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What community lots do you have in your game?
MysticalSimmer
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I've been working on my own personal save file and I've been trying to come up with community lot ideas. I find that the sims has a ton of bars/clubs. So what else do you put in your game so that your sims actually have something to go do?
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I also like community lots from EL, they are quite lively, and you can buy interesting stuff from yard sales tables sometimes.
Recently I built a playground with almost every activity for kids and toddlers possible, and I enjoy it, good for toddlers' playdates and kids' clubs meetings.
A playground is an amazing idea
An axpick:
Prison
Orphanage/school for server sims
Many restaurants with different themes: vegan, halal, hipster, japanese, luxury etc
Bording school for children
University prepping school for YA
Lots of different museums for the collector sims to add to: space, nature, art etc
Bars oh so many
Night clubs with different themes and clientele in mind
Many retails, for sims who create mostly: Photo studio, IKEA for unlocks, fish for anglers, furniture from EL, bakery etc
Many uses of the Community Space from EL, fitting the world/neighborhood it is placed in
Factory
Arcade
Etc
I use the lot assignment creatively to make some things possible.
McDonald's
Starbucks
Gang headquarters
Nudist lake
Portrait studio
Bank
Movie theater
Mall
Daycare
Bridal Shop
Church
Homeless shelter
Community Support Center
Laundromat
Skating rink
Vampire themed blood donation center
and a Christmas market for buying Christmas trees.
I, too, have a prison but it's located in a sim's basement, so not exactly a community lot. Lol.
I always have bars, a spa, an academy, several restaurants (from cheap to expensive, from vegetarian to fish only or meat only...), a pool, a naturist beach, a regular beach, a church for weddings and "funerals", a prison where i hold my cleptomaniacs that got caught, a bank so that robbers can easily access the vaults, a nighclub, an arcade, a bowling place, a karaoke bar, several museums with different themes...
I love the idea of a laundromat, bridal shop, and Christmas market
I have it in my sauna wood tarn lot in Granite Falls; and my partly excavated viking grave lot with a view of the Middle Earth Snake in Windenburg; and in my traditional, in the suggestive sense, Health Club Spa in Del Sol Valley etc.
My Plumbob is GREEN today
That’s a good idea, of having a resource center. I like everything to be thematically geared, so place out all the useful objects but in accordance with different lots' purposes, to make them worth visiting for different sims.
My gameplay blog - kindred sims
~Laundromat (though they’re not really that functional as community lots but still a fun build)
~Movie theater (I don’t have the movie night stuff pack but still doable with base game stuff)
~Hotels/vacation homes/condos (and now you can actually make them vacation lots for your sims to use if they want to stay over in another world!)
~Homeless shelter
~Fire station
~Skating rinks (for people who have seasons)
~Community pools
~Bridal/wedding shop (for get to work - themed shops are fun! Now that I have seasons I’ve been wanting to make Christmas store)
One of my favorite builds I did was a combo vet clinic/bistro called Tails and Treats. It’s technically just a vet clinic but you can call a bartender/barista to work on site so it does actually function as both. I even have a pond/pool dogs can swim in and some training equipment out in the back so it ends up being a very usable lot for pet owners. There's even a tub you can wash your dog in if you don't have a bathtub in your home.
Oh wow these are awesome!
I'm working on adding maybe a couple concert venues and maybe a special art studio/gallery and later a museum with all the things my sims collected.
Once again for anyone who uses mods littlemisssam also has prefences lot trait mods.
So for example I make an arcade and add the lot trait to it preferences for playing games and dancing. And sims will come and automatically start playing games.
I also have her mod more visitors and with mccomand I raise the cap on how many sims are allowed in a zone. So my arcade is jam packed with tons of sims using everything around.
My restaurant was so full I couldn't get a seat 😅😅😅 just letting you know because these really spice up my community lots and make them fun to visit! And I have tons.
One more mod of hers I want to mention is auto employees. So if I put a bar in my arcade for example an employee will automatically show up, giving the lot multi functionality
Designated as a residential, with a live-in doctor and nurse. Moderately presentable on the upstairs floor; and a cellar representing the grim history of the unscientific experiments allowed to go on in that area.
I also saw in another thread that the large toddler playground makes the toddlers imagine it as a pirate ship, so now I need to build a park for children for it!
I have just finished rebuilding Foxbury Commons too; geared towards the distinguished degrees object-wise; will do the same for the other university. I have NAP Body and Mind for Foxbury in mind; and Support the Performing Arts for Britechester. All that violin playing, poor students, so many idles to deal with in one day.
I realised that I will find the university gameplay much more fun if I placed a lot of residentials for silly misbehaving professors in the world, only having one university housing for each university section, so that is my current sim-project.
All these are great mod suggestions that I actually didn't know about. I will definitely be using them
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I’m going to check these out too! Honestly my game is 90% CC at this point lol
I'd love to see a screen shot of that.
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I turned the gym in San Myshunk into a spa. I think a spa in the big rich part of town makes sense.
I turned the lounge in Mt. Komorebi into a karaoke bar. It works cause Karaoke is very common in Japan and I personally don't like lounges. I also added a gym in the 50×50 lot in the mountains. It's great for sims to work on their rockclimbing and skating skills.
I personally hate how in Evergreen Harbor has 3 community spaces so I turned the one in the "green" neighborhood into a nightclub. I turned the one un the neutral hood into a store to sell fabricated goods but running a store in Evergreen harbor is currently bugged.