Vacationing In Any World - Help Me Understand

Okay so my plan is to put a vacation home in a few worlds that my sims can use. The obvious one is of course sulani as I’ve always wanted this feature to be able to use it there since a day trip there breaks immersion for me.

However I also think I will have a rental in San myshuno and brindleton bay. I feel like these are unique worlds I could see my sims spending a weekend at. San myshuno for the festivals and food then brindleton bay for a weekend of relaxing and some seafood. And if I don’t have a sim that lives in windenburg I could see myself putting one there as well. Plus it’s a way to spend the sometimes endless amount of money sims make lol.

I like the idea of being able to have my sim have their house in one world and rent a residence in another for a time. I had one previous save where my focal sim was an investigative reporter, and I wanted him to explore the Strangerville plot line, so I had to separate him from the current household and move him to strangerville, where with this I could have made one of the lots in Strangerville residential and had him rent it instead, so I could still keep track of what was going on back home at the same time. (I don't like to play rotationally, I get wrapped up in one household and neglect the others.)

I'm also going to build a rental penthouse in San Myshuno for couples to get away for the weekend for the Romance festival, so that I don't have to worry about people walking in on them when I add bedrooms to existing venues.

Some worlds it doesn't make sense - Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, Evergreen Harbor. Glimmerbrook and Forgotten Hollow I might add an "inn" that's really a rental house for a given storyline (Someone discovering Magic or vampire hunting, respectively) but otherwise they don't suit well. Windenberg and Brindleton Bay also would require specific stories (though I tend to turn the Hound's Head into a B&B, I emphasize the breakfast part and make it a restauraunt, and I don't actually plan to change that.)

But yeah, without specific stories in mind, Sulani and San Myshuno are the only places I plan to add Vacation lots to my base save.

Aside of Sulani I'm considering putting a rental lots in San Myshuno, Del Sol Valley and Brindleton Bay. Those would be there just offer a place for my sims to get away from their everyday life and relax in a different kind of setting. I'm aware there wouldn't be much for them to do (unless I decorate those houses with some very nice items). It would be just a break from the normal rhythm to spend two days elsewhere. San Myshuno I think can be actually interesting if they manage to match their holiday with a festival. Ideally I would like to have a rental lot in every world for story purposes, but I don't have lots available and I don't want it enough to bulldoze existing stuff.

In several of my saves, every lot of Newcrest has been turned into fun stuff. Bowling alleys, ice and roller skating, restaurants, parks, pools and gyms, etc. I even have a crafting lot. Vacationing there makes total sense.

I'm thinking a rental in Oasis Springs for the Windenburg residents who want to get away from all the snow for a few days. :) I'm already converting the Fountainbleu Penthouse lot into a potential rental, as well as The Old Salt House (used to have it as a bowling alley/lounge). I evicted Catarina Lynx and her cats to Not In World population so I could have her house as a vacation destination in Brindleton Bay. And in Sulani I've got the Admiral's Wreckage as a sort of "eco-retreat" for families who don't mind roughing it for a bit, and I'm deciding which of the smaller houses is going to be a honeymoon getaway; I'm also thinking of placing one of the Beach Wedding venues from the Destination Wedding Spark'd challenge there.

If you play the game exactly the way it ships, then there's no point to vacationing in say, Willow Creek. But I like to build a lot of different types of lots. I have a Sixam Discovery Center in Desert Oasis. You can find an old version I uploaded on the Gallery, but I tweak it even more every time I redownload it. I'm from Florida, so my inspiration was the Kennedy Space Center. It's a museum, but also has a cafe, rocket ships you can build, and the spaceship jungle gym for kids. For my sims visiting the desert for that "Area 51 Alien Adventure" vibe, I will definitely build an alien themed rental home there.

"Chicklet453681;d-983268" wrote:

But, what I don't understand is the excitement for vacationing in every world. I guess I don't see the purpose besides in Sulani, which is obviously a tropical world totally unlike any of the other worlds we have, so for that world I can see the interest in just "vacationing" there.

But, for the other worlds, what's the purpose of vacationing in them? They're like residential with very little "vacationing type" activities.

I guess it depends on what you see as a vacationing activity. If you want to solve the mystery of Strangerville without derailing your main plot line, you could do so while on a vacation. If you want your sim to have a hobby but there is little time for a hobby during the week, you could do so during the vacation. Take pictures, climb mountains, fish, work on a farm, complete a collection, etc.

There are so many places to visit.

- a city trip to San mychuno, perhaps during a festival
- adventurous sims can stay in strangerville for a while to solve the mystery without having to sell their home
- vacation in oasis springs while trying to find the hidden grotto. (for me oasis springs feels just as exotic and far away from home as Sulani.)
- vacation on the light house island in brindleton Bay, no neighbours in sight. Ideal setting for an author
- or a few days in Britechester, in the neighborhood without a campus, a destination I can actually relate to because it resembles the kind of places I visited in real life.

I really like all the options. And my sims will have enough to do, visit the surroundings, looking for collectibles, visit community lots.

Thanks all for the great ideas! I especially like the idea of completing the Strangerville mystery, I've never done it yet. I'm not a big sci-fi person so that has never once interested me and I have only briefly been in that world without a sim, just to check it out when I got the pack, but never lived there, never wanted anything intrusive to happen in my game, but maybe as a vacation adventure it would be okay.

Although the lighthouse would be absolutely ideal for an author to have quiet time to focus, I don't see myself "vacationing" there, I would just live there if I had an author.

I think for me, just Sulani and possibly Strangerville will have rental lots.

Now if we ever got a world with a casino, I could see me wanting to have a rental lot there (which I would pretend was a hotel), but for the rest, probably not.

I too have an "activity" world with all community lot types on it and no residential lots, just so it's easier for me to remember where I want to go.

I don't ever see myself renting a lot in San Myshuno just to go to the festival either.

But, I did love to read about your imaginative ways you'd vacation in other worlds.

I think I'll make Newcrest a vacation spot. I guess it's time to prepare for the next EP!!