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[\\,[†],//]

so i built a place like a cafe/dinning area household however i want to create a family that live there but work there so other npcs will go there for chat or order and stuff is there a way to do this?

[Ani Blade]

Technically speaking, I don't think so. You would still need to own a residential lot to count as "home". Your sims cannot own only a commercial lot, and I don't believe TS4 has home based businesses like we did in TS2.

So you need to purchase a home lot, then you can purchase your commercial lot and build whatever on that. Just keeping in mind that certain events will forcefully send your sim back home (unless there's a mod out there to circumvent game restrictions, etc).

[Jehane]

Also, don't you have to specify what a lot is used for? I recently built a cupcake store and had to define what kind of lot it is - commercial, residental, public, cultural... that suggests you can't combine a business and a house for your Sims to live in. Like Ani Blade said, you'll need two lots if you want both a commercial and a residential lot.

[\\,[†],//]

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[Ani Blade]

Originally posted by Jehane:

Also, don't you have to specify what a lot is used for? I recently built a cupcake store and had to define what kind of lot it is - commercial, residental, public, cultural... that suggests you can't combine a business and a house for your Sims to live in. Like Ani Blade said, you'll need two lots if you want both a commercial and a residential lot.

I mean... you can define a lot as commercial and never have a business. That is currently the workaround people use in order to purchase "vacation" homes. So you can absolutely live on a commercial lot, but the game will yeet you back "home" in certain situations (my sim went to prom while on vacation, and she didn't return to vacation. She was back home).

[DP Bowie]

Originally posted by Ani Blade:

Technically speaking, I don't think so. You would still need to own a residential lot to count as "home". Your sims cannot own only a commercial lot, and I don't believe TS4 has home based businesses like we did in TS2.

So you need to purchase a home lot, then you can purchase your commercial lot and build whatever on that. Just keeping in mind that certain events will forcefully send your sim back home (unless there's a mod out there to circumvent game restrictions, etc).

the disappointing thing about commercial lot or restaurant in Sims4, they don't have the passive income system.
When you want to open shop/resto, you MUST be on the site.

[Jehane]

Originally posted by Ani Blade:

I mean... you can define a lot as commercial and never have a business. That is currently the workaround people use in order to purchase "vacation" homes. So you can absolutely live on a commercial lot, but the game will yeet you back "home" in certain situations (my sim went to prom while on vacation, and she didn't return to vacation. She was back home).

That's really cool - so a Sim family gets to have two homes but the game will only recognize one as the "real" home? I like that 😁 Months ago, I built a beach house on Sulani but didn't want my Sims to give up their other home, so I turned the beach house into a vacation lot they could rent. By now that house would be too small for that particular household, but good to know there's a workaround 😀I might use that to build a second house for them in another world 😀

[Philtre]

Originally posted by \\,†,//:

so i built a place like a cafe/dinning area household however i want to create a family that live there but work there so other npcs will go there for chat or order and stuff is there a way to do this?

If you have the Dine Out pack, you can go to Manage Worlds, define a free lot as a restaurant, build whatever structure and furnishings you want (along with the specific things restaurants need to have), define the menu and what staff positions it should have, etc., and just have it in the world as an autonomous commercial lot that no-one owns. The game will manage running and staffing it, and sims (including your sim) can visit it. But you won't be able to choose who works there.