group activities and relationships

I somewhat recently discovered that if you group child sims together (in my case, my played sim was a member of the League of Adventurers club) and have one sim play with a toy from their inventory, it raises their relationships with the other kids super fast. My sim had maxed out friendship bars with all three other children in no time. Playing on the monkey bars and playground equipment has always added small relationship boosts for my sims, but not as much as playing with a toy while in a group and/or club gathering. :smile:

If you're on the fence about GT, I highly recommend it primarily for the club features, with the townies, town, and build/CAS objects being an added bonus. Clubs add a ton of dimension to the game.