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| - A membership pass to the hobby lot is awarded by the instructor who owns it. The pass will show up in the Sim's memories. Townies may be created with level 5 enthusiasm in a hobby. If they are made playable, they will have access to that hobby's secret lot, but may not get a memory about receiving it. Also, children who reach level 5 enthusiasm in a hobby may gain access to that hobby's secret lot when they become teens, but do not always receive it until they pass some other benchmark that triggers a message from the hobby instructor. In the initial, unpatched release of FreeTime, the instructor would even attempt to award membership to toddlers; the instructor would walk into the house, and then leave immediately, being unable to greet the toddler.
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| - A membership pass to the hobby lot is awarded by the instructor who owns it. The pass will show up in the Sim's memories. Townies may be created with level 5 enthusiasm in a hobby. If they are made playable, they will have access to that hobby's secret lot, but may not get a memory about receiving it. Also, children who reach level 5 enthusiasm in a hobby may gain access to that hobby's secret lot when they become teens, but do not always receive it until they pass some other benchmark that triggers a message from the hobby instructor. In the initial, unpatched release of FreeTime, the instructor would even attempt to award membership to toddlers; the instructor would walk into the house, and then leave immediately, being unable to greet the toddler. While Sims cannot gain skill points and talent badges on normal community lots, they can gain them on hobby lots. Therefore, they make more effective gyms, libraries, studios, etc. than normal community lots. In addition to hobby-related items and activities, hobby lots will have bathrooms with toilet stalls, showers, and either dressers or changing booths (which can be used as dressers). They will also have dining areas with a grill. This enables Sims to replenish all of their motives on a hobby lot, except for Energy. Some hobby lots also contain items only normally available as career rewards. Sims who are members of a secret hobby lot can also bring other Sims to the lot, even if those other Sims are not members. Children can be taken to a secret hobby lot if they go with an older Sim who is a member. If this is done, children who have at least 5 points of enthusiasm in the lot's hobby may appear as autonomous visitors. A phone is available on every hobby lot to call a taxi or invite another Sim over. Hobby lots are also places where Dormies, Downtownies, and random selectable NPCs can visit outside their native areas. In the initial release of FreeTime, many type of Sims which are normally not allowed to autonomously visit, such as nannies, stylists, and members of the current family, could be encountered on hobby lots. This resulted in erratic behavior.
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