Simply disable shifts on the front desk, bar, or food stand and the amenity will remain un-manned for that specified time period. This allows you to choose your level of involvement with resorts. Tip: We wanted to make sure that players can run resorts by using only their active Sim family if they elect to do so. I’m just glad that my resort is small enough to where I can get the job done on my own. Just like residential lots,things can get dirty or break. There’s never a dull moment when running your own resort. I decided that since my Sim does not have a fulltime job, he’s going to have to cover both day and night shifts. Daily tasks included making sure that the front desk was always covered and resort guests were treated to delicious drinks at the bar. It was a good thing that my Sim family was up to the task because keeping employees on the payroll can get quite expensive for an upstart business like mine. A new Buy Mode sort was added to display amenity objects that make the most impact to your resort quality.įunds were low so I had to start small. In general, the resort tower is required as a place for guests to fulfill their motives as well as manage resort worker population. Required objects for resorts are: the frontdesk and at least one resort tower rabbithole. However, if you choose to do so you can use Build and Buy tools to build your resort from scratch. Tip: Blueprint mode is intended for players who want to get their resort built quickly so that they can jump into gameplay right away. Using the blueprint mode, I quickly went from zero to well…bare minimum (at this point I’m fighting the urge to just use the money cheat.) After discovering an uncharted island, I decided that it was the perfect place to break ground on my new resort.
I thought that one of the best ways to talk about resorts is to tell you about the one that I’m currently building. For some players, resort management was just a little too stressful and felt that having their Sims stay at a resort was a much more enjoyable experience. Another team member was on the fast track to running two five-star mega hotels in Sunset Valley.
We had an engineer who decided to open up a small yet successful family-operated bed and breakfast. We recently held a development team “play day” and it was really great to see the many creative ways that people played with resorts. How do you plan to play with resorts? One of our main goals when developing resorts was to make sure that it provided plenty of diversity in gameplay and customization.