For Rent - please help me decide

luciusstorm · December 2023

I'm thinking about picking up the For Rent pack, but I've heard that it's pretty buggy so I am undecided. I'm hoping you good folks can help me.

I should say that I'm primarily interested in it as a way to expand the available lot spaces for townies, more than for actually playing a landlord. Might play as a tenant, but mostly I want to add room for more NPC households in several worlds.

So, what do you think, should I get it? Will it do what I want it to do? Should I wait until the bugs get cleared up (either officially or via mods)?

Thanks in advance.

Bluegayle · December 2023

To be honest I haven't had much problems with the ep. I do play as landlord on one save. Mostly I have been adding builds to fill up like you said you want to do. Gives me more neighbours to visit/get to know.

PandoraTO · December 2023

I want it for the same reason as you, but I’ve decided to wait. A couple of the bugs are pretty serious. I’m not willing to gamble on whether I’d get lucky and have no problems or unlucky and end up with corrupted saves. Instead I bought HSY for half price to have something else new (to me) to play with.

JAL · December 2023

I use it the way you intend to, and so far it has worked fine for me. Building and dividing properties is simple, assigning homes too. The one bug I've encountered is the popup for the unit looking weird and being unreadable, but I can still access the units and they work fine so it's not a big deal. I do also think it might be mod-related. I also like the new bb and cas. I haven't even visited the new world yet or tried any real gameplay but I am happy with it for what I wanted to use it for.

ChampandGirlie · December 2023

I picked it up because I'm interested in it and decided I wanted the bonus content. I decided to wait a little bit to actually play it to allow for any patching that might happen. Also, I've just been busy in my game elsewhere. So, I haven't played with residential rentals yet but I plan to. I also like the flexibility to expand the amount of available units on a lot and the different style of building as an option. It'll make me think about some of the blank lots differently. I've been to Tomarang once and found it to be completely fine. I liked the night market. The botanical garden was not actually a rabbit hole at least as I encountered it. I liked it a lot. The tiger sanctuary is but it's kind of like the gates in Jungle Adventure. I only briefly visited the sanctuary but I'm sure I'll play with it some more. I had interest in Tomarang as something different and I definitely have sims in my rotation who are drawn to SE Asia now because they can be.

If you're mainly wanting the residential rental gameplay, I'd say it's your call. You can either decide to get it or wait. You could wait until after the next patch whenever that is. You could get it and hang on or just get started. You could try it out in a test save before going into your main save. If you vote to wait or not get it, that's also cool. I guess it just depends on how and when you want to use it.

I do think I'll be doing more building in the new year and I'd like some of that to be new multi-family housing but I'll probably wait to be on the other side of the next patch to use Residential Rentals other than the ones that are already in the game.

Ellupelluellu · December 2023

PandoraTO wrote: »

I want it for the same reason as you, but I’ve decided to wait. A couple of the bugs are pretty serious. I’m not willing to gamble on whether I’d get lucky and have no problems or unlucky and end up with corrupted saves.

This is why I wait too. Just in case as I am not in hurry.

GalacticGal · December 2023

The other day in my brand new save I was having a horrific time downloading my own builds to place in the town. I just wanted to add a restaurant or two. But the game would totally freeze, and I'd have to employ Task Manager to exit the Sims4, which is bad, since most of the time I didn't think to save the game, first. Oh, well, I plan on a total restart of that save. Yikes. I would wait for a bit.

83bienchen · December 2023

I personally wouldn't buy the pack in the current state, but then I'm also waiting for a sale anyways.

I found this video quite informative on the current state of the EP (and that gal didn't even have one of the game corrupting bugs):

https://youtu.be/RtNoxdHkFiM?si=CWbawdum4a_JZY0Y

luciusstorm · December 2023

Well... On the one hand, it sounds like it will (theoretically) do what I want it to do. On the other hand, it sounds like waiting at least until the next patch drops is probably a good idea for me.

I appreciate everyone's input.

Simmerville · December 2023

I got it on release and had no problems. But I mostly built and worked in CAS creating new households. Assigned rental units to just a couple lots, and moved in just a couple households. I have a feeling many simmers run into problems when switching those lot categories. Like switching from rental to plain residential before removing any unit specific traits and challenges. It seems like the game should give a few warnings before switching category, it should not be possible if it causes problems...

I believe you will be safe if you just move households into units, and the leave them there. But probably even safer if you wait

DragonAge_300905 · December 2023

If you plan on using the lot challenge maintenance troubles and not playing as a tenet or landlord. The events are text and nothing happens when they are active or when they end. Also the lot challenge is only available when the lot is residential only.

Steam screenshots showing an event and it's ending text.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3125354671
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3125352907

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