group activities and relationships

You can one spouse run a restaurant and the other run a store.
Have rival families competing to overpower one another. One is restaurants and the other in retail.

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.

"klestrella;15646934" wrote:
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)

just to make sure I understand. the league of adventurers is a club that you invented?

"celeste821;15647561" wrote:

"klestrella;15646934" wrote:
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)

just to make sure I understand. the league of adventurers is a club that you invented?

It's one of the clubs that comes premade in the EP.

"simgirl1010;15646477" wrote:
It does increase their relationships. I have a similar situation with some of the kids living with Mom and some of them living with Dad. They have a homework club and a family fun club where they play together.

It doesn't do anything for a book club. Unless you purposely interact which is sort of hard to do in such a club as they are too busy getting books and putting down books. I don't recommend that one for any Sim you would like to have some friends in their clubs. Actually, considering that club type activity it's better to just go out as a group instead of putting Sims in a book club.

So, after some hours sunk into the assumption that groups are an environment to increase relationships b/w like-minded sims, and upon further experimentation, I can 99% say that clubs do NOT create friendships. They merely function as a means for doing some sort of action. Ex: I made a club, introduced sims who oddly didn’t already know each other, learned their careers and interests (get to know), but then when they met again, they didn’t know each other at all! It seems like if you want to make friends with group members you have to do it individually outside of the group!? Crazy silly. Makes no sense. Let me know if you’ve experienced otherwise and/or better ways to group friendships within a set of sims.

In other words, your sims can be in the same group their whole lives, dancing and chatting away, and still not “know” each other :(

Sorry I mean clubs not groups. What’s the difference between then and how to groups (rather than clubs) meet?