Why can't customers JUST SHOP!

"Dannydanbo;c-16179134" wrote:
I like to think of my sim world kind of like Mayberry, where everybody knows everybody so they stop and talk to each other and ask out the family and how the kids are and that new puppy they just got.

I created a Pet Store (pet stuff really) and I always play test my builds to make sure things go well. I opened the store (at 3 a.m.) and people began to filter in and gather into two small groups and chat. As they chatted, I would notice the blue bar above a head or two, so I would send my sim to talk about buying something. Once that first sim buys something, they start to fall like dominos and it's hard to keep up.

If they didn't chat, but just stopped to buy stuff, the push to get to everyone checked out combined with the time it takes to check them out, would result in fewer sales and a lot of my happy sims leaving in anger. I know a lot of you miss the customers walking to the cash register and checking out there, but in S2 that always took time and a lot of sims in line would get mad at the long wait and leave anyway. I had more problems with S2 than I do with S4, but, for me, S3 was the worst.