I have to agree , but i have a theory that what happens at my sim is very similar to what happens at most new and promising sims, we do everything we can to make ourselves visible in the searches, even spend money on ads etc, then we get traffic points ( well some don't even get that far ) then what i've been noticing happening is green dots start to show up one at a time in like 10 or 20 minute intervals, and theres only 1 at a time so they leave, they don't realize that about 10 minutes ago there was already someone there wondering the same thing they were, " where's all the people" so no matter how cool or nice that place is aesthetically, no one wants to hang around alone cause you got the one green dot at a time syndrome going, I have to wonder how really popular and well populated sims get their massive green dot crowd "coral" effect that soon snowballs into a sim thats hopping all the time with people, how do they get that initialized in the beginning, before they run out of startup money and would inevitably fold soon afterward. Makes ya wonder, how they do it? I know there are really few numbers of successful sims in ratio to unsuccessful and unpopulated dead sims when you think about how big the ratio difference the odds for a successful sim really just become staggering. Anyone want to elaborate how they do it? Maybe sl should have some kind of built in buddy teleport system then the green dots could show up in pairs.