Hi I am looking for some help re: vacation hoods and their visitors.

I have several custom vacation hoods, one Australia, new Zealand, Caribbean, Alaska.

And I have specific sims and pets ( jaguar, goats, sheep, panda, koala, wombat, etc. all are large dogs re skinned) that I want to show up in specific hoods.

I have tried creating vacation locals, but they are the same across all hoods of the same theme. So can only do Caribbean and not Australia or new Zealand locals as they are all "island vacations".

I tried creating families that I wanted to be visitors and walkbys and moving them into purpose built shopping district which is just a bin for all of them, and then taking them all on vacation and leaving them.

But they don't appear when I visit the vacation hoods, no one except for tourists, maxis locals and npcs.

I tried using the visitor controller, but that only bans sims, doesnt make them appear.

I tried using the auto teleporter from twojeffs in conjunction with the visitor controller. But they don't seem to effect each other.

I'm all out of ideas

Can anyone help? Is there another mod or hack with which I could change who visits vacations lots?

Ideally I would like all my vacationing sims to turn up as visitors and walkbys on all lots in the hood in which they are vacationing.

@chocabro Sounds like you have not properly classified your sims as locals and tourists. See this tutorial:
Making your own custom vacation destinations with custom hidden vacation lots, custom locals and custom tourists by Lili975 and use Argon's Townie Brick to change your sims to locals or tourists.

Now getting pets to show up, otoh, might be more difficult. Strays do not normally show up on community and vacation lots. While there is a mod to make strays visit (here), I don't think it differentiates groups of strays so you might have all your strays show up, not just ones for that vacation destination.

If you're willing to experiment, you can pick up Lamare's Pets and Toddlers on Vacation and then send a family with all the pets to the appropriate vacation destination. Then play another family and see if the one with the pets shows up as visitors when you go to community lots. Otherwise, I don't think you'll be able to set pets as a vacation local or tourist--but if the Townie Brick does give you the option, I would try it and see what happens.

Remember to back up your game before you test!

So i have the pets on vacation mod.
And i have created my own vacation locals and tourists.
but those tourists and locals will show up in all vacation hoods of the same theme, they wont be different for different individual hoods, which is the outcome.

Tourists will show up in all the vacation hoods, but locals should only show in the respective hood. But I believe there's only three categories, so if you need more categories than that, it probably won't work.

So are you sure you didn't make them all tourists? If you're absolutely sure, then the next thing to check is what type of neighborhood did you make the vacation hood? If you made them all island vacation spots, for example, then yeah, all of the island locals will show in all the hoods. You will have to make one the "mountain" hood, another the "tropical/island" hood, and another the "far east" hood. Did you already do this? (If not, then you'll need to recreate the hood--you can use Mootilda's Hood Replace to copy the terrain and hood decorations to the new/correct hood, and then you'd place down your lots again.)

Since you have four vacation hoods, you'll have to have two groups overlap and get the same group of locals. You could use the visitor controller to ban sims, but as you discovered, it won't stop the game from spawning them, it will just ban them from the lot and you'll have to hope the game will pick someone else to show up instead.


ETA: One more thing, as a last resort, you can also use Inge's Meeting Controller at Simlogical to summon your group of sims to the lot.

yea see the thing is i want more than the 3 themes of locals the game gives you. The meeting controller is a good idea, but you have to summon the meeting goers manually.

what would be ideal is if it were possible to encounter all other sims visiting a vacation hood at the same time. To have the sims from the hotel down the road show up at the restaurant or other community lots, or even have multiple families in the same hotel lot. so just like every other kind of hood. why doesn't the game let this happen? surely theres a mod that can fix this.

If you send more than one family on vacation at the same time the not being currently played family will show up on community lots.

Really? I have tried this several times with no luck. Maybe there's another problem?