Downtownies as customers / Moving lots to subhood
Zazazu:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 July 28, 10:43:42
Quote from: sloppyhousewife on 2008 July 28, 10:40:42
If so, can I move a home business from the main 'hood to downtown? IIRC, it's no problem to move occupied lots within the same neighborhood (never tried it, though), but businesses are yet another category, so I thought I'd better ask before I blow up my game.
Home businesses cannot be moved. Period. And NEVER move an occupied lot ANYWHERE. NEVER place an inhabited lot into the simbin.
Selling it back to the community, binning, and moving should work, shouldn't it? You'd lose your stars, but that can be a good thing.
jolrei:
Quote from: josephine_again on 2008 July 28, 16:01:14
:-\ uhm it's quiet strange to me because whenever I start a home business at home even in the main hood , sims keep coming to my place and start to check things out .
[edited to be more in context after reading the thread again]
If visiting sims are not able to buy something when you indicate your home business is open, they will use whatever facilities are available (hot tub and TV are favourites). The game does not divide the lot into a business section and a private section. To limit this, use lockable doors and gates and set them to allow only the household sims.
Also, get the customer selector (to select the customers you want) and noplayableshoppers to make sure your other families are not spending all their money on useless robots, flowers, toys, or whatever.
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: josephine_again on 2008 July 28, 16:01:14
:-\ uhm it's quiet strange to me because whenever I start a home business at home even in the main hood , sims keep coming to my place and start to check things out .
I think you misunderstood - I want to make downtownies show up at a home business in the main hood, not "regular" townies or playables. On the contrary, having playables shop there would be a bad idea because the goods are ridiculously overpriced, and townies are non-existing in this hood, because they're all either playable or dead by now.
Zazazu:
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.
Lord Darcy:
Customer selector is the single most useful Awesome business hack for me. (I don't use BRY much, because I tend to run businesses entirely staffed by family members.) Without it, businesses will never hit the level 10, as all existing townies already maxed out their loyalty stars. With customer selector installed, each EP brings fresh influx of customers like Tourists or Vacation locals, in addition to all YAs and downtownies. I ban NPCs, because they don't seem to spend any money.
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