I was wondering if the Cottage Living Pack would make the Farmland mod moot and from this video it doesn't. This modder - Arnie, the Sims Plus has created a beautiful mod. He has a drivable tractor and riding horses. The world is open.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV8pGHfqCkELooking at all the animations he created for farming, it is disheartening that EA didn't do this stuff. Like just take what they did in TS3 store & packs and create a ROBUST farming pack. Would be great if EA would create a world for this Farming Mod pack and just fold it into Cottage Living. This modder proves that you can have a semi-open world, which is what TS4 should have. Now I wonder what impact it will have on performance.Your thoughts?

@troshalom Have you played with this mod?

Thank you for linking this video! I had heard of this mode before, but somehow was under the impression that it was very story focused, what is something I tend to run away from very quickly in games. I also don't miss open world/don't mind loading screens, so I didn't expect this mod to be something I could warm up to. Boy, was I wrong :o Everything about the mod looks very involved, with options for different playstyles (use a preset or customize, use a tractor or have your family do the work by hand etc.). I'm at the point in the video where he says that we can buy all the components, the crop lanes, the animals, even the horses on every lot we want. This basically puts my worries as a rotational player and sandboxer to rest, because all through the video the gameplay seemed so centered on the new world and on a single sim (or at least single household) playstyle. I'd loved to see more about how horses route in other worlds and, although this is a very rude thing to say, seeing that Eden Hills is such a work of love, I wish the modder would release the farming objects and gameplay seperately from the new world and storymode, sort of a "light" version of the mod. (I also need a week long Seasons trial, because the mod requires the Seasons EP (along with C&D), but that's not a problem of the mod, but of me personally.)

"glory_joy;c-17933908" wrote:@troshalom Have you played with this mod?Yes, I want to know too. Because I saw a conversation on here, or Twitter I can’t remember which, that said while this is a gorgeous mod with lots of cool features but, that it, like it’s predecessor Brooke Heights that it can cause crashing and freezing and other issues that the modder doesn’t really address because they’ve moved on to another mod.

@troshalom The seasons being different (or rather: clearly defined) for each world is actually my major gripe with the EP. In my main save basically no world is more than an hour drive away from the others (except for Sulani and Selvadorada, obviously) and the game insisting on my city having five or so different climates would be very jarring. There are more, smaller problems, but they add up and so I'd really love to get my hands on a trial version to see how annoying I find it in actual gameplay. You never know, what sounds insufferable on paper might be hardly noticeable in practise (or tweaked with cheats).

@MoonfoxNightcry I think so. I believe he said he would be updating it and releasing a Cottage Living version. If you get this mod back up your entire game and play with a new save. If you want to play sims you already have save them to the gallery and download them. I only say that because he is changing quite a bit of code in the game and if something goes wrong you can rebuild your game and replace it with your backup.@EnkiSchmidt It is not as you describe, the weather is a bit more nuanced. For instance in Newcrest, Magnolia Promenade & Willowbrook the weather is similar because they are closer, so if it is snowing in one of those places it should be snowing in the other places. You travel to Windenburgh it will still be snowing, or maybe raining because it is further away, you can tell by the foliage that they aren't close to each other. So if it is winter and it is snowing in San Myshuno, Windenburg, Brindleton Bay, Newcrest and you are done with it go to the Desert, Oasis Springs or Del Sol Valley, or Sulani and it won't be snowing. If you don't like the weather that day, there is an object you can purchase in build buy to change the weather to whatever you want that day. So if you are having a wedding outside and it rains, you can change the weather. You can also look at the calendar and see the weather for the week to better plan.Yeah and it rains a lot in Windenburg so if you are into gardening that is a great place to have a garden and not worry about watering, meanwhile Oasis Springs isn't so great, your plants will certainly die in the heat without constant watering, hence the sprinkler system.BTW your city won't have 5 or so different climates. There are four seasons. If you travel across Newcrest the weather will be the same across all of Newcrest. But I wouldn't say that all of the worlds are an hour away from each other. Which worlds do you have?Watch some early lets play on YouTube to get a feel. I think the implementation of Seasons is realistic and I enjoy it in my game. I own TS2, TS3 and TS4 and I think TS4 is the best implementation of Seasons.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XWyPgUCm4

Farmland Mod & Cottage Living Pack 🐎 🦙

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TerryCorvus
Rising Rookie
5 years ago
It is tragic how quickly the trailer for Cottage Living (June 10th) came out after the announcement of this mod (June 8th). We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope... Arnie did the Sims community a huge kindness by creating this mod and it might be overlooked because of its farming theme. What he did with the semi-open world concept is phenomenal! It deserves a spotlight of its own outside of the farming theme really. Graveyards and Chapels and ACTUAL grocery stores? EA could never.
amapola76
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"TerryKasper;c-17934964 wrote:
"We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope...

Hmmm, I don't remember that happening. Could you point to any specific examples?

As long as it takes them to work on these packs, I find it hard to believe that any guru, knowing full well they were already working on a farming pack, would ever say that it was never going to happen. At most, they might have been coy or ambiguous.
kaiwryplays
5 years ago
"Amapola76;c-17935630" wrote:
"TerryKasper;c-17934964 wrote:
"We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope...

Hmmm, I don't remember that happening. Could you point to any specific examples?

As long as it takes them to work on these packs, I find it hard to believe that any guru, knowing full well they were already working on a farming pack, would ever say that it was never going to happen. At most, they might have been coy or ambiguous.

I agree they even did a Twitter poll for farming so I would find it surprising that ppl were not expecting it
AquaGamer1212
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"TerryKasper;c-17934964" wrote:
It is tragic how quickly the trailer for Cottage Living (June 10th) came out after the announcement of this mod (June 8th). We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope... Arnie did the Sims community a huge kindness by creating this mod and it might be overlooked because of its farming theme. What he did with the semi-open world concept is phenomenal! It deserves a spotlight of its own outside of the farming theme really. Graveyards and Chapels and ACTUAL grocery stores? EA could never.

I don’t think they’ve ever said it wasn’t going to happen. They never do. They have said that the next pack wasn’t going to be farming, or a pack didn’t include cars, etc.

Also those on Console can’t use mods so it’s nice that a farming pack is coming. Honestly I like the look of the items and the animals in the pack.
kaiwryplays
5 years ago
"AquaGamer1212;c-17935663" wrote:
"TerryKasper;c-17934964" wrote:
It is tragic how quickly the trailer for Cottage Living (June 10th) came out after the announcement of this mod (June 8th). We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope... Arnie did the Sims community a huge kindness by creating this mod and it might be overlooked because of its farming theme. What he did with the semi-open world concept is phenomenal! It deserves a spotlight of its own outside of the farming theme really. Graveyards and Chapels and ACTUAL grocery stores? EA could never.

I don’t think they’ve ever said it wasn’t going to happen. They never do. They have said that the next pack wasn’t going to be farming, or a pack didn’t include cars, etc.

Also those on Console can’t use mods so it’s nice that a farming pack is coming. Honestly I like the look of the items and the animals in the pack.

Also I play on pc and have a bunch of mods but I don't like mods that add a new system or smth like that so I'm happy for a pack.
TS1299
5 years ago
Not a fan of Arnie. He is talented and I admire him because of his skills, but he has a record of abandoning his mods (loading screen mod for example) so I don't look much at his mods sadly. That is why I prefer cottage living.
taydevsim
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"TS1299;c-17935764" wrote:
Not a fan of Arnie. He is talented and I admire him because of his skills, but he has a record of abandoning his mods (loading screen mod for example) so I don't look much at his mods sadly. That is why I prefer cottage living.

Same here. He’s honestly incredible, but has even abandoned projects that are much less ambitious than Brooklyn Heights and the Farming mod, for example his world maps mod. I tend to lose faith and back down in financially supporting creators who consistently do this.
troshalom
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Hmm good
"taydev;c-17935812" wrote:
...

Same here. He’s honestly incredible, but has even abandoned projects that are much less ambitious than Brooklyn Heights and the Farming mod, for example his world maps mod. I tend to lose faith and back down in financially supporting creators who consistently do this.

@taydev ahh, I didn't know that. I am shy about massive script mods as I don't want the game to break and with the amount of updates EA throws at us, it just makes me risk adverse. But given the work he put into this mod it is sad to hear that he abandons them after he finishes with them.
TerryCorvus
Rising Rookie
5 years ago
"AquaGamer1212;c-17935663" wrote:
"TerryKasper;c-17934964" wrote:
It is tragic how quickly the trailer for Cottage Living (June 10th) came out after the announcement of this mod (June 8th). We've been told by SimGurus for months over months that a farming pack was NOT going to happen a lot of us already have lost hope... Arnie did the Sims community a huge kindness by creating this mod and it might be overlooked because of its farming theme. What he did with the semi-open world concept is phenomenal! It deserves a spotlight of its own outside of the farming theme really. Graveyards and Chapels and ACTUAL grocery stores? EA could never.

I don’t think they’ve ever said it wasn’t going to happen. They never do. They have said that the next pack wasn’t going to be farming, or a pack didn’t include cars, etc.

Also those on Console can’t use mods so it’s nice that a farming pack is coming. Honestly I like the look of the items and the animals in the pack.

True, right, I think that's where I got my misguided impression- Every time someone asked if the next pack was going to be farming the simgurus said no (I can't find any screenshots, probably because Cottage Living hype is drowning out any mention of a farming pack prior to its announcement)... Anyhow you (and Amapola76) are correct, I don't recall they flat out said it was never happening. My bad.
Babykittyjade
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I'm still waiting for the release of his swim in all worlds mod 84 years later???

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