Cottage Living: Prep and Plans

The very first thing I'm going to do is go through all of my builds in every world and replace all the fake pool ponds with real ponds (and the cool new vfx) so that my sims can fish and play in them. I'm a water person and tend to have some kind of water feature in most of my lots (fountains, pools, fake ponds/streams, etc), so this new pond tool is a super exciting thing to finally have back in the game for someone like me. I can't wait!

After I've done all that, I'm then going to create a new sim couple and build them a beautiful lake house with a small hobby garden, chicken coop, and cow shed. And then try out the new lot challenges while my new family attempts to live a completely off-the-grid lifestyle. I'm hoping the new computer that looks like an old typewriter was made for off-grid functionality... if so, then one of my sims will most definitely be an aspiring best-selling author as a side income to help boost their meager little hobby farm income.

My vet sim, Cecília is going to open a vet clinic in henford on bagley to take care of the animals and maybe fall in love with a local farmer :)

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"calaprfy;c-17929833" wrote:
Anyone else think there should have been a cafe in the village centre a la Emmerdale? Maybe replace the Scotts house with one and move them into the empty lot..?

I actually am already planning to convert their house to a cafe.

I am also going to replace my fishing ponds starting with the one in the backyard of my Conjuring house. I have several farms that I will update with the new plants and animals and plan to start a new game when I get the pack. My new family will be Wynn and Edythe Willoughby, an adult couple who are having difficulty keeping up with the farm since their son, Brandon, went to university. I plan to have him study to become a vet, and he will meet Haylee, fall in love and marry. After they both graduate they will return to his home town and move in to help his family with the farm and begin a family of their own.

"Cheekybits;c-17929756" wrote:
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.

I don't find it weird, at all. In fact, if the houses are too small for my ancestral families, I'll have to play them in other worlds, and then have them participate in the Contests. I am hopeful, though, that the game will allow for chickens and cows to be kept on lots from other worlds, else I shall be very disappointed. Good luck with the mystery you've got going. That sounds like fun!

"DragonAge_300905;c-17929650" wrote:

"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.

My next door neighbor from Riverside, CA, is where I got the hallway notion from. Our neighborhood was the first established one in the entire city. There was a stamp pressed into the sidewalks, in fact, that read 1910. The lampposts were old (although likely updated) but my own house was built in 1913. Hers was smaller and narrow. It had passage through from the livingroom portion to the diningroom to the kitchen, but the bedrooms were off of the hallway you reached by going through a doorframe on the right. But the one floor plan I found online for a true Shotgun showed no way to get from the front of the house to the back. It was just room behind room behind room. I altered it a tad to make it playable in such a tiny space. I am better at the MEGA build. I prefer lots of room, so to speak.

For the record, I have play-tested a little bit the first house I shared. The alleged Shotgun. Odd that I can't find the save, nor the family I created. So, I went ahead and placed my Uni grads all there for a time. I plan on giving the third couple the second build so they can test it out. If that doesn't happen prior to the release, as time is escaping, as it always does, then it will be a dry-run with my Hawkins family. I saw a map that somebody posted of the new world from the EP. It gave lot sizes and I'm thrilled. I may be able to expand the size and still have land to plant.

"Daravi;c-17929513" wrote:
I will definitely use the new stuff to upgrade my current farm into a bigger and better farm. I like the new stuff and clutter. Unfortunately my decade challenge will be then already in the seventies and my heiress should move into a city, so therefore I can't use everything, but until the release it's still some time, maybe she made her progress far enough to find someone and settle in to the new village and raise her future children in a natural environment. I didn't think so far yet for her future, honestly.

I have never taken up the Decade Challenge. Instead, I intend on playing out the lives of my ancestors, which if I keep with it, will come through the ages on its own. My ancestral game save starts in the 18th century, since much before that time on one branch isn't at all certain. I'm hoping with this new EP, I'll be compelled to continue play instead of constantly reaching a point, just to start all over again. :open_mouth:

"calaprfy;c-17929833" wrote:
Anyone else think there should have been a cafe in the village centre a la Emmerdale? Maybe replace the Scotts house with one and move them into the empty lot..?

Idk but what I do know is that I will thoroughly enjoy turning that bar into a restaurant :joy: as is my new pack tradition.

I'm already planning a bakery, cafe (Scott house convert) and brunch restaurant on that 3 lots on that street in town.

I haven't made any plans yet. I usually give my neighbourhoods specific restaurants but the upgraded pub seems to offer quite a lot of food options, I might actually keep it.