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Well it should have let you see all 8 sims, I'm trying to understand why you would only be able to see 7.
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Not 7..... only 6. I saw only the BV and production city sims until I deleted one of the BV sims.
On my old comp, I haven't updated TSO in about 3-4 weeks, but the shortcut works perfectly (goes directly to my EA Land sims).
On my new comp, which I use everyday, and which has the newer updates, the shortcut does not appear to go directly to my EA Land selection screen, but instead to the production city screen.
Even though the target configuration is identical for both shortcuts.
My theory is that the shortcuts are ok, and do indeed go to the EA Land selection screen - but the production city sims have been prematurely (and incompletely) associated with EA Land through some kind of bug somewhere in the update/log-in process. (or maybe intentionally, who knows)
Could be an artifact of the incomplete updater patch.