Do you visit the hobby lots? Are they useful?
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I've only used the hobbylots to satisfy the dance/cooking contest wants. The contests are won so easily because the townie 'competition' has very low skills levels.
One thing I've wondered about is how, repeatedly, a sim will meet with his or her spouse at the nature secret lot. Like, who is watching the toddler left at home?
For the most part, I feel that what can be accomplished on the "Secrete Lots" can be easily done elsewhere.
nocomment:
Thanks for all the input. I'm experimenting now, editing the lots. Maybe I can make something I'll enjoy. I'd like to use the lots, but I'm not sure how interested I am in persuing the hobby stuff.
cwykes:
Quote from: sloppyhousewife on 2008 July 18, 08:28:34
Hobby lots are useful as weekend homes and/or love nests. You can cook there, you can sleep there, you can bring friends, the bars come with barkeeper and your mess gets cleaned up (i.e. the lots reset after the visit) - what else do you need :D?
Yes. The fact that sims can sleep on the couches is very useful. Aren't hobby lots the only kind of community lot you can use without your sim having to go home from exhaustion? Aren't they also the only kind of community lot where you can skill without the most awesome commskilling hack?
I'm using hobby lots for skilling or odd things where I don't want the whole family around. You can send 2 sims to the cooking lot, for example and have them skill in turn on the choclate making machine. The unoccupied sim can nap, cook, get hobby instruction or add to his bug collection.
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2008 July 18, 16:47:21
I've only used the hobbylots to satisfy the dance/cooking contest wants. The contests are won so easily because the townie 'competition' has very low skills levels.
I've had sims lose cooking competitions. The competition isn't always useless townies. I suppose who is there depends on the balance of playables/townies in that hood and on how many playables are members/have the skills.
My main problem is the lack of sims on hobby lots - maybe it will fix itself as more playables become members, but I suspect I need to intprop something. My arts and crafts lot has had the guru and the same 2 sims on it every visit. Unfortunately one of them picked a fight with the guru on the first visit and they go at it every time now!
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 July 28, 08:27:25
Yes. The fact that sims can sleep on the couches is very useful. Aren't hobby lots the only kind of community lot you can use without your sim having to go home from exhaustion? Aren't they also the only kind of community lot where you can skill without the most awesome commskilling hack?
Sims can also sleep in beds on hobby lots, in fact, they can do anything they can do at home, except accessing inventory. It's pretty much like hotel lots, only without room service and the "check in" bit.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 July 28, 08:27:25
My main problem is the lack of sims on hobby lots - maybe it will fix itself as more playables become members, but I suspect I need to intprop something. My arts and crafts lot has had the guru and the same 2 sims on it every visit. Unfortunately one of them picked a fight with the guru on the first visit and they go at it every time now!
Visitors on hobbylots include anyone with a membership card, so once more sims join, the visitorship gets somewhat larger. Otherwise it will be just the maven (who, incidentally, isn't even necessarily into the hobby he's in charge of!)
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