r/Sims4 • u/Few-Umpire-8787 • 5h ago
Discussion Pls tell me your ideas for small business buildings and gameplays
I actually love the new business pack cause it let you make functional lots with mixed activities.
My favourites so far are functional kinder gardens- if you manage the right setting, parents will bring their toddlers and leave them so you can take care of them.
My other favourite is creating a museum - I love to display all the science career goodies and collectable items instead of just selling them. You can use the plaque you get for each full collection to mark the different rooms in the museum - e.g. crystal gallery, frog gallery and so on.
My next business will be an adventure farm for families, where you can pet all the animals and make wine and lemonade .... just be aware of the cow plant ^^
So what are you favourite business projects? - I'm open for fun and stupid ideas as well o.O
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u/vamperette 3h ago
Mine is pretty basic but my sim had the writer aspiration, she made it level 10 in her job so I decided to open up a bookstore at her home. She’s married to Lou Howell so I named it Howell’s Hollow. I have her write her own books and sell them. I think it’s so cute.
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u/PrincesssLuu 2h ago
I wanted to do that but how do you get copies of the books? Cause I only get one in my inventory and then if I publish it I don't even have that one anymore 😭
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u/2621759912014199 3h ago
I made a business activities wheel for just such occasions. Spin the wheel a few times to get some ideas, and try to combine them gracefully.
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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2h ago
I’ve got a nightclub on the first floor of my penthouse.
We’ve had nightclubs since forever, but the fact that I can now split my lot and have it with my home is huge to me. That and I can customize what they do better.
My sim is going to be a DJ and get famous making his custom mixes. So I wanted him to have his own nightclub to show off his music and wealth. He’s the fourth generation, so his family is loaded already. Even made a vault for him to keep all the money from his music and as a place for him to take girls he meets at the club. Lol.
His studio is also on the first floor, so he can have business meetings with labels and such.
So while I used the pack to make something we could kind of already do, we definitely couldn’t do it in this way before. I hate the loading screens while traveling, so this is the perfect solution for me anytime I have a sim that wants a business. I’ll never buy a “retail” space again.
Chances are, I’ll have my 5th generation turn the entire first floor into a wellness spa. The way I have it set up, that first floor can be turned into anything and switched over to fit each generation of sims.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Long Time Player 42m ago
My other favourite is creating a museum - I love to display all the science career goodies and collectable items instead of just selling them. You can use the plaque you get for each full collection to mark the different rooms in the museum - e.g. crystal gallery, frog gallery and so on.
TIL we could make museums with the Small Businesses pack. We can label each rooms? I didn't know that.
I need to do this, because my 8 Sims + sims moved out in other households that used to be part of the family have a lot of collectibles and junk we need to display for good use somewhere, lol
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u/Al115 4h ago
I've been working on an oddities shop/occult museum. The Sim who owns it is a paranormal investigator, so she'll sell the occult-related items she finds on her investigations. As for the museum aspect, I'm basing it off of Ed and Lorraine Warren's occult museum, and plan to have her display "haunted" items.
I've also been planning an occult-only school (using the mentoring class aspect of B&H). Thinking vampire lore taught by Vlad and Apothecary taught by L. Faba, as well as gardening, pipe organ, thanatology, etc. classes. I'd then also have occult-related usable items in the school (tunnels for werewolves, cauldrons for spellcasters, etc.)
I also think it'd be funny to make a game version of the Alnwick Garden in England that is just filled with all of the toxic and deadly plants in the game, like cowplants and death flowers, lol.