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What Are Your Plans For The Horse Ranch EP?
simgirl1010
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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'd like to combine farm and ranch living so we'll see how that goes.
My current household consists of a witch (Dean) and his vampire girlfriend (Serena.) They moved to Henford to start a farm on the girlfriend's family property, which she'd previously lost decades ago to a fire. As farmers, they're beloved figures in town. But Serena becomes the Lady in Red, a mysterious figure who haunts the world of Henford and drinks the plasma of sims who cross her path.
The plan is so have the townsfolk find out about Serena's dark secret and drive them out of town. So they move to Chestnut Ridge and start up a new farm there. Serena becomes a recluse who refuses to interact with others or leave the property, out of fear of being exposed and getting her family run out of town. But her gardening and desire to help out will lead her down the path to nectar-making. The family will start a vineyard and make their own luxury nectar brand.
By then, they'll have had kids. Dean will buy a horse to try and cheer up the kids after their move. The daughter, Belle, will become a horse girl and enter competitions. The son, Tonio, I'm not sure about. I can see him becoming a teen criminal, but he might follow another path if the pack provides one.
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The other option is that I use this other sim that finds out she inherited a ranch in Chestnut Ridge from a relative she didn’t even know she had. Without any family or friends tying her to her current location, she packs up everything and moves to the desert. She develops a love/hate relationship with one of the Native American townies and they run a successful ranch and vineyard together. I’ll give them two kids and a few horses, goats and sheep.
2. My old hippie outdoorsy guy will ride horses
3. My nature loving kid will bond with goats
4. I will paint horses to look like either My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Mane 6, or Bojack Horseman, with Mr. Peanut Butter as a werewolf.
5. I will make a werewolf ride a horse.
6. There will be a pancake/flapjack themed restaurant.
They already wear country clothes, go to the local saloon, and get into bar fights after loosing at Sabaaac.
I’m definitely moving that couple over to Chestnut Ridge
The young girl and young boy in My Wedding Stories aged up and are married, living in Tartosa. I think I’ll have them make and sell nectar.
Now that I will finally have horses for my farmer family, and appropriate furnitures/clothes in western style, I'm gonna start a new legacy family and go full "Red Dead Redemption", with ranching, farming, horse breeding and lots and lots of randomized events to spice up their life.
Patrick Fairchild currently just loves farming and coming up with hairbrained fizzy juice recipes, Nectar making will suit him nicely!
His wife Nora just loves being a part of the community, crafting, canning and running the local bookclub, she'll love throwing community BBQs.
Rylan, their oldest son will be coming of age and wanting to get some independence will leave the nest to become a ranch hand of a neighbouring ranch, owned by the loveliest elderly lady who cannot keep up with her little garden and her beloved horses as she gets older. However when she passes away and her city slicker granddaughter inherits the ranch, Rylan might have his work cut out for this squeamish newcomer.
Hayley, their middle child, is animal obsessed already but will take extra care of her horse, spending every waking moment training and caring for her best friend. Maybe to the detriment of her education.
Lastly Chase the youngest, his future hasn't been decided yet but I suspect it might have something to do with playing music.
But for how long, that depends. If there is a neighborhood that's more landscape/scenery, we will have a ranch there.
But if there are prominent 'cowboy/western style' items in every neighborhood that can't be removed, we will have our Horse Ranch somewhere else.
(I'm so not into 'Cowboy and Western', it just doesn't meet my taste at all and doesn't fit with my game/stories ö.ö)
Strangerville maybe or Henford-on-Bagley or Brindleton Bay or Sulani or Granite Falls or Selvadorada ^^'
We played a lot in Oasis Springs and Strangerville (and Del Sol Valley), I don't know how long we will be able to endure a third/fourth north american desert world :,(
@SERVERFRA mentioned their Heidi Alp in this post and that they would put the goats there.
This inspired me. I will rebuild my Sims 3 Heidi Alp in Sims 4 and there will be the goats Schnucki, Schwanli and Bärli!
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Nectar making will be added for Tartosa
Kine Society will be added to new world of Chestnut Ridge and will be looking for new members
might rebuild my 8 bells saloon if we get actual saloon items
at very least give me functioning door
and other front stuff could be separate shell thing to place on building if its too hard to add all those items as actual build things
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oh yes wondering if Roswells should move to Chestnut Ridge I get ranch vibes from them but I'm still trying to think if you can really be Strangerville mayor from Chestnut Ridge
maybe Ted retired to Chestnut Ridge to avoid responsibility for whatever it is he did
maybe its Katrina Caliente
and maybe she isn't Calientes mom after all but rather a distant relative
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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.
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.
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.
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I don't use MCCC.
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’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.
How cool would that be if bizarre fruit can be used in nectar making. Now there's a idea for the Roswell family.
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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
But I won't be able to do these things right away as I plan to wait until the pack goes on sale.
First of all, I'll start working on the horses themselves, as there are at least ten horses (those the individuals were pictured with) I plan to replicate, as well as a new CAS system (aka CAH) that I'll have to master.
Then, I'll be applying the new CAS items to those Sims, and try to replicate the outfits worn by the women they were modelled on. From what I've seen so far, the new CAS is exactly what I needed for the wranglers, ranchhands, and working cowgirls.
I'm still confused about where my own Sims will end up being moved. Most of them really aren't on a big enough lot to have a horse, and for now, live in starter homes--except for a couple of households living in Henford-on-Bagley. I'm curious about how many uninhabited and empty lots there will be in Chestnut Ridge, as I'm probably not getting rid of any of the premade Sims in this world (which is a first). I think those with horses will need a pretty big lot.
We still don't have names for the two female Sims that showed up in art for Horse Ranch and the roadmap, but for sure, one will be living with my Sim; assuming she isn't married to someone else.
I decided Daniel would buy Plum and take her back to Newcrest with him after the vacation. Unfortunately at the moment Sims 4 Plum is just a modded bike:
I can't wait to make her real (again)! The Reed family consists of two adults, two children and two cats, so there is still space for a horse.
Other than that I plan to add archery targets to the new world and let my sims attend a competition there.