What Are Your Plans For The Horse Ranch EP?

I will recreate one of my old horses to my game <3

This is Mariel von Weidenbach.
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She lives in Pendula View, Willow Creek, and claims to be the last living descendant of the town's founders (her surname literally means "of Willow Creek" in German). In reality, she's an angel who has existed for thousands of years and only recently settled down on Earth, hoping to experience a relatively normal life among humans. A fan of the good old times, she chose to renounce most amenities of modern life, producing her own water and power only when she needs it. Whenever she isn't selling home-made candles for a living, she spends her time either in the garden with her pets or pursuing creative hobbies that don't require power, such as painting, knitting, playing music, and making flower arrangements.
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Mariel was envisioned to be my "horse sim" from the getgo, months before horses were officially announced. That said, I didn't know at the time if we were actually going to get them, and didn't leave any room for them on the lot. Now that they're on the horizon, though, I'm going to move her entire house and garden to the uninhabited 50x50 lot in the Sage Estates neighbourhood, and if there's still space left after the horse has moved in, I might get her miniature sheep and goats, too. As of right now, she already has a dog (Chronos), a cat (Fortuna), a cow (Kali), and three chickens (Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld). Not sure what deity from which mythology the horse is going to be named after, but I'm thinking of Raijin, the Japanese god of thunder.

As for who is going to move to Chestnut Ridge (I'll have to get used to that name, I always want to write "Chestnut Grove" or even "Walnut Grove"), it's the Winchesters. If the name sounds familiar because you've watched Supernatural, yes, it's those Winchesters. That includes Castiel, even though he's not in this screenshot.
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At the moment they're living in Mt. Komorebi, which doesn't make much sense. I was a huge Supernatural fan at the time Snowy Escape came out and just used the haunted forest in Senbamachi as an excuse to explore this new world with my new favourite ghost hunter household. But I think the Wild West is much more fitting for them, even though we rarely see them in such an environment in the TV show. We know that Dean is a huge fan of cowboys at least, and he has a black car named Baby that he loves very much, but since there are no cars in TS4, he'll get a black horse instead. And Sam's actor has become the new Walker Texas Ranger, so surely he won't look terribly out of place in the new world either.

I'm already thinking about how to include horses in my machinima series as well, even though those episodes probably won't come out until at least a year from now. That's one reason I'm still hoping for unicorns, or that we can at least make our horses look like them with appropriate CAS accessories. Either way, I have many plans for horses.

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’ll definitely be setting up my simself with my soul pony. The game hasn’t felt complete without him. And also recreating my memorials for my little black mare ❤️ and my big red heart horse ❤️

I’ve got lots of historical saves for my SimLIt in the wings. The Decades Challenge, the GBSC and I wanna work on my medieval save as well as a reboot for the Amazon Challenge so I can have proper warrior women mounted on mighty steeds! I have been waiting so long for horses and using bike override mods and/or deco statues (and a lot of frustrating posing) just didn’t feel the same.

I’ll also be setting up a breeding farm save in Chestnut Ridge. Hopefully something like Equus-Sims with was really popular with Sims 3 horses will become a thing again. Looking forward to it.

I definitely will start a new game in Chestnut Ridge with a few families owning horse ranches with other animals added. I enjoy off-the-grid stories with farms that are self-sustaining. I definitely want a horse based on the old TV show "Fury" which I loved as a child. Will check the internet for pics. It was a western about a widower who adopted a son after losing his wife and child, and I loved that horse! I will also be adding horses, goats and sheep to my current farms. My sims will definitely be busy taking care of all the animals!

I thought I had a plan but now I'm not so sure. Then I thought about picking an existing premade to play like the Roswell family. I might make a sim for this EP or hold out to see what new premades we will be getting in this world.

How cool would that be if bizarre fruit can be used in nectar making. Now there's a idea for the Roswell family.

If I get it ( I'd like to, but I have to focus on real world stuff like starting a mortgage and moving home) I will definitely give horses to characters in the world based on the book series I'm writing, which is a fantasy based on the Napoleonic era, so there is lots of scope for antics with horses. I can see myself using the increased farming options for historical and fantasy themed play of other kinds too.

My profile pic is of the very first horse I rode that I created in Sims3. His name was Baldy and he was born on my grandparents farm in the mid 40"s. Also lived to a grand old age for a horse. So my plan is to move my legacy couple (which I had to restart) to a ranch where Baldy will be reborn. So excited for this as I can now eventually add all my past real life horses into my game as well. Hmmm maybe baby Maxis from Sims3 will also make a return.

As much as I prefer time to go slowly (that happens when you get old, lol) I must admit I wont be sad for July 20th to get here quick....then it can slow down again. Happy Trails

In my previous save, I started recreating some of the sims from Appaloosa Plains (Sims 3) for Sims 4 with plans to recreate more. I put some in Strangerville and some in HoB, I need to see the size of the new world and the number of lots but I imagine most of those sims will end up in Chestnut Ridge in my current save file. (I play rotationally). I'm very excited for this pack.

I will move a sim to the new world and explore horse riding. If there is a new aspiration, I will explore that as well. On long term I will use the world more than horses themselves. I hope to add nectar making and sheep to the more rustic world of Henford.

But I won't be able to do these things right away as I plan to wait until the pack goes on sale.