A lot of people prefer custom worlds that are unpopulated - but I love me a populated world with well thought out households that have good background stories. What are people's faves? im always on the lookout for new ones!

Grey Meadow (sims needs some deppudingisation) if you are able to deal with supernaturals which are essential there: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/249858.page
Fortress Rock - not really a "story" but interesting set of possible stories: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail...assetId=5024401
Saaqartog (populated version) - (low need of deppuding) no story, but beautiful world and reasonable characters http://nilxisdesigns.blogspot.com.e.../saaqartoq.html
Enekjaer (populated save) (high need of deppuding) as above: http://fagersims.tumblr.com/post/56...-older-versions
Bad Bridgeport (Devil's Port) http://www.galadrielh.com/downloads...n/devil-s-port/

just for example

Ahh wow! They are some awesome finds, this will keep me busy now haha. Thanks for the notes about which world's puddings need the most de pudding that is crazy helpful!

On the topic of populated worlds, are there any good ones out there that don't require many expansion packs? I've only got Late Night and don't really want to make my computer run a lot of expansions.

www.mysimrealty.com - some of the worlds have minimal requirements or none
http://thesimscatalog.com/product-c...-sims-3-worlds/
http://sims3customworlds.tumblr.com/
some from exchange there's list but I don't know if it's actual: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/560053.page

google gives sometimes surprising links also

and of course:

http://modthesims.info/browse.php?f...%20and%20Worlds

The most realistic world I've seen is St. Claire on AweSims
http://awesims.sixty-ten.net/2013/0...s-supernatural/

It acts like a big city, but actually doesn't take as long to load as Bridgeport does. She only has 9 families for it, but it's 9 less you have to make.

I'm usually so shy compared to some people, so I'm going to freak out on commercials for my Stranda world. I think it fits perfectly. It has stories, excellent people and it's here on mts. It requires lots of exp and you can also expand your game with tons of store sets if you like to. You don't have to download though, it will work very nicely without all the EA sets. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's for a low end computer, it goes like clockwork if the feedback I'm getting is anything to go by, but low end ... nah don't think so.

Flickr picture sets says it all ... I think.

The Waterpark by Volvenom, on Flickr

Carl Sunde, Townie by Volvenom, on Flickr

Now I'm going to hide behind a pile of bricks when it comes to the work I'm doing as usual. It feels surreal using words like very nicely, excellent and perfectly. I need a bit of reality here, back to my farming game

Download: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=516078