What are the advantages of a Vacation hood over a regular subhood?
nocomment:
I want owned shops in my vacation land.
I know this can't be done in a real vacation hood. I'm thinking of attaching a new subhood and making it a vacation spot.
I can make locals who will actually live in houses and own businesses. I could also makeover the local townies to match the theme.
That brings up the first question - does each subhood have its own pool of townies? I know the Universities share their townies. If I install a second downtown, will it share townies with the other downtown?
The main question is, what can only be put in a vacation hood? The secret Bigfoot lot? The witchdoctor hut?
I have a hack to allow sleeping on community lots, so fake hotels are no problem. The tents work in all hoods, right? I know, silly question, but then again this game is weird sometimes.
behold_the_muse:
I don't think sims would get memories of traveling to a subhood, even with hotels. I guess you could run a shopping district as a resort town and pretend townies are on holiday there and sell them touristy stuffs. (I love your stories, by the way! I know you can come up with some crazy stuff to sell townies :))
Doc Doofus:
Multiple downtowns use the same set of downtownies.
I haven't tried making a new vacation hood from scratch, but I would bet, if the trend holds, that the new vacation hood would use the same local townies as the other vacation hood of the same type, like asian with asian, tropical with tropical, mountain with mountain.
It would be interesting to own a business on a vacation lot, if you could ever figure out how to do that.
You can set up a hotel in your main neigborhood or a suburb. You can visit it like any commercial lot, but you can also check into a room and stay for as long as you like.
sloppyhousewife:
As for what can only be put in a vacation hood - the secret lots, for sure. The game needs the destination type (Far East, mountains, island) for the correct NPC to spawn. A lot of actions are destination dependent, too - you can't go on tours, and I don't think you can learn the massages. Plus, you won't get the vacation memories.
Most of the other mementos can be gained "at home" - trink tea, play mahyong, eat local food etc., because the objects needed for that are available in the main hood, too. The tents should work in all hoods.
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2007 October 20, 07:49:40
You can set up a hotel in your main neigborhood or a suburb. You can visit it like any commercial lot, but you can also check into a room and stay for as long as you like.
Are the sims charged correctly for the stay? That would be a nice opportunity to burn some cash without having to go on vacation.
Gwill:
Just wondering, is it possible to run a home business from a vacation home?
Probably not.
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