"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18060551" wrote:
Re: Southern US inspired EP: could we get a swamp world please, with swamp houses & houseboats , hoover crafts and sure why not, an alligator lot challenge. That way It’ll be much harder to keep our little crawfish safe and more importantly, our sims.
Oh, I’ve also heard several swampy & boggy areas are inhabited by werebeasts. Thought I’d mention it. ?
Soooo... most of the south is not swampy, that's mostly Florida and Louisiana. We already have a New Orleans-inspired area, so that mostly leaves us Florida, and Florida is... kind of doing its own thing. I mean, technically it's southern, but... it's unique in a lot of ways.
Now, that's not to say a swamp environment wouldn't be interesting. But, there are also swamp ecosystems in parts of India and certain African countries. Maybe instead of adding them to a southern pack, it would be even better as an opportunity to see some new worlds added that are inspired by areas we haven't seen as much in The Sims.
ETA: there are lots of different ways they could go, but
personally if I were designing a southern pack, I'd go for a mountain town with a river and creeks. Something more like eastern Georgia/western North Carolina/the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Since I'm dreaming: I could imagine a hobby pack in a world with 3-4 neighborhoods. (1) a downtown area with an arts center (including items for new hobbies like sculpture and glass blowing), an apartment building, a couple of historic residential lots, and one or two retail lots, as well as an open plaza area with food trucks where arts and literary festivals could be held. (2) a middle class residential neighborhood with 3-4 medium sized residential lots. (This is the neighborhood I could most easily do without, but it would be nice to have.) (3) a more expensive residential neighborhood with large lots modeled after Kentucky/Virginia horse country, including one 64x64 lot for a horse farm/stables. (4) A mountain neighborhood with 4 total lots: 2 smaller lots for cabins, a park, and a rental/campground lot. Imagine what this art team could do with a Smoky Mountains theme!