Old English countryside would be the bees knees. I'd love love love to go pony trekking someday on a visit to the other side of the big pond and visit all those quaint little villages.
Hoping there's horses. Feels like my game is a little incomplete without them. Just finished planting my deck pots (lavender, rosemary, mint, dianthus and an aloe vera) so the timing for this pack seems apropos.
I find the name very clever... Henford could refer to hens, thus some small animals for farming. Bagley... referring to Agnes’ famous handbag!?! I feel like there could be some element of romance combined with the farming. Otherwise why bring Mrs Crumplebottom back in this pack?
That sounds extremely English. I don't know if there's a single place on the planet with a name like 'anything on something' outside of the English parts of the UK (queue the list of a few thousand of them to remind me of my own West-Side Megacity regionalism ).
But when I hear that I think of shows on PBS in the days before the Internet that I'd see older white people of the nicer variety watching. People that had cats, and liked to read books with coffee.
I'm thinking of some place where I'm building a bunch of cottages and filling them up with Elder sims, one fryer, and one semi-retired constable.
Any sim younger than 'adult' would be magnetically repelled from the whole zone.
So the legendary Agnes Crumplebottom is making a return?
I suppose if the EP is rural-England themed, the random sim name generator might get a bunch of new entries relevant to that. Names like Agnes (which might already be in there but I've never seen it. It's also pretty rare in my part of North America so I always mentally associate a name like that with old PBS TV shows).
This EP, if it's what folks are speculating it might be, would definitely NOT be my thing. But we'll see how it shapes up.
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That sounds extremely English. I don't know if there's a single place on the planet with a name like 'anything on something' outside of the English parts of the UK (queue the list of a few thousand of them to remind me of my own West-Side Megacity regionalism ).
It's quite common in many different places... just not all in places where English is the native language. It happens all the time in Germany, for instance Frankfurt am Main or Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm.
It would be cool if it was farming related, maybe a new world with horses? I could recreate my sims 3 family interior decorator turned housewife to a farmer with way too many chillys, I'd take that all the way but if not that's fine too curious though.
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All the sims err'day
So strange that they released the country kitchen kit just a few months before this. There must be another kitchen set coming in the pack, otherwise once again there would be huge backlash about selling content cut from other packs. Adding yet another country kitchen set would lead to less people buying the kit in the future so I don't think that is happening, but I just can't see what other decor style they could use in a world inspired by the English countryside.
I am not overhyping myself, but some of the things I would like to see in UK inspired world with a rural setting would include:
- new harvesting plants (corn, wheat, etc.)
- farmer's market/grocery shopping
- return of picnic baskets
- functional tea sets
- cottagecore aestethics in BB and CAS
- animals like chicken, sheep, llamas, horses (raised them for eggs, wool, horseriding/breeding)
- new kids activities that would make sense for rural setting (treehouses, kid's bike, ...)
- I also think it would be a good pack to add back slow dancing
So strange that they released the country kitchen kit just a few months before this. There must be another kitchen set coming in the pack, otherwise once again there would be huge backlash about selling content cut from other packs. Adding yet another country kitchen set would lead to less people buying the kit in the future so I don't think that is happening, but I just can't see what other decor style they could use in a world inspired by the English countryside.
Well, they did this other way around, and I will say it's a smarter move. I guess there will be only a few players who won't buy a whole EP only because a kitchen set was cut out of it, no matter how critical people will be. Farming is a highly requested theme.
I find the name very clever... Henford could refer to hens, thus some small animals for farming. Bagley... referring to Agnes’ famous handbag!?! I feel like there could be some element of romance combined with the farming. Otherwise why bring Mrs Crumplebottom back in this pack?
When you rearrange the letters in "Henford on Bagley," you get Be Dragon, Hone Fly (referring to being a dragon and mastering flight), or Dragon Feebly Hon, or One Dragon, F. Helby (Helbey being a rare English/Bengali name, F being their first initial - like how we got A & A Crumplebottom), or Dragon, Fone Helby. ("Fone" is recognized in several dictionary sites as slang and respelling of the word "phone.")
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The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
I'm wondering who the second A Crumplebottom is, the 1st being Agnes?
My memory of this is a little fuzzy, but didn't younger Agnes in TS3 have a sister in the same household, possibly one whose name also started with "A"?
Fairy folk live in realms in which time is different to ours.
Let's say on the 11th of April 2019 I'm about to post a letter to my Aunt. I'll call her Aunt Abigail for the sake of this story.
On my way to the nearest post box I get distracted by the sound of bells 'n giggles and all of a sudden I notice twinkling lights inside a ring of toadstools. I step into the ring and
*POOF*!
I find myself in a fairy realm. (This actually happened to me many times...)
So I wander around for a bit, have some good times with the wee folk and drink from buttercups full of honeydew before I decide to go home and tell everybody about this awesome place. But wait! Here's this friendly fairy examining the letter in my hand and he says:
"Sure,why don't ye give that to me and I'll post it for ya."
And I say: "Are you sure now?"
And the wee lad says: "Sure sure nay worries at all at all! It'll arrive at the destination the moment ye get home."
And I say: "Grand so, cheers" and I hand over the letter to him and leave.
That little visit lasted give or take... 45 minutes or so?
But here's the thing:
Once home, I will realize that the world isn't the same as the one before I stepped through Toadstool Portal.
In fact, I ask the sweet old lady sitting on that bench over there what day and time it is and she answers:
"Why of course my dear boy, it's the 7th of June 2021."
At that very moment my postcard drops onto Aunt Abigail's old doormat...
@CAPTAIN_NXR7 will the fairies in game have Irish accents too? 🤭 and we'll done on spotting the water wheel 😁
Horses are something I do not think we will get, they would be a bit like cars really... where ya gonna ride them to in a closed world? If you owned a horse you'd need an awfully large lot to keep it on!
Maybe they will actually fix the gardening bug in time for this pack release...
I hope we at least get chickens and cows, with eggs, butter churning, cheese making and non-blue milk 😛
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I want one so badly, I hope we will get one. We have a watermill in Windenburg, but it's part of the world.
Hoping there's horses. Feels like my game is a little incomplete without them. Just finished planting my deck pots (lavender, rosemary, mint, dianthus and an aloe vera) so the timing for this pack seems apropos.
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That sounds extremely English. I don't know if there's a single place on the planet with a name like 'anything on something' outside of the English parts of the UK (queue the list of a few thousand of them to remind me of my own West-Side Megacity regionalism
But when I hear that I think of shows on PBS in the days before the Internet that I'd see older white people of the nicer variety watching. People that had cats, and liked to read books with coffee.
I'm thinking of some place where I'm building a bunch of cottages and filling them up with Elder sims, one fryer, and one semi-retired constable.
Any sim younger than 'adult' would be magnetically repelled from the whole zone.
I suppose if the EP is rural-England themed, the random sim name generator might get a bunch of new entries relevant to that. Names like Agnes (which might already be in there but I've never seen it. It's also pretty rare in my part of North America so I always mentally associate a name like that with old PBS TV shows).
This EP, if it's what folks are speculating it might be, would definitely NOT be my thing. But we'll see how it shapes up.
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-New harvestables
-Chicken coop
-Cow dairy
-Goat corral
-Sheep corral
-Greenhouses
-Composting bin
-Horses
-Butter churn
-Nectar making
-Forging
-Sewing or weaving
-Canning station
-Attic tool for build
-Pizza oven
More room for all these sims in my rotation to spread out.
Don't forget the llamas.
It's quite common in many different places... just not all in places where English is the native language. It happens all the time in Germany, for instance Frankfurt am Main or Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm.
All the sims err'day
- new harvesting plants (corn, wheat, etc.)
- farmer's market/grocery shopping
- return of picnic baskets
- functional tea sets
- cottagecore aestethics in BB and CAS
- animals like chicken, sheep, llamas, horses (raised them for eggs, wool, horseriding/breeding)
- new kids activities that would make sense for rural setting (treehouses, kid's bike, ...)
- I also think it would be a good pack to add back slow dancing
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The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
My memory of this is a little fuzzy, but didn't younger Agnes in TS3 have a sister in the same household, possibly one whose name also started with "A"?
Here's my theory:
Fairy Folk.
Fairy folk live in realms in which time is different to ours.
Let's say on the 11th of April 2019 I'm about to post a letter to my Aunt. I'll call her Aunt Abigail for the sake of this story.
On my way to the nearest post box I get distracted by the sound of bells 'n giggles and all of a sudden I notice twinkling lights inside a ring of toadstools. I step into the ring and
*POOF*!
I find myself in a fairy realm. (This actually happened to me many times...)
So I wander around for a bit, have some good times with the wee folk and drink from buttercups full of honeydew before I decide to go home and tell everybody about this awesome place. But wait! Here's this friendly fairy examining the letter in my hand and he says:
"Sure,why don't ye give that to me and I'll post it for ya."
And I say: "Are you sure now?"
And the wee lad says: "Sure sure nay worries at all at all! It'll arrive at the destination the moment ye get home."
And I say: "Grand so, cheers" and I hand over the letter to him and leave.
That little visit lasted give or take... 45 minutes or so?
But here's the thing:
Once home, I will realize that the world isn't the same as the one before I stepped through Toadstool Portal.
In fact, I ask the sweet old lady sitting on that bench over there what day and time it is and she answers:
"Why of course my dear boy, it's the 7th of June 2021."
At that very moment my postcard drops onto Aunt Abigail's old doormat...
I could live with 14, though I would certainly love more. 10 would be deeply disappointing.
Horses are something I do not think we will get, they would be a bit like cars really... where ya gonna ride them to in a closed world? If you owned a horse you'd need an awfully large lot to keep it on!
Maybe they will actually fix the gardening bug in time for this pack release...
I hope we at least get chickens and cows, with eggs, butter churning, cheese making and non-blue milk 😛