Theory: postcard date, significance

I used to live in Baguley Wythenshawe in the UK. It's Europes biggest housing estate (council provided accommidation). Not exactly the lovely little hamlet you want it to be.

"kemowery;c-17903498" wrote:

It's possible we could get horses. I'm hoping we do, and that it's not some weird, walled-off part of the game world where you can only do horse things on a horse lot, which is only found in Henford-on-Bagley. I want my sims in every world to have horses that they ride around the neighborhood on.

See I feel the exact opposite to you, I do NOT want horses running around randomly all over the streets in San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley or anywhere else they don't make any sense. I am hoping that if horses are included that they are confined to rural settings where they make logical sense or it just destroys my game play.

"kokoro80;c-17903799" wrote:

"kemowery;c-17903498" wrote:

It's possible we could get horses. I'm hoping we do, and that it's not some weird, walled-off part of the game world where you can only do horse things on a horse lot, which is only found in Henford-on-Bagley. I want my sims in every world to have horses that they ride around the neighborhood on.

See I feel the exact opposite to you, I do NOT want horses running around randomly all over the streets in San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley or anywhere else they don't make any sense. I am hoping that if horses are included that they are confined to rural settings where they make logical sense or it just destroys my game play.

yeah and also like having it lot type to be placed anywhere i want would be neat cause like we have many worlds that i deem horse friendly already

but horses are usually in certain territory not just jumping at you from the woods like moose so tied to lot (residential or separate horse lot like stables or whatever) makes sense

I also think it's the date they started it. Probably got held back a bit by the pandemic. I know they said it could up to a year or more for expansions.

"kokoro80;c-17903799" wrote:

"kemowery;c-17903498" wrote:

It's possible we could get horses. I'm hoping we do, and that it's not some weird, walled-off part of the game world where you can only do horse things on a horse lot, which is only found in Henford-on-Bagley. I want my sims in every world to have horses that they ride around the neighborhood on.

See I feel the exact opposite to you, I do NOT want horses running around randomly all over the streets in San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley or anywhere else they don't make any sense. I am hoping that if horses are included that they are confined to rural settings where they make logical sense or it just destroys my game play.

I'm not saying wild horses running all over all the worlds. Just that I don't want it to be something like the winter sports/rock climbing in Mt. Komorebi, where you can only do it in specific spots. I want to be able to have a horse ranch in Strangerville or Willow Creek or wherever. I don't want sims to spontaneously spawn horses to ride around on, but if don't want riding or training horses to be a thing you have to go to a specific horse ranch lot to do and nowhere else.

Because my experience is that if I have to send my sims to a particular lot or world to do a thing that has no real benefit other than doing the thing, I won't bother doing the thing.

I'll send sims to Batuu to get droids and lightsabers, maybe to Selvadorada to get collectibles, but I don't send them to Mt. Komorebi to ski or climb mountains or hike, or to Granite Falls at all. I don't go to retail lots to buy things. If we get horses but they're only useful for building a horse riding skill that you can use to ride horses on the horse riding lot, I'm not going to bother with it.

"kokoro80;c-17903799" wrote:

"kemowery;c-17903498" wrote:

It's possible we could get horses. I'm hoping we do, and that it's not some weird, walled-off part of the game world where you can only do horse things on a horse lot, which is only found in Henford-on-Bagley. I want my sims in every world to have horses that they ride around the neighborhood on.

See I feel the exact opposite to you, I do NOT want horses running around randomly all over the streets in San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley or anywhere else they don't make any sense. I am hoping that if horses are included that they are confined to rural settings where they make logical sense or it just destroys my game play.

It seems like the happy medium here would be to treat it like cats & dogs, where you can own one anywhere if you choose, but they only roam free in one specific world.

ETA: this actually gives me an interesting idea... if we don't get horses in this pack, but they come later in a separate pack, it would be really cool to get maybe a game pack based on something like Chincoteague Island (with swimmable water, of course!), or... if we want something non-American, maybe we could get that Spanish pack some people have asked for and have something based partly on Galicia. In other words, something based on a scenic destination in the real world that is known for having wild horses. Those are just the two I'm aware of, I'm sure there are probably other places in the world.

"Amapola76;c-17903903" wrote:


ETA: this actually gives me an interesting idea... if we don't get horses in this pack, but they come later in a separate pack, it would be really cool to get maybe a game pack based on something like Chincoteague Island (with swimmable water, of course!), or... if we want something non-American, maybe we could get that Spanish pack some people have asked for and have something based partly on Galicia. In other words, something based on a scenic destination in the real world that is known for having wild horses. Those are just the two I'm aware of, I'm sure there are probably other places in the world.

Outer Banks. Sable Island. The Camargue. Also New Forest in the U.K. and Exmoor. Course they aren’t ‘wild-wild’. Just feral.

If we get horses, I definitely hope we won't get wild horses. They slowed down game performance in TS3, besides we don't have an open world so any wild animals might get too visible in a TS4 hood. I'd like them for farming and riding purposes, but I will enjoy a farming pack even witrhout horses - in fact they might deserve their own GP.

"Simmerville;c-17904500" wrote:
I'd like them for farming and riding purposes, but I will enjoy a farming pack even witrhout horses - in fact they might deserve their own GP.

Dream Horse Decorator.

I see horses more as a Game pack as on the poll posted some time ago the option was for Equitation rather than horses. "Equitation is the art or practice of horse riding or horsemanship" Wikipedia. More like gaining rosettes or doing competitions like jumping and racing. A farming pack might be useful on the way to getting it.