I dreamed of having apartments in downtown area where the ground level are shops.

In game, we would have to set the lot to Residential but with Public Room Marker (and Hidden Room Marker) like how apartments are made since Late Night. At this point I will not entertain creating a fully functional bar, or any other community lot venue. I just want to discuss what rabbitholes, tricks, or whatever that can lure even a moderate amount of non-active sims (NPC or not) just to set onto the lot simply to sell this illusion of "apartments on top of store" on downtown streets.

With all the experienced RS3 players around, I am sure someone did some tinkering and would come back with some results.

Resort seems pretty close to it. 2 limitations:
1. Would have to find a way to blend the check out counter, wouldn't be too hard. (Pretend its the information desk).
2. Sims would have to literately "check in" to use anything on the lot.

Now if my active sims own the lot, he/she can walk in and use whatever he/she feels like without having to check in. I am going to give this a try.

I have made a couple of these and is working on a very modern square at the moment. It would be interesting to hear how the resort experience work out. I may try it myself actually. The counter can work very nicely as the information desk in a highrise, it often needs a lobby anyway. For a world builder though having that many resorts may not be very useful, but perhaps a shopping center isn't something you want a lot of either.

How does the shops work on a resort lot?

I didn't try it on residential lots yet but maybe this ticket machine would help. I usually use it to get more sims to community lots.

That maybe a solution. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for all the inputs.



Technically it does not hurt having many resort or shopping centers beside the fact that they may add to the NPC pools (NPC generated to run these resorts) and stretch your population thin. However, I have long given up treating TS3 as a real sim life game. I no longer worry that my world has 1 resort or 100. If every community lot has to be a "resort" for things to work, so be it. All I care is for TS3 to sell me that illusion that I am living a life in TS3.So if I really need a lot of sims to my lot, I can manually invite them via NRAAS Master Controller (if I need to simulate a busy day at the store).

I just tried the ticket machine and it of course does not send NPC's to operate cash registers or bars.