What do you look for in a community lot?

Here's what is on the main floor of my Garden House build.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4891/30862967557_d6c9beebc9.jpg

Community lot appropriate, just to make an excursion there needed and the town varied.

The art gallery in Aurora Skies had a café and also a music scene with instruments, as did the dive bar, the prisma studio had every fantastic machine there is in the game and the big park before it got run over by a horse stampede had a hot air ballon as well as other places for adult play.

My new library has a fire place and seating places if course, but not much else than 12 book cases now being filled with 'masterpieces' by my author sim.
In the temple I'm building now there is a dance floor, stereo, bar, juice keg, 'the hypnotizer', fire place, shower, buffé table, a throne and of course, a bed..

I put potty seats in public restrooms nowadays, so if my sims take a toddler there, they don't have to leave early if their toddler has to go.

"Sindocat;c-16842984" wrote:
Community lots need restrooms! Nothing worse than ending an outing early due to bladder motive dropping, unless it's an embarrassing public accident.

Did you know that under EA standard, if a community lot has no toilet facilities then sims' bladder motives are not supposed to decay while they are on the lot unless they arrived there already suffering from some sort of "have to go" emergency? That's how we get away with not having such facilities on the WA tomb lots. It's an all or nothing thing though, one toilet even if it's not reachable or behind a gender restricted door (and your sim is of the other gender) will undo that.

But I usually, probably always, include them anyway outside of the tombs just to be realistic.

@igazor There are toilets in some of the WA tombs, including the Landgraab Estate, the Museum, and the Secret Garden in France, and the Great Pyramid, the MorduCorp hideout, and the Hidden Library in Egypt, but sims' bladder motives still don't drop in any of those.

"nickibitsward;c-16843357" wrote:


I didn't know this, thanks for letting us know. I sometimes don't have room for bathrooms on a tiny community lot and go to ridiculous lengths to squeeze them in.

That's why I love the all-in-one bathrooms. :) :)

Restrooms,someplace/something to eat and possibility to woohoo! :)

This looks amazing so far, good job!!! where is this upper window from? never seen it.
I also wanted to say about the bathroom as mentioned above. In general they (the simmies) need solutions for their conatant needs - hunger, bathroom, and a shower when applicable. Also it is pretty important to give them space. some CC lots, or even EA lots are to small / with to mant stairs per lot. For example there is a restaurant in Island Paradise that is pretty small, and have like 3 floors. Half the time my simmies were occupied with going up and down instead of just sitting quietly and eat... I guess i prefer one big floor for some lots. Also some objects tend to be annoying because they are like magnet to sims and the sims just don't do anything else if those objects are there. I built a restaurant with a dancing carpet, music, tables, buffet, guitar and--- the tea table. all the sims were waiting in line to the tea table... Also I built a costumized school and tried a hospital too - and the chemistry table is just a bomb, and not in a good way :wink: sims kept burning themselfs...
Also general advise for any lot - music is always nice and gives certain atmosphere to the place. as well as lighting. if you build some bar - make the lighting in a special color, it's really cool.

"IreneSwift;c-16843936" wrote:

You didn't say anything about being on the non-tomb marked portions of the lot making any difference. The only time my sims ever stay on those lots for any length of time is always in the tomb areas.

That's because I had no idea if it did or not, hence the question.

Yeesh, these forums can be exhausting sometimes. :/

Thanks for all the ideas so far, everybody!! It’s helping give me ideas for what to add. And thank you for your kind words, @Avatarit! I think the window is a Store item. Or it might be from Seasons. I forget which.

@jillbg the lot IS somewhat country themed so I can have a convenient haystack artistically situated nearby ;)

@igazor I never knew that about the bladder need freezing when there’s no bathroom/toilet on the lot! Thanks for the info. Learn new things about the game all the time :)