Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

• Paparazzi never pay entrance fee.
• Vladislaus Straud enter without paying entrance fee ignoring the rules (for example targeted customers : Teen/YA only)

I agree with you, but this might be a work around for you since you have get to work,  if you have a level 10 scientist have them make a duplicator machine, or download one from the galley.  It works with crystals, since books are small, it might work with them, and some other small things.  I haven’t tried it yet though.

Well this is making me think twice about getting the pack.  I don’t use mods, but have had some problems with 4 Rent.  Have you tried a game without mods to see how it is working?

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.

Simmerville

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.