EP 11 Announcement Coming Thursday 6/10

It would be cool if it was farming related, maybe a new world with horses? I could recreate my sims 3 family interior decorator turned housewife to a farmer with way too many chillys, I'd take that all the way :D but if not that's fine too curious though.

So strange that they released the country kitchen kit just a few months before this. There must be another kitchen set coming in the pack, otherwise once again there would be huge backlash about selling content cut from other packs. Adding yet another country kitchen set would lead to less people buying the kit in the future so I don't think that is happening, but I just can't see what other decor style they could use in a world inspired by the English countryside.

I am not overhyping myself, but some of the things I would like to see in UK inspired world with a rural setting would include:
- new harvesting plants (corn, wheat, etc.)
- farmer's market/grocery shopping
- return of picnic baskets
- functional tea sets
- cottagecore aestethics in BB and CAS
- animals like chicken, sheep, llamas, horses (raised them for eggs, wool, horseriding/breeding)
- new kids activities that would make sense for rural setting (treehouses, kid's bike, ...)
- I also think it would be a good pack to add back slow dancing

I afraid that we will receive a gameplay restricted to the new world, which will be tiny (10-14 lots) and full of fake textures.

I'm wondering who the second A Crumplebottom is, the 1st being Agnes?

"favriel;c-17903310" wrote:
So strange that they released the country kitchen kit just a few months before this. There must be another kitchen set coming in the pack, otherwise once again there would be huge backlash about selling content cut from other packs. Adding yet another country kitchen set would lead to less people buying the kit in the future so I don't think that is happening, but I just can't see what other decor style they could use in a world inspired by the English countryside.

Well, they did this other way around, and I will say it's a smarter move. I guess there will be only a few players who won't buy a whole EP only because a kitchen set was cut out of it, no matter how critical people will be. Farming is a highly requested theme.

"BK747;c-17903248" wrote:
I find the name very clever... Henford could refer to hens, thus some small animals for farming. Bagley... referring to Agnes’ famous handbag!?! I feel like there could be some element of romance combined with the farming. Otherwise why bring Mrs Crumplebottom back in this pack?

When you rearrange the letters in "Henford on Bagley," you get Be Dragon, Hone Fly (referring to being a dragon and mastering flight), or Dragon Feebly Hon, or One Dragon, F. Helby (Helbey being a rare English/Bengali name, F being their first initial - like how we got A & A Crumplebottom), or Dragon, Fone Helby. ("Fone" is recognized in several dictionary sites as slang and respelling of the word "phone.")

"jeepjeepcat;c-17903320" wrote:
I'm wondering who the second A Crumplebottom is, the 1st being Agnes?

My memory of this is a little fuzzy, but didn't younger Agnes in TS3 have a sister in the same household, possibly one whose name also started with "A"?

"simgirl1010;c-17903265" wrote:
The postcard is postmarked for 11/04/2019. Puzzling. ?

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/allisasims/status/1401969438719623170?s=19

Here's my theory:

Fairy Folk.

Fairy folk live in realms in which time is different to ours.

Let's say on the 11th of April 2019 I'm about to post a letter to my Aunt. I'll call her Aunt Abigail for the sake of this story.
On my way to the nearest post box I get distracted by the sound of bells 'n giggles and all of a sudden I notice twinkling lights inside a ring of toadstools. I step into the ring and

*POOF*!

I find myself in a fairy realm. (This actually happened to me many times...)

So I wander around for a bit, have some good times with the wee folk and drink from buttercups full of honeydew before I decide to go home and tell everybody about this awesome place. But wait! Here's this friendly fairy examining the letter in my hand and he says:

"Sure,why don't ye give that to me and I'll post it for ya."

And I say: "Are you sure now?"

And the wee lad says: "Sure sure nay worries at all at all! It'll arrive at the destination the moment ye get home."

And I say: "Grand so, cheers" and I hand over the letter to him and leave.

That little visit lasted give or take... 45 minutes or so?

But here's the thing:

Once home, I will realize that the world isn't the same as the one before I stepped through Toadstool Portal.
In fact, I ask the sweet old lady sitting on that bench over there what day and time it is and she answers:

"Why of course my dear boy, it's the 7th of June 2021."

At that very moment my postcard drops onto Aunt Abigail's old doormat...

"Sthenastia;c-17903318" wrote:
I afraid that we will receive a gameplay restricted to the new world, which will be tiny (10-14 lots) and full of fake textures.

I could live with 14, though I would certainly love more. 10 would be deeply disappointing.