Cottage living, wish it had...

I think there should have been, in no particular order:

- afternoon tea as a social activity and a working china tea set. Also option to order afternoon tea in restaurants and pubs.
- sheep, butter, tweed weaving and clothes
- football playing on the festival ground
- a dog show on the festival ground
- an antiques flea market on the festival ground
- a farmers market day, on the festival ground, when sims could go and and buy and sell vegetables and fruits, preserves and honey, cheese and baked breads.

I wish cottage living had:
- fairies, why bother adding a vent and a stained glass window with a butterfly/fairy wings and no fairies? Just to give false hope to occult players?
- picnic baskets to be used on the grounds, not just benches
- functional tea set. After all these years a new tea set would be welcome and it would really fit the theme
- more canning recipes
- multiple cows or lama's in one shed, like the chickens and two or three different looking sheds,one of them perhaps even looking a bit more modern
- a way to produce flour and sugar ourselves. Wheat to be planted on a garden plot and then grinded to flour or sent off to a rabbit hole mill by post. Similar thing with sugar beets to get sugar.

"Atreya33;c-18022785" wrote:
I wish cottage living had:
- fairies, why bother adding a vent and a stained glass window with a butterfly/fairy wings and no fairies? Just to give false hope to occult players?
- picnic baskets to be used on the grounds, not just benches
- functional tea set. After all these years a new tea set would be welcome and it would really fit the theme
- more canning recipes
- multiple cows or lama's in one shed, like the chickens and two or three different looking sheds,one of them perhaps even looking a bit more modern
- a way to produce flour and sugar ourselves. Wheat to be planted on a garden plot and then grinded to flour or sent off to a rabbit hole mill by post. Similar thing with sugar beets to get sugar.

YES!!! I don't even bother with the picnics because they keep popping off the benches and don't even sit and eat together really. It was poorly executed in my opinion.

I'd wish for it to have bull's calf's and a way to use the animals for meat I wanted a real farming pack not "Cottage Living" I never wanted a single cow locked to a barn that's not fun at all. The only thing done decently is the chicken's I'm truly surprised they added a rooster there's actually a little game play with them as they can have babies and do many random things unlike the solo cow locked to the ugly barn about as fun as the bassinet they call a baby.

The world is also way to small I end up not even using it such a disappointment.

Some great suggestions! I grew up on a hog farm and would've loved to have them in Cottage Living, especially piglets! We even had one for a pet for awhile until he grew too big to be in the house. He was the runt of a litter that my sister and I saved from certain death. His name was Charlie. :) Anyway, just think how cute it would be to have piglets running around. Would be cool too if they got a mud pond to loll around in, and perhaps our Sims could fall in it too. :D

Other things I wish CL had was canning other produce besides just making jams/conserves. I'd love it if our Sims could can veggies/fruits to use in recipes. I know they can use the jams/conserves in recipes, but to me, that's not really 'canning' that's making jams and jellies. I'm talking about canning things such as green beans, tomatoes, peaches, pears, etc. Should've added a few other harvestables too, for instance, what's a farm without sweet corn? Would've loved peach trees and rhubarb too. Ever had a strawberry/rhubarb pie? Delicious! :)

One last thing that some might find a bit gross, but they missed the boat not adding 'cowpies' in the barnyard for our Sims to step in. Everyone talks about more realism, now that would be very realistic! They already can step in dog poo, so why not eh? ;)

Happy Simming! <3

"Elisdream;c-18025096" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-18024787" wrote:
I wanted a real farming pack not "Cottage Living"

I agree, I think the idea of a Cottage village with foxes and bunnies wandering around is cute enough for its own pack - maybe a fairy themed pack inspired on the UK- but they used it instated for not having to work big on a farm inspired pack, and just give us a few animals-objects with that excuse.

What you want is an American style ranch/farm. Choosing to do a different type of Cottage farm not based in the good old USA isn’t being lazy. It’s that diversity simmers also claim they want. We complain about the game being too American in one breath, then complain that it’s not American enough in the other. The easy way out would be to give us yet another FarmVille plant/harvest/wash/rinse/repeat pack. Instead they decided to go with a totally different storybook cottage farm vibe. I personally would not have bought the Old McDonald pack, but I bought Cottage Living precisely because it was a different type of countryside depiction.

I think with CoL having been such a success, there should be room for another similar themed
pack, preferably including horses.

I definitely would have liked a Fae presence because the world has mystery and whimsy. Although I think they would have been very shortchanged and in the long run, I really want a variety of Fae beings, Seelie and Unseelie, not just tiny winged princesses.

In addition, I would have liked a scheduled tea time and I also really wanted the ability to create a petting zoo for community lots so Sims could visit with the fam and feed goats and pat llamas and have pony rides for the kids and toddlers.

@cyncie: That is indeed quite likely. Horses were already aimed to be included in Cats and Dogs until they felt they deserve their own Pack - which they do. EA could keep on adding stuff for kids and toddlers and include them, too.
They've been hinting at an Equestrian Pack since long. I actually think it's already in development, but will take 2 or 3 years from start to finish.

"Elisdream;d-995704" wrote:
-Same thing with llamas. I get that it's funny but I don't really play with them. I'd love the option to get a sheep instead for wool.

Same here. Yes, llamas are the signature animals of TS4, but they look so out of place in any world that isn't Oasis Springs or Selvadorada, and you can't even live in the latter. I have the royal family from Frozen in my game, with a llama as the reindeer Sven because I really didn't want to make him a cow, and that's also the reason my versions of Anna and Elsa enjoy knitting and stitching, respectively, but other families who want to do that just have to buy the wool instead of producing their own.

Also, it would be nice to have more barn models than just the one we got. Not that I don't like it, but like the llama, it doesn't fit in everywhere. Again with my Frozen family, they live in one of the premade Yukimatsu homes, there's Japanese architecture all around them, but then the barn looks the way it does, and it's weird. Granted, I've never been to a real Japanese farm and don't know what they look like, but I would appreciate matching styles.

Last but not least, I wish there was an easier and more reliable way to get the recipes for golden and midnight treats than participating in every fair there is, taking first place and hoping the reward will be worth it, not just something you already have, like the strawberry milk I won recently.