Growing together, and the recreation centre

"SheriSim57;c-18267193" wrote:

"JAL;c-18267011" wrote:
I find that when I make multi purpose lots, the easiest way to get visiting sims to do things other than the original lot designated activities is to create clubs for the activity and place. So for Desert Bloom park I have a pool club. For my library with café I have a book club who drinks coffee and talk to each other. For my restaurant with cinema, I have a film club using it. That way visiting sims will use the place the way I designed it and not necessarily the way the game wants them to.

My daughter makes a lot of clubs for this reason too, and much of the time she has two opposing clubs going to the same place. She was telling me the other day that she wishes she could make clubs easier to start, so that she could start them with townies that are not played because she finds she needs to house each of the townie club leaders of and that wastes her lots.

Once the clubs are created she can evict the sims and mark them as unplayed. She'd need to move in the leader to edit the club later though, but can evict again after any edits are made.

You can have one unused Residential lot set up like a park with only outdoors activities (no need to knock) to use as a temp home for sims like this. That way it can be visited and useful even if nobody is currently living there.