What Are Your Plans For The Horse Ranch EP?

"RavenSpit;c-18287457" wrote:
I've got a couple in copperdale who are vets, so I really want a horse for them and its probly gonna be the female sim whos gonna be into riding and taking part in competitions.
So I also wanna turn the huge lot in copperdale into a sorta "horse park" or rather an animal park that has stuff for horses too, really hope we are gonna be able to do that.

The vet couples daughter already has a farm in henford and Im gonna be giving her some goats and sheep.
Also my witch is gonna get a black goat.

Dont know if any sim will move to the new world, depends on the lots and how it looks...maaayyybe...

I’m thinking of turning the Michealson large lot in San Sequoia into a park where sims can ride horses, I’ve already put them and their house on a smaller lot in SS. I have one sim that already wears a cowboy hat in willow creek that I’m going to move to Chestnut Ridge and give a horse to. I’ll be moving him out of the house he’s living in with 2 friends and give him his own lot, a lot just big enough for he and his horse.

I'm currently planning to add a stage area in the park lot that approaches the Equestrian Center. I want there to be more of a local community around this, basically for storytelling. And because the center itself is rabbit hole, they need somewhere else to celebrate competition winners, give speeches and get their champion photo taken :) I think a press center is a natural thing on this lot, but hopefully I can just add it to a corner and keep most of the lot as is.

"pameler417;c-18284505" wrote:
I'm currently doing a decades challenge and the release will line up perfectly when I make it to the great depression of the 1930s. Americans moved west to California and other fruitful places for farm work. Prohibition will be over in time for nectar making, it's so serendipitous!

I'm not as far ahead of you as I just started, but I was thinking along the same lines, though I will see where the story takes me.

I have been building a very tight barn in Henford-On-Bagley ! https://i.imgur.com/YUeGZnm.png

So I've been studying the map and doing some planning, and these are my rough plans/thoughts before actually exploring the world myself.

https://i.imgur.com/U4oaI8A.jpg

Yellow: Leave as is

Pink: Use for my sims

Green: National Park or Park

Red: Gym

Blue: Restaurant

Orange: Retail or Vet

White: Recreation Center

Purple: Community Space

The only thing I'm really tempted to change here is to make the 64x64 lot into a Barbie ranch house.

I would also add a restaurant somewhere because I always do that.

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.

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

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.