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• SiliClone Posts: 2,585 Member

  August 2019

  Leave alone Cinemas... They would never work as Cinemas, and plum because as they had the ability to make sims watch the countdown to midnight for holidays tradition, they would have had the ability to make sims watch movies when movie stuff was released without them changing channel every plum second. I do have some lot to suggest but I'm not on my PC right now... I'll look into it later.

  

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• jadonbakes Posts: 294 Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  I'm trying to do the same thing. It's very hard to think of a good variety of lots.
  This Sims Wiki article provides a basic list of all the lot types in TS4. But, with a little imagination these broad lot types can get more specific.
  

  Restaurants: Drive In Diner
  With bb.showliveeditobjects, we have access to a gas station pavilion, which sort of looks like a Sonic-type drive in
  
  Rainforest Themed Restaurant
  Using debug or sized up rocks and moveobjects indoor palm trees might be cool
  
  
  Lounges: Comedy Club
  Build a stage with a brick wall backdrop and some curtains, add microphone
  
  
  Retail: Funeral Parlour
  Yes, definitely morbid, but with Get to Work and Vampires, you can sell coffins in a retail lot...
  
  
  Toy store
  Using the huge childrens show set pieces from Get Famous might come in handy
  
  
  Pools: Water Park
  With some rocks, palms, and the ship set pieces from Get Famous or the shipwreck from Island Living
  
  
  Museum? Park? Observatory
  finally a use for the OBNOXIOUSLY large telescope--just add a few domed roofs (rooves?)
  

  
  Hopefully this is a good start. I definitely am going to follow this post for other suggestions too as I am also on the lookout for more community lot ideas
  
  
  
  
  

  Post edited by jadonbakes on August 2019

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• elanorbreton Posts: 14,544 Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  I like to make career lots and have my sims form groups with their work colleagues and meet at those lots for 1) getting to know each other better, 2) Skilling in job related skills and 3) storytelling screenshots.
  
  I have had the following:
  Astronaut centre
  Military base
  Office block for business, with a basement for a criminal hideout
  Cookery and mixology school
  Art centre
  Spy/tech guru place
  
  Edit: forgot one - a music centre where sims can go to make a racket on every kind of instrument and practice singing and acting.

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• PreCiious Posts: 353 Member

  August 2019

  
  
  I actually have a cinema lot type and it works pretty well, with the help of littleMsSams Mods.
  The Sims dont pay and have no entry. They usually grab theyre popcorn and watch the movie.
  
  
  
  
  
  I also have an;
  Internet Cafe
  Arcade Center
  Playground for kids
  Playground for toodlers (this is where i host toodler play dates)
  Yoga Park
  Photo Studio
  Farmers Market
  
  
  
  and of course the usual lot types that ea provides for us.

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• shanls96 Posts: 321 Member

  November 2019

  Some cool ideas, sometimes I feel I genuinely run out of ideas for things for my sims to do idk..

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• Lady_Ballora Posts: 786 Member

  November 2019

  What lot types/venes we want in future packs:
  
  Video game arcade
  
  Laundromat
  
  Bank
  
  Fire station
  
  Hotels/motels
  
  Buildable apartments
  
  Multi-purpose community lots like the ones in Sims 1
  
  Movie theaters/drive-in movies
  
  Amusement parks/county fairs
  
  Farmers' markets
  
  Zoos/aquariums
  
  Schools
  
  Warehouses
  
  Auto garages
  
  Factories
  
  Police stations and hospitals that arent' rabbit holes
  
  Convienience stores(like 7-11)
  
  Family entertainment centers(like Chuck E Cheese)
  
  
  
  No more gymas or libraries or bars,and no more venues that require a bar ust to work. I'm looking at you,art centers! When was the last time you saw a bar in an art center?
  

  Why do you hide inside these walls?

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• NationalPokedex Posts: 829 Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  I really want to make a dance studio. Hopefully some day, Sims can do more than just electronica/club-based typed dancing.
  Also I was thinking about making a roller rink or an ice rink, but I haven't tried it yet. Or an art academy. Or a music school. (And you can create clubs where the activities revolve around the appropriate activities and their designated hangout would be the community lot. Actually I think I'm going to go with this approach myself).
  
  A bowling alley if you have the Bowling pack.
  Internet Cafe
  Event Center (so a designated place where events like weddings or charity organizations or fan meets can be held).
  Community Garden center
  Basketball court/gym
  Child development center
  Tabletop/gaming (non-computer based) cafe
  Pet training center
  Some sort of clubhouse for Scouts
  
  I guess you could start by brainstorming or looking up a list of all objects/activities that Sims can do or skills they can build and then just deciding if that activity warrants a lot.
  

  Post edited by NationalPokedex on December 2019

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• mercuryfoam Posts: 1,156 Member

  December 2019

  Just a little add on to @PreCiious post and reply to yours at the same time. As he/she mentioned LittleMsSam's mod is the go to if you want a functioning cinema. She also has a mod that allows you to charge per entry.
  
  So in my game my sim runs a live-in open air club in her backyard at night. She hires a DJ and mixologist, lock the housedoors so guest stay outside. Everyone pays I think 60 per entry can't really remember, and they dance through the night while she watches tv and only come out to hit on the hot guys. :P

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