How's the Cottage Living so far?

> @Evilyn_1007 said:
> The bugs I've encountered is the pub owner not manning the bar. She was at the pub and labeled as pub owner but their was another sim at the bar.

This one is currently annoying me, as I need to order a special drink from her in order to complete an errand. I'm also having trouble interacting with foxes.

That being said, I'm having a ton of fun with this pack! I'm surprised, because I was a little disappointed when they announced it. (I'm kind of sick of all of these country-themed packs.) It really is great, though!

Def my favourite expansion so far. Im generally more of a builder but Ive been loving the gameplay, it feels really realistic in that the farming aspects are time consuming and hard work!
Also the weather is depressingly British, so much rain. It made me laugh the other day when my sim was out walking her dog when it started to pour down....she just changed into her swimsuit and kept walking!LOL

Good... But buggy... Pets are just gone from the household manager. The foxes are in the household but stretched and deformed. The food delivery service is broken... And I didnt play much... :(

I've been loving it. It goes straight to my second favorite EP right after Cats & Dogs. I've played it in two different saves. Yesterday I played with a family of parents, two children and a cat and today I played with a single woman.

I don't have any mods and I haven't had any other bugs or glitches but the weird new teleporting bug that also other players have mentioned and the old plants reverting to dirt piles bug that seems to be impossible to fix.
There hasn't been any more lag than the usual in HoB, which is great, I was afraid of it because I saw some early access videos with lag issues even though the game changers have powerful computers and they played only with Cottage Living and base game.

I'm very happy with this EP, there is so much to do and it's challenging. My Sim that I played with today didn't have money to buy ingredients for food and she was only able to get eggs from her chicken. I thought she was going to starve and I had to take her to another world to dig some collectibles to sell.

Is anyone else having bugs with errands? I had to deliver mushrooms, and couldn't, even though they were in my bag. Now I'm stuck trying to encourage two sims to flirt - I've seen then share roses, they say they're in love, and it just won't register. I've restarted the errand 3 times with different sims and it will not work!https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/992111/hows-the-cottage-living-so-far/p2#

I can't find a bug thread for cottage living. With Seasons "Hunt for Egg" holiday tradition won't complete because she keeps finding various chicken eggs instead of the collectibles

"ksmiss_137;c-17940942" wrote:
I can't find a bug thread for cottage living. With Seasons "Hunt for Egg" holiday tradition won't complete because she keeps finding various chicken eggs instead of the collectibles

I get that too, chicken eggs of various colour and a couple chocolate ones. They also broke restaurants, in that the chefs wait on the sidewalk and will only enter kicthen when they need to cook. Cafes are also broken, if customers and barista show up, no one orders any coffee or pastries anymore. Customers also tend to wait on the sidewalk outside before entering the cafe and the barista tends to dissappear after showing up.

I'm going to agree with the "good but challenging" opinions.

I thought I was ready to go for the new pack with a couple of families in a couple of saves that I could move in. Thing is, the empty homes in HOB are either too small or too expensive, and I didn't want to quickly slap together a crummy house that could house a family of six. So I started a fresh game and moved a single sim, Greta, into Cordelia's cottage.

Between gardening, trying to befriend the local wildlife, and running errands for townsfolk, Greta's days were pretty full. She only just got a boyfriend and got him to move in with her because during the Night On The Town holiday (which I didn't check the calendar to see coming up and delete it) she decided to go out to a restaurant instead of cooking for herself (and using her ingredients), and she got flirty with one of the waiters. I think I'm going to give him a standard job so he can bring in more income than she's making running errands and selling plants. Befriending the local songbirds is cool, but not really a viable career path, sadly.

I'm still waiting for my blueberries to come in so I can clear an errand. I had two blueberries and one errand that required one and one that requires four, so I planted one and now I wait. (I had a couple of errands that required 18 eggs between them, and rather than wait on my chickens, I solved that one with a grocery order, even though that basically ate my profits.)

I did have one weird thing happen, which I mentioned over in the thread about wildlife interacting with pets. I think it might be the result of a mod, maybe MCCC, interacting weirdly with the wildlife since they're not quite sims and not quite pets. The new boyfriend in my game? He lived in Newcrest but when he went to move in, he'd adopted one of the elderly foxes that liked to hang around my lot. I'm really not sure if that's supposed to be possible. I moved him (and the fox) in, and now I have *some* control over the fox. I can select him as the active sim and have him move around. The game wants to be able to feed him from a dog bowl, but when I have my sims go to fill the bowl and call him to dinner the command disappears from the queue before it's executed.

"Wrenry;c-17940294" wrote:
Having fun especially with the new Simple Living lot challenge, never thought I’d be so happy for the Welcome Wagon’s fruit cake when starting out, but kinda irked that your sim has to know about fish before they can stock it if you make your own fishing hole to use.

Those fish discoveries from chatting to neighbours about local fishing spots actually have a function for sims that don't fish now. Everyone can add their discoveries to ponds on community lots or homes they visit, so you only need one sim in a save to find each rare fish.

"Lalaskye;c-17940936" wrote:
Is anyone else having bugs with errands? I had to deliver mushrooms, and couldn't, even though they were in my bag. Now I'm stuck trying to encourage two sims to flirt - I've seen then share roses, they say they're in love, and it just won't register. I've restarted the errand 3 times with different sims and it will not work!https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/992111/hows-the-cottage-living-so-far/p2#

Yes, I'm definitely finding that some of the errands are bugged. For example, I was stuck forever on the one where the last step is selling four watermelons. I must have sold 12 watermelons before it would recognize it as complete; I kept having to regrow watermelons to get more to sell. Sometimes instead of having 3 Henford heart to hearts, I have to do five or six.

Plus the mayor always seems to be missing; the only time I can ever find her is usually, but not always, during the festivals.