Multiple venue types

Nobody feel the same way???

Yes please, it will also work for a shopping mall.

I want this so bad. I would think such a thing would come if we ever got hotels/resorts because many luxury places can have resturants, boutiques, bars, clubs, as well as the suites to stay in. Since hotels aren't with Island Living I think a game pack would do well to include this feature.

I would love to build a cafe in one of the apartments in San Myshuno. Have restaurants on the ground floor with a residential area above the restaurant. Like in real life. If they are trying to model San Myshuno after NYC then everything should be multi-zoned anyways where you can build a restaurant cafe and retail on the first couple floors and apartments above them.

I want this too! Being able to do more functions with each lot would be a huge improvement to the game and make worlds so much more flexible.

I often make lots with a shop/restaurant on the ground floor and flat above - which work pretty well already, but my sims who work/live there still need another home lot or they're not playable.

I would like live-in lot types for the businesses. And expanding on lot types in some way to make rooms individually their own type would be awesome. Like I could make a museum, but select a room and set it as a cafe, making a museum lot with a subtype 'cafe'.

Yes, definitely want this. I have a build that's a bookstore, coffeeshop/cafe and new age retail store (will also have magic once ROM comes out). I can't have it actual play as all three, of course and be functional that way, but I'd love to be able to have this option.

This is something I've been wanting the ability to do for awhile.

I have wanted this since day one this is how it was in Sims 2. I wish they did not go out of their way to limit business like this if I want a spa restaurant and a bar on 1 lot I should be able to.

"nightowl1;d-960864" wrote:
This is the first time I've suggested anything on this forum, so I'm pretty nervous, but here goes nothing...

We haven't got an open world and we'll never have one, but I have been thinking of a possible workaround for this. If we had bigger lots, lots that were big enough to build a little town/city/village on from scratch in a world of its own, that allows you the ability to add houses and community lots on an open block with no loading screens.

I know people create places like this on the gallery, which is neat, but the main problem I discover is a place (for instance) has a pub, gym, pool, spa, and a library. You can choose to make the venue either a pool, spa, gym, library or pub - but the sims would ignore everything else on lot. Example: The library wouldn't have a librarian working there. I've tried this before, and everyone got stuck in the pub, hardly interacting with the rest of their surroundings. Now imagine if EA gave us the ability to have MORE than one lot trait, so everything in that space can be used by your sims.

I know it isn't the same as an open world, but it's an idea. You can have a little functioning world.

Sorry if it's a lame idea...

Cool idea and I never could understand why we couldn't use our lots for "multiple" purposes, tbh. Some of the possible challenges I can see with this idea though is that we would want to have extra bigger lots in existing or future worlds to really make the most of this concept. Plus, there could be issues with where on the world map where these bigger lots or existing ones are situated as some existing ones (Like those in Get Famous world map) are clearly meant to be for businesses, lounges, and Restaurants,etc. if you consider the surroundings. There could also be some lag issues as sometimes seen with mall builds where the creator put too many items in their shops. Therefore, an open world would still be more ideal. Whether it happens or not. In the meantime, being able to use multiple purpose lots would be helpful.

It's not a bad idea. There are a few computer reasons why it wouldn't work out well, but the whole point of message boards is so that we can discuss and learn things from each other.

There are two big problems with multi-purpose lots, though. The first is something you hear about a lot of the time on sims 3. Having to mind a lot of sims and objects will take a lot of your computer's brainpower, and for slower or older computers will slow things down a lot. And if you take a large lot and fill it with objects, you'll want there to be a lot of sims there to make things feel full. It'd get slow and glitchy for a lot of people.

The second is that sims are really dumb. Back in earlier games in the series, all the sims would often make a beeline for one or two objects and ignore everything else unless one of their needs was about to bottom out. Sims 4 tried to work around this by having the type of lot tell people what to do. (You sometimes still see the problem here, where you get things like everybody in a bar clustering around the same area.) If you make an all-purpose lot everybody would still cluster around a few things and ignore most of the other options. A lot of times, silly constraints happen mostly because something even sillier happens without them.