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Ixiepixigirl
New Novice
6 days ago

Business and Hobbies critiques

I have a few critiques about the new DLC, business and hobbies that would make things much better if changed. 


1. Have an hours of operation setting. A setting where you can choose how long and what days your small business is open that sims will abide to. When closing time nears, customers start finishing what they’re doing, others stop showing up as much (except maybe for a random rare problematic person that just doesn’t get the message that could be added to the game), employees start showing customers out, etc.

2. The ability to have auto lights in public areas after hours. Maybe this is a bug but my lights will NOT turn off unless I set them all manually one by one to turn off (in the public areas of my small business).

3. Faster candy making (and anything else with the same principle) when it’s only 1 serving verses 4 and 8.

4. Easier and smarter Sim task execution when  an item like lollipops, jellybeans, cotton candy and baked goods are done being created. My sim constantly tries to eat almost every candy product they make, even the employee! Also grabbing out a serving of four lollipops to place individually in a display case is not only tedious but also has a high risk of getting eaten by the sim. The popcorn works much better at this.

5. When selling things like fish, please put them in a tank automatically instead of placing the fish out on a shelf by itself.  It’s very strange and even awkward looking and the fish spoil very quickly.

6. Have a way to sell wall mounted items, paintings, wall art and more. (There might be a way and I haven’t found it yet, I apologize if there is).

This new DLC is very fun but has a lot of frustrating mechanics, tweaking it would make a world of difference! Plus there’s so much I haven’t explored on the new DLC and I’m sure there’s more that can be improved and tweaked so if anyone else knows things that needs improvement and has some ideas please share! I’m also really curious as to knowing what you guys think about the DLC.

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  • StrawbbySim's avatar
    StrawbbySim
    Rising Newcomer
    4 days ago

    I came here to say the exact same thing!! I really wish I could set the opening/closing hours and I really wish I could schedule my employees as if it were a real life business. 

  • Ixiepixigirl to sell wall mounted items in the B&H pack you need the Ingenious Ingvar Creator's Showcase from the build/buy catalogue under Surfaces>Misc. It's a large floor mounted board that holds several items at a time. Like the Ingenious Ingvar pedestals it allows you to display items for sale and the description says "this allows Sims to sell wall hanging crafts and collectibles as part of a small business". I've only used mine in retail lots so far and so I haven't tested it yet for a small business but based on the description it should work.

    So far my biggest criticism of the new pack is that my pottery items keep breaking very quickly without any interactions from Sims. If they're not given an unbreakable glaze then I end up with little piles of broken pottery all over and with the wall items it looks really odd to suddenly have the broken pottery sticking out of the wall. My current Sim isn't doing the pottery skill but she's going to have to learn it in order to make her full set of the Contemporary design pottery items unbreakable to stop this from happening again. For now she just has an inventory full of the broken pieces. They'd only been displayed a couple of Sim days 😞.

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