Another casino thread, I know...

[excaliborus 0]

Hi everyone

 

Long time reader, first time poster.

 

After all the threads about casino's (tips & hints), I'm trying to build my own. Let me start with a basic explanation about the layout of my city.

I have one long avenue from the highway to about the middle of the map. At the end, the avenue turns to the right where my R & C city develops in gridform. At the beginning of the avenue stands my Gambling Hall. I've upgraded a few streets to mid-density, but the others are low-density. The space used for the actual city is about 1/4th of the map, top right corner.

Population about 5,5k, mostly $ and some $$, and enough jobs and C to satisfy my residents. Basic utilities such as a fire house, small hospital and a police station. No major problems with any of them.

 

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I've read nearly all the topics about casino's, but didn't find what I was looking for. Maybe I missed it somewhere on this forum.

 

I've read that profit generating hours are between 11AM and 12PM. Now here's where things get funny.

The first day that I placed the gambling hall, everything worked like clockwork. Tourists came to my city and my gambling hall was generating profit between 11AM and 12 PM, up until a daily profit count of +10k. At least, for the first day...

I know that generating profit means revenues > cost. That's not the problem, at every hour of the day, my casino has enough tourist to potentially be profitable. The problem lies within the fact that after the first day, my profit generating hours became random and even later practically non-existant. With this I mean that in day two, my casino started generating profit at 3PM till 12PM to a total profit count of +14k. The third day (and a few after that) not a single profit got counted towards my total allthough the revenues were always higher than the cost of the casino. After a few more days, I've noticed that the only time the profits got counted towards my total, was at 12PM. Sometimes the casino even loses money without any apparant reason at 12PM.

 

I wanted to know if anyone has experienced similar situations and/or has a solution. Could this happen because of the casino setup not working properly yet?

[fpdlskf 5]

Casinos rely on regional tourists.

 

Everything related to regional (                   )  is bugged / broken.

[CodFace 0]

Maybe the tourists go and do some shopping some days instead. I have my casino right next to the train station so all they do is go to the casino.

[perafilozof 143]

You should hold of on casino/tourism cities until the patch hits, and you see the aftermath. Then we will see what is what.

[BiancaM 1]

Once I had one city specialize in Commerce and plopped my Casino there. My Citizens commuted from a nearby city by means of bus and train.

 

My Casino generated up to ~21,000 simoleons a day, while the commerce city was 1/3rd full.

 

I guess Sims like to be in a casino that is surrounded by a fun and exciting area, where you can sleep, eat and shop and do other fun, while not having too many criminals around

[MaxisGuillaume 289]

 

 

I wanted to know if anyone has experienced similar situations and/or has a solution. Could this happen because of the casino setup not working properly yet?

 

See how it is now that 2.0 is out (you'll need to bulldoze existing casinos to see the effects)