Horsing Around 🐎 🐴
So it looks like we're getting a horse ranch expansion. People are sharing info about there being sheep and goats as well as horses. And it being a world based on Arizona. Which is pretty cool. It ...
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It just occurred to me, after rereading the pack description, that ranch hands are probably something like butlers. At first I thought they'd be something like a maid or a scheduled maid. And maybe that's an option. Bc, and this is from my limited understanding as a city slicker who's never worked on a farm before but has at times read books that included them (and is also from America so obvi has seen media about cowboys and farmers at some point); but from my understanding you can have a PT ranchhand /farm worker who comes at a set time and leaves. Sometimes they stay a set amount of days and leave for a bit. And there's like a place for them to sleep. And then there's the ones who live-in.
This is where my knowledge is murky. I've seen media where they live above the stables, in a room to the side of the stables, and in like a long dorm situation on the property if there's a lot and a stable manager. Either way I'm thinking this new service sim is likely, or myb just possibly, gonna exist in an entirely new mixed position. Like it'll be the same name, but available in 3 categories. And myb even allow you to hire multiple.
It might even end up a bit like the Live-In service mods by LittleMsSam and like BetterButler etc. Especially if you have a ranch hand that lives in and then decide to get a butler bc now you're sim is a rich rancher. Or myb they always were and that's the story you're telling.
Like this seems innocuous, and myb I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but they might actually have to fix things in hiring a service to make this work properly. Just like they'd need to fix household size and controlling pets to make horses work right for families. That's the second feature in this pack that would require actual game fixes for it to really be good. And worth the price. And not cause a bunch of bugs or annoyance. And also another time that a new sims feature seems to take inspiration from the modding company on how to fix things in game (if that's actually how they end up doing it).
This is where my knowledge is murky. I've seen media where they live above the stables, in a room to the side of the stables, and in like a long dorm situation on the property if there's a lot and a stable manager. Either way I'm thinking this new service sim is likely, or myb just possibly, gonna exist in an entirely new mixed position. Like it'll be the same name, but available in 3 categories. And myb even allow you to hire multiple.
It might even end up a bit like the Live-In service mods by LittleMsSam and like BetterButler etc. Especially if you have a ranch hand that lives in and then decide to get a butler bc now you're sim is a rich rancher. Or myb they always were and that's the story you're telling.
Like this seems innocuous, and myb I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but they might actually have to fix things in hiring a service to make this work properly. Just like they'd need to fix household size and controlling pets to make horses work right for families. That's the second feature in this pack that would require actual game fixes for it to really be good. And worth the price. And not cause a bunch of bugs or annoyance. And also another time that a new sims feature seems to take inspiration from the modding company on how to fix things in game (if that's actually how they end up doing it).
