taking toddlers to community lots?
Sagana:
<blink> Baby pools at the swimming pool, sandlots in parks, sand pails at the beach are fun. As is the sim that runs a daycare because she lost her own child in a fire and went kind of crazy. It doesn't matter if there's no 'game' advantage from it. The sims don't know the difference between a shack and a house or an expensive spa on community lot and one with just a hot tub on it either, but I do so that's what makes it fun to do.
Once upon a time there was a hack that would teleport in toddlers at whatever specific time you set it at, but I didn't use it and don't know where it is, so that's not much help...
Soylent Sim:
Quote from: sagana on 2007 July 11, 11:05:53
<blink> Baby pools at the swimming pool, sandlots in parks, sand pails at the beach are fun.
These also fail to exist. In the case of the sand pails you don't even have proper beaches, and for the others I wonder how much player enjoyment could be derived per programmer hour, especially compared to other options. It's kind of like how pets was expected to be everything a simmer could expect, and ended up being a big letdown in reality.
Don't get me wrong. I'd like more toddler interactions in the house, even though the same opportunity cost thing mentioned above probably applies. (Designing and programming a toddler interaction enhances four days of a sim's life, adult/elder ones can enhance 60-ish for a similar investment.) But, especially given their inability to do much on their own, allowing them to appear on non-home lots would require a lot of overhead to make sure it works right. This might be one spot where EA sees a load of bugs waiting to happen, and has actually decided it's not worth letting them come to fruition in play.
Sagana:
All of the things I mentioned exist. Echo made the toddler pools ages ago and I have several from others since then. Echo also did sand pits, there are also some on TSR and some on the sims mod board. The sand buckets are at TSR.
You can use 'em in the house. I think Echo's stuff isn't normally set for community use, but that doesn't stop anyone from putting them on community lots if'n they wanna. Either use a one of the buy hacks or start with the zoning residential and switch it - either will allow you to put anything on a community lot, including cribs if you wanna. And teleporting in whatever sim you want to be there is easy.
Khaki:
Quote from: V on 2007 July 11, 01:09:06
A long time ago I would occasionally get toddlers as part of casual groups meeting downtown. Sometimes they had a parent with them, but usually not. It was always weird and made for a very odd outing. It seems like the interactions with the toddlers were limited also so you couldn't really take care of them while they were there.
Especially disturbing was when the toddler announced that they were going home now and started crawling off the lot all by themselves.
I don't remember how long ago it was since that happened. I do remember the specific toddlers since it was always such a surprise to see them.
This used to happen to me every now and then, I was always quite upset when everyone in the outing would pile into the van and leave the toddler there. I think one time someone brought an infant, promptly put it on the ground on the sidewalk and just left it there....
SimDebster:
I would like to see toddlers have the ability to go to a community lot. I have a family on its 6th generation that has tons of money. Besides making gifts to the other college grad children that do not move back in by using Pescado's money order, I had to figure out something else to do with the money. I turned a couple of residential lots into community lots which I placed in a new sub neighborhood and turned all of the weather to winter (I use it as their Christmas vacation home - it saves me from having to decorate and take the decos down repeatedly). So, my family bought one of them and goes there whenever it is winter in their home neighborhood. They stay one or two days, just long enough to enjoy a turkey dinner and for Santa to arrive. As it is now, babies and toddlers cannot accompany the rest of the family during this time.
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