Downtownies as customers / Moving lots to subhood
notovny:
Quote from: Lord Darcy on 2008 July 28, 17:56:25
I ban NPCs, because they don't seem to spend any money.
That's because the NPC family started out with $20,000, and that depletes rather quickly into your business-running career. I used to dump a million on them with the Money Order. Pescado suggested using "familyfunds NPC 1000000", which worked as well.
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 28, 17:47:24
Oh, I misunderstood as well. For some reason I thought it was a community lot biz. You could still use stay-things shrub to keep everything there, move out the family, move the lot, and then move the family back in. You'd restart the biz and lose your stars/level, but could regain them.
Easier, though, is to get the customer selector and mess with the settings. I don't have a downtown, but I know there are options to get locals and nonlocals and all types of sims to come. Just be sure to enable playables if you want them as customers, since Pescado denies them by default. This is fine for my founder's lot, since it supposedly started when a tourist decided to stay there and sell veggies to other tourists, but for my hair stylist and whore, I want all possible sims using their services.
Actually, I don't want to move the business at all, I just thought I had no choice if I wanted downtownie customers. I'm really relieved that it can be done with the Customer Selector. Said lot is part of my Victorian hood, and the family just belongs there. They're dirt poor like the rest of the citizens, they have no business in the wealthier suburbs (aka downtown). They're lucky that they're allowed to run a home business. Most of the others have to work for the local business tycoon.
Zazazu:
Quote from: notovny on 2008 July 28, 18:12:31
Quote from: Lord Darcy on 2008 July 28, 17:56:25
I ban NPCs, because they don't seem to spend any money.
That's because the NPC family started out with $20,000, and that depletes rather quickly into your business-running career. I used to dump a million on them with the Money Order. Pescado suggested using "familyfunds NPC 1000000", which worked as well.
I either use BRY to kick them off the lot ("Begone, looky-loo!") or if I have a grumpy sim on the lot I'll have them pick a fight with them. I'd get negative stars from the browser, anyways, so I might as well get them while having fun about it.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: notovny on 2008 July 28, 18:12:31
Quote from: Lord Darcy on 2008 July 28, 17:56:25
I ban NPCs, because they don't seem to spend any money.
That's because the NPC family started out with $20,000, and that depletes rather quickly into your business-running career. I used to dump a million on them with the Money Order. Pescado suggested using "familyfunds NPC 1000000", which worked as well.
I didn't know that NPC family comes with the fixed amount of family funds, unlike other type of townies. Thanks, I can always use fresh meat to suck the blood from new clientele.
Iridium:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 July 28, 10:43:42
Home businesses cannot be moved. Period. And NEVER move an occupied lot ANYWHERE. NEVER place an inhabited lot into the simbin.
Does that apply to just moving them around? F'rinstance, if I wanted to plop the Broke trailer across the street from the Goth mansion to piss Mortimer* off, that would be a VBT?
*I doubt he'd care, but one can dream.
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