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Origin #: madebymionax
If ladders is a build mode item, then it will be patched because all build mode has to be patched in. But if it's buy mode, then it probably will come with the pack but I don't believe it's up to us to decide what should or shouldn't get patched in.
In the trailer, there’s a sim playing with chicks next to a coop.
My sims will live in it as-is, lol. I've been craving a run down town or poor neighborhood. This is perfect. Of course, I'll have a sim 'make the world a better place' every now and then but I'll probably keep it looking rough most of the time.
It seems likely to me that the world condition will be something of a progression and not binary. So, you may still may be able to have some grime and trash without it being a toxic field of death flies.
Other than that there's a lot I'm interested in.
For the first time in TS4.
My thoughts are: is this the Strangerville version of Sulani with University, Tiny Living and Nifty Knitting gameplay worked into one?
Are we ever gonna get cows? Pigs? Chickens? Will they be the sole selling point of their packs?
Is this supposed to be a hobby pack? Are there 2 or 3 jobs? Is this online store not already coming with the knitting pack? It sounds the same?
Is it a coincidence that the knitting pack looks like it was .. cut out from this pack? Even though we knew about it first? Actually, is it weird that many things from the pack votes sound like they could've fit into this?
So many questions.
So overall it looks excitingly gritty, dismayingly cutesy, and yes...a Capitalist's idea of saving the environment through prettification because as long as it LOOKS nice, it IS nice, right? Group Hugs!
But there are some really cool things in there that make me want to get it: Northern Lights (I have seen them!), did someone say there was worm composting? Because if so, they actually included some real activities of value, and windmills, someone objected to as killing birds...there are such things as bird-safe designs of windmills, but they don't look iconic like the fan-blade ones so of course the game would depict what everyone thinks of...but even if they were fan-blade ones, the thing about that is, the net gain is still there for birds and every other form of life, of that much less carbon emission.
Shipping container houses? Cool. I would love it if bermed houses were also an option. And not just windmills, but solar, tidal, and geothermal...if they didn't include any of that, this really should have been just a stuff pack..because picking up trash is really the most trivial part of change that matters: stopping generating all the trash, fundamentally steering a new course AWAY from the endless fixation on shopping, new stuff, FASHION INDUSTRY (does anyone even care how extremely toxic and wasteful the entire system is of promoting materialism when it comes to clothing? Fashion itself as a concept is just about the most excessive and predatory industry! It's every bit as bad as cubic miles of plastic toys at boxmarts! Yet everyone can't wait to see all those cute outfits and new ways their Sims can have overstuffed closets and homes! And oh, all the LAUNDRY to do! so fun!!!!! (shoot me now!)
The irony is rich and bitter.
Candles are environmentally friendly? Really?!
Well, if it has more than 5 buildable lots, and more of an idea of real change than just how to repurpose our glut of garbage while continuing to manufacture it in the first place and continue to embrace fundamentally hypocritical worldviews of making everything Pretty and Feeling Virtuous while going out and buying all the cute Stuff, great.
At least if it has a realistic ugly side of city life, it will be very valuable for story settings, homeless challenges, that sort of thing.
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
EA: here you go, WORMS
Simmers:
Anyways my only positive is the gringy world. I will keep it a crappy world and it can be one of my ghettos. So a big part of the expansion making it "green", I don't even want to change LOL
waiting for a sale....there is a candlemaking mod out if I really want it now.
Why didn't they show this in the trailer??? I think they also didn't show that there's soda making?
I love that cardboard playhouse for kids! Hate the white chair though haha!!