The Sims 4 Country Livin'
This just leaked, do you think it's real or fake? https://twitter.com/TheSimCommunity/status/1257399575473766403
Forum Discussion
I'm wary of any pack with "Living" in its title, especially if it's an Expansion Pack. I used to view EPs as sources of new content and features applicable in the entire sim world, like how Seasons adds weather and individual climates to every world, Get Famous introduces many ways of getting famous through jobs and activities from previous packs as well, you can have retail stores everywhere, the same goes for pets, clubs, etc. But both City and Island Living only introduce a new world that you have to live in or at least frequently visit to really get anything out of them, and I'm afraid something like Country Living, if it's even real, would follow the same pattern.
If the main feature happens to be farming, they're going to give us a new world that either has many huge lots to build our own farms on (in which case you could still do that wherever you want, but it would probably look out of place in any other world that isn't the countryside of Windenburg), or the crops and animal farms will be part of the uneditable landscape, and you simply build your house on a lot close to them (in which case the feature is definitely and ultimately tied to the new world). If the main feature are horses, then like others have said before, there's not a lot of space to ride them except for this new world, and everywhere else they would just be animated decoration, much like cats. (Not that there wouldn't be any other ways of making them interesting, but... let's not fool ourselves. This is TS4.)
That's where the idea of occult animal creatures, such as werewolves, comes in. I mean... aren't wolves like the archenemies of farmers, because they eat their livestock and pose a threat to people as well? It's not far-fetched, and if the pack has anything to do with wolves at all, I can imagine it having a light story component similar to StrangerVille, where there's a wolf plague or something like that in the new world, but with the added bonus of a new werewolf state that doesn't depend on anything in the new world like mermaids depend on the ocean in Sulani. And if wolves eating livestock is too brutal for some reason (I mean, we have man-eating cow plants, but whatever...), they could go for magical horses instead (read: unicorns) and make that the feature that somehow transcends the new world.
But so far we don't know anything about this pack, not even if this leak is to be believed, so it might very well be something completely different. I'm looking forward to the official announcement.
If the main feature happens to be farming, they're going to give us a new world that either has many huge lots to build our own farms on (in which case you could still do that wherever you want, but it would probably look out of place in any other world that isn't the countryside of Windenburg), or the crops and animal farms will be part of the uneditable landscape, and you simply build your house on a lot close to them (in which case the feature is definitely and ultimately tied to the new world). If the main feature are horses, then like others have said before, there's not a lot of space to ride them except for this new world, and everywhere else they would just be animated decoration, much like cats. (Not that there wouldn't be any other ways of making them interesting, but... let's not fool ourselves. This is TS4.)
That's where the idea of occult animal creatures, such as werewolves, comes in. I mean... aren't wolves like the archenemies of farmers, because they eat their livestock and pose a threat to people as well? It's not far-fetched, and if the pack has anything to do with wolves at all, I can imagine it having a light story component similar to StrangerVille, where there's a wolf plague or something like that in the new world, but with the added bonus of a new werewolf state that doesn't depend on anything in the new world like mermaids depend on the ocean in Sulani. And if wolves eating livestock is too brutal for some reason (I mean, we have man-eating cow plants, but whatever...), they could go for magical horses instead (read: unicorns) and make that the feature that somehow transcends the new world.
But so far we don't know anything about this pack, not even if this leak is to be believed, so it might very well be something completely different. I'm looking forward to the official announcement.
