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 don't know why, but I want to go on the cliche route.
Make a rich rancher family on the 64x64 lot, make the daughter fall in love with the ranch hand.
Parents find out, disapprove and send him away. Daughter goes to college, finds out she is pregnant.
She tries to find the father with no succes, and becomes a veterinarian and single mom.
Then years later when she opens her own practice, the ranch hand walks in.... "Saga-Minx;c-18289975" wrote:
I don't know why, but I want to go on the cliche route.
Make a rich rancher family on the 64x64 lot, make the daughter fall in love with the ranch hand.
Parents find out, disapprove and send him away. Daughter goes to college, finds out she is pregnant.
She tries to find the father with no succes, and becomes a veterinarian and single mom.
Then years later when she opens her own practice, the ranch hand walks in....
If you make that into a proper romance novel I would totally read it. :lol: :love:
I haven't decided what I am going to do with this neighbourhood and if I am going to be playing any sims here. Most certainly I will be visiting it with my sims, the canyon looks beautiful, can't wait to explore it. My sims aren't much into tent vacations, but they could take some nice pictures there. I am definitely adding wine making to Tartosa, going to turn it into an art and wine kind of destination. And maybe add some goats too. Also, my castle in Henford is finally going to have a proper wine cellar.- I for one am rarin' to try the 50 Foals challenge again! Back in 2011 I made it to two foals and promptly gave up ? Even if I don't wind up following any certain rules, I'd love to give it another go, because my goodness the foals we're getting in TS4 look so stinkin' cute.
In the meantime I'm getting my Sim(s) ready for the challenge! Coming up with a backstory as to what my Sim from the previous iteration of the challenge has been up to, and getting all the screenshots I can in the process lol.
Since some of us are sharing our Sims, I hope it's okay if I do as well! Also adding some screenshots from my old thread just for fun, I reckon!Spoilerhttps://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/0a849f3b-20ed-433d-bdf4-369c640eac1f/dg2rjup-2351b529-39ed-4148-8dbf-12f0aef27bd9.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzBhODQ5ZjNiLTIwZWQtNDMzZC1iZGY0LTM2OWM2NDBlYWMxZlwvZGcycmp1cC0yMzUxYjUyOS0zOWVkLTQxNDgtOGRiZi0xMmYwYWVmMjdiZDkucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.1yqdnakBuGg0Yw9yaL06k6JZGyW9FXYF9tQylGxFEUg
This is June Weston! Previous Appaloosa Plains resident and 50 Foal Challenge hopeful. Plus her dog Marky! And Liberty the horse too, of course. Unfortunately, Liberty and Marky won't be making it into the new challenge, but that's for another post entirely, haha!Spoilerhttps://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/0a849f3b-20ed-433d-bdf4-369c640eac1f/dg2rjvz-5c6d94f9-ed0f-484b-bfca-71dd553f0571.png/v1/fill/w_1280,h_194,q_80,strp/50_foals_backstory_strip_1_by_elemmele_dg2rjvz-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTk0IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMGE4NDlmM2ItMjBlZC00MzNkLWJkZjQtMzY5YzY0MGVhYzFmXC9kZzJyanZ6LTVjNmQ5NGY5LWVkMGYtNDg0Yi1iZmNhLTcxZGQ1NTNmMDU3MS5wbmciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.RWMAr1A15x3wqnL4V_ra0KWDeN4PC55SDG483m0qOnE
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I'm doing a ten year time skip in her story (roughly), and I absolutely cannot wait to get her and her little one moved into Chestnut Ridge!
Haven't been this excited for a pack in a while, and I can't wait to see what everyone will create once we finally have it! ? - As a game pack I’d probably buy it. But as an expansion that costs probably twenty dollars more, to me it isn’t worth it just to have horses in the game. But to each their own. I understand many players have wanted horses for a long time so that’s just my opinion.
- Here are mine! :smile:
- I have a sim I made several years ago that I had really envisioned living on a ranch. I even made a Get Together club of "ranch hands" to come to his place and help out each day. But because there were no horses (or even cows) at that time, I had him live on a "farm" that was just a huge garden. And consequently I didn't really play with him much. I will probably have to wait quite a while before I get this pack due to budget reasons, but when I do, for sure I will be moving him and his ranch hand pals to Chestnut Ridge and getting them horses. Not sure what other uses I have in advance. I tend to start getting my creative ideas after I get my hands on the packs.
- Nice place for a vacation home.
- Alrighty, I've done some actual planning for the new EP finally. I only play one family, so originally I was thinking maybe someone in Gen 4 of my Holden family would be interested in horses, but honestly, I don't want to sign up for the large responsibility of taking care of that horse every sim day or having enough space for a horse on my main lot.
After much consideration, I'm changing the backstory of my Holden fam. Wade (my literal fav) and his side of the family will be from Chestnut Ridge and their wealth would come from their success in creating and selling nectar. I'm thinking Mr. & Mrs. Holden, Wade's parents, will own a decent sized property that acts as a vineyard and nectary (?). I'll likely have his parents own at least one horse, one sheep and one goat so my main Holden family can visit and play with the animals. There's a possibility I'll have Wade's daughter, Dallas, have the hobby of horse riding when she's a child because I want to take advantage of the fact that kids can ride horses in the game.
I restart my Holden family often, so I think this plan will work out. We'll see if the gameplay cooperates with my idea though. - Did anyone plan to play a city sim or young couple who inherits a Ranch with one or two horses and will need to warm to a ranch life in the country side? I might try this, with the "right" traits not going too well with it all (lazy, neat/paranoid should go well with horse manure, lol) I think it might be fun, and also be a nice way to get acquainted with both horse riding and CR community. Won't work well with me playing on rotation, but I guess when I get this pack I will play in CR for a full sim year.
- @Simmerville one of my story ideas was to have a city sim inherit a farm from an unknown relative. She’s high maintenance and I think her other traits were squeamish and foodie (I changed them to fit better with a “city slicker”). But I’ve all but abandoned that story in favor of continuing with my current family. But it’s definitely a great storyline with ranch/outdoor incompatible traits. I wonder how much effort it would take for self discovery to change her traits.
