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?
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I will not be playing it anytime soon, but if I were, I would immediately play a rags to riches scenario using nectar making as a pathway to riches. I played this in The Sims 3 and enjoyed it so much. I am not sure how well it will convert over to TS4, but it should be doable.
Phase 1: The Micro-nectary
I would start my sim on a small lot that isn't very helpful in making small batches of nectar. My sim actually started out restoring classic cars in the sims 3, but he also started to garden and growing plants needed for nectar making.
This is the basement of a community greenhouse. It had nectar making equipment in the basement.
He would get most of his ingredients here and make his first bottles of nectar.
Phase 2: The Farm
Time to scale up. It was at this point that I decided to combine my rags-to-riches scenario with a bachelor challenge. He was going to need a wife to share his nectar making empire. I had six attractive ladies of various personalities and interests join him. I created a complex scoring system to help determine his best match. They all worked together to save enough money for the third phase of this scenario.
I will probably locate the TS4 farm in Henford-on-Bagley.
Phase 3: The Mansion
This is the end game. They have to fill all the nectar racks in the mansion's nectar cellar and then the final dates will happen and the ladies will be scored on the dates and all the data collected on their growth and relationship happenings at the farm and mansion.
I believe I will locate the TS4 mansion in Tartosa.
It's about time I actually use that world
Phase 1: The Micro-nectary
I would start my sim on a small lot that isn't very helpful in making small batches of nectar. My sim actually started out restoring classic cars in the sims 3, but he also started to garden and growing plants needed for nectar making.
This is the basement of a community greenhouse. It had nectar making equipment in the basement.
He would get most of his ingredients here and make his first bottles of nectar.
Spoiler
He would work to buy this home and start his micro-nectary.
He still supplemented his income with classic car restorations.
He would work to buy this home and start his micro-nectary.
He still supplemented his income with classic car restorations.
Phase 2: The Farm
Time to scale up. It was at this point that I decided to combine my rags-to-riches scenario with a bachelor challenge. He was going to need a wife to share his nectar making empire. I had six attractive ladies of various personalities and interests join him. I created a complex scoring system to help determine his best match. They all worked together to save enough money for the third phase of this scenario.
I will probably locate the TS4 farm in Henford-on-Bagley.
Phase 3: The Mansion
This is the end game. They have to fill all the nectar racks in the mansion's nectar cellar and then the final dates will happen and the ladies will be scored on the dates and all the data collected on their growth and relationship happenings at the farm and mansion.
I believe I will locate the TS4 mansion in Tartosa.
It's about time I actually use that world
Spoiler
The winner will marry the bachelor and they will begin raising a family.
They will still own the farm, but won't need to grow any ingredients since they have plenty of nectar to sell. They will only sell the most expensive bottles and only grow enough ingredients to replace what they sell.
Most of their time will be spent on raising the children.
This sim won the challenge in TS3 and getting to this point was extremely fun, probably the most fun I ever had in TS3.
This was the nectar cellar at the start of phase 3. The outer halls will be used to store the nectar. That's a lot of nectar to make. It can support a family for generations, especially if they are replacing sold bottles with new stock. The eldest child will inherit the mansion. The next eldest will inherit the farm, and maybe pass it on to a younger sibling when they establish their own mansion.
The winner will marry the bachelor and they will begin raising a family.
They will still own the farm, but won't need to grow any ingredients since they have plenty of nectar to sell. They will only sell the most expensive bottles and only grow enough ingredients to replace what they sell.
Most of their time will be spent on raising the children.
This sim won the challenge in TS3 and getting to this point was extremely fun, probably the most fun I ever had in TS3.
This was the nectar cellar at the start of phase 3. The outer halls will be used to store the nectar. That's a lot of nectar to make. It can support a family for generations, especially if they are replacing sold bottles with new stock. The eldest child will inherit the mansion. The next eldest will inherit the farm, and maybe pass it on to a younger sibling when they establish their own mansion.
