What cool ideas do you want to try out once the pack drops? We'd all love to read about what you plan to do. This thread is a good place to share ideas and find inspiration for your own Sims stories.I'm planning to do a business where my two sims, Aurora and Tre, sell the produce and nectar they make on their farm. I'm going to take the barn on their old lot and turn it into a storefront. What have you got planned?

Now I'm thinking about an elixir shop for my Spellcaster. Selling potions, brooms, wands, and ingredients needed for potions. And maybe hold potion making classes, if possible.I loved the Aleister's Elixirs and Sundries shop in Sims 3. Might try to recreate that or see if there's a Sims 4 version on the Gallery.

I have so many ideas...Horseback riding schoolArt school Music SchoolDance StudioGym & Spa Winery with wine making classesFloral Shop with arrangement classesMagic SchoolI feel like, if it works as I think it will, I could create a huge after-school activity area, where kids and teens can meet like-minded sims with similar hobbies and learn hobbies or skills that will be useful to them later in life.Also have the idea of your traditional "black sheep" of the family who doesn't want to continue the family legacy of (insert shop type here). This could really enhance my gameplay and story telling!

Getting overwhelmed with all the awesome ideas here. 😄

This pack is going to support, or even add more depth to what I've already been doing in the game.I had an interior decorator sim start up a home furnishings store. I never really played it. I just set up her starter store. This time I think I will have her start off with a pottery hobby at the start of her decorator career. Her store will start off small with pottery, plants, photographs, and paintings, but it will eventually grow to a full furniture store with my sim even crafting her own furniture to sell.Plenty of other things I want to do, my Stylist sim will make her living quarters above her clothing boutique her actual home. I wanted to have her craft jewelry and sell it as well. I will finally do that. I am also thinking she could have special days where she offers her fashion consulting services. She can set up that Ticket Kiosk machine and get paid while she gives makeovers to all the townies who buy a ticket.I have a dynamic of Stylists, Photographers, and Fashion models that I have experimented with in the past. The game does not have fashion models, but I did make my own custom career. Not sure how well it has held up to all the updates the game has had. I could always have my photographer pay the models as their source of income. Of course my photographer will get his own studio.They will all have access to a club lot where everyone shows up. The Models, the Stylists, and the Photographers, I can have my stylist makeover the models according to the assignments the photographer will usually get. The photographers will have plenty of normal to good-looking, and appropriately dressed models to choose from. The models will get paid and be given photographs of themselves for their portfolio.

Been busy preparing family trees etc for some of the Nordhaven population. Not yet come to upgrade the middle hood of Newcrest, where I'll build at least 3 town houses with a business on ground floor.And now, I just noticed that the Windenburg Oldtown café is actually a rather big build, perfect for a family living above the café :) I hardly visited this community lot in the past, so I'm looking forward to play it "from the other side" :)

What are your plans for the Businesses and Hobbies EP?

95 Replies

rosemow
Hero
11 months ago
Your plans for your sims to sell the products and nectar that they make and sell it on their farm in their barn sound great!DaniRose2143 🙂
I am thinking that my sims may use some of the skills that they have to offer classes and lectures to other sims. It would be great to help other sims to build up their skills. I also will enjoy having my sims learn the new pottery skill.
simgirl1010
Hero
11 months ago
I have so many ideas running around in my head. 😄 Like rosemow I might start off with classes. My sim Julianna is maxed on most skills and would be a perfect choice.
evilyn_37
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
I’m definitely gonna to run a pottery studio. But I’m most excited about running a bakery and living over it.
I’m hoping we can set up businesses and not run them . Kind of like we can do now. If so, I want to set up a teen nightclub using the target Customer.
i’m really hoping you can run classes at any lot because I want to set up classes at the rec center.
BlueSeaWaves
Legend
11 months ago
I really want Alexis to have a jewelry shop. I remember seeing one of simgirl1010 screenshot of her sims jewelry shop and got so impressed and inspired by it😁
I'm not sure if it'll be do-able on her lot, but I'm going to try it.
Alexis' professor Mr. Goto has a shop in Mt. Komorebi that can be made official now too 😃
12JEREMIA
Seasoned Veteran
11 months ago
Here are some plans when I'm ready for Businesses & Hobbies EP
Create 7 new sims who all wanna run businesses
Kaiser Trill (India Trill's brother and Dwayne's uncle)
Anita Kolade (Hilary's older sister)
Kaneka Kolade (Hilary's younger sister)
Annie Smith (Rochel and Jaden's sister and Harold's wife)
Harold Smith (Annie's husband)
Leonardo Corsetti (Marino's brother)
Emerson Hansen (Travis and Rebecca's brother)

Build small business lots
Streetside Barber Shop run by Kaiser Trill
Iconic Beauty Shop run by Anita Kolade
Sweety Sweet Shop run by Kaneka Kolade
Bubbly Laundromat run by Annie Smith
Harold's Tattoo Shop run by Harold Smith
Nightlight Bowling Alley run by Leonardo Corsetti
Cavalier Mall run by Emerson Hansen

Have items in sale in stores created by me such as...
Candies in Hall-Mart Supermarket
DaWaterRat
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
I'm probably going to do my take on the Building Newcrest challenge (Rags to Newcrest) but with several of the community lots being Small Businesses first before being sold off and rebuilt as normal community lots. And some may stay as small businesses.
simgirl1010
Hero
11 months ago
BlueSeaWaves I actually had a thought to recreate it as a home business for Isabel. I'll wait and see how the businesses work before I decide. One difficulty is that I don't like playing multi story lots and there's not enough room for a stand alone shop. And I love where she's living now.
SEREFRAS
Legend
11 months ago
I'm hoping to upgrade my poor "Lounge" Outdoor Seasonal Festivals with the new Business thingy. I know I can make a no walls rooms so that part won't be a problem. I think all I would need is those new cashier stands next to each of the Festival Vendors so that staff shows up & works it.
Simmingal
Hero
11 months ago
I don't know but having this after Lovestruck
my brain immediately thought about 50 Simoleon Candy Shop 🍭
Except its actually candy, just as it always should have been 😂

also since they added Kintsugi to pottery (+ making tea sets)
I think its only right I find place for pottery workshop in Mt.Komorebi
AgnesValravn
Seasoned Veteran
11 months ago
I already have a jewler with the shop downstairs and living upstairs, now I can finally make it work, just have to change to the new selling surfaces I guess.
Other than that, def a tattoo studio, so excited for that!
I think a combo family business for knitting and pottery would be cool too, with classes, or even something that just provides classes in all things homie (knitting, pottery, cross stitch, cooking, baking), run by retired sims.