Office workers
tizerist:
Sounds like headway is being made. This is potentially very good indeed.Quote from: talysman on 2008 September 18, 15:50:02
block every computer action for non-employees?
Well in a "corporate" environment you wouldn't even have non-employees on the lot whatsoever. I think the TwoJeff's Visitor Controller allows employees only. I know one of my CC items does that at least.
pbox:
I've been running a publishing house in my previous hood thusly:
1. Get some hack that can make any sim selectable (I use Dolphin26's "ControlThisSim" from mts2, but there's other means too -- I believe even the batbox has that feature meanwhile)
2. Start a business, put in desks and computers (vanilla maxian ones will do) and hire some employees
3. Call In Employees, select them for a moment, and tell them to Write Novel
That's it. You never actually *open* the business, so there's no customers to deal with. My employees were taking care of themselves just fine, taking pee/lunch breaks as needed (after that I had to send them back to work manually -- select and tell to Write Novel again --, but that was perhaps once a day, so not really an issue).
This worked very nicely for me, both with and without FT. I had between one and three employees, and the publishing house was the most profitable business in that hood. The owner kept the revenue from the novels of course, and paid the employees 200§ per day, so it was a bit of a sweatshop .. on the other hand she built a public library and a park, so it was all for the greater good =). Less creative employees' novels would also sell for less than the ones by 10-creativity types. It did work fine to have employees start a novel on one day and finish it on the other, as well (the progress got properly carried over I mean -- they don't start from scratch every morning).
If your goal is not to create revenue, you could also just make them chat or write emails I suppose (but that would probably require more management than novelwriting, getting them back to "work" when the sim they are chatting with goes offline etc).
Inge:
Hehe if you did open the place to customers imagine the number of complaints as they found nothing to buy and no one offering "May I help you?"
Lion:
Quote from: Inge on 2008 September 20, 10:48:38
Hehe if you did open the place to customers imagine the number of complaints as they found nothing to buy and no one offering "May I help you?"
No, they wouldn't complain if there is nothing to buy and therefore they wouldn't need to be helped. They may complain about dirty dishes if you have, though. I had my newspaper publishing house open to the public, and they just pass their time doing what they usually do.
Quinctia:
You could sell some magazines and stuff, I suppose. There isn't a buyable newspaper, is there? My mother worked at a newspaper, and I temped there one summer when I was still in college. They had a small storefront where you could buy copies of the couple newspapers they produced, or place an ad. So if you wanted to go that route, you could still have a public side to the business. Assuming you want one. :P
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