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I also tested out turning a ranch into a small business. I was hoping for a riding school, or even just a "come ride with me" or "let's train together" type thing but sadly saw no horse-riding-related events for businesses. So instead, I opened the farm up for "farm life experience" sort of like a petting zoo type thing, and sold milk, eggs, and baked goods. The Chef Hustle table worked well for the baked goods, and people were flocking to the place. Even a little ghost child showed up! 😄 All the livestock got well tended to by the visitors so my Sims didn't have to do anything to keep them happy except keep feeders full. No need for a ranch hand with this crowd!
The downside to the farm experience was that it was winter and NOBODY would put on their winter clothes except my Sims. Even the employee they hired kept running around in his everyday clothes. 😬 One customer froze to death. My Sim was running around small-talking everyone into showing her their cold weather clothes, but that was exhausting. Maybe I'll set out some Dining Out heaters and see if that helps. I did put a fire pit near the horse pasture, but no one used it, probably because it wasn't an activity on the business list.
The new display unit also worked great for selling milk and eggs autonomously while the business was open.
And I tested a little standing shelf that auto sold things. It sold little animal figurines, but I couldn't seem to restock it without going back into B/B. I tried putting wool on the shelf instead, but it didn't sell. Have to play around with it more.
I also tried to put a bag of manure on the shelf, figuring it was a farm and all, why not sell fertilizer, but it...um...returned to its original form and was not very attractive on display. 🤣 That's when I swapped it for sheep's wool, which so far hasn't sold either.
It is great that the farm life experience theme went well 🙂It is very nice that sims enjoyed buying and eating the baked goods,buying milk and eggs from the display unit and seeing the animals. It wasn’t good that someone though froze to death from the cold!
Looks like a cool experiment! Would obviously be less stressful to customers if they dressed corerectly, but hey-ho, it could also just add to the event - it is a Spring-Summer-Fall happwening only, because in Wintert the Farmer will be busy knitting blue birds to sell :)
PS: I sell horse manure on a Retail lot, and the same thing happened - natural version only, but I think it's a fun product to sell anyway. I had them on shelves locked in a closed counter thing with glass doors, though. Thinking it would help on the smell, ha!
Can't wait to run this kind of business on some farms, but first I'll add it to my zoo,
