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I admit I've never really used the club system..
BatmanFanGirl
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Can you guys give me some ideas on how this would be a fun thing to use?
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BatmanFanGirl
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How is this anymore fun or useful then selected multiple people to go to a lot? This sounds like a jerky question but i don't mean it like that. I know people LOVE Get Together and I would like to start using it but don't really get what is unique about it. Thanks.
You can also specify up to 5 actions the club members should not do. So, in this way, their getting together is way more specific and even interconnected. This has made those club gatherings so much more meaningful for my sims than simply inviting others to wherever.
Another plus is that the club doesn't break up until you actually end the gathering (as opposed to random sims going home early).
All of this. Especially the not leaving the lot until the gathering is over. Every time I just take a sim with me somewhere they wander off before we get to do anything. So the club makes it easier to control the length of the interaction, as well as limit and direct what autonomous actions the sims you aren't controlling will do. Only exception is if you have a club gathering in San Myshuno during a festival, the festival behavior can override the club behavior.
It's also fun to me when I take a sim to a restaurant and one of my clubs that meet at "Any restaurant" shows up in the background, doing what the club is designed to do. Honestly, my clubs meet more often when I'm not playing them because I often get too busy to schedule gatherings. But it's kind of nice to see them around.
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Clubs are also good for meeting sims. Maybe the sim you want to meet is already in a club and it will be a "natural" first encounter for them. Or you could have a specific group of sims who are looking for new friends.
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And I love just clicking the option to do a thing together instead of herding them around.
(You can choose from tons of activities to set for the club that they don't HAVE to do, but it's still nice if you want to have them all woohoo, be mean to each other, play don't wake the llama, etc.)).
It's also easier to find a certain group of friends to invite when planning events.
There are other useful ways to use clubs without them actually being, well, clubs:
If you like family play and you have your relatives scattered in different households, it's good for family reunions. You take them to the park and they actually hang out.
Or you can make a club with, say, all the cousins or all the adults for when you need a specific portion of the family to do a specific thing.
Also, when you just want to travel to a lot with several sims, you can only pick sims your sim already knows, right?
But with clubs (and I do this often, this is just an example), let's say you have a sim with the erratic trait and you want them to meet other erratic sims to take over the world or just form a support group idk.
Your sim creates the club, don't make it invite only, and set erratic trait as a requirement to join. This way, when you click on add member, you'll get a list of sims with the erratic trait to add them even if your sim has never met them. So you can start a meeting and get to know them and do stuff with them when you probably wouldn't have before.
You can have rival clubs and make a group of spellcasters constantly fight with a goup of vampires.
You can create a weird cult for your celebrity sims where they are required to dress a certain way (they automatically all change into this when the meeting starts) and be creepy.
Or just a good, old-fashioned swingers club for your wholesome suburban sims who may also have a bowling team.
I say explore the lists of available activities. There's always one I've missed that inspires me to do something random.
Lately I have been using MCCC for story progression, a lot of sims my sims meet are already married. So I make a club with two requirements: "Young Adult/Adult" and "Not married." This is an easy way to create a group to get together to find good matches.
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The club has outfits suitable for a funeral - all black attire. You can add multiple outfits in each category so sims will randomly wear one of the outfits set up for the club. (If you have Seasons, you will probably want to set up club outfits in the "Hot" and "Cold" categories as well.)
I have a mod that adds additional club activities - specifically I wanted the "Mourn" activity. The club I created has the following activities: Mourn the Dead, Hug, Give Speech.
The club meeting location is a cemetery I set up for this purpose. In addition to areas for gravestones, I added a room where they can all gather and "give speeches" etc.
This club works great for me - all the relatives are added to the club, and it is "passed" down from through the generations. Hint: before the club leader dies, make sure another sim in the household becomes the new leader. One way is to kick out every other sim except the new leader so the leadership doesn't get passed on to a non-playable sim.
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The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
I also also use the club system for multi family lots like small apartments and trailer parks so I can lock doors per unit. I get bored playing a single sim but having them in a multi unit lot means there’s usually a sim around to play with.