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ck213
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5 years ago

Are You Farming?

Grand Pa's Grove turned out to be the best purchase I've made from The Sims 3 Store.
I use it a lot. The theme was pack worthy.

I don't make traditional farms growing vegetables, eggs, and dairy.
I use my farm for growing the fruit I need for making nectar.

I've recently started a new save for the sims 3 and I am falling back on my usual game play loop
of a sim starting off on a starter lot and working his way up to a grand home-based nectary.
I am playing good ol' Cairo and he started off here.

He works his little garden to increase his gardening skills so he can level up to grow higher level fruits.
He also makes use of a community garden that has the grapes and other fruits he needs. The community garden also has a nectar making
machine in the basement.


This was Cairo's next house.
He got lucky and found some Tiberium for sale at the consignment store. He had enough money to skip over the smaller house I intended for him to buy. This one has a greenhouse and nectar making machines below in a basement, plus a nectar cellar.


His main goal was to earn enough simoleons to buy this property.
He wasn't living here when I took this picture.


Cairo finally earned enough simoleons to buy it.
He has a lot to plant so I juiced him up with an invigorating elixir and put him to work.


This lot was originally intended for sims who owned horses.


I converted the horse barn to be a tractor barn.






The nectar making area is actually under the garage.


Cairo has a wife now and they will work the nectary together.


Only the highest quality fruits go into their nectar blends.
The rest are sold off to the grocery store.


One of their blends is called Excelsior and it requires a lot of lifefruit.


I've sold off the rest of the aged nectar stock made in his old home.
They do have a nice amount of money in the bank, so they are fine as they build up inventory for a fall and winter season of nectar making.


It takes an entire day to harvest the field.


They have 4 machines--3 here and one on the upper level of the tractor barn.


In the spring, I will replant crops and sell off all the old fruit. I should have a full stocked cellar by then.
I sell off the aged nectar 1 case a day to the consignment store. I also make another batch of nectar daily.


By the time they have children, I should have a huge nectar cellar and I will stop making the stuff and slowly sell off what they have made.
I will then just focus on having fun with my Sims 3 pack content and socializing with the sims of Sunset Valley.

19 Replies

  • "BlackSand;c-17649186" wrote:
    Hey @CK213 ... I was wondering since you have such a large farm ...
    I know you use the highest quality fruits in your blends of nectar, but do you produce blends that are not 'Amazing' in taste?

    Happy Simming!

    .


    The irony to that is my sims don't drink it. :*
    I do remember having my sims drink some, but the nectar looks like water.
    It's so immersion breaking to me that I don't have them drink it. It's just a business for them.

    I just enjoy having them, grow the fruit, make the nectar and age it, and then selling it.
  • "CK213;c-17649277" wrote:
    The irony to that is my sims don't drink it. :*
    I do remember having my sims drink some, but the nectar looks like water.
    It's so immersion breaking to me that I don't have them drink it. It's just a business for them.

    I just enjoy having them, grow the fruit, make the nectar and age it, and then selling it.


    That's kind of why I was asking ...
    Because outside of positive buffs, it doesn't matter much what drinking it does ... :D

    However ... The customer seems to think that taste is worth paying for.
    It makes a huge difference in the price you can get per bottle, as well as how well it ages, and increases in value.

    If you make the same type of nectar over and over, it will also decrease in value as you saturate the market.
    So, long story short, I tend to make 10 different 'Amazing recipes and rotate them to keep the price where I want it.

    I was asking because the volume of your garden doesn't seem to support the most profitable approach to nectar making.
    Seem like you have way more produce than is necessary, so I was wondering what the operation was like.

    That's not an insult ... I was just wondering how you operated the nectar business.
    Sorry, but I often learn things just by asking questions.

    Happy Simming!

    .
  • "BlackSand;c-17649289" wrote:
    "CK213;c-17649277" wrote:
    The irony to that is my sims don't drink it. :*
    I do remember having my sims drink some, but the nectar looks like water.
    It's so immersion breaking to me that I don't have them drink it. It's just a business for them.

    I just enjoy having them, grow the fruit, make the nectar and age it, and then selling it.


    That's kind of why I was asking ...
    Because outside of positive buffs, it doesn't matter much what drinking it does ... :D

    However ... The customer seems to think that taste is worth paying for.
    It makes a huge difference in the price you can get per bottle, as well as how well it ages, and increases in value.

    If you make the same type of nectar over and over, it will also decrease in value as you saturate the market.
    So, long story short, I tend to make 10 different 'Amazing recipes and rotate them to keep the price where I want it.

    I was asking because the volume of your garden doesn't seem to support the most profitable approach to nectar making.
    Seem like you have way more produce than is necessary, so I was wondering what the operation was like.

    That's not an insult ... I was just wondering how you operated the nectar business.
    Sorry, but I often learn things just by asking questions.

    Happy Simming!

    .


    I have four blends that I make.
    I really don't care about the profitability because they make more money than they will ever need, especially with selling the excess fruit and investing money in community lots. I'm just into the setting and what they are doing, not the numbers.
  • "CK213;c-17649299" wrote:

    I have four blends that I make.
    I really don't care about the profitability because they make more money than they will ever need, especially with selling the excess fruit and investing money in community lots. I'm just into the setting and what they are doing, not the numbers.


    Lol ... I do the same thing, with more recipes.

    My Sims also invest heavily in upgrading all the community lots.
    When they are done with those, they upgrade other Sims' houses to meet basic requirements, free of cost to the Sim.
    When they are done with that ... They give every teen (or applicable household) in the town, that graduates High School ...
    The equivalent of a complete scholarship to University.

    I don't look at the profit in numbers or margins so to say, as much as in time.
    Producing what is necessary, in the shortest amount of time, that provides the greatest benefit for my Sims and their community.

    Profit means a great deal more than money ... :D
    But I dig what you say about liking the job and the setting.

    .


  • "BlackSand;c-17649307" wrote:
    "CK213;c-17649299" wrote:

    I have four blends that I make.
    I really don't care about the profitability because they make more money than they will ever need, especially with selling the excess fruit and investing money in community lots. I'm just into the setting and what they are doing, not the numbers.


    Lol ... I do the same thing, with more recipes.

    My Sims also invest heavily in upgrading all the community lots.
    When they are done with those, they upgrade other Sims' houses to meet basic requirements, free of cost to the Sim.
    When they are done with that ... They give every teen (or applicable household) in the town, that graduates High School ...
    The equivalent of a complete scholarship to University.

    I don't look at the profit in numbers or margins so to say, as much as in time.
    Producing what is necessary, in the shortest amount of time, that provides the greatest benefit for my Sims and their community.

    Profit means a great deal more than money ... :D
    But I dig what you say about liking the job and the setting.

    .




    Ooh, I've recently had so much fun with that.
    I played a sim that made over sunset valley by buying properties and improving them.
    https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/51/Screenshot-1659.jpg

    https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/51/Screenshot-1786.png

    https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/51/Screenshot-1877.jpg

    I added other community lots and residential lots as his improvements increased.
    https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/51/Screenshot-1817.png

    https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/51/Screenshot-1735.png

    Now that I think about it, that sim started off by growing life fruit and cloning money tree seeds to use as seed money for his real estate investments. :D I was eager to get the town started.

    My current sims are living in a copy of that world.
    Once I've gotten their new home established with a full nectar cellar, I will take more time to enjoy playing in Sunset Valley and interacting with the other sims.

    Story progression has been doing some crazy match-ups, moving sims all over the place.
  • I'm currently farming in my Oakley Legacy Save. My founding couple, Dennis and Iris, has mastered the Gardening Skill. Iris sells the Normal Quality Produce she and Dennis, while the remaining produce is either used in cooking, sold or used in nectar making. Currently I am planning to allow the current plants in the garden to die off before I start replacing them. I will remove the produce Bede has in his inventory once he is a Young Adult. I am hopeful by the time the Save reaches the Third Generation, the Household will have Perfect Quality plants.
  • @CK213. Grandpa's Grove is still one of the one's I have to get. I've been doing my best to get all the venues with plantables.
  • @CK213 Love Grandpa's Grove even though I have only used it once. My game lagged terribly every time my sims harvested the fruit but otherwise ran well.
    Great pics! Makes me want to start another nectar making save!
    My sims also don't drink the nectar they make because it looks too much like they are drinking glasses of water. Although I downloaded this mod I haven't tried it yet.
  • I wish I had all the farm and country themed store content. I started a save in Appaloosa Plains with the Marshall family. They have a small area set up for their garden, complete with sprinklers, and even a beehive, so now the family can sell both fresh produce and honey.
    I am highly tempted to start a save in AP inspired by and American Girl character, Blaire Wilson, but can't figure out how I'm supposed go build a three story bed & breakfast on a farm complete with chickens, a barn for parties, and a goat and sheep (considering we've never had goats or sheep. Just an expensive store content chicken coop.)

    Maybe I'll just make American Girl characters into sims, save them, and come up with something else; and ask for simpoints for my birthday or Christmas maybe. Do they make game cards for simpoints or just buy the points online?

    Oh, and if anyone stopping by here has extra simpoints left, I am 7 out of 28 pieces and want to finish the Brunch at the Old Mill set for the CYS discount. I have the pieces buried in my store wishlist. LOL. It's too long, but it won't let me delete what i own off of it. I mostly want to get the set for the stairs so I can design split level houses (or close to that.)

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