Do sims ever go to the Theme Park on the Boardwalk?

I think it's a little strange that it's not on its own lot. I think that would cause it to populate normally. I will admit that I've always been sending groups there so I haven't really noticed. I have usually been focused on my playable sims, either families or teen friend groups or dates. I think I've noticed people during the day but not really at night. I guess it could be creepy but I see it more as a retro fair from any decade in the last 50-60 years. I am still exploring that world but I didn't find the carnival to be that creepy, more like fun at all hours.

I really have not explored the town part of Copperdale hardly at all but I did install a boarding school of teens at Golden Peak so I am sure they will go all over. They do tend to go in big groups and entertain themselves.

I think the problem is that it is not on a lot so there is no “spawn point”, npcs have to wander in from the park. It’s the same with the splash park in San Sequoia, nearest community lot is the (completely pointless lot type) rec centre.
My sims never even go to the splash park, by the time you have managed to walk around the lake carrying a toddler or stopping to load/unload an infant from the carrier every 5 seconds it’s time to go home!

Not, really. There are some sims that will spawn that will walk past it, and there will also sometimes be some sims that will walk down to the chess board but since it takes so long for them to get there they tend to just sit at the chess board for like a minute and then they leave.

The event that you get after prom spawns whatever sims you chose to go with in front of the pier but no one does anything, they stand in front of the pier for a short while, cheering at whoever won the prizes and then they leave.

Our teen sims deserved better.

"mummum601;c-18350074" wrote:
I think the problem is that it is not on a lot so there is no “spawn point”, npcs have to wander in from the park. It’s the same with the splash park in San Sequoia, nearest community lot is the (completely pointless lot type) rec centre.
My sims never even go to the splash park, by the time you have managed to walk around the lake carrying a toddler or stopping to load/unload an infant from the carrier every 5 seconds it’s time to go home!

This is exactly the problem with these pseudo lots. They don’t function like true lots since they have no specific attributes assigned to them, which includes spawning directly onto the lot. I believe there’s a spawn point behind the amusement park, but usually this is where sims leave the world, not enter it. I could be wrong about this though.

I still believe it’s a poor design choice- ideally the amusement park should be a true lot with non- rabbithole gameplay items. Ofcourse a game dev’s argument would be that the world is no longer “open” if we treat the “lot” this way, well my argument would be that they should forget about the “park” lot and make that one part of the open neighborhood so that all teens or whoever is interested in going on a wild ride actually spawn on the amusement park lot type, go on rides and drink bubbly teas.


The boardwalk area does feel deserted, the best we can do is create clubs and invite everyone over. ??‍♂️

I've not spent much tim there yet, been busy costumizing the world. But, I did testplay the Totter Park(?) near by, by adding a few sales stands and activities for my sims to have more to do. I think the park will be my natural arriving point. When testplaying, the park has been quite busy and most NPCs have walked over to the funfair location. I never checked what those sims were up to afterwards though. Maybe this all depends on what lot is your starting point? A park will often generate lots of sims. If your arrival point is a residential lot, perhaps the hood's NPC crowd gets smaller?

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18350121" wrote:

"mummum601;c-18350074" wrote:
I think the problem is that it is not on a lot so there is no “spawn point”, npcs have to wander in from the park. It’s the same with the splash park in San Sequoia, nearest community lot is the (completely pointless lot type) rec centre.
My sims never even go to the splash park, by the time you have managed to walk around the lake carrying a toddler or stopping to load/unload an infant from the carrier every 5 seconds it’s time to go home!

This is exactly the problem with these pseudo lots. They don’t function like true lots since they have no specific attributes assigned to them, which includes spawning directly onto the lot. I believe there’s a spawn point behind the amusement park, but usually this is where sims leave the world, not enter it. I could be wrong about this though.

I still believe it’s a poor design choice- ideally the amusement park should be a true lot with non- rabbithole gameplay items. Ofcourse a game dev’s argument would be that the world is no longer “open” if we treat the “lot” this way, well my argument would be that they should forget about the “park” lot and make that one part of the open neighborhood so that all teens or whoever is interested in going on a wild ride actually spawn on the amusement park lot type, go on rides and drink bubbly teas.


The boardwalk area does feel deserted, the best we can do is create clubs and invite everyone over. ??‍♂️

Good grief, yes.

Or, at the very least, the park - or some lot - should be much closer to these faux lots so that sims aren't walking for an in-game hour just to get to the pier. I mean, I like having more to do in a world. I don't like having to use the Teleport cheat to get my sims over to that part of the world in a timely fashion.

"DaWaterRat;c-18351014" wrote:

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18350121" wrote:

"mummum601;c-18350074" wrote:
I think the problem is that it is not on a lot so there is no “spawn point”, npcs have to wander in from the park. It’s the same with the splash park in San Sequoia, nearest community lot is the (completely pointless lot type) rec centre.
My sims never even go to the splash park, by the time you have managed to walk around the lake carrying a toddler or stopping to load/unload an infant from the carrier every 5 seconds it’s time to go home!

This is exactly the problem with these pseudo lots. They don’t function like true lots since they have no specific attributes assigned to them, which includes spawning directly onto the lot. I believe there’s a spawn point behind the amusement park, but usually this is where sims leave the world, not enter it. I could be wrong about this though.

I still believe it’s a poor design choice- ideally the amusement park should be a true lot with non- rabbithole gameplay items. Ofcourse a game dev’s argument would be that the world is no longer “open” if we treat the “lot” this way, well my argument would be that they should forget about the “park” lot and make that one part of the open neighborhood so that all teens or whoever is interested in going on a wild ride actually spawn on the amusement park lot type, go on rides and drink bubbly teas.


The boardwalk area does feel deserted, the best we can do is create clubs and invite everyone over. ??‍♂️

Good grief, yes.

Or, at the very least, the park - or some lot - should be much closer to these faux lots so that sims aren't walking for an in-game hour just to get to the pier. I mean, I like having more to do in a world. I don't like having to use the Teleport cheat to get my sims over to that part of the world in a timely fashion.

Yes they should have had a lot either in or right next to the amusement park. They should have set it up like they did City living, I don’t know why they didn’t. It was a big over sight.

I wish the rides were available as club activities so I could assign a club to that park as a hangout and at least those sims would show up and use the rides.

"mightysprite;c-18349552" wrote:
It is odd. I don't understand the choices of how many NPCs to have wandering around in different locations. San Myshuno is always full of NPCs walking around (and with different populations at night!) so I know it's not my computer, nor is it the ability of the game to populate worlds, but my Copperdale pier is always deserted too.

It feels like it's something that's attached to certain worlds, the newer ones. Without MCCC and the boosted max sims on lot a lot of the new ones are ghost towns. A while back when I had Liberty explore Tomarang I barely saw another sim. It was like something out of a sci-fi movie and she was the last woman on earth. I don't have any trouble at all drawing crowds without MCCC in places like Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, and Windenburg. Even Forgotten Hollow had a steady flow of sims passing through the square.

Have visited that place maybe twice. Not worth it. The promenade deck of RMS Titanic has more traffic.