What Are Your Plans For The Horse Ranch EP?
Do you already have a particular sim or family in mind? Will they be moving to Chestnut Ridge? Are you starting fresh with a brand new sim or sim family?
Forum Discussion
I don't think I will move the Roswells to Chestnut Ridge. However, I have long wanted to give them a cattle ranch, and there's really just not room to add even one cow to their current residential lot, or really anywhere else in Strangerville. However, I view Chestnut Ridge as a neighboring town, so I may create a ranch (lot type to be determined) for them, and the story will just be that as mayor, Ted resides in Strangerville, but the family ranch he inherited is the next town over in Chestnut Ridge.
I will, of course, be adding sheep to all the farms in Henford and Windenburg. A few horses, as well.
The Villareals will be getting some horses on their estate. You just know Luna is a horse girl. She's also far too naive to realize that her father may have acquired the horses through nefarious means.
In Selvadorada, I currently have chickens roaming around the bar, and llamas out behind the museum. I will likely add miniature goats to both lots.
Tartosa absolutely needs at least one nectary/vineyard, and likely more than one.
Somewhere, in one of my more urban or suburban worlds, I will also need a wine shop retail lot.
In CR itself, I may change the bar to restaurant, we'll have to see how it looks. I always get too carried away thinking about lots I want to add to upcoming worlds, and then the number/size/location of lots usually end up being all wrong for what I have envisioned. So I'm trying to be a little more cautious this time, and adapt to what we actually get. But if there's an empty lot anywhere near the downtown area, it might be fun to create a general store/hardware and feed store retail lot. Here, too, I like the idea that as neighboring small towns, CR and Strangerville share some amenities. My Strangerville has a bar with a basement bowling alley, a community garden, a country church, and a library/the visitor center. So if CR has a restaurant, a dance hall, a general store, and an equestrian center, in addition to the Roswell cattle ranch... well, that's not a bad little combined community. I might also finally get around to making my agritourism (rental) lot that I've been envisioning since Cottage Living was announced, but have never found the right location. Then I can leave the rest as residential lots.
Edited to add, if there's a good location for it, it might also be fun to add an outdoors marketplace (community lot) and call it the Chestnut Ridge Fairgrounds Swap Meet.
I would like to see whether any of the premades represent Native American culture (I assume at least one will), and how well that household might fit into my save, in addition to checking out what other players have done in the gallery. I like my world to be as diverse as possible, so I'd definitely like to have at least one such family, but I'm wary of creating one myself, as I don't want to inadvertently end up perpetuating stereotypes. So I'm looking forward to seeing what content will be available.
I'll have to think about whether any of my existing families might want to move there. I am trying to limit creating new households at this stage in the game, as I am already have a pretty high number in my rotation. But I'm kind of envisioning a young couple of city slickers (maybe I'll move a household from SM) who want to create a goat and llama farm, some sort of household TBD who have multiple horses, and then... maybe a single country musician who has one horse, but mostly hangs out making music.
I will, of course, be adding sheep to all the farms in Henford and Windenburg. A few horses, as well.
The Villareals will be getting some horses on their estate. You just know Luna is a horse girl. She's also far too naive to realize that her father may have acquired the horses through nefarious means.
In Selvadorada, I currently have chickens roaming around the bar, and llamas out behind the museum. I will likely add miniature goats to both lots.
Tartosa absolutely needs at least one nectary/vineyard, and likely more than one.
Somewhere, in one of my more urban or suburban worlds, I will also need a wine shop retail lot.
In CR itself, I may change the bar to restaurant, we'll have to see how it looks. I always get too carried away thinking about lots I want to add to upcoming worlds, and then the number/size/location of lots usually end up being all wrong for what I have envisioned. So I'm trying to be a little more cautious this time, and adapt to what we actually get. But if there's an empty lot anywhere near the downtown area, it might be fun to create a general store/hardware and feed store retail lot. Here, too, I like the idea that as neighboring small towns, CR and Strangerville share some amenities. My Strangerville has a bar with a basement bowling alley, a community garden, a country church, and a library/the visitor center. So if CR has a restaurant, a dance hall, a general store, and an equestrian center, in addition to the Roswell cattle ranch... well, that's not a bad little combined community. I might also finally get around to making my agritourism (rental) lot that I've been envisioning since Cottage Living was announced, but have never found the right location. Then I can leave the rest as residential lots.
Edited to add, if there's a good location for it, it might also be fun to add an outdoors marketplace (community lot) and call it the Chestnut Ridge Fairgrounds Swap Meet.
I would like to see whether any of the premades represent Native American culture (I assume at least one will), and how well that household might fit into my save, in addition to checking out what other players have done in the gallery. I like my world to be as diverse as possible, so I'd definitely like to have at least one such family, but I'm wary of creating one myself, as I don't want to inadvertently end up perpetuating stereotypes. So I'm looking forward to seeing what content will be available.
I'll have to think about whether any of my existing families might want to move there. I am trying to limit creating new households at this stage in the game, as I am already have a pretty high number in my rotation. But I'm kind of envisioning a young couple of city slickers (maybe I'll move a household from SM) who want to create a goat and llama farm, some sort of household TBD who have multiple horses, and then... maybe a single country musician who has one horse, but mostly hangs out making music.
