Why are stalls not auto manned on public lots?

@simsplayer818 

Yeah, I agree with @Drarcuul that it's really easy to make money in the game (steal the plants at the Romance festival and garden is also one of my go-to strategies, also the creative careers; the music licensing thing of one instrument per week is annoying but you can re-license the same song forever...), but... yeah.

The functional community lot thing.  Yeah.

If you're not opposed to cheating, you could hire a vendor and then reimburse your Sim with cheats. I've been known to do that for items in rotational play where it's like, "Uhhh, yeah, you're installing LittleMsSam's automatic thermostat for ME, not you, so you can have your money back." Or "Oh look, the cat I spayed with cas.fulleditmode is in heat, you can take her to the vet and spay her and I'll reimburse you." Etc.

All that said, I do understand that if you're on console that takes away the chance to get trophies, which is a major bummer and you probably don't want to do that just so you can have a vendor at a community lot.  ☹️

@simsplayer818  Yeah, I'm on PC and have my own rules about cheats. Namely:

1. If it's a bug, I can cheat.
2. I do allow some world-setting-up type things that I have to have a Sim do and cannot do myself (paying for a vendor would fall into this category, although if the family was rich I'd probably just have them do it.)

I don't do a lot of cheats for other things unless I'm setting up a storytelling scenario (the girlfriend's rich parents that I don't intend to play, etc.) because it's just more fun not to, but I know console players are heavily penalized for it in a way PC/Mac players aren't. ☹️

If you have the Eco Living Expansion pack  player placed stalls work on the marketplace option of the community lot... but you have to get the marketplace option voted in which is annoying.

I agree it is very silly they won't just let 1-2 stalls work if you place them in a public space like a park. Why did they even put them in as something you could buy and not a debug item if they aren't fully functional?

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.

[CM Edit: Links removed]

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…

See first page hun...