How have you utilized the club system from Get Together?

"liliaeth;c-15882862" wrote:

"ModerateOsprey;c-15882828" wrote:

"liliaeth;c-15882783" wrote:
as I've mentioned elsewhere on the forum, I'm currently using the club system, to simulate an active programmer career.

I downloaded an office building, and then I set up groups of office workers.

First the regular office workers, then support staff, and finally the group my sim is a part of, aka interns.

Basically the first group has group activities like programming, browsing the web, writing, make friendly interactions, and drinking coffee.
The second group has repairing computers, and cleaning among their activities, and the third group has a mix of the first two.

Now my sim can have a weekend job, where he can go program apps, do freelance work and so on, while interacting with other sims, and once he grows into a YA, get that as a regular job, with friends and coworkers. Might even have him meet his future partner, aka soulmate, there.

I love doing this kind of thing. I have made schools of all kinds, live-in constant LAN parties, cult compounds. The club system is great for doing organisations. In a school, for example, you can have a club of 2 sims acting as caretakers to do cleaning and repairing. You can do so many things with it.

I love the club system :heart:

If anyone is willing to use mods to help, then these can really up the game when doing organisations:

More clubs per sim
http://modthesims.info/d/571322

More club members
https://zerbu.tumblr.com/post/161169670640/the-sims-4-small-mods (4th one down in the list)

Increase household size in MCCC
https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com/tagged/mcccrelease

Are there any mods to ensure that clubs are actually regularly at a location? If not, I might add another club, to increase chances of other sims being at work :-)

One other thing that I've noticed that helps, is to use the coffee bar as a lot setting, since every office building runs on coffee anyway, and it's easy to fulfill the requirements for it, without it taking over the entire building :-)

I haven't found anything that directly does that, but I do use the more sims on a lot function in MCCC. There is a limit of 20 sims per lot, so if you add in three clubs with 8 members each then you run out of room and not all club members turn up. MCCC allows you to increase the limit. In general, if I keep the number of clubs sims just under the allowed limit, then it is pretty reliable when they turn up. The game also takes into account if a sim is at school or work.

I use all sorts of lot types, depending on what I am doing. I often use residential lots for full maximum control where it makes sense for the sims to live on a lot such as a boarding school. I generally try and see if I can utilise a residential lot as it means I always have one or two controlled sims that I can use to initiate the gathering. As as an aside, Parenthood makes playing schools really good fun.

I am definitely going to steal your office idea :innocent: This is an interesting challenge as live-in workers don't make much sense. I would like to use the generic or National/Center park lot types, but you can't gather clubs on those --- grrr. Your choice of using a cafe makes loads of sense. Am guessing you use a club door to keep the riff-raff from messing up your organisation?

As for lot requirements, I just dump the stuff I don't need in a sealed basement room.

I converted The Good Timers into a vampire club, The Blood Timers.Half the club are vampires, the other half prey.
Then I fixed up The Shrieking Llama. I put a bedroom and closet downstairs, and then made a stone lined sub-basement where my vampires can feast on whomever without anyone else in the bar getting a negative moodlet.

"TheLibrarySim;c-15883039" wrote:
I converted The Good Timers into a vampire club, The Blood Timers.Half the club are vampires, the other half prey.
Then I fixed up The Shrieking Llama. I put a bedroom and closet downstairs, and then made a stone lined sub-basement where my vampires can feast on whomever without anyone else in the bar getting a negative moodlet.

Made me chuckle this. When I read it, I thought of this scene from American Werewolf in London. Name of the pub was The Slaughtered Lamb

https://highlandfidelity.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/an-american-werewolf-in-london-4.jpg

That's awesome! I wouldn't be surprised if "The Shrieking Llama" is a play on "The Slaughtered Lamb." It's fun to see the obscure references (Triad's Rise Stalls in Sims Medieval) that they throw in.
Also, "American Werewolf in London" is a stone classic.

Gosh I love the club system. I'm a rotational player, and it makes it so much easer to manage my neighborhoods. I use it, 1) like @davina1221, to turn my gardens into farms and have club members get each other's gardens in order, and to create painting clubs that generate fortunes for each family 2) in my recreation of peasant life, to create male and female peasant tasks 3) to speed up my families' acquisition of skills. Improving the skill building speeds for the children first and then the adults. 4) Ok, I admit, I created a woohoo club. 5) The Rebels: my 17th century recreation has two groups that steal and break stuff belonging to the royal family. A member of my club of Servants and a member of the Nobility each lead separate rebellious clubs. 6) Of course the Royals, the blacksmiths/crafters guild, and knights/fight club members all have their place, too. 7) I even have a group of nuns. 8) Vampire clubs that do only vampire things. 9) The Blues Queens are exactly what you would think, a group of fabulously dressed ladies of varying ages with at least 2 skill points in singing, piano, and guitar skills.

The other really helpful feature is that the club leader can change the rules of the club at any time. As a rotational player, all my households have at least one member who heads up a club, so if the Study Group wants to relax and dance for a change, they can do that and still build up club points to increase skills related to club goals. Or whatever goals the current household wants to work on.

"professorlilith;c-15889299" wrote:
) Ok, I admit, I created a woohoo club.

Just wondering if you have a club like that if you have to build relationships like normal or since it is a club if it bypasses the leveling up. :)

If they have a negative enough relationship they won't woohoo, but they don't have to have to be very far into the green.

I used the club system to create the cult/hippie commune. I have a big household of hippy folks, including cult/commune leader who is obviously also a club leader. So most of the household sims are in the club, plus some NPCs and I set the default outfits to be boho style. They usually gather at the household's big house which is also a headquarter and their activities are for example doing yoga, meditating, hanging out around the bonfire.
I think one can make a very uniqe use of the club system and it can come in handy in so many ways. This thread is a proof of that and some of you guys seriously astound me with your creativity! ;)

The club system is awesome. I use it for family, kids, criminals, gardeners, soon for my aliens, workout buddies, best friends, those that love to read, and etc...

I've discovered a way to up my artist freelancer's money by having an 'Painting class' club. She is on level 10 and can mentor, so I get some students who are interested in art in my studio (like Salim from City Living). And mentor them, when they're done painting I'll just put it in my art gallery and sell their art (this way I don't feel like I'm stealing, it's like their payment from giving them classes!)
This was the best use of a club I've ever done.