Best day trip locations in the game?

"crocobaura;c-18042998" wrote:

"ModerateOsprey;c-18042969" wrote:

"jennieeffin;c-18042949" wrote:
I know Eco Lifestyle gets a lot of hate, and I myself have disabled NAPs, but the Community lots are amazing for day trips. I first realized this playing CatSaar's amazing makeover of the one factory lot on the Waterfront: https://catsaar.tumblr.com/post/630887016013430784/factory-one-community-garden-the-community-has . I found that the sims used not only the expected items on the lot (gardening plots, bug thingies), but really interacted with the ping pong tables, kitchen, vendor tables, food stalls, etc.

This inspired me to raze the other two community lots in Evergreen Harbor and instead add them to other worlds. Because I play semi-realistically, sims that live in Mt. Komorebi, for example, can't just hop on over to Willow Creek. Instead I group my worlds into where I think they'd all be geographically, and any world outside of that requires a vacation to visit. Now each one of my world groupings has a Community Center, and I've added all sorts of things to them: pools, yoga studios, tvs, co-working spaces, even laundromats. Sometimes my sims, especially gardeners or freelancers, spend all day at those dang lots.

I have been dropping the EL community lots all over my world as well. I have not had a chance to use them in anger yet, as I am still placing them. But what bit I have done - they work great.

My only complaint is the difficulty in changing their type in neighbourhoods with no residential lots.

They work the same, so unless there are visual changes to the lot, you don't need to change their type. Most of the time I don't bother placing all four versions at all, just one is enough. I tried to change the lot type through playing once and it took my sim a whole weekend to do so, with barely any food and bathroom breaks, so even through playing it's not very easy to change the lot type, if you wish to do that often.