If he said it was coming Summer 2014, then he must have made the thread sometime in late 2013 to early 2014, you would not make a thread in 2011 about something that is coming in 3 years time, as that is pretty ridiculous. I don't even even think I saw a thread on here about countryside.

I never said he was copying, every other server has this sort of area to be honest, so it is only right Ol' West had something similar, as after all, the sandy desert does get boring after a while.

On a lighter note, here are some ideas:

Hunting would be pretty cool, you could level up and make hats and furniture out of the 'loot' you get from the animals. You could also buy better tools, which you could kill larger and rarer animals with.

Cooking, as someone suggested would be nice too, it could tie in with hunting, as the loot you could get would give you new recipes to cook.

One that has not been suggested yet could be like, horse racing? Where you have to jump over obstacles and get the best time possible, not sure if people would think this is copying Classic, but it'd still be pretty cool.

You could also release simple farm jobs that reward you with gralats, like getting the eggs from the hen house and bringing them somewhere, shearing sheep for wool (again, this could tie in with hunting) and rounding up sheep.

You know what would be cool though? Having different terrains and biomes, like a rock biome, which could tie in with ancient mayan history, you could have artifacts e.c.t., an ice biome and a forest biome. I see you have trees made for those things, so I guess that'd be pretty cool to do.
I think that'd be pretty cool.