Where Do Your Clubs Meet?

I have about 50 clubs in my game right now, but don't have played sims in any of them at the moment. I'm using them mostly to add active unplayed sims at all the community lot types so for club gathering locations, mostly I've set them to 'any" of lot type x.

For painting and art viewing, I have one club set to gather at 'any art center' and another set to 'any museum'.
For clubs set to "any library" I have one club for just teens and children, with reading and doing homework and I have another for YA and adults, set for reading and socializing (like a book club).
For 'any cafe' I have my knitting and cross stitch clubs and then another one really similiar to the YA/adult library one, but have them set to also like writing.
For 'any parks" i have a few chess clubs (seperated by age), a basketball club, a grill master club and also seperate teen and children's club for playing on the various equipment there.
For 'any night club' I have clubs set to do night club activities, dancing, drinking, etc. I also have one night club with bowling alleys so I have one club set to that specific night club for bowlers.
For 'any lounge' it is clubs set to play instruments or sing and another club set to "watch performances".
For bars, it's clubs set to play bar games, socialize and drink. Most of these clubs I have set to each specific bar though, so that the bar crowd feels more varied based on the bar I'm in. I have 2 bowling alleys in bars as well, and have bowling clubs set up that are set just to those specific bars.
For gyms, I have basket ball clubs, yoga/wellness clubs and workout clubs. All of my gyms have a pretty much all the things needed for all of those.
I have only one club set for spas, and that is a yoga/wellness activity club.
I have a skiing and snowboarding club and also a children-only sledding club, set to the Onsen.
I have beach clubs for children, for teens, and for YA/adult set to "any beach'.
I have a fans club set to gather at the starlight accolades with club activities to fawn at and talk about celebrities. And I have multiple celebrity-only clubs who gather at the various specific bars, clubs, lounges that are set as 'hot spots' by lot trait. I seperated them out further with trait requirements so the ones with good/friendly/social/etc. celebrities will interact positively with fans, while the ones with evil/mischievous/arrogant/etc. celebrities will be mean to fans.

For my 'alien club" which is nothing but aliens allowed, I set them to gather in the Strangerville bar. :lol: For my two "vampire clubs" which only allow vampires, I set them both to gather in a bar in Forgotten Hallow which also has a secret mausoleum in the basement which I use for legacy interment and a graveyard in back which I use for unplayed sims that I am fond of. For my Mermaid only club, I have them set to gather at 'any beach' and for my spellcaster-only club, I have them set to gather at the Magic HQ.

Pretty much you can either pick gathering locations based on one specific venue where you want to see the club and which has the necessary club activity objects, or you can set them to "any " which works really well for clubs with activities that match whatever the 'required objects" are for that lot type. Clubs will often then show up on those lots when you visit them with active sims.

Lol, I don't think anyone can add much more than Stormkeep's post.

I do have a bar venue which is above a cinema and I have a few clubs meet there for watching movies and eating popcorn or ice creams.

And I have a park venue which has an indoor kids room with a few of those whatsit machines in there, I forget the name, where the kids can duel with their *yu-gi-oh cards (*insert correct name).

"elanorbreton;c-18086506" wrote:
Lol, I don't think anyone can add much more than Stormkeep's post.

@elanorbreton I agree. ?

@Stormkeep you've given me lots to think about! Thanks for such a detailed response.

:lol: yah.. I typed a lot, sorry! And I didn't even mention about a dozen of the clubs that I have...

One thing I didn't mention, @Simgirl1010, is the limit on total clubs. It's a bit over 200. Safe to have around like 220, but once you pass that much farther it starts to cause game glitchiness.
With such a high limit, tailoring a club (or two) specific to every single community lot in your game is doable, with room to spare.

I use a mod that adds a ton more to the "club requirements" filters so that I can really customize the type of sims in my clubs. Available here. And I also use several mods that add more club activities.

I made a few clubs, but they always seem to end up with dancing around a bonfire being the main fun thing to do in my clubs. :D :D :D
Guess that says a little bit about the real me, heh heh!

Like let's say a "Cooking Club". Hmm, Cooking, Baking, Socializing, Talking about food, blah blah...

Dancing around a bonfire?

Heck yeah!!! That's gotta be part of the club! :p :smiley: :D

I usually make family clubs, romance clubs or clubs for sims of similar age groups to make friends. Often I just make them hang out in the members' houses or perhaps bars if they are aimed romances or general adult socialising. I do now and then make clubs for activity groups, which sometimes end up with other appropriate lots as their location. I need to do more with the function for sure, but as I so often play families I have to manage the entire household and their clubs.

To answer the original question: "Where do your clubs meet?"

At the bonfire!

Seriously though, haven't really gone into a place (lot) being specific for a club. The other way around, assigning a club to a certain type of place, or one spot.

Though that is a great idea. Could turn a 'boring' place into a fun place by rebuilding it thinking about the certain specific club.
I sorta did that for the big cafe in Windenburg.

"Stormkeep;c-18086508" wrote:
:lol: yah.. I typed a lot, sorry! And I didn't even mention about a dozen of the clubs that I have...

One thing I didn't mention, @Simgirl1010, is the limit on total clubs. It's a bit over 200. Safe to have around like 220, but once you pass that much farther it starts to cause game glitchiness.
With such a high limit, tailoring a club (or two) specific to every single community lot in your game is doable, with room to spare.

I use a mod that adds a ton more to the "club requirements" filters so that I can really customize the type of sims in my clubs. Available here. And I also use several mods that add more club activities.

Goodness! I can't imagine having that many clubs. I only have 120 sims in my game so there would be a lot of overlap. I do plan on adding more families though so I can add some clubs mainly to populate community lots.

I'm not too interested in more activities because they'll just be background clubs but I do need to find a mod for more club icons.

Wow..only 120 sims. I have over twice that many just of "protected" unplayed sims, with 289 total of those. And another ~500 in "other households". Only 100 sims are homeless though.
Only 120 sims seems spartan to me!

Edit to add: oops, forgot to link it. More club icons mod: https://zerbu.tumblr.com/post/185775650335/ive-remade-my-more-club-icons-mod-with-over-1000

I really like the clubs feature of the pack. I use it as a Sim Finder too if I want to look for Sims who have a specific personality trait. I still use the original clubs that came with the game pack. When I visit community lots I like seeing the locals at their local venues, so I also like to add family households in their own club and set them to their local park for fishing, bbq, chess, playground, etc. I like to set couples in their own clubs and set the venue at their local bar or lounge as a kind of date night club. I put a world's kids and teens in homework or social clubs of their own. One thing I wish is that I could add toddlers to the family clubs because it would be cute to see them at the park with their families too.