Seriously? Again with the "hire vendor" for the food stalls?

YES!!!!!!! Urgh, this is my great big annoyance this week.

I was so excited that I could place the food carts in other areas. I put the taco one in the park at Oasis Springs, and the tea one in Willow Creek's park. And I was so pleased with myself till I realised that if I wanted a cup of tea I had to fork out $100 to hire a flippin vendor! If I went to a park in real life, I wouldn't have to hire someone to come and attend the food stand, there would be someone there already. It's unrealistic. Uuuuuurrrrrrrgh!!!!!!

Yeah. I'm really grumpy about this.

I can easily mod it so that there is no fee (I did this for the drinks bar and coffee bar) but it's not ideal because I still have to hire them and it breaks the immersion. I just want a vendor or barista to show up on their own accord. If I own the venue, or it's on a residential lot, then fine. But if I'm a customer then I want someone to be there to serve me my tacos and tea dagnammit!!! :D :D :D

I really do hope the gurus address this. Because it's silly and frustrating. And it really limits the flexibility of these objects. My logic is: if I put a bar, coffee bar, or food stand on a community lot, then I obviously want an NPC to tend it. It's not there to look pretty. Something like a buffet table is different: it's more suited to special occasions where I might want it as a one-off.

https://twitter.com/Cinderellimouse/status/794319815578177538

https://twitter.com/Cinderellimouse/status/794311505793732611

At first I thought maybe if I gave them time that the vendors would show up on their own. A bit like how they open and close the stands in the city. So I was quiet at first while I tested them and played around with them some more. But after spending a couple of days at each lot nobody ever came to tend them. :(

What?!!! But... but I've been adding them to my parks... so, no point in doing that then? :s

@Cinderellimouse Are you really surprised?

"Cinderellimouse;15334633" wrote:
YES!!!!!!! Urgh, this is my great big annoyance this week.

I was so excited that I could place the food carts in other areas. I put the taco one in the park at Oasis Springs, and the tea one in Willow Creek's park. And I was so pleased with myself till I realised that if I wanted a cup of tea I had to fork out $100 to hire a flippin vendor! If I went to a park in real life, I wouldn't have to hire someone to come and attend the food stand, there would be someone there already. It's unrealistic. Uuuuuurrrrrrrgh!!!!!!

Yeah. I'm really grumpy about this.

I can easily mod it so that there is no fee (I did this for the drinks bar and coffee bar) but it's not ideal because I still have to hire them and it breaks the immersion. I just want a vendor or barista to show up on their own accord. If I own the venue, or it's on a residential lot, then fine. But if I'm a customer then I want someone to be there to serve me my tacos and tea dagnammit!!! :D :D :D

I really do hope the gurus address this. Because it's silly and frustrating. And it really limits the flexibility of these objects. My logic is: if I put a bar, coffee bar, or food stand on a community lot, then I obviously want an NPC to tend it. It's not there to look pretty. Something like a buffet table is different: it's more suited to special occasions where I might want it as a one-off.

https://twitter.com/Cinderellimouse/status/794319815578177538

https://twitter.com/Cinderellimouse/status/794311505793732611

At first I thought maybe if I gave them time that the vendors would show up on their own. A bit like how they open and close the stands in the city. So I was quiet at first while I tested them and played around with them some more. But after spending a couple of days at each lot nobody ever came to tend them. :(

That's funny, because I just discovered your mod to take care of the baristas and bar after I posted this, lol. Yes, a mod would help for the stalls, too, and that would certainly work, but it is so silly like you said that they can't just work properly to begin with. Any objects that I have to kick start myself tend to eventually get ignored for the most part.

"PHOEBESMOM601;15334660" wrote:
@Cinderellimouse Are you really surprised?

Disappointed might be a better word in this case.

Edit: Not in the whole pack. But certainly in this detail.

"PHOEBESMOM601;15334660" wrote:
@Cinderellimouse Are you really surprised?

A little bit more than usual, simply because they are in buy mode instead of having to use a cheat to place them, but there doesn't seem to be ANY place we can use them where they function, which isn't quite the same with the bar and coffee bars since we need those to build cafes and bar lots. But yeah, I certainly know what you mean; part of every new pack is both discovering what new stuff I can do right alongside of all the things I can't do with it.

"Cinderellimouse;15334690" wrote:

"PHOEBESMOM601;15334660" wrote:
@Cinderellimouse Are you really surprised?

Disappointed might be a better word in this case.

Edit: Not in the whole pack. But certainly in this detail.

I'm disappointed enough in several things that I haven't purchased this pack. I'm disappointed about apartment building, that all the apartment traits can't be used in all places and that the things like the electric box and leaky pipes aren't in the build catalog. For me this pack is about I can't do the things I wanted to and don't see a lot of replay value in the things I can do.

@ravynwolvf I'll upload a mod either later this evening or tomorrow because it's bugging me too. XD I do need to check the bar and barista mods to see if I need to add and new CL interactions, so there may be an update for those too. I'd hold on before downloading those until I've checked them. I got distracted by poking at the new files.

If you do make that mod, @Cinderellimouse , post it here? It would be nice to save the money cheat after hiring, and I do have a couple of places I want to stick a food cart.

How about asking them to fix it.