Please Pool Indoor/Outdoor Lightsources

Hello!

I have a lot that is an outdoor garden. Unfortunately, at night, it is a very dark outdoor garden and I gave spoken to many folks that agree this is a limiting thing when it comes to decor.

So this is my request: Please give one light source pool to use either indoors or out.

There is probably some kind of technical limitation for this, however I thought I'd put it out there anyway.

Thank you!

The garden at dusk <3 Port Graff

 

At the very least please increase the outdoor lighting cap.

 

What was the reasoning behind the light limits? Was it because of the shadows? I would personally be fine with a light that didn't cast shadows, and thus wouldn't be counted towards the light limitations.

 

One reason was to add value to high level pledges (larger lots have higher limits).

 

Oh I thought there was a technical or performance reason.

 

I think that might be closer to reality, but maybe they've fixed those issues with other optimizations (I hope!).

 

Shadows are currently the hardest thing on the game's performance. If you turn off shadows, but have everything at max you will probably run fairly smoothly and then have a powerpoint presentation after turning on Shadows. I believe this is the reason there are such harsh lighting limitations. Once LOD gets refined and shadows aren't such a problem I could see this limit being increased. Until then, as someone with a gaming rig that gets 5 FPS in some areas, but 60 FPS in literally every other game I play, I am somewhat against additional lights until they solve shadows.

 

Nice job decorating!

 

Wow! Thank you

There is an Easter Egg on that lot, btw, but you have to visit to find it as it's a secret!

 

If you are using mushrooms, lamps etc it is even worse.

They give off little light but count towards the limit.