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Night Clubs Gripe: Too Small-Close Too Soon-Not Enough Sims
Symanteco
Posts: 235 New Member
While the Late Hight expansion pack is certianly the most exciting EP to come out so far for TS3, there are a few fixes in order to make it as fun as it has the potential to be:
Gripe #1:
Uh...I have NEVER been to a night club as small as the ones in Late Night. They are waaaaay too tiny. Where are the BIG clubs? Also nightclubs have dark colored ceilings (sure we can buy the club and redecorate, but they should at least come with darker interiors).
The windows are waaay to "ghetto" small for the hi-rise clubs. There should be panoramic windows to see the gorgeous view, not just from the roof, but in the club itself.
Gripe #2:
Where are all the Sims??? My goodness, only two or three Sims in the clubs. This is a major disappointment ala The Sims 2 clubs, but with TS3 so many more Sims can be in one place at the same time, but the clubs are, for the most part, EMPTY!
There needs to be a config parameter in the OPTIONS to increase the amount of Sims that can be in one place at a time to satisfy those who have CPU's that can handle it.
As it is now the clubs are very, very boring and nothing like the pre-release video showing lots of Sims having a good time.
Gripe #3:
There needs to be at least one after hours dive bar and one after hours lounge that only 4-5 star celebs can visit, and a drink (Sim-Bull LOL) that will re-energize your Sims so they don't get tired so fast.
When you're out having a good time you don't get tired as fast as when you're at home. Being out in itself re-energizes you.
There needs to be a 25-30% increase in energy when your Sims go out - and a drink that slows down the getting tired motive or re-energizes.
Gripe #1:
Uh...I have NEVER been to a night club as small as the ones in Late Night. They are waaaaay too tiny. Where are the BIG clubs? Also nightclubs have dark colored ceilings (sure we can buy the club and redecorate, but they should at least come with darker interiors).
The windows are waaay to "ghetto" small for the hi-rise clubs. There should be panoramic windows to see the gorgeous view, not just from the roof, but in the club itself.
Gripe #2:
Where are all the Sims??? My goodness, only two or three Sims in the clubs. This is a major disappointment ala The Sims 2 clubs, but with TS3 so many more Sims can be in one place at the same time, but the clubs are, for the most part, EMPTY!
There needs to be a config parameter in the OPTIONS to increase the amount of Sims that can be in one place at a time to satisfy those who have CPU's that can handle it.
As it is now the clubs are very, very boring and nothing like the pre-release video showing lots of Sims having a good time.
Gripe #3:
There needs to be at least one after hours dive bar and one after hours lounge that only 4-5 star celebs can visit, and a drink (Sim-Bull LOL) that will re-energize your Sims so they don't get tired so fast.
When you're out having a good time you don't get tired as fast as when you're at home. Being out in itself re-energizes you.
There needs to be a 25-30% increase in energy when your Sims go out - and a drink that slows down the getting tired motive or re-energizes.
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As for the drink, however, there is a new energy drink that is made by mixologists that gives a "wide awake" moodlet. I don't know how effective it is, but my sim doesn't seem to yawn or act tired even when his energy bar is red.
But i agree that we need an all night club cuz the fun ends wayyyy too early
You can see it here: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/286245.page
I made mine spacey and it is only on a 30x30 lot. It's upscale/classy but has no restrictions so that anyone can come. This was done to override some of the limitations.
As for empty clubs. The best solution for me was to undo the restrictions for the high end clubs and throw lots of parties and invite out a bunch of simmers. My household has 3 Sims total. I used the cheat to make them know everyone in town and then had them invite each of their maximum allowance out to the same venue.
Still wish I could've enjoyed Bridgeport to its full capabilities though. The penthouses were uber annoying anyway
It doesn't change their energy bar, but if their energy is real low and their sleep or tired, then it will hide that for five ours. Then when it's over they get a buzz crash and they can feel their sleepiness.
Yeah that's what I've been doing. I'll plan the party at the venue to get people out on the town and in my clubs, but I forgot to get rid of the bouncer and so most of them got turned away. LOL! I really do hope they fix it so that the clubs naturally have a bunch of sims in them.
Deleting the rope shuts the club down LOL!
Your remove the DCCACHE is a good last resort measure.
:O oH my computer isn't running fast enough....
Well, duh. Buy a faster computer. LOL
Well, if you consider the actual sizes of the towns, including the thriving Simtropolis, Bridgeport, that's about all that can fit into the housing available.
What needs to be done is a dynamic slider to allow more people OUT if your computer can handle it, similar to the graphics handling sliders. It would still be up to you to locate where the hotspots are.
The other issue is the sims don't stay long when they are in a club. They should stay, even until closing time if they're having fun, not club hop, because as slow as it is to get around you can only effectively visit one nightspot a night, and that's if you get an early start because time flies way too fast. I'd like to see a mod or a new feature to SLOW DOWN THE DANG CLOCK!
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=424261
Takes care of closing time issues and crowd issues.
And most of the time they're old people, so it'd be awesome if they'd just limit it to young adults/adults :L
I feel your pain :-(
THIS!
I could not agree more, you can change the windows using a cheat but the outside will still show the small windows.
it sucks.
Take a house of 8 sims out and then invite all your sim-friend! Instant crowd and more sims come because it becomes a hot-spot!