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?
Most of my sims will run legitimate businesses. However, since the blog post implies that sims can potentially sell counterfeit art & goods in their small businesses, I think that I will take the “werefox” that I downloaded from the gallery & turn him into “Redd” from Animal Crossing & open a shady art gallery/shop.
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.
I am planning to have a variety of shops in my downtown Newcrest for my sims to enjoy. I also want to have at least 1 small business in each world. In Brindleton Bay I plan to build a store on the first floor with apartment upstairs for a bakery/candy shop for my baker and a knitting/cross-stitch area for his wife. Brindleton is a farming town in my game, so I also plan to have a general store where my farmer's son can sell the goods from his family's farm. I definitely want a pottery shop somewhere as well. I really need to have my sims making that ceramic gnome!
I have been planning to play with a bakery for ages but always disliked switching between lots so I think I will have a bakery in my game , even with cupcake machine to make the other baking recipes that are still missing from the oven .
Another idea would be a combined shop and bar. I really hope the small business lot let's us have that combination.
Third idea would be a pottery shop, perhaps combined with pottery classes. The new hobby looks nice , especially if we can really make a functional tea set as the blog post promised.
I would also like to use the classes feature to organise a magical class with potion brewing and spellcasting. Let's hope this is possible because those are not skills. Perhaps the 'target customer' can be set to occult types as well.
I have so many ideas...
I 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. 😄
So far, I'm really not interested in the gameplay revolving around the new pack....but I am very interested in the new world. I'll have to wait and see what it's like to know what I'll do with it
I am actually curious to see how the animal café is going to play out - I'm so eager to see that. In addition, I would *love* to make a tattoo and piercer parlor (even if I'm unsure how piercings could work)
Other ideas would be underground nightclubs, a family owned Onsen with touristy ski and snowboard supplies/climbing gear and a bakery with a baking class on one side
That said, piercer parlor is partially cause I want more variety in piercings - as someone with 11 of them, I just want my simself to match 🤣
If we have the ability to make and eat food.I can make a family who owns a small diner.That makes food .
Will this EP allow us to finally have live-in cafe's and pubs? I've always wanted my sims to live above their businesses.
