What Farming Features Do You Want Most?
I have no idea why farming is so popular. Please tell me what you want about it.
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"Hermitgirl;c-17810209" wrote:"Beardedgeek;c-17809333" wrote:"KathMHughes;c-17809322" wrote:"VeeDub;c-17809293" wrote:
I've no interest at all in a farming pack (or game) of any kind. I've lived and worked on a real-life farm before. It's not what I would call fun.
Yup. My dad grew up on a farm, and when I was a kid we raised a handful of pigs and steers for meat. My only experience at a dairy farm was the day I discovered I'm intensely allergic to dairy!! But I still like 4H displays at county fairs.
Farming is hard work, honest work, and also extremely high tech. Modern farms are more high tech than a modern office, rivaling a modern manufacturing plant with computerized machinery etc. In Sims terms a real, "realistic" farming pack would be closer to the Science career than anything else.
I always get a feeling that people wanting a "farming pack" have a very very different idea of farming, probably based on things like Animal Crossing (even Disney movies are far more realistic about farming than some people's ideas of farming) just birds singing, apple-plucking, maybe maybe some egg-harvesting. No bad harvests, no emergency visits by the vet-truck to try to save the life of a calf (or mercy kill wounded animals), no slaughter, and no workplace accidents. Oh and definitely no killing off a whole barn of cows because of foot and mouth disease outbreak.
I have to say yes I want a better version of farming for a fantasy game. That doesn't mean I don't know the reality of what happens in life or on a farm... and I'm pretty sure many if not most others do too.
They don't have to do industrial farming in the sims. The game is not even suited to that unless you are fine with lots of rabbit holes. I would like subsistence farming, with one or two big animals you can easily take care of within a household and a flock of chickens or geese.
