Friday, April 17, 2015

Sims 3 resort results, from tiny getaways to grand monstrocities

This is a bunch of resort results for the Sims 3 Island Paradise expansion. All resorts are currently running in the same game using the Isla Paradiso (fixed) world. It gives a good idea what to expect from small to large resorts, but note that I was not necessarily pushing for just a 5 star rating with these resorts. You can read my giganto-post of hints and tips amassed while building these resorts by clicking here.

Unless otherwise noted, these numbers reflect addressing complaints in reviews, and the resorts set up to maximize guest happiness (or upgraded from their pre-owned state to do so) were 5 stars long before the complaints stopped (so if you want to know roughly how many things like hot tubs a certain amount of people expect, this list will help give you a good idea). One thing I still get complaints on is roaches and cleanliness. There doesn't seem to be any good way to get rid of those complaints, because there's always somebody who seems to whine in reviews, probably because they couldn't stand the few seconds it took a Bonehilda or hired maintenance person to fix the problem.

Dollar (simoleon) amounts are approximate to simplify reading.



Resort name: Kiseki
Stars: 5
Capacity: 44
Location, lot size: La Costa Verde (pre-owned decent resort), 64x64
Lot value: $254K
Revenue: $11K / day
Made revenue on day: 1
Profit: $5.5K / day
Expenses: $1.5K / day
Quality: maximum
Hot tubs: 1
Pool bars: 1
Food stands: 1
Fire walks: 1
Bonehildas: 2
Maintenance: 1
VIP rooms: 2
VIP beds*: 4
Dining seats: 17
Pool (area in squares): 112
Ocean access on lot: no
Uniform style: Spanish style
Resort towers: 1 Spanish style
Notes: This is my fourth resort, the name means "miracle" in Japanese and is the surname of one of my original characters, Kaito Kiseki. I kept most of the original pre-owned resort and added improvements.



Resort name: Riddick Rise
Stars: 5
Capacity: 74
Location, lot size: Sparkling Sands (pre-owned decent resort), 64x64
Lot value: $308K
Revenue: $11K / day
Made revenue on day: 1
Profit: $11.5K / day
Expenses: $3.3K / day
Quality: maximum
Hot tubs: 2
Pool bars: 2
Food stands: 1
Fire walks: 2
Bonehildas: 1
Maintenance: 3
VIP rooms: 2
VIP beds*: 4
Dining seats:
Pool (area in squares): 158
Ocean access on lot: no
Uniform style: eco modern
Resort towers: 1 eco modern
Notes: This is my fifth resort, named after my favorite fictional character Richard B. Riddick (as played by Vin Diesel). I kept most of the original pre-owned resort and added improvements.



Resort name: House of Kaijin
Stars: 5
Capacity: 137
Location, lot size: 77 Paradise Road (originally empty), 64x64
Lot value: $438K
Revenue: $12.4K / day
Made revenue on day: 2
Profit: $13K / day
Expenses: $3.8K / day
Quality: maximum
Hot tubs: 4
Pool bars: 3
Food stands: 2
Fire walks: 3
Bonehildas: 2
Maintenance: 0
VIP rooms: 6
VIP beds*: 17
Dining seats: 40
Pool (area in squares): 304
Ocean access on lot: no
Uniform style: beach casual
Resort towers: 3 Spanish style
Notes: This is my first resort, and the one that taught me the most. It is named after the surname of my sniper-assassin-ninja original character Haiiro Kaijin, brother to one of the two household Sims (Yuujin Kaijin, Asian beauty) running this game. I built it completely from an empty lot.



Resort name: Lux Morgana
Stars: 5
Capacity: 144
Location, lot size: Hobart's Hideaway (pre-owned failing resort), 64x64
Lot value: $234K
Revenue: $12.2K / day
Made revenue on day: 1
Profit: $13K / day
Expenses: $3.7K / day
Quality: maximum
Hot tubs: 3
Pool bars: 3
Food stands: 2
Fire walks: 3
Bonehildas: 1
Maintenance: 1
VIP rooms: 3
VIP beds*: 6
Dining seats: 16
Pool (area in squares): 267
Ocean access on lot: yes
Uniform style: beach
Resort towers: 3 beach resort, 2 beach bungalow
Notes: This is my second resort, a tribute to the surname of the other household Sim running all of this nonsense (Jak Morgan, Caribbean hottie in dreads who got struck by lightning on the beach before the resort madness started). I scrapped almost all of the original pre-owned resort (just kept the VIP room on the dock) and built a better resort, including two more VIP rooms to match the one I kept. Due to complaints about the pool being too small, I added a basement with two pools (plus this lot spawns underground roaches so it was needed anyways).



Resort name: Ashen Isla
Stars: 5
Capacity: 592
Location, lot size: No Trouble Atoll, 60x60
Lot value: $709K
Revenue: $64K / day
Made revenue on day: 2
Profit: $67K / day
Expenses: $19.3K / day
Quality: maximum
Hot tubs: 12
Pool bars: 12
Food stands: 3
Fire walks: 12
Bonehildas: 2
Maintenance: 3
VIP rooms: 12
VIP beds*: 32
Dining seats: 28
Pool (area in squares): 525
Ocean access on lot: no
Uniform style: formal
Resort towers: 8 eco modern
Notes: This is my third resort, and the largest by far, named after Haiiro Kaijin's code name. I started with the empty lot and crammed it full of the biggest resort towers. I put most of the amenities and all the VIP rooms in two levels of basements. The only thing on the ground floor besides towers is a small room for the reception desk, a few fire pits with chairs, and a bunch of bamboo for plant-life points. This place definitely ended up needing to hire maintenance due to running so many resorts at once (six by the time the Bonehildas got really buggy) since trash and cleanliness problems piled up fast. This resort was also the biggest pain in the ass for complaints, especially pool bars and hot tubs. The guests are finally all happy about the quantities of everything... whiny bastards.


And for giggles, here's my test to see if a single beach bungalow resort with minimal amenities would get by (only the default two shifts for the front desk). The dollar amounts given for this resort are exact.


Resort name: Haiiro Hideout
Stars: 2.5 (saw 3 stars one day but it seems to stay around 2.5 stars)
Capacity: 9
Location, lot size: Beryl Shoals (small originally unimproved tropical island), 64x64
Lot value: $43K
Revenue: $180 / day
Made revenue on day: 1
Profit: $135 / day
Expenses: $90 / day
Quality: Affordable, front desk shifts day & night shifts only
Hot tubs: 0
Pool bars: 0
Food stands: 0
Fire walks: 0
Bonehildas: 1
Maintenance: 0
VIP rooms: 0
VIP beds: 0
Dining seats: 8
Pool (area in squares): 33, unchlorinated
Ocean access on lot: yes
Uniform style: standard
Resort towers: 1 beach bungalow
Notes: This is my sixth resort, and hey, look who it's named after! Sister misses her brother, methinks. I next want to try a flat lot with a similar test of a single beach bungalow (this lot is hilly and spawns underground roaches that can't be reached because you can't build basements under hills), to see what I can do within the limits of the one beach bungalow's profit for raising the star rating and still break even with amenities.


* VIP beds means total spots per person to sleep in the entire resort, not how many literal beds are in the rooms. Thus, there could be any variety of single or double beds depending on the layout of VIP rooms across the resort.

3 comments:

geekgirl101 said...

The reason why Haiiro Hideout only gets 2.5-3 stars is because there is only 1 bungalow tower and no VIP rooms. Fully upgraded towers will boost your star rating, as will creating VIP rooms. VIP rooms will also boost your daily income by a lot the more rooms you have.

Tirsden Frozenrayn said...

Man, I really hate that I can't leave replies to "old" comments. Anyways, yep, I know quite well how to raise star ratings, that lot was a test to see what I could do with just 1 bungalo, two shifts on the front desk, and literally nothing else that would count on the daily report as an expense. I didn't even think it would make a profit at all, even with the "cheatable" items like an uncoordinated pool, Bonehilda, workout machines, etc. It did turn a profit, and garnered more stars than I expected! I honestly thought it would run itself into the ground and close. XD

Anonymous said...

Do you give them to download from somewhere, because they're just amazing aaand as hard as I try, I'm pretty terrible at building. Lux Morgana especially got my eye and if there is anywhere I can get it from, I would do it at all cost.