How do you like to use Get Together?

I love the clubs, and I have a lot in my game. Many of them have designated hangouts in the various community lots, which ensures they are always populated with interesting sims. For instance, I have a club called "The Giggle Gaggle" which is made up my highest level comedians (you have to be a goofball and have some comedy skill to join). Their hangout is the Blue Velvet in Willow Creek, where they each take turns trying new material for each other. Their activities are Be Funny to Everyone, Perform Comedy and Drink Bar Drinks. More than once I have taken sims on a date to a comedy club, because I can be sure that there will always be someone performing standup at the microphone.

Some other clubs I have are the Pro Gamers (they hang out at my arcade), the Amateur Theatrical Society, (a club of aspiring actors), Animal Kind (a club of strange people who pretend to be bears and raccoons), The Helping Hands (a club of good sims who garden, fix broken objects and clean), Karaoke Legends (a club of wannabe singers who hang out at one of the Karaoke Bars), the Little Picassos (a club of children who like to draw), the Masterpiece Makers (a club of professional, level 10 artists who paint a lot of masterpieces), Museum Mavens, a club of artistically inclined but not very skilled sims who like to hang out in museums, Organized Crime Syndicate (a club of criminals who like to do mischievous and mean things to other sims; I wish they could gamble, money launder and do more serious crimes but sadly it is the Sims), Pampered and Perfect, (a club of wealthy women who hang out at the Spa and get massages or do yoga), Poetry in Motion (a club of teens and children who aspire to be figure-skaters and who hang out at my ice rink), and many more.

I could go on but this is probably enough. Basically, I have clubs for every skill and hobby, as well as some town improvement clubs for the various neighborhoods who hang out in parks (where I mostly have community gardens) and take care of them. I also have clubs that comprise some extended families or that are made up of former friends who have moved away but still keep in touch. Clubs are a great way to have sims socialize easily, keep their relationships up, and meet a lot of people. They also add a lot of life and fun to community lots in my game.

If I recall correctly in THIS topic there's a very interesting discussion with lots of club ideas for GT from creator of Dizzy Isy save file (according to topic she has 118 of them).

I do not have that much clubs in my game but I find them very useful in many situations. Overall I use clubs in two ways. Clubs I do not control actively, existing mostly for play-pretend activities around different lots in town. Clubs I start with active sims to achieve certain goals be it skilling or a way to force them into certain activities.

Here are some I use:
1) A club for a pretend band (until we have real ones). I set a specific Bar as hangout for them so whenever another sim visits there's a chance these guys will star a "gig".
2) A couple of clubs for schools. One for kids and one for teens. So when I want to have a day with my sims in "school" out of the rabbit hole I can start classes with these clubs. Homework and skilling bonuses sure helps.
3) Clubs to imitate "employees" of various town buildings. For example I have a bank in my save and a club with PC activity and set uniforms. So each time my sim visits a bank they spawn there, change into their "professional" clothes and occupy all PC's I set at the tellers places. Making it look like they are really working there. Same works for false restaurants where you can have a club for "waiters" with set uniforms and cleaning activities. And so on.
4) Since we still don't have attraction sometimes I set a temporary club for YA's with activity set to romantic interactions to see if some of them will form any relationships.
5) Family clubs for chores. If I say want a certain day to be a day kids are in charge of tiding up the house or perform some other tasks from mom but I do not want to constantly push them with parenting I just create a club for this.
6) I play rotationally and I want to see some sims from my families playing certain assigned roles around town. I achieve this with clubs. Like I have a sim who I imagine is in a repair service. But if I hire a repair service random NPC will show up not my sim. So I've created a club for my Repair Man with repair activity who anyone can join. When another sim is in need of repairing he joins this club and start a club gathering at the home lot. My Repair Man arrive, do the stuff and then I just make active sim leave the club. And pay repairman money by giving him a money gift.
7) Club for my Town Council. So that they can held meetings and debates. Sometimes I control it for the story/skilling purpose, sometimes they just make my fake Town Hall look functional. Also since I use a limited number of moded club activities I can organize "spontaneous" protests there Sims3 style.

The only thing I fail hard with Clubs so far - I can't force (mods or no mods) my Sims to proper interact with dogs in what I imagine is a a dog park. It irritates me so much that all the training equipment no matter the Lot Traits is always only used by active sims. I've tried to solve it with clubs but they still don't use it.

I use them mostly for families. Like one family will drink coffee, watch tv, friendly actions, summer activities, and dance. All this is done at one of their homes. It keeps the relationship high. And I just like seeing the families get together.

Then I have a club for aliens. They use alien powers, programing, robotics, and handiness. Their hangout is a lab which is technically a library venue.

There's a club hosted by Nancy Landgraab. They're hackers, view art, and i think they can be kleptos? I can't remember all that they do but it isn't good! Their hangout is Rattlesnake Juice Restaurant that Nancy owns. So when you send your sims there to eat, eventually memebers of the club walks through to the kitchen and down the stairs to their hideout. I love it. :D

Book club- this club will be seen at any cafe to read and chat, drink coffee, and etc. Again when you send your sim to a cafe, the book club sims will eventually show up doing specific club activities.

Garden clubs. These sims visit parks to tend any gardening, play chess, look for frogs and fish.

Art club-painting, view art, scupting.

I just love seeing clubs gather at different venues when I play other sims. I soon need a candle making club and knitters club.

I like to build a big party house and move in 8 Sims. I then get each Sim to start a club or join one and take control of it. I fill each club with 8 people, making sure they are not in any of the other clubs. Lastly, I have all the Sims start a gathering at the same time and watch the party! Unfortunately, not all the Sims will show up and I can't seem to find out the maximum # of Sims that can occupy a lot simultaneously. Google always tells me up to 8 residents can live on the same lot, which isn't what I'm asking.

This was one of the first packs I got and has been in my game for a while. I play with the world, Windenburg. (Dark reference, anyone?)

I use the club system though not as much as I could. I created some of my own clubs that do exist in the game. I've also used it for family reunions for families that are spread across different homes. I've played with some of the pre-mades including the Bjergsens, the Villareals and Paolo Rocca, Joaquin, Sergio and Siobhan, etc. Most of those pre-mades ended up in my game.

Within the world, I have used some of the different locations; I send sims to The Bluffs or the other sites. I also have added the closets in some different places such as to a few bars and restaurants. I converted one of the bars into a restaurant in Windenburg in the more modern part of town. Windenburg and its characters form such a regular part of my game that I've definitely played with the pack a lot. I do tend to upgrade the furniture to newer content in that world.

Unique clubs that I have include a political society for current affairs and debate, a "paint and sip" club in San Myshuno for spray-painting and using the bar at the art gallery, the Boho Dreamers for more hippie-ish children and probably others.

1.) Woohoo Clubs
2.) Skill Learning Oriented Clubs
3.) Matchmaking Club that allow my single sims to meet one another and help me determine good matches as I play rotationally.
4.) Gardening Club. Mostly a Skill Learning Club but because they harvest the plants it allows me to share plants across households easier.
6.) Rich Peoples Club
7.) Celebrity Club

Edit: Also, I have family clubs for keeping family members together and keeping track of who's related to who cause the family tree is often broken or I lose data cause I have too many sims.

"Justa_G00f;c-17934446" wrote:
I like to build a big party house and move in 8 Sims. I then get each Sim to start a club or join one and take control of it. I fill each club with 8 people, making sure they are not in any of the other clubs. Lastly, I have all the Sims start a gathering at the same time and watch the party! Unfortunately, not all the Sims will show up and I can't seem to find out the maximum # of Sims that can occupy a lot simultaneously. Google always tells me up to 8 residents can live on the same lot, which isn't what I'm asking.

@Justa_G00f : I believe 20 is the max of sims per lot.

I use clubs for family gatherings (eating, being friendly to other club members, etc), studying and leveling up skills fast, such as knitting, charisma, debating, comedy..., basically any skill. I buy the perks.
For children I use clubs to make friends and play in parks. For teenagers I use it as a study club, party club and of course dating - to find possible spouse.

Sometimes when I feel naughty I create a club where the club activities are romantic interactions, kissing and woohooing.
When I feel like doing mischef I create a cleaning club. I let the club members to clean up my sims' house for free while my sim is having fun.

Thank you so much everyone for your ideas! Definitely has given me some inspiration to use in my game now! My current family is a famous actress, her semi-famous husband and they've just had a child. I think I will incorporate a celebrity club and maybe a pampering club for her, and for the dad something a bit more 'down to earth' as he seems to like the limelight less. Will also be nice to think of something for their son when he's a child, maybe something a bit rebellious as he doesn't like that he has famous parents!

One thing I've wondered- is the only way to create a club to have a sim you're playing create it? Or is there some option menu hidden somewhere that you can create them too? I'm guessing a specific sim does have to start it in order for there to be a leader, but thought I'd ask! I'm very clueless with this pack.

"moo;c-17934484" wrote:


One thing I've wondered- is the only way to create a club to have a sim you're playing create it? Or is there some option menu hidden somewhere that you can create them too? I'm guessing a specific sim does have to start it in order for there to be a leader, but thought I'd ask! I'm very clueless with this pack.

If you click Join a Club, it opens the Club Manager. At the bottom, click the Create a Club button. You'll then chose things that your club will do, the requirements, etc.

"Justa_G00f;c-17934446" wrote:
I like to build a big party house and move in 8 Sims. I then get each Sim to start a club or join one and take control of it. I fill each club with 8 people, making sure they are not in any of the other clubs. Lastly, I have all the Sims start a gathering at the same time and watch the party! Unfortunately, not all the Sims will show up and I can't seem to find out the maximum # of Sims that can occupy a lot simultaneously. Google always tells me up to 8 residents can live on the same lot, which isn't what I'm asking.

Just confirming that 20 is the max number of sims that can be on a lot at the same time. that includes all sims walking by and any special sims such as barkeeps, etc.

You can increase this number with MCCC as well as the number of allowed sims in a club.

If you have a PC that can handle it, watching a 100 sims partying is something to see :joy: