A southern pack ?

"Monet11;c-18060297" wrote:

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18059767" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18059343" wrote:


Cue confusion of the Brits and anyone else for whom "Biscuits" means what Americans call "Cookies."

Not a Brit but Yup.
I heard “biscuits and gravy” and almost choked on my biscuit.
Imagine a sweet little chocolate chip cookie being dunked in beef gravy. ?
You Americans are so weird. *
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But... there is also "biscuits and chocolate gravy". My mom never made that for breakfast. It was strictly a dinnertime delight. That might work for your chocolate chip biscuit. Although a sugar overdose would probably loom on the horizon.

https://www.yummly.com/recipe/Biscuits-and-Chocolate-Gravy-2083708

Now, I can live with biscuits (scones) and chocolate gravy (still rather peculiar in my opinion) but chocolate chip biscuits and Chocolate gravy? OOF! That’s asking for serious trouble haha.
I personally shouldn’t be fed anything too sugary after my dinner. It could turn me into a Gremlin, and not a cute one.
I do drink black coffee with my biscuits (cookies). Over here we’d call that type of black coffee “Americano”. Ever heard of it?

Also, this thread seems to have turned into a food tasting party. I never had grits before, but hash browns are pretty big over here, because potatoes. IF we’re talking about the same hash browns that is. Who knows at this stage? ?
I always wanted to taste gumbo. Is it spicy? I love spicy dishes.
Plus let’s not disregard the horses. Anyone got some carrots and sugar cubes for our mighty steeds?!

Re: Yee Haw EP : I’d like those mechanical rodeo bull machines in my game! I used to place one in almost all my Sims 3 bars.

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. ?

Maybe having area with a swamp.They can have catching fireflies and put them in jars.

Crawfish , and fried catfish is a must.

Living in the south myself this would be amazing. Cities like New Orleans, Savannah and Charleston would be gorgeous inspiration... and yes the culture can be very unique. There is a lot of lore as well with real life voodoo and haunted areas. Much of the early architecture was built to keep spirits out of the homes as was the superstition such as specific paint colors, rounded corners and intricate iron gating. Being a great host was shown by owning pineapples. Very quirky.

As for horses... some areas use them to ride (more Texas and southwest) but on the eastern side of the south and coastal they use them with carriages still. The music varies from country to jazz (dueling piano bars) blues and bluegrass.

The food list is forever long.

"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!

A horse-pack based in NA should also include Native American stuff, which would be super cool, and that would include cultures of several tribes, mainly Southwest and Plains. Things many people associate with the Wild West such as teepees, feathered headdresses, dreamcatchers, furs, peace pipes, and "cigar-store indian" sculptures are from the Plains Indians that settled more in Northern states. (When I think SW Native Americans, I think of Navaho, Apache, and Hopi tribes and their art--nice pottery and woven materials.) Both are cool, but they are not the same.

BTW, would a Western-based horse pack be set in modern times, or a history-based pack? I like history, so the latter would be fun. Plus you could use more Native American stuff in a history-based pack, because traditional costume nowadays is limited to pow wows and tourist sites.

It could be set up as a "wild west town" that tourists from other eps could visit. They would just have to set it up that npcs only wear the costumes from that pack if they are in that zone. (Although players could change that if they wanted a whole wild west game.) I would love to see them do that with a medieval pack too, so the zone that comes with the pack would be a "Renaissance Festival", unless the player wants it all over their world.

If hope they do add a Southern pack with all this delicious food and horses. I just hope they also remember to add unicorns at the same time. And I would really love miniature horses. I'm slightly obsessed with mini horses. If they added them to the game the size of cats and dogs it would be the best pack. And I would want to breed them to make little tiny baby foals. :heart:

"Tammors;c-18063062" wrote:
If you're basing a horse pack in North America, a Western pack would be better than a Southern pack. When people talk about an American-based horses back, I think they're talking cowboys and rodeos. They didn't have either in the American south.

TIL that we don't have horses or rodeos in Texas. ?

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18057736" wrote:

Would lurv me a Wild West Sims 4 Adventure and ride me horsey into the sunset, YEE-HAW, BANG BANG!

Let’s not forget about the poor Shetland ponies though.

Spoiler

Aww…

https://i.ibb.co/y6Tcprh/3-D6-BC20-F-F73-D-428-C-B215-2320-A7-B6-BCE2.jpg

Sweet Little fluffy hooves. Great for toddlers too.
When I was a kid teen person I was repeatedly chased by this miniature Shetland Pony called “Basie”. Basie was absolutely lethal. He looked like the cuddly guy in the picture but he had the attitude of a giant black bull. Shetland ponies are deceptively cute, just like Grizzlies. Grizzlies ain’t teddy bears either!
Whenever I came near Basie he got all tense and immediately changed into attack mode, which meant I had to run like the wind in order to survive his agonizing headbutts. Long time afterwards someone told me he was simply protecting the two larger mares that he shared the paddocks with, from my presence. What a brave little guy.
He was such a Mean Mane Machine tho, but I loved him. ?

cute horse <3 :)

A Southern United States pack really sounds like a lot of fun, with great food and horses too, but I have to ask... why are the South Eastern States known as the South, when the South Western States are known as the South West and aren't there Cow/ranching...folk in some of the northern states, like Wyoming and Montana? :*