I have been popping in and out of the forums, mostly lurking, the past couple of weeks. I saw the new venue PC set and it looks nice - glad we finally got lemon trees and REAL eggplants (which in my opinion should've been called 'aubergines')
I wanted to know what else can you do with this set?
What have you done with the set?
and some screenies too please
This set reminds me of the farmer's market in TS1 - speaking of TS1 I think I'll go and play that one now
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My favorite thing about the market stands is that you can buy World Adventure fruits without traveling!! Normally I wouldn't like something like this that makes it easier to obtain something hard to get in the game, but I've been too afraid to travel to other destinations since the Generations patch caused all those issues with travel. Maybe it's fixed now--I don't know--but my sim hoods are too precious to me to take the chance, so I'm very, very happy to have access to the WA fruit again.
I have yet to see anyone tending the lemonade stands. I thought it would be like the bake sale stands, that some kids might come tend them, but no. Adults can't use them that I've seen, which makes me a little sad. No lemonade unless you have kids.
I personally placed a pizza oven in the 'restaurant' area and I put the wishing well from Lucky Palms in there. It looks pretty good.
In general, I am very happy with this set. Gardening is one of my favorite things in the game, and I am happy to have a set that allows you to buy and sell produce. That being said, the venue is just okay. I like it, but I don't feel it's worth $12 over what the premium content alone will eventually sell for. Basically, you are paying more to get the premium content sooner. I like the premium content enough that I'm okay with that.
While I don't see too many simmers in the Market Venue, they are some pretty nice items to have for gardener sims and all. The Venue is also gorgeous and beautifully made (even though I know simmers can make better ones).
Plus like sirenprincess says, it's a nice addition that you can buy stuff from World Adventures also in the market stalls without having to travel.
The Purple Eggplant and Lemon Tree Harvestables were a major shock to me to be quite honest. A few days before the venue was released, I made statements saying the Harvestables wouldn't come out in the store sometime soon unless EA has improved on their tech and found a way to release them, given the whole "temporary install" concept rather than permanent ones like you would find in Expansion Packs and all.
Also, if you have Monte Vista, or even World Adventures you can find one new recipe in the Pizza Oven and new types of food/nectar to order in the registers of World Adventures. Another nice little bonus I think.
The Lemonade Stand "CAN" be useless if there are not enough children sims in the game. In Monte Vista, there are only "3" children in the entire world, which would be really difficult to be able to see one man a lemonade stand.
I also think this is one of those venues that you can place in other worlds. I have all the store ones, and can see definitely see myself placing it in sunlit tides, lucky palms, Hidden Springs, and prob other as well. Even though I will likely recolor the outside/switch up the decorations to fit more with the theme of some of the towns (ex. Sunlit Tides), it won't as be difficult as say changing the look of the Lucky Simileon, lol I love that venue, but it looks very out-of-place when I place it in some worlds (thank goodness for simmers who can build)!
I agree with Sirenprincess and AznSensei in that it's awesome that the store team linked this venue with WA, giving sims the ability to purchase rare fruits from the cart and different nectars from the travel destinations--you also can find flame and life fruits for purchase there sometimes! Additionally I like how autonomous the produce cart is, sims always want to tend it in my game. I haven't really checked out the lemonade stand yet.
No townie sims will buy from you if there are other carts there. They instead will buy from those and try to sell their own veggies.
I also noticed that none of them buy anything unless they have the hungry moodlet.
Might have to sit it out for now.
Thank you again, at least now I know what it does :thumbup:
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I'm just gonna patiently wait until it goes on a mega-deal
I'm sorry I don't have any screenshots of those items. I do have some of the market stand and lemonade stand.
Here's a little boy giving psychiatric advice It's a very cute interaction!!
Here's an interesting shot I caught when my sim was tending the market stand. She snatched an apple when no one was looking! She's not a klepto sim or anything.
P.S. Next time I load up my game, I'll take pictures of the vines and other pieces from the set that I love.
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Here are some additional screenshots
All that though did take away from the "old style" feel of the market, and made it a little crowded. Though I haven't experienced any routing issues as yet.
I'm actully VERY angry with EA right now. I've been clammoring for climbing Ivy decor for my lots and right when EA decides to finally create some it's in a daggone venue, which means the peices will never be sold individully so I could at least get the Ivy I had been asking for!
Thank you, EA, for paying attention to simmers, but really, EA? Holding them hostage like that?! I would cry if I wasn't so dehydrated and hungry at the moment. :XD:
Wow--sounds like they've got the market cornered! :shock: LOL! *laughing at my lame joke*
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May I ask where that greyish fountain she's sitting on at the bottom comes from, please? :oops:
OK, I have looked on line but without going into my game, I can't be sure. I am WANTING to say that it came with either SN or Seasons, but I can't be positive. Next time I open my game, I will let you know for sure unless someone else has the answer first.
Note I don't have a lot of free children in 🐸🐸🐸🐸 right now, so the lemonade stands are useless. Plus, you might want to delete those anyway; after adding the lot, I started getting routing issues from a neighborhood child sim a lot, and those never happened before.
I'm a bit disappointed that you don't actually sell your fruit or vegetables, you just get money a bit like a tip jar. Or am I missing something?
I also love gardening and was looking forward to being able to sell produce at the market.
Then I decided there wasn't much action in the sales at the Street Market whenever I put it in my game, but whenever one of my sims visits the Greenhouse there are usually multiple sims there hanging out and doing nothing much - except on one noticible occasion when two witches started having a duel inside the greenhouse when I was looking for seeds with my sim. I got a bit of a shock - that duel looked fierce. Then they both ran away.
So I thought I'd put the Humble Market stands in my greenhouse venue. I added a lemonade stand and the childrens bakers stand just because I could.
The first two times I sent a sim to the greenhouse with the market stands etc they consigned some produce from their garden and tended the stand for hours and nothing happened. There were sims swarming all over the place though. At around 7pm I got my sim to leave the stand untended and the townie sims mobbed it and my sim sold most if not all consigned produce. This happened twice.
I decided to make a little move of it and started a new game just for that purpose. I don't have much movie making experience yet and still have a lot to learn but - the townies didn't appear in the flocks they did the first few times I tried it. Maybe it was later in the game before and more of them had spawned than was the case when I made my movie during the first few days of a new game.
I had only one sim I controlled in the game and she didn't have a garden so she harvested produce from the greenhouse. Then she consigned it to the market stand she later tended.
This is the link to the movie if you are interested.
http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=440542
The thing that happened is two townie children turned up and played ball for a while. Then one of them tended the lemonade stand. Then my sim (a witch in a pink skirt and white top) went and got some psychatric advice from him.
She couldn't buy lemonade as the stand didn't have any lemons. She went and got some lemons and tried to add them to the stand but he was tendign it and so she couldn't. Foot tapping. Then she went and tended her stand. Eventually she had to do more harvesting from the greenhouse garden and consign some more produce she harvested from the greenhouse. If you watch the movie whenever you see white numbers floating up on the left of the screen - she just sold something she had consigned.
I obviously need to rearrange the market stands if I am going to continue to do this because my sims are blocked from leavign the lot by the place I have put the stands. But the townie sims are not blocked, They come and go rapidly all day. Most consigned produce is sold after 6pm. I didn't notice if they were hungry at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
An entire world which normally comes with at least the equivalent of one or two sets, is a little bit over $20 bucks. The Alfresca market isn't even close to being worth $17 dollars, let alone $20. This constant price-creep is precisely why it's gonna take a seriously strong hook to get me to move to Sims4.
I understand more coding etc is why they have to increase their prices over time, yet the price increase is a lot more than what is needed. It's like the cat food. Five years ago the brand I buy cost fifty six cents per can, and then it jumped to 78 cents. (The cans are only two ounces.) They said it was because of gas prices. Okay, how many of those little tiny cans fit in the back of a semi-truck -- a million? Well, a million times 25 cents is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars -- no way did the price of gas necessary to haul one semi-truck across country go up that much.
Vote with your feet. [edit]None of that would be a big deal, except so many other products and services increased at the same astronomical rate. My office rent went up 600% in ten years -- did YOUR salary increase that much? Well it did for the landlord (I moved along with everyone else and the building is STILL three-quarters empty).
[edit for moar whining lol]He was trying to get all the other commercial property owners in town to raise their rents to the same insane level, so we'd have no choice, but now a group of us are discussing building our own dang office complex as a cooperative. Just screw those jerkwads and the horse they rode in on. I do not have a money tree in my backyard.
Thnak you again darrqqrrad (I hope she can see this) for the the incredibly kind gesture, my gardener sims will really love this and it'll complete the gardener career/experience for me
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I'm waiting for the stands to be sold separately, I seldom ever use EA lots because they are always missing something or have pathing issues. It will be nice once it's available by itself so I can build a community garden/farmer's market. I do still enjoy looking at people's screenshots until I can get it myself.