I couldn't seem to find any other threads on this, so hopefully it's fine I'm creating this one.
I need some inspiration for holidays and clubs yin my game, so I figured I would hear you lovely simmers here on the forum what you create for your game
The holidays I have added to my game are "Spooky Day", "Springfest", "Summerfest", and "Pride".
For clubs it's usually a coffee or culinary club, or I add a club for family members for "family game night" or something like that.
What do you guys add in your game? So curious to hear
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If you are looking for some ideas, I found quite a bit at these links.
Custom holidays ideas for your Sims 4 Calendar
https://dreaminginsimlish.wixsite.com/thesims/post/custom-holidays-ideas-your-sims-4-calendar-the-sims-4-seasons-required
Sims Community - I filled the entire Calendar with Holidays in The Sims 4 Seasons
https://simscommunity.info/2018/07/25/i-filled-the-entire-calendar-with-holidays-in-the-sims-4-seasons/
SimVip - Six Holidays You Should Make
https://simsvip.com/2018/06/22/six-holidays-you-should-make-with-the-sims-4-seasons/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbisHfYUFu8
If the Sims I’m playing are not especially Americanised, they might miss some holidays... it all depends on the family I am playing at the time.
I haven’t really got the hang of the clubs yet..
Used the club system so that the children/teens in the family can easily invite their friends over and have a slumber party.
If I have a single parent who is raising their child alone, and the other parent is in the game. I will use the club system to bring the one not living in the household over so they can visit and interact with their child.
I've added lots of clubs and keep adding more. I've created them for extended families. I have clubs for single Sims who want to date. I have clubs for musicians to jam together. I have a club called The Mothers of Invention, with Frank Zappa as the club leader. I have clubs for Sims to engage in spiritual traditions. I will soon be creating a cult/club for my elder who wants to be a cult leader. I have clubs for youth and for teens to hang out with each other. I have a club for all of a Sim's coworkers to get together and hang out after work. I have a chess club and a rocketry club. I have a club for people who want to act like frat guys. I have a club for more high-class drinkers. I have a club for actors to hang out together. I have clubs for all of a Sim's friends. I love clubs!
I've not created many clubs. I have a couple for some saves for my vampire friends to meet up and party/hang out/work on skills. There are only 3-4 existing clubs that are not useless, so my sims don't join clubs much.
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Great idea with the Winter/Summer breaks, will definitely be adding this
Thank you for the links
Wow, these are some great club ideas!
I don't have seasons, but I have used the club system for awhile, I cheat, it guess, I just use the clubs already hidden in the game for a lot of my clubs, found here:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Club_%28The_Sims_4:_Get_Together%29
The clubs I came up with are centered on bowling:
Teen Tin Pins
Requirements: Open invitation, Teens only
Club hangout: Blowling Alley lot
Club activities: Go Bowling
Description: Bored with life in the slow lane in the 'burbs? If you are feeling lucky, strike out on your own in your spare the time, and have a ball with us.
The Bowling Stones
Requirements: Open invitation, Men Only
Club hangout: Blowling Alley lot
Club activities: Go Bowling
Description: You can't always get what you want in life, but if you are suffering from the summertime blues, use your imagination and let us come to your emotional rescue. Stop waiting on a friend and get some satisfaction with us.
The Rolling Pins
Requirements: Open invitation, Women only
Club hangout: Blowling Alley lot
Club activities: Go Bowling
Description: Do you knead to get out of the kitchen? Don't do anything half-baked, join us, you won't knead a lot of dough and we're as wholesome as apple pie.
On the other hand, I have quite a few holidays. I added in an Earth Day, Sim National (Fourth of July), Spookfest, Harvestfest, Winterfest Eve, Winterfest, New Year's Eve, New Years Day, Love Day, St. Gnomes Day (St. Patrick's Day), Also I chose a day out of each season to act as an appropriate break from school and Spookfest, Winterfest, and New Years all have a day set aside for decorating for each holiday as well. I play with my seasons as 14 days long to help space everything out a bit.
@Rouenpucelle I have so many cat-loving sims I made a club for them to meet at the cat hangout in Brindleton Bay. It's just a shame that animals cannot be part of a club and there is no interaction with animals as a club activity.
I also added Halloween and Leisure day, as well as Bunny day.
As for clubs, I have a lot of them in my base game save file..a gardening club, drama, vampire, witch, teen club etc.
In my spellcaster playthrough I add days from the Wheel of the Year to celebrate.
I added Anniversary to the calendar. It's for my sims celebrating their anniversary, which at first came because i was only playing one household but I found it works perfectly even in rotation play. The take the day off, have a few drinks, make a little romance and go on a date. It's become an absolutely essential holiday in all of my saves.
I also defeated Strangerville and added a "Hero's Day" where the activities are based around the activities of things my hero sim liked to do (in this case: cleaning, drinking, and inviting guests over for a movie night).
For clubs I am a little annoyed that a few traits are missing so I can't make the clubs I want to make (fabrication club, mommy and me group, etc) but I always make a household club, a teen club, a singles group, and a kids club.
"Green day" (Gardening, give flowers etc), "Family day" and "Inspiration day" (baking, arts and music etc) and "Public lecture on Good/Evil" (where my sims just Attend holiday ceremony).
For my occult hunter there is also "Abduction day" and "Recon day".
With regards to clubs I mostly just create clubs for extended family, offpsring or friends clubs. But I also create conflicting clubs like "The Fanged Vegans" led by the Vatore siblings and which don't get along with Vlad's club. And also a spellcaster club "The Circle" that don't get along with any vampire groups.
Then I also have two party groups for vampire parties: "Plasma Janes" and Plasma Joes".