Businesses and Hobbies: My Ideas
To be honest, this is more of a BUSINESS than HOBBY pack. Tattoos aren't, IMO, a hobby as much as a job you do. You don't sit around at home tattooing yourself or others, do you? Pottery is a hobby. It could start in your garage with you learning to throw and move to selling things from your garage and, eventually, opening a shop. Candy making? Is that a hobby or just a thing you do. So, with only one true hobby, I wish they had given us a few more hobbies. I would have liked, pool tables (10 years, really?) golf tee for practicing your swing (the only driving we'll ever get), ballet bar, fixer-upper car, sky diving simulator, Scuba diving (which could be done in your own pool or a public diving pool), arcade games (pinball, whack-a-mole, the claw, test of strength, etc.). Hopefully, these will MAGICALLY appear in a KIT or two SOON! HINT! HINT!
With this pack, we can tattoo, throw pottery and make candy, each in a shop. They also offered ideas for cross-pack integration with Pet Cafe, Dance Club, Karaoke venue, teach acting, massage, yoga, gym. laundry and bowling. Some of these can be combined into one venue such as massage, yoga and gym. I created a laundry, bowling alley when bowling dropped. As seen in the trailer, tattoos and pottery. Classes and teaching can be added to most of these.
I decided to go through my packs (I do not have every single one but, most). Here's a list of skills and shops that I thought could be created.
Design Center (DHD), Photo Studio (GTW/Mos), Arcade (GT/DU), Poker Parlor (CCave), Hookah bar (CL), Small pets (C&D/L&D/MFP/or any collectable like frogs, etc,), Roller/ice Rinks, Beauty Parlor (GF), Bot Shop (DU), candle shop (ECO), Fizzy (ECO/HR) Hot Springs Spa (SE), Comedy Club (Base/HS), Movie Theater (MH), Fortune Teller (L&D/Para), Jewelry (CrysCrea), Bistro (CB), Artist Studio (AS), Woodworking (Base), Cafeteria (HS/DU).
Many of these could be combined. When Movie Hangout dropped, I created a theater using a cafe in the lobby. I would send my Sim and create a group of all the other sims and we, as a group, would sit and watch movies. It was technically a cafe with a theater attached but, with the ticket machine, you can charge for simply entering your lot. An arcade with games (few as they are) on the bottom floor and possibly ping pong tables and foosball tables on the second floor with perhaps a bar.
Could it be time for the Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory to make a reappearance in the candy shop?
Also, once useless Magnolia Promenade could become an epic shopping/crafting center. You could create a gym/spa/yoga/onsen springs on that large 40x30 lot with a family living above. A shop with three areas could fit on the 30x20. A shop with two areas could easily fit on either 20x20 lot. You could leave one 20x20 lot as a festival spot for craft tables and food kiosks as MP has no "festival area" unless they add it before the drop.
Well, those are a few of my ideas. If you can think of any others or an interesting combo of skills, add it below.
BE WARNED: I have dibs on the name Harry Pottery. Don't mess with me fellas. 🤣
