A Patch Needs to Be Made for Paparazzi, Celebs & Businesses.
Hey for a future patch update, may you please prevent the paparazzi from following celebs into stores and taking pictures of them, or following my Sim into a business I own and trying to stop me from managing my store? It is such a nuisance. They are not only annoying to have following around, they also contribute to the # of Sims on the lot which means fewer customers actually coming to my stores to shop and more buffering/lagging while I'm trying to play. In real life, they would not be able to follow celebs or follow the manager of a private business onto the property because it is intrusive to the customers and stepping onto private owned property. Another issue I have with the AI paparazzi is that they do not leave the store after I close it. Because my Sim is famous, they stay inside the store as long as I'm there, even though the customers leave. This causes me to have to guide my Sim out of the store and wait for them to follow behind, which usually takes a while because they stand there performing the phone animation constantly while the game lags majorly. So either four things must happen: 1. Allow us to have the option to prevent paparazzi from coming into any facility by having a locking option on the doors to "Lock for <Paparazzi>", or 2. AI Paparazzi must be banned from stepping into a privately owned building, remaining outside whether a visiting celeb is shopping, or if my famous Sim happens to be managing the store while I'm playing him/her/it. 3. Have a Lot trait that prevents AI Paparazzi from entering the lot at all, or last but not least 4. Not allow any AI Paparazzi onto lots that have been established as owned businesses by any Sims that I play. The 2nd or 4th option seems to be the most reasonable to me since #2 would be similar to how Paparazzi can't enter celebs houses but can stay outside, or #4 because it will just be easier for all of us if the game can track what lots are owned businesses and block off any paparazzi from coming onto the lot in the first place.
Another issue that I'm having is that whenever a celeb walks into my store, because of their status, I am not allowed to give them customer service because since some of my manager Sims are not famous, they do not have the jurisdiction to-> that is ridiculous. IRL this would obviously not be the case. As a managing Sim of any business, I should be allowed to have total jurisdiction to interact with my customers and give them customer service to encourage them to buy something, regardless of their celeb status or the number of stars they have. It's a waste of Sims on the lot to have celebs walk into my store and me not being able to provide them customer service; at that point, they have no use in being in my store in the first place.
Please consider fixing these issues in a future patch update. Thank you.
- Much love, Simmer Brookie Rex. 💖🧡💛💚💙💜
