Sims Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack Negative thread.

Small business merch disappears during rotational gameplay 

In order to match to EP17 Life & Death, Maxis could include Custom Urns with Pottery skill.

There is a bug with themuseum in Nordhaven. You cannot edit the lot. If you buldoze the lot and build something of your own the building will not save nor will the game. I tried building using the existing museum. For a time I could save but at the point where much of the building was changed/replaced, again I could not save the lot nor the game.

I totally disabled Business & Hobbies Pack about two months ago because it's broken.

I decided to give more of these features a good once-over, and I noticed that there are way too many downsides to a small business.

• You can only host paid classes on a small business you own, while it's open. I wanted to teach paid classes on a school lot I made, or at a community center. But no, you have to follow this strict limitation. Spa Day had it right, where you had much more freedom when teaching lessons.
• People rarely sit down for classes. Setting up desks and seats helps, but people just leave in the middle of lessons to wander around and talk to each other. I guess classes with required items will have better retention, but this shouldn't be an issue with any class.
• Autonomy tuning in general is bad. 
• The dreamer alignments are mostly useless. I know, nice guys finish last. But it feels very imbalanced toward schemers. The Dine Out/Get to Work perk system was better, imo.
• Tips feel too infrequent and too little to matter, even when you fully invest in it. 
• You can't use the residential rental system to split up lots and make multiple businesses. Which is annoying because a lot of lots are too big for my small businesses.
• I wish you could set up small businesses and what to do on them naturally, without having to buy the lot and own the sim. I wanted to make community center with a lot of things to do. 
• I can't have my business run without me being there. I get it'd be harder to do than restaurants and retail, but it basically forces you to play all the time to make a profit. Whereas with a restaurant, you can work hard and eventually make your restaurant so good, it turns into passive profit.
• EDIT: Apparently you can't even have a date on small business lots. At this point I might as well just get mods to own and run a business, because it looks like LittleMsSam already did small businesses better, years ago.
• Further Edit: Nectar pricing is glitched, and you can't have club gatherings at small businesses.

Make sure to post pictures!! I love seeing other simmers pictures in game and the projects they are working on. 🙂

Thanks Miataplay​ , I appreciate your comment.😀  I've always loved Get To Work, however I only played it as scientist & aliens.🚀🛸  I completely forgot about the Business part of it.  Maybe, I can change my Lounge lot of my Seasonal Festivals to Retail Business lot.  Also, I think there's a Retail career in the pack, I'll have to test that out.

I find that GTW and the retail system work much better for my lots.

What would make B&H better? If we didn't have to own these businesses yet still run them. 

GTW is a better retail system for my foodies restaurants bakeries and cafes.

Business & Hobbies Expansion Pack has a build mode glitch.

I begin to think this pack could add Customer Traditions like Black Friday / Cyber Monday to boost the sales for 24 hours.