Are multi purpose lots next?

Well they have acknowledged that they know it's something many people want, so I'm hopeful we'll see something along those lines eventually. Hopefully before too long. Perhaps in combination with a hotell pack? *crosses fingers*

I've been thinking the same. *Fingers crossed*

I hope they understand what we want and not give us multi-purpose lots with multiple units like the multi-family lots coming in For Rent. I’m pretty sure that most players asking for it don’t want different functions on different units on the same lot.

"g01denswan;c-18330215" wrote:
I hope they understand what we want and not give us multi-purpose lots with multiple units like the multi-family lots coming in For Rent. I’m pretty sure that most players asking for it don’t want different functions on different units on the same lot.

Depends on how separate the units have to be. Given that it seems we can rent out a room in a house in For Rent, from the description, I can't see how this would be really limiting for multi-purpose lots. It would make it pretty easy to go, "here's the retail store/bar" and "here's the living area," for example. That would work for any multi-purpose lot I can think of -- my greatgrandparents' store they lived above, the bowling alley my dad grew up living above, my friend's mom's hair salon room, my grandfather's first medical office, the building my son lives in with ground-floor restaurants and apartments above...

I wouldn't mind if they made it similar system to apartments but for businesses. This way I could have a bar that opens in the evening next to a shop that's open during the day, or even two restaurants side by side without customers and waiters mixing tables and such. This doesn't mean I wouldn't want more functionality for objects that are manned by NPCs. I would definitely like a bookstore or a library or museum with a coffee stand, would be great if my sim could even hire a barista or work there as a barista too. But I would also like a row of three separate shops maybe next to one another, for different things that I could visit on different occasions, and they would be fully functional on their own and not have to change lot type and what not and customers won't be spread out. Now if I make a bookstore next to a cafe, the customers will mix together and they will have coffee in the library and read books in the coffee shop and I can't sell both coffee and books. I think such a system might also be a good way to run a mall, if the loading system for the different sections isn't too disruptive.

My only concern is that it would end up being a loading screen again with each new "lot type" on the same lot, like with the apartment rentals and knocking on your neighbor's door.

But, they DID implement Thrift store and Bobba Tea on one lot, so technically the coding is already there.

You would think all they would need to do is to assign any object that's interactive to actually attract NPCs to use them regardless of what type of lot it is. (At least in my little pea-brain, it should be easy ..... just tedious to do).

"Chicklet453681;c-18330255" wrote:
My only concern is that it would end up being a loading screen again with each new "lot type" on the same lot, like with the apartment rentals and knocking on your neighbor's door.

But, they DID implement Thrift store and Bobba Tea on one lot, so technically the coding is already there.

You would think all they would need to do is to assign any object that's interactive to actually attract NPCs to use them regardless of what type of lot it is. (At least in my little pea-brain, it should be easy ..... just tedious to do).

I think most people just want NPC staffed objects to be useable without having to hire the NPC. The thrift store clothing rack doesn't have an NPC though and you can pretty much place it on any lot and it will function. But with several NPCs on a lot you get the same issue we get with the restaurant and bar on a lot where the game treats all tables on the lot as restaurant tables and you can't have a separate looking bar next to restaurant or a Shushi restaurant an an Italian restaurant side by side because the chefs and waiters will go to whatever first station they decide to use. I have a lot in game with several shops and sometimes I find the employees even getting or giving foot massages at the spa chair also available on the lot.

However they decide to do them, I can totally see getting a lot of use out of multi purpose lots. I honestly would work with whatever system I can get.

"Chicklet453681;c-18330255" wrote:
My only concern is that it would end up being a loading screen again with each new "lot type" on the same lot, like with the apartment rentals and knocking on your neighbor's door.

But, they DID implement Thrift store and Bobba Tea on one lot, so technically the coding is already there.

You would think all they would need to do is to assign any object that's interactive to actually attract NPCs to use them regardless of what type of lot it is. (At least in my little pea-brain, it should be easy ..... just tedious to do).

Hopefully theres no loading screen!!! That would defeat the purpose! I want a mall or strip mall type venue!

"Chicklet453681;c-18330255" wrote:
My only concern is that it would end up being a loading screen again with each new "lot type" on the same lot, like with the apartment rentals and knocking on your neighbor's door.

But, they DID implement Thrift store and Bobba Tea on one lot, so technically the coding is already there.

You would think all they would need to do is to assign any object that's interactive to actually attract NPCs to use them regardless of what type of lot it is. (At least in my little pea-brain, it should be easy ..... just tedious to do).

The boba tea isn't a separate type of venue, though. It's an object. The Thrift Store is the only venue there.

I suppose I can imagine how it might be done without a loading screen if there was ownership or a job at a venue in the same building as the residence, but otherwise I can't see that they'd be implementing no-loading-screen. There could just as easily be no personal connection between a household and a venue that's in the same lot, and I can imagine it would be annoying, then, to play as a different household using the venue and having that other residential loaded simultaneously. Or to be a household Sim living above a venue that was *always* active. I can imagine at least wanting to be able to turn off the restaurant business while I was playing a household living two floors above it, at the very least for performance. And what if we had multiple venues? Would they end up half-empty because they're all loaded and running? I worry it would end up a bit Sims 3-esque where for a lot of players venues tended to be quite empty. Personally, I'd rather wait a couple seconds during loading of something now and then than have everywhere be half-empty or non-ignorable. It's a tricky balancing act.