Would you buy a “Shopping Mall” GamePack?
So I’ve been thinking, I really want a shopping mall in the Sims. There’s so many ways they could incorporate it. I just feel like it’s something missing from Sims 2 - 4, and it always feels unreali...
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I should perhaps add that I do have a few shopping malls in my game already and they do work, sort of. They don't attract huge quantities of customers, like you would get in a shopping mall in RL, but customers do come and there are shop assistants, although they don't man the cash registers the way they did in previous iterations of the game (@Writin_Reg, if you did not get any customers or sales staff at all, it sounds as though the lot you downloaded might have been bugged).
As previously mentioned, the game sees the mall as just one big shop, but because I made these malls as venues for my sims to visit and hang out, and not because I want to play as the retailer, that doesn't bother me too much. Nor do I have to worry about issues like checkout times. It does bother me that the shop assistants are not tied to the cash registers, because it looks weird to have a shop with no assistants in it, and it annoys the heck out of me that baristas and other vendors do not spawn automatically. I have a mod for the latter and I also recently found a modded cash register by Cinderellimouse that allows sims to purchase harvestables and fish directly from the register, which is nice. They are based on the vendor stands from CL and C&D, although (sadly) they do not actually spawn a vendor. I wish there were more shopping interactions available though.
Something else that bothers me about retail lots in general - and I have no hope that it will ever be fixed - is that it always seems to be the same customers who pitch up, irrespective of where the shop is situated and what it is selling. There is always Bella Goth (she's everywhere in my game), Candi and Yuki Behr (I don't know why, since I hardly ever play with them) and a few other arbitrary characters, some pre-mades and some I created myself. How I wish they would at least stick to their own neighborhoods!
As previously mentioned, the game sees the mall as just one big shop, but because I made these malls as venues for my sims to visit and hang out, and not because I want to play as the retailer, that doesn't bother me too much. Nor do I have to worry about issues like checkout times. It does bother me that the shop assistants are not tied to the cash registers, because it looks weird to have a shop with no assistants in it, and it annoys the heck out of me that baristas and other vendors do not spawn automatically. I have a mod for the latter and I also recently found a modded cash register by Cinderellimouse that allows sims to purchase harvestables and fish directly from the register, which is nice. They are based on the vendor stands from CL and C&D, although (sadly) they do not actually spawn a vendor. I wish there were more shopping interactions available though.
Something else that bothers me about retail lots in general - and I have no hope that it will ever be fixed - is that it always seems to be the same customers who pitch up, irrespective of where the shop is situated and what it is selling. There is always Bella Goth (she's everywhere in my game), Candi and Yuki Behr (I don't know why, since I hardly ever play with them) and a few other arbitrary characters, some pre-mades and some I created myself. How I wish they would at least stick to their own neighborhoods!
