Karritz wrote:
I just realised I haven't seen the ice cream truck yet in this current build. Hadn't thought of turning story progression off. I did notice a lot of horses running around so I turned pets off - but I suppose I'm stuck with the horses I've got.
I am trying to work out if I need my current build to be a coffee shop, a hangout or an apartment. I've got a bakery downstairs and residence upstairs. I'll see which works best. I've just got to do the garden and finish off stocking a few shelves. I have a feeling it will be one of the community lots. When I turned it into an apartment the His and Hers doors to the toilets were deleted so no one could get in there. I have ordinary doors on now while I get my sims to upgrade everything to self cleaning. I'm using genies to summon the food. It is so much faster and easier than cooking it with the oven.
I made it an apartment because I couldn't get a stove on the lot for the residence and the fridge only allowed them to have quick meals. But I added the Food Synthesizer thing from Into the Future and they don't use the fridge or stove even though they now have the option to. And they don't use the sink to clean their dishes either. Therefore the reason I had for making it an apartment seems to be irrelevant.
If I turn it back into a community lot they will still have the food synthesizer thing from Into the Future and they'll have lots of customers and I can lock the doors to NPCs and they'll be able to have the His and Hers doors.
Do you have WA? Something I will do sometimes when I have a lot that I want to use BOTH as a residential lot but also have some public areas where other Sims can visit is to use tomb markers and public room markers from buy Debug in order to have areas of the lot where Sims can freely enter, even if they are not acquainted with the family that lives there at all.
I don't know how much traffic you will get if you do that. I generally do it when I want my own controlled Sims to visit the lot for entertainment value (for example, my Fabulous Fairyland works quiet nicely as an amusement park for your Sim families to visit, BUT you can also play as one of the "park workers", that is to say the Disney princesses who live on the lot). So I'm unsure of the NPC traffic, I just never paid any attention to that.
Zoo
