I guess you were/are lucky that EIG works for you. All I know is that I have fought with it from day one. As for the "official" site, I stay as far away from it as possible, most of the people there scare me with how they act. I much prefer MATY where n00bs fear to tread!
I know exactly what you are saying. I used to say that the people there are so artificially sweet to each other that it makes my teeth hurt. I believe in constructive criticism when it's due, but many over there follow the golden rule that our mothers taught us about if you can't say anything nice ... and take it way too far and they bolster and encourage people that are obvious have no creativeness in their body to continue to create dreadful worlds by telling them how grand they are and how much they want to play on it. Meanwhile the world in question may be nothing more than a flat plane of the default green color that all worlds start out as with not even a single feature on it.
There's very few people over there it would seem that are willing to speak the truth if the truth has any criticism in it at all and I wonder how are the authors going to learn to get better instead of continuing to put out poorly designed worlds.
Anyway, I visit the Create a world forum over there mostly as there are obviously some very talented people that work on their worlds and they sometimes give me new ideas to try out in my own worlds, which I still don't consider very good. On a scale of 1 to 10 with my own worlds I give most of them a 3 or 4 as there is still far too much flat space going on most of the time.
With that in mind I'm attempting to do a new world that I've named Hilltop Retreats that is all about having the homes all nestled in small communities up in the mountains, hopefully in an attempt to get away from too much flat space. If EIG chokes on this new world then I'm pretty much done with the franchise.
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