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

Loanet
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
I wonder if you can launder money in a candy store or something.
halisimmer
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
Kinetic_Speckle0This is hilarious! I love it.
Simmingal
Hero
6 months ago
Still editing my premades with TOTOs (30 more households to go 😅)
and I realized there is this thing about Mary-Sue Pleasant liking pottery 👀
gotta remember to give her some tools once I have this pack 😎

If that small business thing isn't too annoying I might even give her a pottery shop to run :)
ck213
Legend
6 months ago
I am now searching through build/buy objects for my VA-11 Hall-A cyberpunk bar. 😄
I am looking forward to making the characters from the game.
[UPDATE]
The Bar is almost complete and I gave it a test run with the Bar tending legend herself, Jill Stingray. It's a lounge lot for now, so I let the mixologist mentor Jill for her soon-to-be career.
She look nothing like Jill, so I will probably going back into CAS to edit her. I also gave her her cat from the game.
kukkahilla
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
Today I tested a restaurant I had downloaded from the gallery, but sadly it didn't work hence I deleted it, so now I have an empty lot in Sulani and I started to think that maybe I could have a business there! But what kind of business would it be? I still don't know 🤔 It could be a small bar maybe, or they could sell seashells and jewellery, or maybe palm tree paintings. I would like it to be something fitting for Sulani.
AgnesValravn
Seasoned Veteran
6 months ago
So, I just watched James Turners early access LP and now my plans have changed because of the new "shady" trait and Trashley....I think for the very first time I shall play a rags to riches, with a shady sim (probly klepto and freegan too) and hopefully get Trashley to mentor that sim.
handelgamer
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
Just going off of Nordhaven itself, I am thinking of adding a park for that lot right next to the waterfall and restoring the fisher's market with a Marketplace. (Thus finally adding all three of the Eco Lifestyle lots to each world!)
But as for business ideas, I do literally have a family-interest-in-venues document already set up for all of my households for the wealthy ones. So perhaps...
I can see Katrina Calinte making a move to own the lounge in Oasis Springs. It's her performing space after all.
A retail, not small business, for the Flecther family. As an electronics store. Since I want to sell more than just robotics crafts. Computers and such as well!
The Feng household in San Myshuno established a library over that lounge in San Myshuno... and now they will charge by the hour! How devious.
This wouldn't even count all of the lots across worlds in which I would at least place a whiteboard down to have lectures with, nevermind actually doing some classes. Foxberry's rec center needs to have a place to take robotics classes! (And I suppose the same for Research and Debate on the other side). Could also see the Rec Centers I have around the worlds being set up for lecture hall areas. And libraries as well!
kukkahilla
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
I think I'm going to have a tattoo studio in Sulani! The sim that is going to start it is still a child, but it is nice to have plans for her 😄 Maybe she will also sell seashells or at least have them on display. I'll probably have to try to build her studio now.
atreya33
Legend
6 months ago
Thanks to the wonderful list of activities posted by EmmaVane I am going to build small business lot for spellcaster gatherings. The main activities will be casting spells (perhaps only friendly spells to avoid random fires) and potion brewing. There will probably also be a bar or coffee stand to discuss magical theories and perhaps reading books as a way to simulate studying magic.
Simeralla
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
I plan to build at least 3 New businesses in every world in my save file . More places for my Sims to go such as a restaurant that sells only grilled cheese or pottery store etc...