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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"simfriend1968;c-17167530" wrote:
I adore clubs and have many unique ones which operate out of different venues around my neighbourhoods. I find they add a lot of life to my lots because when my sims go out anywhere there are clubs around doing their activities and socializing.
I have a bowling club that bowls happily in a lounge that I turned into a bowling alley with a bar. I have a comedy club of comedians that tells jokes, performs stand up and watches each other’s routines at one of my nightclubs (it is now a comedy club for all sims to visit as a result). I have a park that I turned into an arena and a kids’ and teens’ skating club meets there to skate (which doesn’t prevent others from skating there as well). I have a cafe that I turned into a movie theatre and my film buff club meets there to watch movies and eat popcorn. These all make great date venues and they seem real because other sims are usually there bowling or performing comedy or skating or watching movies or whatever.
Most of my parks have community gardens in them, so I have a couple of gardening and town beautification clubs (as well as an anglers’ and a campfire club). I now also have a Conservationist club in Sulani. A teacher’s pet club meets at the local library to do homework, use the science table and do art. A void critters club has matches and tournaments at my arcade while older (teen and young adult) gamers use the consoles or arcade machines to play their games. A bunch of pampered, snobby and rich housewives meets at the spa to have massages, drink the fruity spa drinks, use the sauna and the hot tub. Another club of wellness gurus does serious yoga and meditates at the same spa.
I also have a book club, artists’ clubs, an organized crime syndicate, a vegetarian chefs’ club, a gourmet cooking club, a writers’ club, a music appreciation club (for listening) as well as a music club (for players), a karaoke club (for singers), a drama club, a dance club, a family reunion club (for a multi-generational family who live on different lots to get together more easily), a Weekenders’ club (so a bunch of former roommates can hang out together in the sun and do backyard stuff on weekends). I even have two vampire clubs, good and evil, who fight each other on sight. I can’t wait to make magic clubs.
In my experience, clubs are a wonderful tool for bringing life to a game and I highly recommend them. I only hope that someday they add hobbies like in Freetime, so we could have a potters’ club, a knitters’ club for my grandmas, and whatever else.
Btw, if you want to give sims more personality, may I also suggest giving or cheating them some of the special traits that came with Parenthood. The bad traits are especially dynamic and amusing. I gave my bad boy artist the Uncontrolled Emotions trait and now he has frequent emotional meltdowns, which are hilarious, more easily paints emotional paintings, and seems to spread his negative emotions to his friends a lot. Argumentative is a fun one too; sims with that trait will spontaneously start arguments seemingly for fun. The good traits are less fun but very useful, especially for parents.
Might I say, almost every last club idea on here (save for the vampire stuff, don't do the supernatural stuff) but the rest of these clubs, and I do mean all of them are going to become the source of liveliness in my newly created sims 4 save. Thank You so much! I can already picture life in each of my sim community lots now, and date night...don't even get me started....yeah, I've got some club creating to do. And, now I know just what to do with some of the premades that I never every pay attention too.
