GTW Retail Done Right
I tried left and right to make retail work vanilla, but ultimately failed. Granted, this depends on what you consider "right", and if that is simply making money then there are ways of course to do so...
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"brenleedee;c-16943265" wrote:
I just started a retail business, and it is dreadful! It can take Sim hours to sell anything, the customers just seem to socialize more than anything and by the time they are ready to buy, their needs are so decayed that they end up leaving.
I love running a retail store, but the retail aspect IMO is a hot mess in this game. I've never used a mod for my game, just wish we didn't have to get a mod to fix what should be so obvious...No customer should spend 14 sim hours to decide whether they want a carrot cake lol
The dreaded idle chat + group chat + requirement to have met sim for employees to socialize properly. Yup, I gave up retail vanilla a long time ago, what saddens me most is that it is well within grasp to have a functioning store, hell even a mall with 9 employees! Why they don't do it, well, they are known to leave it up to modders to fix their mess. Also, why can't employees have shifts? That drives me nuts, I just wrote a quick mod to let them stay 24 hours and rode with it.
Now I had my sim finally get enough cash to buy a mall, complete with bakery, electronics store, clothing store, music store, art store, bookstore and furniture store, it is genuinely FUN. So much wasted potential. Since I know they won't do it, I want to try to translate the host functionality in Dine Out to GTW and make functional cash registers for sims to line up, I really miss that.
