Maybe this is a bug, but I doubt it. I built a karaoke bar with arcade machines, and put one of the new food stalls out front with a seating area. But just like bartenders or baristas when it isn't the exact right type of lot, no one mans it. I'm supposed to pay $100 to hire someone. Come on. I mean, what's the point? It's not like anyone gets free food even if I pay the $100. If you can program the game to have multiple vendors in a common area, then why can't you do the same for regular lots? I'm not even sure where I'm supposed to be able to use these, then. As much as I love the new expansion, there are always so many limitations to what you can do with things. There are so many objects that even if they function, get totally ignored by sims unless you direct them to it. I put a karaoke machine in a nightclub, for example, and no one uses it. Weird way to program; it's like only certain items exist to sims on different lot types.

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/794319815578177538https://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/794319815578177538https://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.

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

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Stina1701A
Seasoned Rookie
7 years ago
Does @Cinderellimouse mod still work with the new expansions and patches?
JestTru
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
Will the Sims team please allow NPC's to work these stalls on public lots...
lenaroseann
6 years ago
> @Cinderellimouse said:
> Here we are:
>
> Let me know how you get on with it please. I've tested it in game myself and everything seems to be working well. I'm updating the bar and barista mods now.

Getting a "too many requests" error from Dropbox, boo! Any way you could put it up on ModTheSims or something? Love your work and would love to follow you there!
sleekoduck87
6 years ago
"sweetlilpsycho;c-16960814" wrote:
> @Cinderellimouse said:
> Here we are:
>
> Let me know how you get on with it please. I've tested it in game myself and everything seems to be working well. I'm updating the bar and barista mods now.

Getting a "too many requests" error from Dropbox, boo! Any way you could put it up on ModTheSims or something? Love your work and would love to follow you there!

The mod works fine in my game. Are you sure it's hers? Although, now that I think about it, I haven't seen the option to hire anyone lately (nor have I needed to)...
FarleyGranger
5 years ago
So, what's the point of the original gameplay for buying a food stall and placing it on your home lot? You hire a vendor, your sims PAY for the food... and what? Do guests spontaneously get food? Do npc sims stop by and get food?

I haven't had a party with one installed, do partygoers get food there?
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"CorkysPetals;c-17589923" wrote:
So, what's the point of the original gameplay for buying a food stall and placing it on your home lot? You hire a vendor, your sims PAY for the food... and what? Do guests spontaneously get food? Do npc sims stop by and get food?

I haven't had a party with one installed, do partygoers get food there?

It only works on community spaces lots that came with Eco Lifestyle. For other lots you can use a mod to call the NPC without paying him.
FarleyGranger
5 years ago
"crocobaura;c-17589994" wrote:
It only works on community spaces lots that came with Eco Lifestyle. For other lots you can use a mod to call the NPC without paying him.

I haven't tried adding one to a Eco community lot. I assume they work like the San Myshuno ones.

I haven't used them much so I don't know what happens to parks, bowling alleys, gyms that we place them on. Do NPCs use them when a vendor is hired?

I mean, why did they let us buy them in Build/Buy if they are almost nonfunctional?
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"CorkysPetals;c-17590024" wrote:
"crocobaura;c-17589994" wrote:
It only works on community spaces lots that came with Eco Lifestyle. For other lots you can use a mod to call the NPC without paying him.

I haven't tried adding one to a Eco community lot. I assume they work like the San Myshuno ones.

I haven't used them much so I don't know what happens to parks, bowling alleys, gyms that we place them on. Do NPCs use them when a vendor is hired?

I mean, why did they let us buy them in Build/Buy if they are almost nonfunctional?

Nobody uses them autonomously when a vendor is hired, and the vendor only stays for a couple of hours or so.
SilentK008
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
Hmm...

For me it is part of the plan of keeping my sims from getting too rich.

Especially now when the bill for a 4 stories-home comes in at 300 simoleons.

I place food- and drink-vendor on every community lot and let my sims pay for it. It keeps my sims from getting too rich and you cannot just go to the gym and take a shower if your sim haven’t built a home yet. They have pay for going to the gym by getting the vendors.

Just a tiny little way of adding something that a bit more difficult.

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