First of all, allow me to say I'm NOT writing off the possibility of the devs eventually giving players the ability to place rental lots where they please. I'm not even writing off the idea we might get this feature soonish. I'm simply saying that Sulani does not come with any rental lots, and currently we do not know if or when we will get the ability to place a rental home or hotel.
So for those of us who may wish to have a family (or two) travel to Sulani for a night or two to boat, fish, and do all those other fun island things and NOT live there, I thought I'd start a thread to discuss ideas on how to do this without mods, or simply selling your current lot in favor of one on Sulani, and going back to your old lot as soon as you were done.
I'm thinking possibly the easiest way is to simply buy a tent and some other stuff from outdoor retreat and just set up on the beach with what you want in your inventory. But perhaps some of you have better and more interesting ideas!
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It's a livable world from my understanding.
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I will do something similar when I have my Global Superstar wed. Island Living will be their honeymoon location. It should be interesting to see if the paparazzi follows him, though. I do recall in Sims3, they had no shame and would follow my singer Sim to whichever hotel he stayed in, in whichever location. Brazenly, they would just burst into the room and start taking pictures of him and his wife while they slept. Happily, that's all they were doing. LOL
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What is a generic lot, and what does it allow you to do?
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You can live on the lot and it's like a second home. You will get sims, vampires and friends visiting you on the lot but not random sims.
I made a generic lot with the roller skating rank inside a building. But since sims don't come to the lot like they do if it was a park, I changed it to a national park. Now when I go there sims will show up to use the skating rank.
I plan on building a hotel/ resort in Sulani too for a vacation spot.
This is what I thought, too. Purchase a retail lot, put a second home on it, just never open the store and you can stay there. Seems like the best possible solution to me.
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Between taking paid time off with the parents and if you happen to have Seasons just make two or three holidays that has everyone off from school/work so they can take a vacation.
Also the restaurant idea sounds good that can be combined with a few rooms or maybe a disconnected shack from the busy part of things. The GTG club feature would also be useful if you want to have a maid of sorts to come in and clean things up and/or do repairs when things break.
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I already do this kind of thing with some lots in certain worlds (like Oasis Springs and Strangerville). I built a "bungalow getaway" in Oasis Springs and a bar/motel in Strangerville. It's not a perfect solution, but it works! That's what I plan on doing for Sulani... even though it's a home world, I'm just going to treat it as a "vacation" world. I'll build "hotels" and "getaways"... and maybe some restaurants and spas too. And I'll treat it like a "vacation" while my Sims are staying there.
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But so far my thoughts are to combine the following to cover most scenarios
a) camping! create a national park on the beach or just pack your tent and camping gear and head off to the beach - in particular im thinking this could be really helpful when combined with national holidays to give your sims in other worlds a one off trip to the beach for a day or two.
b) the hotel option- so far i have really liked the idea of using a resturant to pay for your stay and combine a meal with rooms and service. Or using a residential lot with the staff as the residents- I really like the idea of using a club gathering for the staff to cook and clean around your guest sims.
c) the second home - seems that purchasing a generic lot as your second home is perfect for those sims with a high end lifestyle to have an island getaway location.
d) holiday rentals, selfcatering, b&b- i think that having a generic lot on the islands that any sim can use as their island holiday accomodation works perfectly for everything except realism of finance. Im thinking air bnb!!! go stay in a self catering property for as long as your vacation days will allow you to. Im sure there is some way you can find to dock yourself the relevant funds.... make a donation to charity! it might break the suspension of reality a bit, but if you are the type of person who cant be content with your sim having a free holiday (hey they might have won a competition!) there are definitely ways and means, other than cheats, to deduct funds from them to pay for their stay.
So whilst we dont have the ability to designate holiday rental lots anywhere (i hope that we do get that function one day) and im definitely sad that they didnt include a hotels system in the pack (im hoping they might release a game pack for hotels!) i think we have enough options to be going on with that meets most sims budgets and most players needs
Likely depends on who you ask. Apparently in the eyes of the developers this is a black and white concept right now.
it's just a lot that has no build requirements. and no one visits them. Therefore you could technically put all necessary accomodations on a generic lot and "live" there for a time. Of course with some caveats but nothing too major.
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One vet lot was basically a family home that was partly converted to an animal hospital.
Lets make this a reality!