In Evergreen harbour, all three community lots were voted to be Maker spaces. Since last update, apart from the Sim I am playing, the only people that visit the lot are the experts in their field who...
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Previously if you put a Food Van there, you didn't need to hire it. It was operated 24/7 by a succession of Sims. (My goto person to present a concept plan to!)
It's a shame because community lots were fun.
Ditto being able to add items to parks. Plus the random Sims using them skilled up and the items made were left in their inventories, both personal and House.
Also at one stage they would complete their task, freeing up the workspace.
Now they just start a piece then abandon it after seconds, meaning no one else can use it unless I go into build mode and delete half finished wood working or art or scrap them.
Funnily enough, that isn't the case at the Casbah gallery where possibly the mentor equivalents still go around scrapping half finished artwork and woodworking in the gallery.
Which suggests they've changed the behavior patterns in many of the Lots and Spaces.
At one stage, once I added the necessary items, parks like Desert Bloom functioned like Recreation centers if they had all the required objects. Now I have to designate them as Recreation centers for them to work.
The big exception is Sales Tables. No one automatically mans them. The random items were fun. I even picked up a Money tree flower from one once.
"Previously if you put a Food Van there, you didn't need to hire it. It was operated 24/7 by a succession of Sims. " I am having the exact same problem with community spaces and the food vendors. Normally I turn community places into maker spaces then create a club to use it. Before recent updates (I thin it was was after Lovestruck or the update that followed it) vendors would automatically populate the food stalls now they don't turn up at all and I cannot even click on them to "Hire Vendor". I recently repaired my game and started a completely new save converted two of the community lots to maker spaces as they already come with a food stand but it was still the same result. I never play with mods and don't have any CC either I have added things to the community lots and saved the lot so it can instantly be placed as a clubhouse but that is it. I've had to put a fridge and counters in each space so my sims can eat while on the lot.