bklienhart wrote:
KarilynMonroe2 wrote:
I think i tried all of the ideas mentioned. I did use the room markers. I built and cafe and coffee shop on the bottom floor of one of the late night apartment buidings too. I put in the bistro oven/chef and the coffee bar but no sims ever visited the lot. For some reason the lot I built and shared I get a lot of visitors. It may be because I put in a lot of NPC rooms. The lot has got to be set to a hangout, then people come as well as sims to work the registers. Your sims could own another small lot and just stay in the apartment above the shops. I may make a very simple version to share, so people can see how it is done. The Elysee apartments have a lot of premium items and store items.
Yeah, that's the basic quandary. If you set it to a residential lot, your sim can live there, but you won't get any customers. If you set it to a commercial lot, your sim can kind-of live there. They can sleep, eat, bathe, etc. But they have to own a residential lot somewhere that is their official home. You can't use a regular oven to cook meals. You can use a BBQ grill, Wood-fired Oven, or Teppanyaki grill to cook meals but that limits your diet. I dunno about the Bistro oven, I don't have that one.
Actually for some reason the regular oven stayed when i changed it to hang out. Maybe it is because of the apartment...i dunno, but I was quite pleased!
