordable for starter families and singles.

New River + 3 Bridges
There is now a river that separates Downtown from the suburban area, so you'll feel more of a transition when your sim travels from one area of Oceanview to another.

New river with three bridges separating suburban area from Downtown

Different stadium rabbit hole
I removed the old Llama Stadium and replaced it with the Crestview school/stadium rabbithole.

Crestview School and Stadium

New Festival Grounds
I replaced the old festival grounds with a newer, slightly smaller one.

New festivals grou

Rebuilt Recreational Center
There was an annoying visual glitch on the Oceanview Recreational Center lot that I could never fix no matter how many times I tried. I decided to just rebuild the lot from scratch. It looks a little different from the first version, but it's built more or less in the same style.

New Oceanview Recreational Center

Additional Lots to Accommodate Sims Store DLC
I've added two more lots to allow players to add venues from the Sims 3 store, such as the Lucky Palms casino and World of Wonder.

Technical Changes
These are the most important changes that I made to Oceanview:

• Downsized lots
  There were almost 190 lots in the original version of Oceanview. Most of them weren't really necessary and were bloating the file size, so I pared everything down to 166.
• Retired Botanical Gardens and Library
  I retired two really large venues, the Botanical Gardens and Library. There was already a library and community garden Downtown, so they were redundant. Besides, they were adding unnecessary bloat to the file size. 
• Fixed backwards windows
  A lot of the windows in Oceanview were accidentally put in backwards. This caused the annoying problem of sims or pets going outside to look at the weather or look through the windows. This shouldn't happen anymore. 

Enjoy!

So that's basically it. If you like what you see, simply download below!

[Download Oceanview at Google Drive]