Club Ideas?

Teen cliques
A yoga or meditation club
A lunch/dinner club
A drag cabaret club (comedy and singers, in drag)

I enjoy the club system a lot. I've made quite a few with all my sims:

A male only romantic club that pleases the ladies (basically Ouran). I have 2 of these actually, and I set them up to be rivals against each other.
A female only gardening/fishing/nature enthusiast club
An astronomers only club for exploring space and visiting Sixam
A wealthy club for the ambitious and career-driven
A gamers club
A creative club for painting and writing
A club for childish adults/teens who refuse to grow up and play all day
A mean/evil sim only club for causing mischief and havoc
A genius only club led by a detective that gathers and researches in libraries
A purely social club with no particular requirements
A workout club
A partying club
A club for musicians and singers
A club for "alcoholics" so to say

I have a nightclub that I've built in my game that holds 3 clubs. I have the more icons mod by Zerbu so that enabled me to get a lot more inspiration flowing which is great.

I have a club (slash 'gang') that are pretty much hardknocks/bullies (unlike Max Villareal's club as I don't like my sims breaking everything!) that tend to hog the bar and I've built a makeshift fighting ring for them to use as they mostly spend their time getting into fights, drinking, using the dart board/card table (no harm in a bit of sneaky bets!) - and they bring their dogs now which is a pretty cool feature! Lots of pitties/dobermans/etc about.

One of the other clubs that reside there are fans of comedy, I do a stand-up night with Johnny Zest and another guest entertainer on Tuesdays and Saturdays and this club are always there. Obviously with the club activity to watch live entertainment. Always nicely filling up the tables!

The last club I've built an exclusive hangout for underneath the nightclub and they're hackers/programmers on the side of mischief, so while they occasionally socialise up in the bar, they're usually filling out the empty computer chairs downstairs getting up to no good.

The club feature went from unused to now one of my all-time favourite features pretty quickly. :D

This has been a very informative read. Thanks everyone, for all the details! I love the blurb about the astronauts' club "just getting off the ground", literally, lololol. And I agree with the premise that Clubs meeting at venues can liven them up, even if your Sim isn't in the gathering. Especially that knockabout Club--that could really give a Dive Bar some interest.

I always put all my Sims' extended families into Clubs with them. It may take more than one Club, but that way family gatherings aren't missing any aunties, uncles, or cousins, and they're really easy to start.

I also have one Young Adult lady Sim who has several single elderly ladies in a Club with her, and she takes them out to dinner once a week or so just to get them out of the house for a bit of socialization. She's a Good Sim, bless her fuzzy socks. I've just gotten the idea for her to convince her guy to make one for elder gentlemen. Then they can have the two Clubs meet at the same time to see if anyone hits it off. They'll have to sign a waiver absolving my Sims of any responsibility for woohoo deaths, tho. :mrgreen:

Also, another future plan is to make a Campaign Staff Club, meeting at a Coffeehouse, for my Sim who is a Politician as the OP and others mentioned, along with a rival group. I'm hoping he can make his speeches to the staff and tangentially the patrons of the Coffeehouse , thus avoiding those sad, empty seats in front of the podium downtown. At the very least, they will be ripe for the Vote Securing.

Cinema club.
The trophy wife's club.
Boy Scouts.
Choir club.

That is the only ones I created. The rest is from the game.

What great ideas, everyone!

I created a municipal building (classified as a museum) for my City Council Club. The city council is made up of sims in the political, secret agent, business, and detective careers. The building has a room for weddings, wedding receptions, balls, charity events, and prom on one floor, and a private meeting room, a mock up court room, and an assembly hall on another floor. It’s been really great for that club, as well as the Future Leaders of Sim Nation club for the teens with political, business,or criminal justice aspirations.

I’m definitely going to add in a few yoga a meditation clubs. Considering a LGBT and ally club too. I really need a club for some ruffians for my dive bars and such. Will add in a cinema club as well, seeing as I have a movie theater placed already. Ditto for a comedy club, for all my sim comedians. Some gamer clubs will definitely be in my future, along with some science themed clubs.

I decided to make a club for grandparents and grandchildren to get together for play dates in the park. I wish we had a fancy usable tea set, but I have an upscale cafe now for a ladies High Tea club. I’m looking into how to incorporate personal into the clubs, like maybe a cat cafe meetup group and a group to meet at the dog park.

This has been an excellent read, thank you for all the ideas!

I always have a club per household, just to help with skill boosts when they get the perks they want. Then I have a club per career, sometimes two (like entertainers and musicians are separate, same with chefs and mixologists). I've set them meeting in fitting lot types, like athletes meet at the gym 'n do gym things, writers meet at the library and read and write, secret agents meet at night clubs and have drinks and talk to people, and so forth.

Then there's also special clubs, like Space Changelings that is for the sims whose parent was abducted by the aliens, resulted into an alien child being raised by a human (or a vampire). They use alien powers in their meetings, figuring out their heritage together. I also have Gamer Geeks (both videogaming skill and being a geek) meeting at an internet cafe, a voidcritter club meeting at the same cafe in the voidcritter arena room, and such.

I should really set up a club for elders, 'n more kid/teenager stuff.

I really wish they'd add dog/cat related things in the activities or requirements, and also more skill-level-based requirements for the really elite groups. Skill level 2 can be almost an accident.

"Lumiasta;c-16197821" wrote:

I really wish they'd add dog/cat related things in the activities or requirements, and also more skill-level-based requirements for the really elite groups. Skill level 2 can be almost an accident.

Yes! I have a club called “Animal Lovers” which requires sims to have either the Dog Lover or Cat Lover traits, but I’m not very happy with the club itself because I literally can’t think of anything to put in the club activities besides “Look for Frogs.” I have a few other ideas for clubs but I feel constrained from making them due to the lack of club activities. I know it isn’t really necessary that they have club activities, but it just feels wrong to me. I really want more club activities.

Also as for changing requirements, I wish they’d increase the requirements for the financial statuses (at least for wealthy). 30,000 is considered wealthy, but that’s incredibly easy to get in this game.

"mmt3363;c-16197083" wrote:
What great ideas, everyone!

I created a municipal building (classified as a museum) for my City Council Club. The city council is made up of sims in the political, secret agent, business, and detective careers. The building has a room for weddings, wedding receptions, balls, charity events, and prom on one floor, and a private meeting room, a mock up court room, and an assembly hall on another floor. It’s been really great for that club, as well as the Future Leaders of Sim Nation club for the teens with political, business,or criminal justice aspirations.

I have a city council club too but it's strictly politicians. Set up in a community center building with a podium and audience. The center also has meeting rooms for the student council, the local business owners, PTA, various home owners association's for the different neighborhoods, abduction support group and group therapy clubs.

Outside the community center I have three clubs dedicated to filling up night clubs and dancing. Various career specific clubs, a hacking club, a grannies club that meets to play cards, a city beautification club that cleans and fixes things at parks, a gym club, a swim club, a cheerleading club for teens, two rival bowling clubs, a football team club for teens, fishing club, gardening club, alien club and a cult of the cow plant club (my favorite).

I make a lot of clubs to add specific activities to lots and cause drama with rivals always fighting.
I know I have more but I can't think of the rest right now.

I don't usually use clubs, except to keep family and social groups together. This thread gives some really useful ideas.