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Are multi purpose lots next?
DeadFishy
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If multiple family residents on one lots is possible with For Rent then do we think multipurpose lots for commercial could be coming soon?? I would love to be able to have a gym, a cafe, a spa all on one lot
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I think it can be done with the Recreation Center lot type. Since we can assign staff to the massage table, for example and the barrista/bubble tea counters and some other objects too, this should be possible.
There is an awesome guide for the recreation centers at the Sims Community which can help you setting this up.
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"A recreation center is the perfect place for family-friendly community learning and play.
It’s an arts center, fitness zone, game room, and play space all in one."
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Depends on how separate the units have to be. Given that it seems we can rent out a room in a house in For Rent, from the description, I can't see how this would be really limiting for multi-purpose lots. It would make it pretty easy to go, "here's the retail store/bar" and "here's the living area," for example. That would work for any multi-purpose lot I can think of -- my greatgrandparents' store they lived above, the bowling alley my dad grew up living above, my friend's mom's hair salon room, my grandfather's first medical office, the building my son lives in with ground-floor restaurants and apartments above...
But, they DID implement Thrift store and Bobba Tea on one lot, so technically the coding is already there.
You would think all they would need to do is to assign any object that's interactive to actually attract NPCs to use them regardless of what type of lot it is. (At least in my little pea-brain, it should be easy ..... just tedious to do).
I think most people just want NPC staffed objects to be useable without having to hire the NPC. The thrift store clothing rack doesn't have an NPC though and you can pretty much place it on any lot and it will function. But with several NPCs on a lot you get the same issue we get with the restaurant and bar on a lot where the game treats all tables on the lot as restaurant tables and you can't have a separate looking bar next to restaurant or a Shushi restaurant an an Italian restaurant side by side because the chefs and waiters will go to whatever first station they decide to use. I have a lot in game with several shops and sometimes I find the employees even getting or giving foot massages at the spa chair also available on the lot.
Hopefully theres no loading screen!!! That would defeat the purpose! I want a mall or strip mall type venue!
The boba tea isn't a separate type of venue, though. It's an object. The Thrift Store is the only venue there.
I suppose I can imagine how it might be done without a loading screen if there was ownership or a job at a venue in the same building as the residence, but otherwise I can't see that they'd be implementing no-loading-screen. There could just as easily be no personal connection between a household and a venue that's in the same lot, and I can imagine it would be annoying, then, to play as a different household using the venue and having that other residential loaded simultaneously. Or to be a household Sim living above a venue that was *always* active. I can imagine at least wanting to be able to turn off the restaurant business while I was playing a household living two floors above it, at the very least for performance. And what if we had multiple venues? Would they end up half-empty because they're all loaded and running? I worry it would end up a bit Sims 3-esque where for a lot of players venues tended to be quite empty. Personally, I'd rather wait a couple seconds during loading of something now and then than have everywhere be half-empty or non-ignorable. It's a tricky balancing act.
Appears that you are referring to mixed function residential with community lots while I am thinking multi function community lots such as:
- A mall with retail shops and a food court
- A hotel with a gym, a spa, a restaurant and a club
- A book store with a cafe
I don’t see the point in having the ability to add all that to one lot if we’ll need to load them all separately like units anyway as we can already do that except that they’re on different lots.
I would like mixed function residential with community lots as well though.
This is just a long winded way of saying the coding is definitely possible and a modder has already done it, and I would be very happy with similar functionality from the game. Even if only one additional "next door" type was allowed it would open things up dramatically.
while little miss sam mods have not worked for me since cottage living update, I never saw or tried this one. can you send me the link?
But I hope this will come eventually. Maybe even as a free basegame patch to prepare the ground for a Hotel pack
Hi Sorry for the delay! I tuned this thread out for the holidays. See below, the mod is actually called My Little Neighborhood. I really, really, really, hope she adds more lot types.
https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/my-little-neighborhood
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This.