Cottage Living: Prep and Plans

"PlanetSixam;c-17929551" wrote:
I've been playing around in CAS, and I'm pretty happy with the family I've made so far. This is the Delaney household, though I've yet to choose their first names. I'll update their hair and clothing once the pack drops.

I have a general idea about what I want their personality to be. My female sim has the botanist aspiration, and her focus is going to be on growing crops and entering the various Finchwick produce contests. I'm going to give my male sim the new aspiration that comes with the pack, and he will mostly be tending to the livestock on the farm. I'm not sure how I did it but I made them both polar opposites in terms of social life, because she's outgoing and he's a loner. :lol:


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They are adorable! He's got a little bit of a Tim Rozon thing going on. <3

I've made things very complicated for myself. :D

I went ahead and started making a few of the families, because they are related to existing sims in the game. So I needed to open up those families in CAS and add their relatives, then move the new branches of the family out. Then I decided maybe I would age some of them down and play through their earlier lives. For one family, it's relatively simple; I just wanted the parents to get their university degrees and get a good start on their careers because they are both very ambitious and materialistic, and they will definitely want to display their diplomas in the study.

But then I started to make my orphans' extended family, and it became quite complicated very quickly. I had originally wanted Agnes and Agatha Crumplebottom to adopt a young orphaned niece and nephew. However, once I realized they were special NPCs and that would be more complicated, I decided to create a new elder sim, Amelia Crumplebottom. So I opened up the Goth household, and created an elder Cornelia Goth, who I am going to let live for a while, at least until she develops relationships with the grandkids. Then she's probably going to become a ghost eventually. Then I created her sister Amelia Crumplebottom and moved her out; I probably won't do anything else with her until the pack arrives. Then I created another sibling, Rupert Crumplebottom. I moved him out into a third household. I am thinking that I am going to take him back into CAS, age him down to a YA or adult, and give him his wife Winifred and their twin daughters Primrose and Pandora, then play them until the girls grow up while we are waiting for Cottage Living. Eventually Primrose will marry Giles Kensington and they will have a daughter Daisy. Pandora will marry Felix Foster, and they will have a son Tom.

After Cottage Living arrives, I'm going to have Rupert, Winifred, Primrose, Giles, Pandora, and Felix all die in some mass casualty family tragedy. (Fire would probably be easiest, but I don't want burning or electrocution ghosts; maybe they could have a big pufferfish feast.) Then Great-Aunt Amelia will move back into the family home to help raise Daisy and Tom. Most of the dead family will also return as ghosts, although I think that will make the household too large, so one of them will have to move on peacefully. Either way, big family graveyard! I'm currently thinking I'll put them in the Moody & McMillan house, once I evict those nice old gentleman, but I'm not certain.

If I can figure out how to do the cheats, assuming there is a way, I'll probably go ahead and make Agnes the sibling of Cornelia, Amelia, and Rupert. Basically, the Goth-Crumplebottom family tree just leafed out in a big way. And I now have plenty to do to keep myself entertained for the next 12 days.

"Amapola76;c-17925071" wrote:
So, I've seen discussions in in other threads about how it will be too easy to make money quickly from farming. We already have a very easy/lucrative option, which is selling directly from the plant. We will also be able to sell our produce individually from either the existing sales tables in the games, or potentially a new similar type of object, which would likely make it much slower/harder to earn money.

But I'm playing around with another idea as well. I think I might have my various farming sims regularly gift their produce and animal products to Bernard, my grocer. Then he can simply go around once a rotation and pay them a set sum, since we have the option to pay cash to other sims. Then when you go to Bernard's little shop, you will be able to buy apples grown by Alice, honey made by Hannah, grapes grown by George, eggs harvested by Emily, etc. (I'm trying to remember whether produce actually shows who grew it, and I think maybe it doesn't, but some of other products do, so I'm hoping at least the eggs and milk will.)

Anyway, I think that will give the shop a nice country store vibe, and also provide steady but not extravagant income for my farmers.

I don’t think produce does show who grew it unless they change that. I have a grocery store that I downloaded and changed up a bit, I have already cooked food and baked goods and sell produce from a table in the store ( usually the perfect stuff ), and then also sell produce in those upright things you can store many pieces of produce. I’m glad we are going to be able to buy from a stall though, and order food online, hopefully the produce will be a more reasonable price for those that don’t want to garden.

"simgirl1010;c-17929482" wrote:
It's true that they are straight and narrow and possibly why they are called shotgun houses.

Rooms are directly connected without hallways. Shotgun houses may have derived their name from that room format, as it was sometimes said that a bullet shot from the front door would pass through the house without hitting anything and exit through the back door.

Thank you. I remembered it saying something about a bullet going through the front door and exiting the back door.

Well my crazy mixed-up timelines households are finally getting reorganized. I kept putting my 1700s & 1800s households in my Renissance/Medieval game save. So, I started a new game save & called it, Georgian-RagTime. I'm almost finished gutting out all the built lots. I've already got rid of all the useless premades & put back in my historical premades, including my Victorian version of Bella & my upgraded Father Winter. I also upgraded my 8 Ghosts with the Pirate costumes/skill/traits. My First playable sim is based on Jane Austen which I gave her a blended name of some of my favorite heroines of the stories. Once I'm done with gutting out the last of my worlds, I will play around with rustic historic buildable parts for some historic lots. Unfortunately, I still can't get City & Everygreen to look even a little historic. After most of my world's looks good then I'll go back to my sim & give her a sister & a cousin. Then create a neighbor household that will be also based on Jane Austen's male heroes like Mr. Darcy, Edward Farrais, Wentworth & so on. Oh, & eventually redownload my 1700s & 1800s homes & households in the new game save & delete them in my Renissance. Busy, busy
FYI: I only play vanilla in my Sims 4 & have most of the packs.

I'm going to keep the Moody & McMillan Household and add a daughter as a single mom with a son. I know they're not Brothers but I get a very "secondhand Lion" vibe from those two

"kaiwrysims;c-17929537" wrote:
Who is fry?

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"SERVERFRA;c-17929655" wrote:
Well my crazy mixed-up timelines households are finally getting reorganized. I kept putting my 1700s & 1800s households in my Renissance/Medieval game save. So, I started a new game save & called it, Georgian-RagTime. I'm almost finished gutting out all the built lots. I've already got rid of all the useless premades & put back in my historical premades, including my Victorian version of Bella & my upgraded Father Winter. I also upgraded my 8 Ghosts with the Pirate costumes/skill/traits. My First playable sim is based on Jane Austen which I gave her a blended name of some of my favorite heroines of the stories. Once I'm done with gutting out the last of my worlds, I will play around with rustic historic buildable parts for some historic lots. Unfortunately, I still can't get City & Everygreen to look even a little historic. After most of my world's looks good then I'll go back to my sim & give her a sister & a cousin. Then create a neighbor household that will be also based on Jane Austen's male heroes like Mr. Darcy, Edward Farrais, Wentworth & so on. Oh, & eventually redownload my 1700s & 1800s homes & households in the new game save & delete them in my Renissance. Busy, busy
FYI: I only play vanilla in my Sims 4 & have most of the packs.

I really enjoyed reading about your game. It’s very creative. ??.

Seeing more of HoB it reminds me more of Emmerdale Farm and Escape to the Country. I’m going to delete my 1970s saves and move to maybe either 80s or early 90s. As mobiles are always present they’re very distracting.

I'm really excited about this pack. I'll be using the new world to start a new era of time for my Sim's story. I want to introduce time travel into the story where my main sims will go back into the far past, and I think this pack will be a great place to start.

Is it weird I don’t want my sims living in the new world? I just feel like it’s so secluded from the rest of the worlds.

Anyways, I will be continuing my play through of the 2 sims I have 1 is a YA the other is a teen and there sisters.

Their parents are lost at sea and left them in a small house in sulani where they live. There’s isn’t a good internet connection but they are close to the island gathering spot.
The older sister isn’t very social but feels like she can express herself by writing so she decided to do that as career. The teenager, all she wants to do is go out and socialize but the older sister doesn’t want her younger sister to get involved with the locals. She thinks they have something to do with their parents disappearance since they all been acting little fishy...

I plan on adding some chickens and a small garden to there lot to give it that island farm feeling. Hopefully she can open a small fresh produce stall on the lot.