How do you use clubs? Share ideas!
As I'm trying to find ways how to make social interactions meaningfull in The Sims, I was also considering clubs. For several reasons, it's was not really successfull (group-specific hehaviour is only...
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I have many clubs, and I mostly use them to gather sims with a certain interest, skill building or same life stage/status etc. Some of them are political inspired, such as Grey Sims (elders intending to influence on politics, but ending up with a cozy café gathering) and the Green Lipz (environmental group actually initiated by one of my TS2 teen sims).
I also use groups for a political/community system. In my game each hood has one elected "Hood Contact". I have one group per district (in my game worlds are referred to as districts) with 3 to 4 Hood Contacts. It makes it easy to gather them once every year, but it's of course a nifty tool just for keeping track on who were elected. One Hood Contact from each district is a Councilor to the regional council (all my worlds gathered) so I also have a group for the councilors. They work in a Council House, and the group makes it easy to lock off their offices section to random visitors.
And I use groups for certain businesses, such as when my Way To Go Travel Agency arranges tours to misc locations, sims will join the group in order to sign up for the next tour. After the tour, the group is emptied.
More about all this and more on my blog :)
I also use groups for a political/community system. In my game each hood has one elected "Hood Contact". I have one group per district (in my game worlds are referred to as districts) with 3 to 4 Hood Contacts. It makes it easy to gather them once every year, but it's of course a nifty tool just for keeping track on who were elected. One Hood Contact from each district is a Councilor to the regional council (all my worlds gathered) so I also have a group for the councilors. They work in a Council House, and the group makes it easy to lock off their offices section to random visitors.
And I use groups for certain businesses, such as when my Way To Go Travel Agency arranges tours to misc locations, sims will join the group in order to sign up for the next tour. After the tour, the group is emptied.
More about all this and more on my blog :)
