Multifunctional lots

I think the closest you can get is having your Sim buy a retail lot, and unofficially living on the lot. If you build an apartment over a bakery and place a mailbox on the lot, it's fully functional. I've only tried this with retail in Get to Work. I'm not sure how it would work with a restaurant from Dine Out.

Definitely should have something like that. Standard procedure in the real world. Easy to tell which one is New York... :(

They could create a world with several lots within the same buildingshells, like there was different apartments in the same building in San Myshuno. I would like that

Little Ms Sam has a mod that allows it in some ways. I built two apartments over a bar and a flower shop and they both work well! The things you can sell in the store are a little limited and it certainly doesn't work like a regular store. The bar works great though!

Is there any workaround to achieve this? Even if it's not the practical and a bit tedious to setup. If possible, without mods. Thank you.

"Oldeseadogge;c-17724895" wrote:
Definitely should have something like that. Standard procedure in the real world. Easy to tell which one is New York... :(

I know! As soon as I looked at all 3, I knew which one was NYC. Funny thing is we don’t have that much graffiti these days over here.

I'd love multi functional lots, like we had in previous series. Running a business at home was great, and I also miss the TS2 feature of simply making money per hour you managed to keep a visitor on your lot (a ticket machine, kind of).

In TS4 I have several shopping malls, with multiple retail shops, but I always end up with the coffee shop category to have some NPC actually serving the coffee bar. I wish we could define sections of a lot with different lot categories/tags, or that each community lot object that needs to me maintained, would provide its service regardless of the lot category. The coffe bar object should attract the barista even if the lot's main category is retail.