Empty countryside in CoL?

"Oldeseadogge;c-17952626" wrote:

"netney52;c-17952517" wrote:

"Oldeseadogge;c-17952088" wrote:
Times have changed, then. I remember when no story set in rural England was complete without at least one fox hunt with all the rich folks in their red jackets, odd hats, and hounds baying as the whole lot charged across the countryside. Must have been an early 20th century and earlier thing.

Yeah times have changed it was a sport amongst the middle/higher/aristocracy/royals classes for a long time and it was outlawed in mid 2000s (can’t remember the exact year) hunts can still take place but the dogs follow a scent trail not foxes. Many illegal hunts take place still. I live in the uk countryside and it was a big part of the culture. Especially Boxing Day hunts. It’s now seen as animal cruelty.

Not surprised. Let's hope fishing isn't next. Covid permitting, I might get over there next summer for school, taking extra time to do the tourist thing, especially the Cotswolds, so that might increase my appreciation for this. Among a lot of other things.

Without derailing the thread too much and breaking the forum rules fox hunting is nothing like fishing and it’s illegal for a reason in the uk and as my initial post said it would and should never be in the game.

Sure they couldve added a few more havestables in the bramble woods (personally I never had any problems finding what I needed tho) but other than that, what else would one do when in the woods/country?
Maybe bird watching...and if the picknic basket would actually let us have a picknic on the ground that would've been cool...
That rabbits and bird trees are limited makes sense to me, irl rabbits run and hide from you, they maybe there but you wont see them, birds are flying or up in a tree not directly in front of you being able to be talked to ;)

What would really be cool if we could hike there, like we can in Mt Komorebi, especially hike with other sims (and dogs).

But you can cloudgaze, take photographs, walk/jog with your dog, play with/train your dog, maybe do yoga if you bring a mat, picknic at the picknic table, pick harvestables, swim in the river, look for frogs, talk to birds and bunnies, watch foxes, go fishing, investigate the snail statue, interact with the creature keeper (talk, buy, trade and order animal clothes)...I feel like that is sufficiant for a rural area.

"83bienchen;c-17951954" wrote:
I would have thought they didn't add more harvestables in the open areas to increase the challenge for the errands. It's difficult though as a lot of people (me excluded) are looking for everything to be available asap. There's been so much rant about people not being able to harvest something they need for their errands that I can only prey they won't nuke the challenge.
Same goes for taking care of crops and animals.

But that's only my personal opinion.

Moreover, there isn't that much to be done in an open rural area or the woods in real life, is there?

I love to think that they also were looking ahead in the future of the Sims 4 and providing rideable areas for horses.

They also added another bike for early buyers and I think these areas are great for biking.

I’m glad harvestable spawns are sparse and sometimes out of season or require you to be in certain places at certain times. It’s realistic if you’re into foraging to have to know where to go and when to go there. Plus so much comes so easy in this game it’s fun to have to strategize a bit to accomplish something.

I love how in Windenburg you have a small area with a couple of apple trees. It gives the illusion of a small "apple tree meadow". Every autumn, I send my sims to collect apples with their family, and after they're done, I have them bake apple pies at home, or gift apples to their families /neighbours. It's a very small detail that I've been enjoying since I started playing the game and that has allowed me to get pretty creative. Sadly, I haven't encountered any other detail like this in any of the recent worlds, including Henford. The community garden is such a lovely idea, but you can't plant anything outside your lot still, so it's kinda sad. Every time I visit it, it's empty, or there are dying plants everywhere that you can't even interact with. I was expecting an area full of different types berries for example, as you say, that would have been a great addition to the world, definitely.

There is an area with 3 lemon trees and 3 cherry trees across from the vacant lot in the upper left corner of the map. Depending on which direction you go, there are various other harvestable plants and some fishing spots.

I have my two colonial families living in Windenburg (I needed the two 64 X 64 size lots). I put the tree trunk home for the rabbits and the small tree that holds the birds on both properties. I build a pond on the first property, but made the mistake, if you will, of starting out in Winter for this game save. So that both families have to deal with the season, it's set to 14 day seasons. I'm now questioning that decision. LOL The pond is frozen over, but there is no skating allowed, which is a shame. But also no fishing. Forget the fact it's not stocked! I really wish the devs hadn't made it a requirement that our Sims must have discovered fish in order to allow those to be stocked. (Sitting her wondering if that pop-down saying so-and-so just learned about a certain fish is what they're talking about?)

Once the festivals begin, I shall send a member from the active household to enter whatever category is up for that time. Had some really rotten luck when I first had my families living in HoB. The festivals would just fizzle out of existence without announcing who won. (Doesn't have to be my Sim, so long as the festival comes to an honest conclusion. Why else did they gather?) Suffer me to say, it really wasn't that much fun. I am disappointed. In the hopes it isn't an actual bug, I did a repair game. When that didn't seem to make an impact, I did a game folder Refresh. Then I began anew, only in Windenburg, instead. We'll see what good comes of it. If I don't find any satisfaction, I may jump back over to my Main save until this bug is fixed. Ho-hum. Just when I thought I'd finally be able to get somewhere with my Ancestral game save, too. ;'(

"Oldeseadogge;c-17952088" wrote:
Times have changed, then. I remember when no story set in rural England was complete without at least one fox hunt with all the rich folks in their red jackets, odd hats, and hounds baying as the whole lot charged across the countryside. Must have been an early 20th century and earlier thing.

Yeah times have changed it was a sport amongst the middle/higher/aristocracy/royals classes for a long time and it was outlawed in mid 2000s (can’t remember the exact year) hunts can still take place but the dogs follow a scent trail not foxes. Many illegal hunts take place still. I live in the uk countryside and it was a big part of the culture. Especially Boxing Day hunts. It’s now seen as animal cruelty.

"netney52;c-17952517" wrote:

"Oldeseadogge;c-17952088" wrote:
Times have changed, then. I remember when no story set in rural England was complete without at least one fox hunt with all the rich folks in their red jackets, odd hats, and hounds baying as the whole lot charged across the countryside. Must have been an early 20th century and earlier thing.

Yeah times have changed it was a sport amongst the middle/higher/aristocracy/royals classes for a long time and it was outlawed in mid 2000s (can’t remember the exact year) hunts can still take place but the dogs follow a scent trail not foxes. Many illegal hunts take place still. I live in the uk countryside and it was a big part of the culture. Especially Boxing Day hunts. It’s now seen as animal cruelty.

Not surprised. Let's hope fishing isn't next. Covid permitting, I might get over there next summer for school, taking extra time to do the tourist thing, especially the Cotswolds, so that might increase my appreciation for this. Among a lot of other things.

@RavenSpit You cannot hike with others but if you are not against mods you could hike alone with Bienchen's mod Nature walk for everyone.

@Ziafar thanks for the tip, unfortunatly I am on console so no mods for me :(