It was another farming hint❣️ This looks AMAZING ❣️ 🐰🦙🐔🦊🐓

Maybe she has a flirty son or daughter she has to keep her eyes on?!

"Peral;c-17904007" wrote:
Maybe she has a flirty son or daughter she has to keep her eyes on?!

Hah, I love the idea of Mrs. Crumplebottom being an over bearing mother! It's so fitting.

I was just thinking, it's set in a small English village, so assuming there are farm/homesteading animals in the pack, I'd be disappointed if they didn't put an Untitled Goose Game reference in there. Just an random NPC goose that terrorises the villagers.

"Monet11;c-17903618" wrote:

Before I get any kind of excited about an EP, let me think of how this could still go down: Maybe sims just go to visit the Crumplebottom farm, instead of doing any actual farming. Maybe they just stay at a lovely little bed and breakfast and buy fresh eggs and milk. Maybe they just buy Crumplebottom Jams and Jellies. Maybe it's just a destination world.

The postcard sent out says you'll be 'joining' them in the village, and they hope you'll enjoy the 'quaint countryside life', which sounds like you'll be living there to me. They also talk about a tourism video, of course, but every residential world is also a holiday destination thanks to the rental lot type from Snowy Escape. I think it'll be residential.

While I have been wanting farming for a really long time, I am concerned that their idea of "farming" is just more gardening. Especially by the reference of the "Garden Stall" on the post card.

When I think of farming, I think of caring and tending to animals, gathering eggs, getting milk, feeding and watering the animals, befriending the animals so the quality of eggs, milk, butter, cream, wool, etc is higher. Not just gardening. We have plenty of that already in the game. What else could we harvest, we can already grow and harvest a TON of fruits and vegetables. What more could they add in a "Garden Stall"? Jams and Jellies?

So I hope that nobody else will be disappointed if the farming part of this EP (if that's what it is) is only geared towards gardening.

That's my fear and I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for anything except gardening so I'm not disappointed by what it's not.

"Gordy;c-17903630" wrote:
M-maybe the reason why we got only one GP last year, and why DHD was so small for a GP, was because they were saving money to make farm animals? And Kits were made to hopefully cover the costs ahead of time, meaning they gave the EP a bigger budget than usual. They knew how angry the fandom has been and how popular farms are, so they did everything they could to ensure the pack's success.

I doubt it, but I can dream.

This! Please. Let's dream

@Chicklet453681
It seems to me that in that "Garden Stall" you could sell everything. Cheese, milk, wool maybe? sausages, I don't think they focus on cultivation, they know that they have this section quite well resolved, they only lack varieties of plants and functions for them but very few if you ask me.

"Chicklet453681;c-17904028" wrote:
watering the animals

the brain image of sim going around with a small watering can watering each and every animal separately :lol: and the animals staying in a nice little flowerbed arrangement around the houses like they are flower bushes or something tastefully placed along the walls of the house

"ChocoSulSul;c-17904045" wrote:
It seems to me that in that "Garden Stall" you could sell everything. Cheese, milk, wool maybe? sausages, I don't think they focus on cultivation, they know that they have this section quite well resolved, they only lack varieties of plants and functions for them but very few if you ask me.

The garden stalls I've seen (I saw some in Suffolk, and passed a couple last week in Dungworth, no - really!) tend to just have eggs. Chicken eggs, goose if you're lucky. The one I saw last offered a dozen eggs for £2, which is a bargain! They're unattended and tend to have an 'honesty box' for you to leave your money. The homes are within farmland, but I'm not sure they were farms per se - just country houses with chickens.

"ChocoSulSul;c-17904045" wrote:

It seems to me that in that "Garden Stall" you could sell everything. Cheese, milk, wool maybe? sausages, I don't think they focus on cultivation, they know that they have this section quite well resolved, they only lack varieties of plants and functions for them but very few if you ask me.

Assuming the garden stall is a thing sims can operate to sell their produce and farm products, hopefully it's not tied to a lot type. So you could set it up on the sidewalk outside a residence to get money from passersby (making it close enough to a kid's lemonade stand that we should probably also get those), but also able to just drop a stall to be operated by an NPC in other locales, so there might be one in a community garden, or a community marketplace could be part farmer's market, or whatever.

"kemowery;c-17904115" wrote:

Assuming the garden stall is a thing sims can operate to sell their produce and farm products, hopefully it's not tied to a lot type. So you could set it up on the sidewalk outside a residence to get money from passersby (making it close enough to a kid's lemonade stand that we should probably also get those), but also able to just drop a stall to be operated by an NPC in other locales, so there might be one in a community garden, or a community marketplace could be part farmer's market, or whatever.

I'm guessing it will function almost exactly like the sales tables we currently have, but have an appearance closer to the food stalls from City Living (just more rustic looking).