Give me back my multi-purpose buildings and lots

"LSM36;d-947124" wrote:
I'm dying over here. My creative process is being seriously stifled, ok? I made this awesome (if I do say so myself) Bowling Alley Barcade + (https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16693757#Comment_16693757) for my sims to own. And it can't run properly, bc you can only have a restaurant or a bar. And there's not even a bowling alley option. DESPITE HAVING A FREAKING BOWLING PACK! Annoying.

I can't make my own apartment building. No hotels or resorts. Even if we can own property. We can't even have our own vacation homes in another world. Or like as a place to move the kids when they get old, and keep a family home. In TS3 I could have a vacation home next door to the real home! In fact, I did, because I needed a bigger garden. And then I could own ANOTHER vacation home. I could own a resort etc.

In TS4 I don't even have the option of living above my business. What if I want a hair salon in my basement? Sims 3 had it's issues. But it had plum, ideas. Potential. Sims 4 hints at that stuff. You have a better system, that doesn't even crash much anymore. It's been 4 years, I own every single pack. have participated in the polls. I even bought the laundry day pack, even-though I wanted canning and the other thing.

Give us something good back. I need options!

I really need this because I have so many ideas that I can't really do. For some I've found work around or I can probably make work but I really wish we had more flexible venues and more types.

I think one of the gurus said it's not possible to make multiple venue types work on one lot because of the system but hopefully they can at least make the venues more flexible so we can do more with them.

"LSM36;d-947124" wrote:
And it can't run properly, bc you can only have a restaurant or a bar. And there's not even a bowling alley option. DESPITE HAVING A FREAKING BOWLING PACK! Annoying.
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I don't think restaurants work for bowling alleys. You can use a lounge, a nightclub, or a bar. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think that's way better than a bowling alley venue. If there were a specific venue type just for bowling, every bowling lot would have the exact same visitor autonomy and they would all function the same way. But with three options, you can have three completely different types of bowling venues in your game, and they all give completely different experiences from each other when you visit them. I actually thought this to be one of their more clever ideas. I wish they had applied it to more themes.

Yeah. One big problem with the ts4 set up, is how the entire lot is assigned a limited purpose. Would be better if main objects decided and attracted sims. Like it should be enough adding the bar object to any lot to be concidered a bar lot. Or, the karaoke machine should define a karaoke locality, regardless of the lot itself. We need a way to have multupurposes per lot, this is even more important because the number of community lots is very limited. The current lot system is about to struggle the game.

"Cupid;c-16694062" wrote:

"LSM36;d-947124" wrote:
And it can't run properly, bc you can only have a restaurant or a bar. And there's not even a bowling alley option. DESPITE HAVING A FREAKING BOWLING PACK! Annoying.
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I don't think restaurants work for bowling alleys. You can use a lounge, a nightclub, or a bar. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think that's way better than a bowling alley venue. If there were a specific venue type just for bowling, every bowling lot would have the exact same visitor autonomy and they would all function the same way. But with three options, you can have three completely different types of bowling venues in your game, and they all give completely different experiences from each other when you visit them. I actually thought this to be one of their more clever ideas. I wish they had applied it to more themes.

But in real life we have things like that. There's a bowling alley downtown (Philly) with like 3 stories. A restaurant downstairs. Something I don't remember in the middle. And up top is this bowling alley, with an awesome bar and kitchen. And they gave pool and other games. You know? I get having a bar and just throwing in arcade games. Or a dance floor for salsa nights. And that wouldn't need multifunctioning buildings.

But the option should be there. Especially for simmers who like to play the game like it's a story.
I'm not a let's player. Eventually, I'd love to be. But that doesn't mean I don't play my game like I'm telling a story, every time. I'm a write, it's literally my default.

And I want the option of having someone opening a tienda in my neighborhood, and having their slacker son live in the apartment upstairs.
Sims 3 had issues. Sure you could make your own island on the map.But then you could only run certain packs at oncce. I could NEVER get my store purchases to show up. (Actually it'd be really cool if there was a converter for Sims 3 store purchases to be used in Sims 4.But I digress.) And running it on a gaming PC didn't help. I'd need like 100TB instead of 2, and a desktop to fix all that games issues. But you were free to try. You know?

I have a friend who refuses to play 4. 3 works on her pc, and she'd rather deal with 2-3 expansions at a time, and multiple saves, etc. Than deal with the constrictive nature of 4.

If 3 worked for me, maybe I'd be the same. Or at least split my time between them more.


I'm just asking for options here. It's not like I'm gonna stop giving you guys (EA/Sims) money. I own all of Sims 2, 4, Medieval, every Sims 3 expansion except for Into The Future (bc I'm not a fan of time travel), 3 Sims City games, Sims mobile, Sims Freeplay, hundreds of dollars worth of Sims 3 Store merch, My Sims. Like come on! Just give me multipurpose buildings.


Please.
(And an awesome Sims 4 Supernatural Expansion Pack.)

I would like the option to have more than one house. Like a summer home. If I am going to work, I would like my screen to stay on the lot I was playing or be able to choose which house I return to. I would love to see a pool table, More playable careers and a restaurant that really works. I spend all this time hiring staff and training them and then they stop coming to work. Plus if I want to eat out, it takes all night to have a simple meal. That needs to be fixed. Thanks

Honey Bunny you have hit the nail on the head.