Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

Yes, I was really hoping we could at least sell the furniture from the wood making bench and the furniture from the machine in eco lifestyle where you could make furniture….. especially since you make so much more from the furniture.  I don’t have the pack yet, so I could be wrong.  In this case I hope I’m wrong….

I don’t want a system that assigns preferred hobbies to my sims.  You can already pick what hobbies you prefer ( I can’t remember if that was basegame update or came with a pack ), but it is called likes and dislikes.  As long as they keep likes and dislikes updated I’m good with that.  My sims have personalities I assign them.  I like it that way.

It would be like most gameplay needs a phone or a computer. I think it would be better if the game had an alternative method for check-in, such as a classic information counter and ticket boy/girl.

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I think they should get rid of the life event category because it means nothing and I agree that there should be a commercial category with like retail stands, the whiteboard and the cash registers etc

Minor negative from me: I'm surprised they did not add a new BB catalog sub category for "Business", like hey did with big life moments when we got L&D pack. It takes forever looking up the basic equipment and deco for a business because one needs to browse so many different catalog categories. I know I can recategorize my lot to small business in order to get a collection of suggested catalog items, but a sub category under "Activities and Skills" would be much better. I'm probably not the only one occasionally building a business environment on a community lot that is not defined as Small business.

I haven't explored it all yet, but the inability to set up multiple businesses owned by different sims on a single lot is disappointing to say the least.

For example: I set Waterside Warble up as a multi-purpose lot with a few "small businesses" such as a hairsalon, a small gym, a laundromat, an arcade - a juice and bubble tea bar aimed for teens.  A photostudio.
It would've been great if the small business was tied to the ticket booth and the owner, instead of creating an artificial limit of only 1 per lot. If it had been a limit of 3 or 5 businesses, that would've been totally acceptable to me. I'm not asking for 100s of them.

Another complaint is that it's very hard to discern what tattoos look like when sims request them. I'm squinting at the screen just to guess what it looks like. 

No off the grid options! 😭 Both the ticket kiosk and the pottery table require electricity. Why won't the sims team allow us to use these items in combination with off the grid. This is a huge missed opportunity. Pottery has been around for literally thousands of years, long before electricity. Small shops have also been around for centuries, they could have easily made a book stand variant that doesn't require electricity. 

I personally think it's an okay ep yes when you have loads of other packs you can do way more but I still don't like that we only got two more skills I get we have loads already but don't brand it as hobbies.  They should of put in piercings too seeing as most places do normally do tattoo and piercings.

I wish it was more compatible with get to work to be able to sell more.

Furniture wise they really need to have a full set of everything in an ep no new kitchen appliances bar the candy maker etc with an ep especially an ep that is business plus residential that stuff to actually complete a build without other packs or base game would be nice and in an ep would be expected.

The furniture itself alot of it doesn't actually all match the swatches for some of it is wood or the colourful ones but they aren't together if that makes sense. Like the dividers come in the woods but not the bright plain swatches or the dark blue for example. The lack of tattoo stuff too as someone who has alot of tattoos it came with the basics but more tattoo clutter would of been nice. Even little decals that could of went onto the furniture or mirrors the tattoo table comes with one Swatch of stickers on it I would of liked to see more. Also the animation for tattooing is awful why do they take their tops off when getting a face tattoo.

Pottery I feel like they could of made more stuff to create.

Overall I do like the pack mostly for being able to have a shop and house together but I found I got bored of it very quickly as the two skills got maxed out very quickly.

I definitely think the Sims team need to stop making packs and go back to fix all bugs and rework alot of packs because at some point as the performance in packs and gameplay in my opinion is shocking.

I don't struggle much with the pack but i did wished you could've sell furnitures like they did with The Sims 2 Open For Business

It has been on my wishlist since last year, i'm dissapointed 😞😓

I really like B&H, but two things are really disappointing,

• Not enough shelves for selling goods. I wanted to put my fishes in the GTW fridge, but it doesn't work for sale. I don't want to put the fish on a display, it feels wrong.
• There is no opportunity to sell big woodwork or fabricated furniture. 

We should be able to enable sell mode on ALL surfaces or containers. And for big thing, maybe a mat like the dancing floor.