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7 months ago

What are your plans for the Businesses and Hobbies EP?

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? 

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  • I was sprucing up an old nightclub I made a while back. And it occurred to me I can finally run it as a business. For storytelling purposes I had already created a sim to be the 'owner'. Now he really can own it and run it. I made some queens to be performers too. But patrons were always getting up on stage. Hogging the mic, the piano, or just having conversations. Now I can set the queens as employees and lock the doors leading to the stage. And with H&B adding activities for customers and employees it can actually feel like a nightclub with live performers. 😃

  • I don't know yet what kind of business it will be but the plans are :

    • Grim Reaper's business
    • Alien business in StrangerVille
    • Occult businesses

     

    I have to test the vault door to lock the customers inside the business.

     

  • I'm still pretty overwhelmed with my 59 addons in this game including B&H.

    I have a few families that already had businesses before this new EP.

    Right now I'm just going through the families that own retail properties from GTW before I mesh B&H into my gameplay. 

    I know that restaurants, bakeries and food trucks our going to fly with my B&H ideas. 

    My main save is in StrangerVille focused on aliens/occults/bartenders/musicians and scientist.

     I'm planning on playing most of B&H in this save involving businesses that cater to these sims.

  • Once I saw that we had the ability to fish out bike parts from the canal, I became invested in the idea of a bike shop near the canal. I was hoping we could actually combine the parts to create new bikes, but sadly that's not the case. However, we can sell the bike parts, so that's fine... but to add a little more to the business, I was hoping to also sell some of the bikes from the B/B catalogue. However, so far I have not been able to identify any way to do so, as I have not been able to find a display to which I can add the bikes, and of course, we unfortunately can't just place items wherever and sell them in a small business. (By far the biggest drawback to this pack, IMO.) 

    So now I'm torn... I was hoping to have a bike shop with the residence over the shop, but now I'm wondering whether I should just use the traditional retail lot from GTW instead. But, I did want the owner to be able to give classes on handiness as well. Maybe if we eventually get a cars/vehicles pack, we will see some sort of additional cross-pack functionality for bikes and other, smaller vehicles in terms of repairing them, selling them, etc. (Boats, too.)

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