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 want to explore all the actual lots before committing, but the concept that is currently shaping up is:
New Appaloosa/Middle Neighborhood:
Use the 30x20 residential lot for a vet clinic (either adapting or bulldozing the current build, depending on how it looks)
Turn the bar into a restaurant, possibly. Otherwise, I'll likely leave it as it is.
Leave the 20x20 lot as a home for the aspiring country musician sim I'm going to make, so she has easy access to busk downtown.
Leave the 40x30 equestrian center/park (?) as it is, for now.
I wanted to add a general store retail lot, but there's not a good space for one, and with the general store shell they added, it seems a bit redundant. So instead, I'm going to turn the "dancehall" (nightclub) into a "Fairgrounds" (technically, a community marketplace): I'll leave the bar and dance floor, but my sims will also be able to sell their milk, wool, crafts, etc., at sales tables along the walls.
Bottom neighborhood: I love the little red farmhouse, so that's staying. I just need to think of the perfect family to move in.
I have mixed feelings about the other three lots; it looks like the builders did a great job, so I hate to bulldoze them, but I'm not sure they fit the way I want to use the space, either. So that's TBD, after I get a good look at them, and finish the things that I am sure about.
One thing I know for sure is that the Roswells are getting a cattle ranch somewhere in this neighborhood. I don't really want to give them the only 64x64, but I might, in the end, if it comes down to it. I'm not fully moving them from Strangerville, I'm just changing a lot to retail, and having them raise (mostly) cattle, board a couple of horses, and have a little store to sell milk, cheese, etc.
Also, I may keep one of the homes in this neighborhood as it is, but change it to rental, and use it for an agritourism/nectarmaking educational center of sorts. I've wanted something like that since CoL but never had a good space for it, so one of these lots might be good. I might also need the 64x64 lot for that. I'll just have to get in there and really check out those lots to see.
Top neighborhood
I'm keeping the 20x20 residential lot exactly as it is; the 20x15 will change from rental to residential, but that's it.
I'm not sure yet about the 50x50, but I suspect that people will do really interesting things with this lot, so I'm going to keep an eye out on the gallery for a while to see whether there's anything creative to download.
New Appaloosa/Middle Neighborhood:
Use the 30x20 residential lot for a vet clinic (either adapting or bulldozing the current build, depending on how it looks)
Turn the bar into a restaurant, possibly. Otherwise, I'll likely leave it as it is.
Leave the 20x20 lot as a home for the aspiring country musician sim I'm going to make, so she has easy access to busk downtown.
Leave the 40x30 equestrian center/park (?) as it is, for now.
I wanted to add a general store retail lot, but there's not a good space for one, and with the general store shell they added, it seems a bit redundant. So instead, I'm going to turn the "dancehall" (nightclub) into a "Fairgrounds" (technically, a community marketplace): I'll leave the bar and dance floor, but my sims will also be able to sell their milk, wool, crafts, etc., at sales tables along the walls.
Bottom neighborhood: I love the little red farmhouse, so that's staying. I just need to think of the perfect family to move in.
I have mixed feelings about the other three lots; it looks like the builders did a great job, so I hate to bulldoze them, but I'm not sure they fit the way I want to use the space, either. So that's TBD, after I get a good look at them, and finish the things that I am sure about.
One thing I know for sure is that the Roswells are getting a cattle ranch somewhere in this neighborhood. I don't really want to give them the only 64x64, but I might, in the end, if it comes down to it. I'm not fully moving them from Strangerville, I'm just changing a lot to retail, and having them raise (mostly) cattle, board a couple of horses, and have a little store to sell milk, cheese, etc.
Also, I may keep one of the homes in this neighborhood as it is, but change it to rental, and use it for an agritourism/nectarmaking educational center of sorts. I've wanted something like that since CoL but never had a good space for it, so one of these lots might be good. I might also need the 64x64 lot for that. I'll just have to get in there and really check out those lots to see.
Top neighborhood
I'm keeping the 20x20 residential lot exactly as it is; the 20x15 will change from rental to residential, but that's it.
I'm not sure yet about the 50x50, but I suspect that people will do really interesting things with this lot, so I'm going to keep an eye out on the gallery for a while to see whether there's anything creative to download.
