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Seasons + Farming Idea
Aquias
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I thought it would be fun to mesh the two idea together. Here is what I would like to see:
Season
Winter: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, Snowstorms, and light snow. Sims can build snowmen and make snow angels. Ponds and lakes freeze over; Sims are able to place an ice fishing hut. This season contains the New Year Festival. Garden plants are dormant. Honey Bee's are dormant.
Spring: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and light snow. Wild flowers spring up and garden plants become active again. Honey Bees become active. This season contains the Flower festival. June Beetles appear with Spring Rain.
Summer: Brings Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and Drought. Cicadas become active during the day, katydids and crickets become active at night. Wild Berries are available. This season contains the Fun in the Sun Festival.
Autumn: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and light snow. Deciduous plants turn orange and red, then drop leaves. Wild Mushrooms are available. This season contains the Harvest Festival.
Build Mode
Greenhouse: Sims are able to build a Greenhouse to grow garden plants in any season. Greenhouse material includes walls, roof, sprinkler system, and compost bins.
Buy Mode
Honey Bee Box: Allows for a new Bee Keeping Skill. Bees are most active in Spring and Summer. Honey Bee Box yields Honey, Bees Wax, and Royal Jelly.
Chicken Coop: Allows Sims to raise Chickens for Eggs and Compost.
Produce Stand: Allows Sims to sell garden produce from home, farmers market or at festivals.
Ice Fishing Hut: A portable object that allows Sims to Fish on the Ice during winter.
Juicer: Turns fruits and vegetable into juice.
Volley Ball Net: Used to play Volley Ball.
Community Lots
Farmers Market: Sims are able to sell Produce, Fish, and other home made products. Festivals are also held at this location.
Skills
Bee Keeping: Sims keep bees to make Honey, Bees Wax, and Royal Jelly. Mastering this skill allows the Sim to control the swarm; sending them to attack another Sim.
Herbalist: Sims can collect wild and garden herbs to turn into salves, tinctures, and teas. Herbal products can be sold and used to relieve nausea, burns, and stings; products also raise or lower certain Needs and add moodlets.
Garden Plants
Maize (corn): Used as a food for Sims and as feed for animals.
Aloe Vera: Combined with Beeswax to make a salve for Burns and Stings.
Ginger: Made into a tea to relieve Nausea.
Ginseng: Made into a tincture to slow energy decay.
Ginko Biloba: Made into a tincture to increase skill learning rate.
Orange: Can be eaten fresh or juiced.
Lemon: Can be eaten fresh or juiced.
Blueberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
Blackberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
Raspberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
Season
Winter: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, Snowstorms, and light snow. Sims can build snowmen and make snow angels. Ponds and lakes freeze over; Sims are able to place an ice fishing hut. This season contains the New Year Festival. Garden plants are dormant. Honey Bee's are dormant.
Spring: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and light snow. Wild flowers spring up and garden plants become active again. Honey Bees become active. This season contains the Flower festival. June Beetles appear with Spring Rain.
Summer: Brings Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and Drought. Cicadas become active during the day, katydids and crickets become active at night. Wild Berries are available. This season contains the Fun in the Sun Festival.
Autumn: Brings Rainstorms, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, and light snow. Deciduous plants turn orange and red, then drop leaves. Wild Mushrooms are available. This season contains the Harvest Festival.
Build Mode
Greenhouse: Sims are able to build a Greenhouse to grow garden plants in any season. Greenhouse material includes walls, roof, sprinkler system, and compost bins.
Buy Mode
Honey Bee Box: Allows for a new Bee Keeping Skill. Bees are most active in Spring and Summer. Honey Bee Box yields Honey, Bees Wax, and Royal Jelly.
Chicken Coop: Allows Sims to raise Chickens for Eggs and Compost.
Produce Stand: Allows Sims to sell garden produce from home, farmers market or at festivals.
Ice Fishing Hut: A portable object that allows Sims to Fish on the Ice during winter.
Juicer: Turns fruits and vegetable into juice.
Volley Ball Net: Used to play Volley Ball.
Community Lots
Farmers Market: Sims are able to sell Produce, Fish, and other home made products. Festivals are also held at this location.
Skills
Bee Keeping: Sims keep bees to make Honey, Bees Wax, and Royal Jelly. Mastering this skill allows the Sim to control the swarm; sending them to attack another Sim.
Herbalist: Sims can collect wild and garden herbs to turn into salves, tinctures, and teas. Herbal products can be sold and used to relieve nausea, burns, and stings; products also raise or lower certain Needs and add moodlets.
Garden Plants
Maize (corn): Used as a food for Sims and as feed for animals.
Aloe Vera: Combined with Beeswax to make a salve for Burns and Stings.
Ginger: Made into a tea to relieve Nausea.
Ginseng: Made into a tincture to slow energy decay.
Ginko Biloba: Made into a tincture to increase skill learning rate.
Orange: Can be eaten fresh or juiced.
Lemon: Can be eaten fresh or juiced.
Blueberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
Blackberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
Raspberry: Can be eaten fresh or used with cooking skill.
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So I like the whole farming thing being completely linked with the seasons of the year however I think there should be some other seasony things for sims to do too:
Snowball fights, playing in the leaves, waterfights, sunbathing, jumping in puddles, taking out umbrellas in the rain. Laying on rugs in front of the fire, cooking marshmellows at the fire, children go on parents shoulders (Comes in handy watching firework displays)
Other details could be added:
Sims get suntans, sims get colds if they're not dressed appropiately to the weather, sims get a chill if they spend to long outside.
Festivals/celebrations:
Pumpkin Festival - Sims race through the seasons to grow the biggest pumpkin - there will be a festival held in Autumn to judge who has the biggest and best pumpkin.
Firework Night - Held at the central park, a massive firework display is held where sims can have sparklers and bonfires and watch firework displays.
New objects:
Ice cream van
Ice cream making machine (using the new fruits you can have e.g, blueberry icecream)
Reefblower
New car: Snow Plow
New Negative Moodlets:
"sniffles" - when a sim is catching a cold and starts sneezing
"headcold" - Sim is ill with a cold - bed rest, fluids and soup gets rid of this moodlet quicker.
"Sunburn" - Sims have sunburn from staying out in the sun for too long and are advised to stay indoors until the burns cease.
"Gloomy weather" - the rain has been pouring for a couple of days now and sims are really getting down about it
"Struck by lightening" - Sims are advised to go to hospital when this happens.
"Stung by a bee" - Ouch! You may need some herbal homemade ointment on that sting.
New Positive Moodlets:
"Blue sky" - blue skies means a happy sim
"Winner" - winning the pumpkin festival leaves a smile on your sim for days
"Leafy fun" - playing in leaves leaves your sims with exciting adrenaline
"Great snowman" - when making a good snowman, your sims are really chuffed
"Yummy Honey" - Eating homemade honey leaves your sim proud and full of delcious honey.
Thats all I can think of atm
I LOVE your ideas! I am a beekeeper, so of course your idea about the Beekeeping skill sounds AWESOME to me!
* Your Sim could purchase beekeeping equipment and hives, and order packages of bees through the mail (or collect swarms - they could even receive a Challenge call to collect a swarm at City Hall or the Library, or at a friend's house).
* There could be a new Beekeeping skill, and your Sim could increase that skill by reading books or exercising it, just like with Tinkering, Inventing, etc.
* Your Sim could purchase a beekeeping workstation that allows them to extract and bottle honey from their hives, and also make lip balm and various types of candles from the wax. These could be used in the home, given as gifts or sold at the grocery store, just like produce.
* Of course, there would be a random chance of accidents for novice beekeepers (getting stung, bees evacuating the hive - a.k.a. "swarming" - and these accidents would happen less and less frequently as your Sim's Beekeeping skill increases)
* As your Sim's Beekeeping skill increases, your Sim may get "magic" honey that has special properties if consumed (perhaps could even bring a Sim back to life, if there are Death Flowers on the property).
* If there is a garden on your Sim's property, the plants would produce more fruit (and BETTER fruit) if your Sim also has bees!!
* New items in the EP could include the workstation, hives, bee-themed kitchen decorations, beekeeper suits and funny bee costumes for kids and adults and new flowers and flowering plants.
* New ambition rewards could include "Master Extractor" (lets you extract more honey from your hives) and "Sting Proof" (your Sim never gets stung!). Maybe your neighbors are afraid of bees and will complain about your new hobby... or maybe an Evil neighbor will try to steal honey from your hives with comical results
* New Challenges await... the local bistro or grocery store might want several jars of honey, or maybe the elementary school will ask you to give a lecture on beekeeping, or maybe the military will ask you to help them breed ATTACK bees!!!
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This could add an interesting dynamic to the game - it could even effect the entire town your Sim resides in, since bees travel many miles to pollinate flowers. It could also be educational... while your Sim develops their skill, you could get little tidbits about the life and work of bees. Perhaps EA could even sell special bee-related items in the Sims Store and donate a percentage of the proceeds to bee research (to help build up the population - look up "colony collapse disorder" online for more info).
Sorry for such a long post - I am passionate about this idea and hope that EA will read this post and consider it for an upcoming expansion pack!
In real life I study botany, gardening, and herbal medicine. All three if these things I would love to see reflected into the game. What's enjoyable about this game is the healthy mix of realism and fiction. We can create who we want to be or who we want to see.
Berries are also nice. I want to make ice cream with various fruit flavors on summer!
The beekeeping is similar to that of Makin Magic, I really enjoyed that. I think you should be working at EA.
that would be awesome, and cows!! if there is going to be ice cream you would need milk (or cream but thats just being overly specific) but you could have cows to get the milk and the better you take care of them or have some general farm skill that would include the bee keeping skill the better quality the milk is, like with fruit and vegetables. and you could combine that with fruit in the ice cream machine to make different kinds of ice cream. but you would also have the option to buy milk in the supermarket if you can't be bothered with the cows and the farming, and you could sell the milk.
But you can't send them to the slaughterhouse, that would just be sad, I prefer the current hamburger plant for that. Lets not have The Sims TOO realistic
Goats can also be milked.
With out a doubt we will get a weather ep. I do have doubt we will ever see a farming based ep though.
I really hope they implement this.
I would love it if EA calls it "The Sims 3: In Season"
That would be funny.
Great ideas! You have my support!