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pandacookiesims
New Adventurer
27 days ago

vacation rental update and real estate pack

There are 2 systems that I believe EA should expand to enhance gameplay: the vacation system and the ownable business system. Here is a list of suggested features.

Vacation system

  1. Introduce hotel venue type. Instead of paying to rent a vacation home, sims can check into a hotel. The fee will be similar however, the experience will offer more dynamic gameplay.  Sims will need to book a vacation, travel to the hotel, and " check - in." Room access will be controlled by key cards, which the sims need to have in their inventory to access their room. The hotel will spawn NPC guests and employees that played households can interact with. Hotels will offer a variety of services such as: housekeeping, room service, ice machines, and in - ground hot tubs. For areas like Selvadorada, where mostly locals will spawn, there will be a better experience as other types of NPCs will spawn in the area.
  2. Introduce vacation home venue type. Unlike vacation rentals, played households can buy a second home outright that they will own. It can't be lived in, since it's not a residential lot. However, anytime the household plans a vacation, they can now select their owned vacation home in addition to vacation rentals and hotels.
  3. Introduce a cruise ship interactive shell. The cruise ship will function like a hotel, only it will be a new waterfront venue type. The shell will be shaped like a cruise ship, so like an apartment, the exterior can't be customized, but the interior can be customized. The cruise ship will spawn NPC employees and guests like a hotel, offer services like a hotel, but also offer access to the ocean (like beaches) so sims can enjoy water sports. Sims will also experience motion sickness and other buffs related to traveling on the ocean.

 

Ownable business system

There are currently several packs that introduce new venue types that can be purchased and used to operate a business. They are pretty intensive and require full time management. Players are required to travel to the lot, open their business, and provide goods and/or services to satisfy customers. However, I believe the game should expand upon this by introducing a real estate system. Players can manage residential and commercial venues that are currently unowned and unoccupied, hold events to find perspective buyers, and then make a sell and earn a commission.

  1. Real estate system will feature a 10 - level career with 2 branches, new skills, new events, and a dynamic gameplay experience.
  2. Real estate career will focus on property management and client management. The starting levels of the career will focus on skill building: improving handiness so that repairs and upgrades can be made to properties, improving charisma to have more success with making sells and getting a bigger commission, and writing skills for creating brochures and advertisements for "open house" and "launch" events.
  3. The career will have 2 branches: real estate agent and business tycoon. The real estate agent branch will focus on managing residential properties. Tasks will include organizing "open house events" and getting perspective clients to purchase or rent residential properties. The player will need to make the property look presentable, make sells at open house events, and then handle various situations after the sell such as foreclosures, homeowner's insurance claims, and putting the property back on the market it the client isn't satisfied. The business tycoon branch will focus on managing commercial venues. Tasks will include making the properties presentable, hosting launch events to find perspective buyers, and then assisting the owner with advertisements, insurance claims, upgrades, and repairs to help the business flourish. Like residential venues, commercial venues can also go into foreclosure and the client might put it back on the market.
  4. Various commercial lots such as bars, cafe, nightclubs, etc. will now be venues can be sold and managed in the real estate career. 
  • Would be nice if sims could now designate some of the building as commercial space. It would work just like with the rental apartments, but it would house a commercial venue instead of a household. This way we could have mixed type lots, with apartments and businesses. So instead of just buying an entire lot, we could also rent a small commercial space

  • Frn0731's avatar
    Frn0731
    Rising Adventurer

    I love your ideas, I also would like to be able to rent out my vacation home to other sims, and hire a cleaning company, or have my sim take care of maintenance. Hotels and cruise ships are also high on my wish list. I think it would be nice to own and run a hotel as well as vacationing in one.

    The real estate business sounds intriguing and I think it would be a lot of fun. I would like my sim to be able to hire their own employees also and be able to stage houses to sell.

    If buying a bar, nightclub or cafe, etc I think it would be nice to have the option for sims to run that business or hire a management  team to do so.  If they end up owning the town they will definately need a management team to help run the businesses.  I could just imagine all the chaos.

    Great ideas!

    • pandacookiesims's avatar
      pandacookiesims
      New Adventurer

      I don't think it makes sense that you can join the culinary career and (if dine out is installed) own a restaurant. However, if you choose the bartender branch, you can't own a bar.  You should also be able to own a spa, tend espresso bars for money if you own the cafe (so you don't have to hire a barista), and own a gym. That way, if you have certain jobs, you can get addition benefits from owning the career venue type. For instance, if you are in the athlete career and you own a gym, you can earn extra income from collecting "membership fees" from NPCs. 

  • meeshwood's avatar
    meeshwood
    Seasoned Veteran

    Love these ideas!

    I really want the ability to own 2nd homes/vacation homes. 

    Hotels tops my wishlist for sims 4

    I've suggested the cruise idea before too. I think something like this could be such a fun idea. 

  • The Vacation worlds really need to be updated to be livable in :( Selvadorada is so pretty but so underused!

    • pandacookiesims's avatar
      pandacookiesims
      New Adventurer

      It would really be nice to have a setting in game options to designate/change each world type to residential or destination. The only exception would be batuu, since all of its lots are hidden.  

  • 100% agree with all of these! We had hotels and ownable businesses in previous versions of the game, would love to see this added again! If it has been in a previous version, I do NOT see why these can't be added to this version. And it can be done. Modders prove every day that things CAN be added to this game.