Ok, so I ran into some major issues with two of the lots, the main one being the City Hall - who would have thought a simple podium addition would cause so many problems! I spend three hours building, saving, testing, reloading, rebuilding, saving again, retesting.. rinse repeat.  .. UGH. Truly no fun. I'm trying to keep the protesters off the lawn, but still allow collectors to get to the spawn points that are built on the lawn.. so far, it's not working - but I think my newest idea might work. Out of frustration, I did some planning and brain-storming for a couple hours, and I have a pretty good plan for getting Sunset Valley made-over and uploaded. Split it down into 9, maybe 10 waves, adding all expansion pack features, and most premium (store) content features. Island Paradise adding water and partial water lots definitely threw a bit of a monkey wrench into my existing plans, but it definitely opened up some more options and abilities. Beyond all that, things went pretty well, and I'm heading back in-game in a moment to get back to work on fixing those lots. I just have to keep myself from working on the new ideas before getting the first wave finished and uploaded - or I'm going to end up back in the same old cycle of building, building, building, and never uploading a finished product.

As a "teaser" for the next wave, here's what I'm working on after this: The Art Gallery (adding the ability for townies and playable characters to "donate" stuff, so it will look more like a gallery!! - of course, that means testing it, which should be interesting.. lol!); The Science Building (adding university science objects for the poor Sims who can't afford the big ticket items!); Two of the fishing holes (very minor updates - Summer Hill gets the Lucky Palms wishing well, Crystal Springs gets the Fountain of Youth from Hidden Springs - the challenge was making it look like they belonged there...); Sunset Valley Community Church (a build done completely by me, set as a small park, works as a meeting/party/wedding venue... really, very pretty, and has been awesome in all the games I've used it in - had a few grooms abducted by aliens in the backyard, but really.. it should be safe.. *wink* .. I think.. haha!); and adding a community beach (my own build, will have instructions on where to place the lot, etc - used to replace the beach I sort of shang-hai'ed for my "Park" performance venue - figure having a non-showtime beach might be useful!). After that, I'll be adding all the Ambitions lots - which are mostly custom builds by me designed to fit with Sunset Valley (suburban) theme.