Renting a ranch?
I don’t have Horse Ranch but I’m thinking if I were to get it, one of the things I would want to do is rent a ranch for my urban sims to have the cowboy experience. Is it possible to do this and have a horse on the lot?
Forum Discussion
"mightysprite;c-18345804" wrote:
What if you had the ranch just as a normal residential lot, which a rancher family owns, and then have your urban sims travel to the lot and stay there using the Always Welcome reward trait?
What is that?? But the travelers would still have to go to work/school, no?
I’m thinking about adding a rancher and horse to a family temporarily then have them all go on holiday to a vacation ranch set up for a horse- It’s a shame they didn’t think to have a riding stable lot or something where you could either rent a horse, or board a horse. But, I have found horses fun to play with, for the few families that do own them.
@mightysprite does that mean an owner of a Residential lot can’t own horses if they live in the same house as their Rentals? I gave the Roswell’s horses, and was going to rent out some rooms in their home, I already had the rooms decked out with kitchens and bathrooms and stuff for when they fixed rentals. I guess I’m going to have to go back and redo their house again. I don’t remember them mentioning that when they said we couldn’t rent out water lots snd things. Well, there’s another disappointment for me.
I’m still waiting them to fix lots so you can change them to other lots after they have been a residential rental. "DeadFishy;c-18345829" wrote:
"mightysprite;c-18345804" wrote:
What if you had the ranch just as a normal residential lot, which a rancher family owns, and then have your urban sims travel to the lot and stay there using the Always Welcome reward trait?
What is that?? But the travelers would still have to go to work/school, no?
I’m thinking about adding a rancher and horse to a family temporarily then have them all go on holiday to a vacation ranch set up for a horse
@DeadFishy Always Welcome is a reward trait in the rewards store that allows you to cook, shower, sleep etc. on any other household's residential lot without them complaining that it's "inappropriate".
You can avoid work/school by taking a vacation day (on the phone, under Business). No travel is involved, it will just deduct one vacation day from your stored-up PTO. You do have to remember to do it every day in the morning before the work hours. Unless you're in a work-from-home career and get the automatic pop-up with PTO as one option.
@SheriSim57 Do you mean a Residential lot or a Residential Rental lot?- @mightysprite I meant Residential Rental
Someone on another thread said that you can own horses, ( if the owner allows pets ), but they will only show up if the family you are playing owns them. - @SheriSim57 Oh that's interesting. Maybe it was a change since release?
Has anyone tried to put horses on residential rentals? (I don't have the pack so can't test) "Sara1010P;c-18347481" wrote:
I made one of the lots in chestnut ridge a residential rental and 3 of the families I moved in there have horses. You don't see the horse unless you are playing the family it belongs to, or unless you visit a family that has a horse. I also have a cow, chickens and sheep in the shared spaces with no issue. Let me add, I did this immediately upon the pack release, so it wasn't something they just added recently.
Do the chickens, cow and sheep show up for everyone?- Ok great @Sara1010P glad to know you can do that!
Maybe I have it confused with something that was put in to prevent horses from being moved into San Myshuno and Evergreen Harbor apartments. Sounds like it works fine in For Rent apts. Rental units can be multi - story. You can have a house or apartment on the top floor and the stable could be on the bottom floor, however, both rooms would count as being part of the same unit.
I know and realize many players either don't or can't have mods, but I solved my problem ages ago. I first had my Sims' two brothers who bought a house together keep Erik's two horses for him. His household was already maxed about before Horse Ranch was even announced, let alone released. Which kid was I to part with?
At any rate, having Joey and Aaron care for them was a temporary solution until I decided to have Erik move his family to Chestnut Ridge. This came out of a slight plot twist the game handed me. So, I moved Erik to the new place, and he brought his horses with him. I used MCCC to increase the size of the household, then I moved the rest of his family to the new place.
Yes, it's a pain in the assets to be unable to take them into cas.fulleditmode at will, without losing the number of Sims/horses over 8, but I learned a work-around for that, too. I just sent him to his brothers' house, had them ask him to join their family, take him into cas,fulleditmode, and in this case remove the unsightly muscle bulk from his relentless workouts.
I also must add that I, too, hoped that was a solution for my problem. I really, really, really wanted horses for a long time. I had hoped they wouldn't take up a valuable space in the household, but alas, they do, just as in Sims 3. I really hated that -- having to decide, horse or baby. But there wasn't anything set up for renting even so much as a stable. Most people I'm aware of didn't live on a ranch, but had a horse, so they stabled it elsewhere. It still required they go and see to the horses needs, but that would be okay with me.
We can only hope a modder will come up with something to fix this flaw.
