[ECO] Hardly any Sims visiting Community Space/No vendors

obviously i don't use this lot very often, i don't know when the problem has been, so i have had this problem the other day. i wasn't sure because the game is modded and i tried it without mods and yes the problem is not related to the mod. no matter how long i stay, not a single sim will come to lot.

edit: i have no problem at marker space. the problem is happening at community garden in my game. i haven't tried marketplace.

Marketplace lots are still broken, almost a year later. I don't understand why this hasn't been fixed, since it sounds fairly simple as someone has detailed in the comments here. Are they ever going to fix it or should we just give up on using what used to be one of the best lot types in the game?

Personally, with basic issues like this persisting for so long, I won't be spending any money on the new packs coming out. It just isn't worth it. 

The best way to deal with this is to turn the Community Space into a Recreation Centre.

Sure you will have to add the elements required for a Recreation Centre, but once you've done that, people will visit between 7am and 10pm. And if you bring your own Sales Table, you can do that interaction. Vendor stalls still don't work though unless you hire them.

Further to above comment about Recreation Centers, I love doing the No Skills No Problem scenario, giving myself different challenges as to how quickly I can reach the goal and what sort of character I use.

Because it requires so much of the Sims time, I tend to use a Loner character, Freegan and Green Fiend. Then I Use the broken Community Lot feature to my advantage. Precisely because no one comes to the lots anymore, my penniless character can move in. I've even managed to avoid all interactions with other Sims using this, which again allow them to concentrate on what they're doing.

By making them join the Scientist career, I do that until they get the SimRay with Transform object upgrade, then they Quit.

Using the SimRay I can transform all the rubbish piles in the original Community Lots (soreading them out first. If you're lucky, you'll get a bed and a hydroponic or plain planter.

I don't use the build menu to do anything except knock out walls and move existing furnishings to start with. My aim is to see if I can build a Recreation center as well as reaching the Scenario goal. If you make it a Landfill lot, the resulting dropped broken objects can be transformed.

Diving for ingredients will give you plants. Dumpster Diving, finishing Collector Aspiration and planting things like Money Tree will help.

I allow my Sim to bring bought camping objects onto the lot and sometimes transforming them will help fill in gaps in required furnishings.

You'll end up with top range showers and refrigerators.

No fires from transformations.

I've even got pianos from Transforming objects.

To complete Recreation Center, the only things I've always had to but is the Jungle Gym and pieces of Exercise equipment. The photo above is one run through.

Will be interested in Feedback if anyone else tries to do this.

26-30 days to finish scenario seems to be the average.

Does it work as well on a generic lot? I never use them, so I don't remember if no Sim shows up there. I suppose any lot with the Private Dwelling trait would work as well. When I play a loner like a hermit, I like to use the small lot called Mid-NoWhere in Windenburg, the name is immersive but I suppose there are nicer places to feel like it's really isolated.

I have a lot more Rec Centers since they broke the EL Community lots, but they just don't serve the same purpose. The community centers were always bustling hives of activities with eco role sims, mentors and market vendors. Lots of interacting. Talking to bugs. Rec Centers are sort of go there do your own thing. Not as lively.

What we need is for EA to fix Eco Lifestyle. They've yet to even acknowledge that they broke it. 🙂

By Generic lots, I assume you mean Residential? I use the default Community Spaces to avoid people completely. 

People pass around the Community Space boundary, so there is a steady food source if I play a Vampire, lol, but never come in. Unless I use or keep the Landfill option. Then they dump the object and leave but can be interacted with if needed.

These big ticket items can be repaired, but can also be Transformed without repairing. Stoves seem to give the biggest variety of useful objects.

The big advantage of the Community Spaces in Evergreen is that the initial rubbish can be Transformed into good items, and items don't burst into flames when Transforming.

As for Hermits. My Loner even gets twitchy when people pass by if they are in the garden, which they do a lot in Mid-NoWhere. I find the vacant lot island in Sulani good, the wrecked plane in Strangerville and Cordelia's Secret Cottage have the least passers by with that isolated vibe.

I don't mean residential lots. Perhaps the type of lot is called something else than "generic" in English. I'm speaking of a lot type that serves no purpose. See bellow its icon:

I've recently returned to an old save in which I'm playing with all the Eco Lifestyle gameplay and I've noticed that my upgraded Market Space lot on Evergreen Harbour has zero vendors every time I visit it.  The selling tables are all full of candles, fizzy drinks etc, but no one is tending the tables.  I tried the 'clear table' option with my sim to get rid of all the products in the hope that a new vendor would show up if the table was empty, but it doesn't work.  My sim does the action/hand motion as though they cleared the table but the products remain on it.  I can't do anything else with the table as my sim isn't the one who filled the table with products in the first place.  

It's very disappointing and immersion breaking as the market place is now essentially an pointless space.

I play on PC.

The worst thing for me is that you can't even "fix" the issue with a workaround, like you can for many other issues/bugs in the game. If you have a food stand on the lot, you can't manually call (and pay) for a NPC to come open it like you can on most other lot types. So it's just extra dead. So disappointing that there hasn't been a single word about this issue for almost an entire year.