Immersion... Immersion is the issue, not lack of money. If being "poor" was the problem, no one would complain and we'd just type in 'kaching' into our cheat window in peace.
Why would EA allow you to place stalls on a public lot and then force you to hire vendors for each individual stall? It ruins the immersion of casually going to the gym with some friends and secretly ordering a burger at the stall next door. Instead, you'd have to pay $100 to hire the vendor for casual usage and then also pay for any additional plate. That's like going to a bar and expecting one sim to hire a bartender for the lot to function as intended for everybody AND YOU DON'T EVEN OWN THE BAR.
I heard there were two mods available to fix this (one of which is no longer available since 2016) and once that automatically hires various types of personnel for public lots. The latter for anyone whose interested in an actual solution.
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Agreed that this seems a completely illogical choice. I only use the stalls in my modded save files for this reason; in unmodded saves I don’t bother.
If there’s some underlying game mechanics reason why the game can’t detect they’re there and hire vendors, then maybe at least make the build buy version just pop a menu without a vendor? Or allow us to hire a vendor without paying? It would still be somewhat annoying but less immersion breaking if there was an interaction like “ring bell for service” that callled the vendor…
