I haver played both VV and VV2. It gets better and better. I do have alot of suggestions.
1. make the area bigger so they have more places to explore. You could make it that at a cetain process of the game it could unlock another part of the area.
2. Let the children pick up items when your not playiing the game.
3. more experiences like a doctor, nurse, cook.
4. have a certain time of the day thazt they can sit and eat.Have a table for them to sit. A time of the day for the kids to go to school like in real life. a school they can go inside.
5. have more than 7 people to start with.
6. dont make it take so long to get points.
7. someone suggested weather changes.
8. combine the two games together. There were parts of VV1 that you could put into this new one and also VV2.
9. Have more than 50 elders.
10. Let them live longer.
11. Let them play games with there kids
12. More different people. Like african american, Asian, hispanic.
13. Let them build there own huts. For every couple has children and they have there own hut. A table for them outside there hut.

I am sure I could come up with more ideas.