Farming?
Is there ever going to be a farming style expansion pack like in TS3?
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I think we'll get animals, but it'll be very much in the vein of the bug farms in Eco Living. You buy a CAS item, a sty or pen or something, and you can choose what animals to raise in it for a price, and then you get an animation of those animals in there, but you can't interact with them individually.
Then you can click on the item to refill food, water, etc, maybe 'Check for Illness', and then if you want to milk or shear things, you get an animation like when you nuture a bug in your bug farm, with that specific type of animal, but that's it. Probably also with a meter to show the health/happiness of the animals in the pen, which will go up or down depending on how you treat them. That's not quite as good as having animals roaming around, but I can't see how else they can do it, without adding specific animals to the household like cats and dogs, or just having animal animations roaming all around the lot. I assume it's those models and animations that are making the pack take a while, but personally I don't expect specific individual animals roaming around (much as I would like that).
Then you can click on the item to refill food, water, etc, maybe 'Check for Illness', and then if you want to milk or shear things, you get an animation like when you nuture a bug in your bug farm, with that specific type of animal, but that's it. Probably also with a meter to show the health/happiness of the animals in the pen, which will go up or down depending on how you treat them. That's not quite as good as having animals roaming around, but I can't see how else they can do it, without adding specific animals to the household like cats and dogs, or just having animal animations roaming all around the lot. I assume it's those models and animations that are making the pack take a while, but personally I don't expect specific individual animals roaming around (much as I would like that).
