Granite Falls vacations... what I am missing?

"kalaksed;c-16288998" wrote:
you can also edit those lots before sending sims to camp at them. to add kid/toddler stuff, computers (though that kind of spoils the camping feel, but it's your game. *shrug*), or otherwise make them feel more...whatever you want them to feel like. but yes, camping is often used to 'get away' from it all. no (or few) electronic devices, fishing, hiking, poking at random things in the woods and such. i enjoy sending various sims to do this, usually outdoorsy ones, but occasionally some of the more tech or business oriented ones, just to realize what it's like to be away from all the constant go-go-go that is their lives...

i've replaced one of the cabin lots with 'the cabin', a restaurant found on the gallery that fits the area perfectly. waitstaff dresses like lumberjacks, the food is what i'd expect for camping, with perfectly greasy diner food added in, bears and stuff like that (i've edited it to add most of the feathers from cats and dogs. just skipped the few that wouldn't fit, like puffin and parrot)

i do enjoy granite falls, especially for certain types of sims, but yeah, i'd like more options (hopefully that one coming within the next few months, but we'll see...). aside from the types i've listed above, i'll also send some of my more 'witchy' types here to work on the related ambition while they work on their herbalism skill, or families with lots of kids, since this is the only place (without mods) to catch insects, and i know i loved doing that as a kid...

I put in a small cheap TV -- my family used to rent a cabin and it would have all the old stuff that the cabin owner stuck there. One year we got a cabin that had a closet full of board games and that was really fun. Depending on the size of the cabin I'll add a Don't Wake the Llama (from GT) table for family game night (they convert to card tables if you click on them). I'll put in one of the small portable radios for dancing. And of course there's the firepit for storytelling. I have one small cabin where I added a lot of easels for my painter Sims to have a retreat and paint the landscape from reference. I also added a restaurant, Stanley's Bar and Grill (replaced the campsite since camping was buggy) and a spa (replaced one of the cabin lots) for when I send married couples for a getaway.

Currently I have a single Sim who is a gardener and about to start on the Herbalism skill, so I'm planning on sending her to collect as much stuff as possible. (Her ultimate goal is to complete as many collections as possible before passing the task on to the next generation; if I don't marry her off she'll probably adopt a child when she hits Adult so they'll age up to Teen before she ages up to Elder. I kind of like the idea of playing a spinster Sim who has no interest in marriage/children. (Originally thought of marrying her to one of the game-spawned vampires or to the Liam O'Dourke Sim I just added into the game, but I've changed my mind now.)