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DespairxFactor
Seasoned Traveler
9 months ago
Status:
Fixed

[BH] Small business employees not appearing/leaving

Hello -

I have been having an issue in my game where the two employees of my Sim's small business will leave the lot after the business has been open for 1 hour.  I usually play with mods, but I did remove all mods and delete my localthumbcache file and tried it, and I still had the same result--employee's left after the business was open for 1.5 hours.  I believe this issue started before the 1.113.297 patch.

Edit - I did some further investigating and had another Sim in my household create a business and the issue is NOT happening if I create a brand new business.  The business that it is happening to is 5 stars (local legend) and I have the following perks:

Leave a Tip? - 2/3

Going Viral - 3/3

Muscle Memory - 1/3

Inspiring Business Story

Employee Bonus

Chug the WUTANT

Customer Appreciation Day

This business also started at a different lot and my family recently moved to a new lot, but the issue with the employees leaving early has happened on both lots so I think it is linked to the business itself.

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title to fit

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  • andypuk1980a's avatar
    andypuk1980a
    Rising Scout
    25 days ago

    So i've tested this in another save game with the same mods enabled and it's working fine, placed the same built retail lot in Gibbi Point (I saved it to my gallery), purchased the store with a household and I can set things for sale and interact with the cash register and hire employees ok.

    I go back to my other save game where the issue was present and repeated the above in Gibbi Point and things don't work unless I switch to build mode and back to live mode, after hiring employees and then saving and going back to manage worlds and going back to the same household that owned the new retail store, everything is reset again and the hired employees have to be rehired again, it's just an endless cycle of rehiring, as I mentioned before the same household owns other retail stores in other worlds and they are working fine, Gibbi Point for some wierd reason is giving me trouble for retail in this save game.

    I've spent the better part of the last 2 days trying to figure this out.

    It's definatley not a mod issue because with the same mods enabled it's working fine in other save games, I can only assume this particular save file is now somehow borked, all I can do right now is not bother with the retail lot, build something else like a residential lot and shove a new household in there.

    I wasn't going to buy anymore expansion packs but I thought i'd treat myself this christmas, now I'll definatley not buy anymore, this game has become one annoying big buggy mess and I've just had about enough of it now.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    24 days ago

    andypuk1980a​ 

    please for the future, do test without mods before reporting something. Just because mods work on one save and not on the other, does make it not a mod issue. 

    Anyways, I thought this issue was fixed which is why I insisted on the vanilla test but it seems I misremembered and the bug is still open so I merged your post now.

  • Status changed:
    Laundry List
    to
    Fixed

    We fixed an issue where Small Business Employees were leaving early (only 2-3 hours after opening) if a business was 5-Star and selected customer criteria was supervised customer only. Now, all hired employees should stay on a small business lot while it is open.

    Fixed in Patch 1.120.140/ 2.26

    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues

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