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What are some must have location / business lot ideas?
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Hi Everyone I've been adding businesses and locations to my game like bars, nightclubs, restaurants etc but what are some of your favorite locations (custom ones as well) that you have added to your game to make the game more fun?. Open to all kinds of ideas/suggestions
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I'm working a new restaurant that will function as bed and breakfast for a romantic get way. Also working on an aquarium, botanical garden, community garden and toying with the idea of a poker hall. I'm also working a super market that will sell all of the foods that is currently in the game.
I have a spa that is a hotel and restaurant all in one for relaxation getaways. I have a few different type of restaurants. A Pizza place that only serves pizza and few other things. A burger joint that has a playground. Ice cream parlor. A very high class five star restaurant that also serves as hotel and wedding venue. A library that is built to look like a university that only has musical objects and skill books. A laundromat that is also a library and the bookcases only have skills books in them. A cafe that is also an arcade and the barista area looks very close to the where you would go that cash in tickets for prizes. A basketball court and movie theater. As well as a cafe that is bowling ally. Some of these I have created multiple clubs for my townies so the background will appear they have more functionality than they really do. At one point in time I built a subway under the park in Willow Creek but that was only when there was just the base game. It might look more like a subway now that it is 3 1/3 years later and various packs to use...lol
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For instance, I have a multi-floor office type block, which has a cooking/dining school on the ground floor, art studio for painters on the next floor, tech guru/spy office on the next floor and a standard business office on the top floor.
Eg. this is my tech guru guy at work with his colleagues from the same career (using the club member aspect for a gathering):
The building:
I also made it a Club Hangout for a couple Clubs. One was an athletic club, and they would use the gym equipment, and the other was a drinking and dancing club for the Ballroom. The place could really get pretty busy. I had planned to use it as a venue for my Community Organizer Sim to have a Charity Ball fundraiser, basically just to dance and hit attendees up for donations. I had it in the Spice District. It was either on the Old Salt House lot or the karaoke bar, whichever is bigger. But atypically, I hadn't yet saved it to my Library. It was in a Save that I lost when the new save game process was changed. Something went wrong with that Save, and I don't have it anymore. I do plan to rebuild it, tho. Sounds like a good project for a snowy weekend.
I have at one point built my own small, but functional Vet place that had a chef that cooked meals for the good cats and dogs. (I lost it when I switched pcs sadly.)
I am more into the boho/ vintage/ rustic weddings so I wanted my Sims to have the same experience. Now they all can have the perfect wedding at the perfect wedding venue!
For the other neighbourhoods, I'll do some changes as well. I want to put a restaurant in Windenburg, for instance and I also have some other ideas I am not sure about. The Pets world is too new to me to do anything, atm.
In Willow Creek I want to do some changes. Ages ago, I replaced the original Gym there with another, Maxis made one that has a yoga studio and a sauna facilities. Really love that gym so he will stay. The rest of the community lots, I am going to do some changes and even replace. Just haven't decided on what, except I've decided on a graveyard for my dead. I am also toying with the idea of changing either the museum or the library into an bookstore/internet café. Keep the buildings as is and just change the interior and designation.
Same with Oasis. Both the lounge and the snake bar will stay. I really like that bar and it was one of my favorite places (when I only had the basegame) to go on a date or just meet others and the old people (adults and elders) need a place for themselves right?
I am also going to plomp down either a restaurant, like a diner, or a café in Oasis.
I am also toying with the idea of putting somewhere a café/faux bakery. I've saved two very creativly created bakeries from the Gallery that could fit that purpose.
The Community center in Newcrest is designated as an arts center and there I have a lot of skill building items for all ages, game tables, game consoles from the kids pack for the kids, a bar (which does work), a café (I have to hire server into), those smoking things, a pool, computers, an area for toddlers/kids, a basketball court and an balcony area with several yoga mats. I've brought my Sims there a few times and its working like a charm. One of my favorite hangouts for my Sims and I even put one of my own created clubs there and planning on putting more there as well. Maybe even moving one of the Maxis created ones.
Newcrest also has a downloaded bustop/park where I created a little underground nightclub (beneath) with a DJ booth and gave it a teen trait. I am going to change it into a karioke bar instead and chuck the DJ booth for the kareoke machine because my Teens can't DJ
It's a companion lot for the San Myshuno GeekCon festival.
I put it in San Myshuno next to the GeekCon site, but all it did was pull sims away from GeekCon. So it stays in Windenburg now.
It's filled with nerdy toys, computers, arcade games, and Void critter terminals.
Child sims and teen sims hang out here for games and Cosplaying.