The sims 4 Cottage Living Negativity thread.

"Akl500P;c-17906000" wrote:
My only currently concern is that it’ll be locked to the new world.

Lol that would be a bonus for me

"candyboot;c-17906212" wrote:
They could have done farming better.

They went with a Disney version of farming

"momboqueen;c-17907043" wrote:

"candyboot;c-17906212" wrote:
They could have done farming better.

They went with a Disney version of farming

yeah the Snow White Wanna be gave that away in the trailer. :)

"Atreya33;c-17906082" wrote:
I usually try to avoid negativity threads but this issue deserves to be mentioned here. https://i.imgur.com/Tcuhr8d.png
This makes me more angry than the kit cash grabs. Urging people to buy before a certain date... . Disgusting. Too bad because the bike looks cute. :'(

They have to pull this squeeze play by September because 4 is probably coming to an end making way for 5.

Honestly love most of the pack but I really wish the picnic baskets worked on the floor. That's kind of the whole point.

Also I think neighborhoods should always have at least 5 lots. The world really needed 15 lots minimum.

Is there a chance fairies just didn't show up in the trailer? Maybe they're a secret/surprise?

"JemmaTheSimmer;c-17906568" wrote:
I can live with no horses as they're a lot of work and I'd want them to be more fleshed out.

My one gripe is the world. Partly as they've reused too many trees from Willow Creek which makes it too USA like/same-y. They confirmed on twitter there are only 12 lots, 3 neighbourhoods with 4 each. One more than Del Sol Valley... I know it's rural so less lots makes sense but I was hoping for more. Tbh I wish all worlds had more lots though.

The first thing I said when people got the post cards is that it looks like Willow Creek and it really gives me those vibes.

"To7m;c-17906299" wrote:

"haneul;c-17906233" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17906072" wrote:
It would be awful if they don’t let us cook the rabbits, cows, and chickens!

I can't tell if you're serious, but the dev team already said they would never allow that. The rabbits are wild creatures to befriend, the chickens produce eggs, and the cows milk. That's all.

Never allow what? Cooking? You realise FARMING is raising animals, crops and usually diary products for consumption, right?

Not that this is a farming pack. It’s not. I want a farming pack. This is living in a cottage in the woods picking flowers and growing vegetables while having a few chickens pack.

—T

I am happy we're getting anything at all, but I had free roaming livestock in mind. Couldn't they have at least made it to where you could put more than one cow in a stall and mated them. So many cows to a stall before you have to sell or just keep what you have. I also had wanted pigs. I was afraid they would concentrate on everything but the real farm outside. No tractor? Do we even already have corn and if not why not now? Everything in the Sims4 is tied to something. Birds, rabbits ect. We can't control cats and dogs, but they take up a space; that wasn't fair. I wanted barbed wire and electric fences and still hoping for that and hopefully that's one of the deaths they are talking about, but afraid we will be stuck to a wood fence, which we already have some. Wouldn't care to get a new one if I knew the barbed and electric were coming too.

The pack makes it look farmy, but not much actual farming going on. I wanted real cows out in a fenced area, even if it was a box type area with invisible boundries. Plopping down several of those instead of outbuildings would've been more realistic. It looks nice in the video, but I had wanted to buy/sell animals, breed them and have young, and grow my farm. I can see now as in the Sims3 that you needn't dream as big as the farm games that focus on farming that they sell other places. Sims 3 did such great things with horses and unicorns, but 4 is extremely limited. I'm having fun with the decorating GP and I enjoy many parts of Sims4, but I really miss the realness of the Sims3, the open world, collecting bugs ect., having small animals, real aquariums. I guess dreams of having any real farm will have to wait for Sims 5 or better and let's face it, Sims 5 won't be worth making if it isn't open world because obviously you need that for roaming animals and many other things.

I liked much of what I saw, but much of it could've come in other packs and this one focusing just on farming. So bummed the cows are stuck and no pigs. Why not leave woodland animals for a petting zoo pack and instead put in sheep and pigs? I know I will enjoy doing more and having the new EP, but like you, it wasn't what I wanted in a farming pack. This isn't farming, but a woodland pack. Good luck on us ever getting the goats and pigs. Maybe they will come in with horses or something. I'm looking foward to the new play but bummed it couldn't have been about real farming. Maybe there will be more like the fences I want. I'd rather have had the pigs and goats than fairies, but hoping we're getting them since we know for sure there aren't pigs and goats. I'm not a fairy type person, but I play limitedly with them in the Sims 3 and thought they were beautiful. At least if there in this pack, they won't waste a GP on them in the future. Mixed bag for me, but still liked what I saw. Just not what I dreamed and hoped for.

Not enough lots seems to be a running theme now in EPs, to the point that I wasn't expecting another Windenberg. My concern would be how many of those lots are taken up by "must have" lots. Like, Henford seems to have a bar, because it's not a Sims world without at least one bar, but at least having a village pub makes sense here. But if the 64x64 lot is the town square where all the contests and markets happen, and there's the bar, and if those ruins count as another lot (especially if they're a specialty lot like all those lots in Windenberg), then we're down to nine.

The lack of horses and faeries is disappointing. I would have liked either, even if faeries were fairly shallow like mermaids or aliens. Horses, okay, animating horse riding and all is pretty involved, so many there should be an Equestrian Life pack. But faeries? Even if we get a full faeries pack, EA isn't going to research fairy lore from around the world, make different types of fae, have a mechanic where they steal children or anything like that. They'll be humans with pointy ears, a longer lifespan, maybe wings, some special abilities.

"Gordy;c-17906024" wrote:
I'm worried there will be a Farmstead lot type, like the Haunted House lot type. And the animals, or at least the bigger ones, are tied to them. So you can have farms in all words, but you won't be able to keep cows in an apartment. Which would be lame because I want my eccentric rich sims to have a penthouse farmhouse.

I heard that the chickens, llamas and cows were tied to a little barn type thing, so you might possibly be able to put them in a penthouse with tall walls…. Good question to ask the guru’s. The rabbits I think may be able to be used in other worlds after you get to know them, as I think they might be tied to a tree stump with a hole, but I think I heard you have to get to know them first….. not sure exactly how that works, but I’m thinking you may be able to put a stump in your yard anywhere after meeting them and building a relationship. The foxes are not playable but they can take chicken eggs. You can have up to 8 chickens in a coup, and only one lama or one cow per barn, jam making in part of the cooking skill. None of the snimals take a spot in the sims panel and are not reslly considered pets, but you can bond with them.