For Rent Gameplay Trailer

I hope we can build apartments that are 2 story apartments, I hope they show some on the gameplay trailer.

Just a few more hours!!! I can't wait!!! ✨?✨

Finished enough of my work to make it in time! Gosh, I love being a part of these countdowns. :smiley:

I was momentarily excited when they showed "unit rules". The possibilities! But then it looked as if there were only five that we can only switch on or off and that come with pre-defined fines. Meh. I'll still enforce my custom unit rules, but it would have been nice to let the game automate the process.

On the upside, the rent being given in a "per day" figure makes me hope for daily bills. That would be amazing for my irregular rotations!

"plumboy23;c-18327027" wrote:
Was it me or this trailer was really empty? Why call this a gameplay trailer when there's no gameplay in it?

I mean, considering that main feature is to build our own apartments and becoming a landlord if you own one, there wasn't much to show since I think they're saving the other stuff for the SimGuru livestream. But yeah, they could've at least show off other aspects of the pack in a way. ?

I liked this a lot. I understood most of the audio but focused mostly on the subtitles. The landlord system seems a bit deeper than I expected, those settings looked great.

I worry though if we can mostly use this unit split feature if the landlord lives in one of the units? I was planning for a landlord to own rental units on other lots, even in other worlds. Now I worry that might not be an option unless the owner resides the lot, too?

I recall a guru said there are many ways to play and that we don't need to play a certain role landlord/tenant, so hoping there is still more ways than shown in this trailer. I need a bit more info before I order. Tomarang looks wonderful!

I honestly wouldnt mind it if they made all voice overs in simlish, cause I never care what they say anyway...since most of it is unimportant.

Anywho...liked what I saw about building/defining the units, looks good.
Like many others I am still curious how we choose the tenants tho, I hope it'll be easy to control who lives where.

"luciusstorm;c-18327008" wrote:
That was very interesting, but I have a lot of questions - the biggest being the one I'm seeing already here - how do tenants work exactly? Is it like assigning an NPC household to a lot (only assigning them to a unit)? Are they even actually NPC households (or are they somehow part of the played household)?

Other questions I'm left with (mostly because I don't new "obvious") ...

Can you have NPC landlords?
Can you have a multi-unit lot populated entirely by NPCs?
Can you have "absentee" landlords (which is to say a landlord who lives on another lot entirely)?

This expansion has a lot of potential and I'm excited to learn more.

Oh and I didn't have any problem with the audio track.

It will probably work like apartments in Myshuno. You move your sim into one of the units then npcs move into the remainders afterward. You can then move another one of your households in and the npc is booted out.

"plumboy23;c-18327027" wrote:
Was it me or this trailer was really empty? Why call this a gameplay trailer when there's no gameplay in it?

They seemed to focus on mostly playing as a landlord. Probably because they felt it suited the narrative for the trailer better...

or because the rest of the pack doesn't look good to feature in a gameplay trailer, rabbit holes etc...

"simgirl1010;c-18327311" wrote:
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/1725545563888758801?t=e4DAX93hp3eZiRjt2GLhcA&s=19

To optimize this pack's performance for all our players & in line with the current technology seen in The Sims 4 City Living, you'll be able to see shared spaces & your own unit, however there is a small load time as you travel to enter the homes of other units.
We'll show exactly how all this works in the coming deep dive so stay tuned ?

Hm, sounds like playing a landlord could involve some loading times then because they probably have to travel a lot between units, but maybe it will work fine if you are just playing as a normal sim where you probably don't need to visit other units if you don't want to.