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Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« on: 2006 March 06, 05:05:00 »
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Alright, so I've been running my new OFB expansion, with lots of boolprop, and max motives. One of the frustrations that is bothering me (and this may be my stupidity, I don't know. =( ), is I have a sim who is now promoted to manager. Well, I wanted my CAS Sim, and shop owner, to be able to go home for a little while, have a few dates, and such.

So, I selet the manager, and ask her to 'mind the shop'. Which she seems to accept, and everything. Great, right? Well, then I phone up the taxi, and decide to go to another community lot, shop a bit, etc, etc. When this happens, Ian, the owner begins to clear ALL SIMS OFF THE LOT.

 Huh

I don't understand! The manager was there...

Oh, and another issue? I don't like how the manager becomes controllable, when you promote them. =(

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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #1 on: 2006 March 06, 05:20:26 »
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When you say managers become controllable, does that mean they become part of the family?  Hopefully they stay on the community lot and don't go home with our Sims.  If they do, what with them and Servos there soon won't be any room for the actual family members.  And people want PETS? 
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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #2 on: 2006 March 06, 05:25:17 »
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Not part of the family, but controllable on the community lot. It irks me. =(

Oh my god, I will have to pull my hair out, if the next EP is ENTIRELY pets. I wasn't even that excited about this one, initally, but a few weeks before I bought it, I was... Wink

But yes, I'm not sure what to do about the managers now... -Confuzzled-

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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #3 on: 2006 March 06, 05:34:03 »
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Maybe you simply needed to go back home 1st and from there use a taxi to go downtown.  Unless it is what you did....

EDIT:  Keep the manager, while you are at home he/she will take care of your business leaving your Sim time to enjoy its life....
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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #4 on: 2006 March 06, 05:43:15 »
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The mgr is only controllable in the shop. I think you have to go home close the shop for the day.
Next day should you decide not to work, you just make a phone call with ur house phone (never use the cell phone- there's a bug), talk with the mgr till the progress bar is full (takes about 2 hours) , the mgr will tell you s/he is minding the store and not to worry. At midnight, you will receive a notification saying you earn $xxx that day.

I think you earn $ only if your store is doing well. Presently, I haven't made any $ when the mgr is minding the store. I still dunno if its a bug or if its because my store hasn't reached the criticial mass needed for it to do well autnomonously.
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« Reply #5 on: 2006 March 06, 06:07:43 »
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I think you earn $ only if your store is doing well. Presently, I haven't made any $ when the mgr is minding the store. I still dunno if its a bug or if its because my store hasn't reached the criticial mass needed for it to do well autnomonously.

Me either and I'm still having issues with doing the checking in by phone thing.  I'm personally convinced that it is buggy.
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« Reply #6 on: 2006 March 06, 14:45:44 »
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I promoted a Sim to manager last night, and completely missed the controllable thing. I'll have to look for that.

What annoyed me most, though, was that I couldn't leave the manager alone. He kept sending the cashier (the only person in the shop with a Talent Badge for the register) off to restock shelves, leaving a line of infuriated customers who got even more infuriated when the manager assigned someone else to mind the till. My store owner had to keep reassigning his workers, as opposed to performing his actual function in the shop, which is - you guessed it - restocker.
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« Reply #7 on: 2006 March 06, 16:02:40 »
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Ok, basically my "no money" msg actually changes. Previously when the store is not doing very well, I got a msg that is something like "Super Star Store didn't make any money today. Perhaps you need to check in to shaken things up."

Today the store is finally starting to make a modest profit and I didn't go to work and this is the msg.
So I dunno if we will actually see $$$ when the store is doing extremely well. I'll let you know if it does.

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« Reply #8 on: 2006 March 06, 16:11:27 »
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Alright, so I've been running my new OFB expansion, with lots of boolprop, and max motives. One of the frustrations that is bothering me (and this may be my stupidity, I don't know. =( ), is I have a sim who is now promoted to manager. Well, I wanted my CAS Sim, and shop owner, to be able to go home for a little while, have a few dates, and such.

So, I selet the manager, and ask her to 'mind the shop'. Which she seems to accept, and everything. Great, right? Well, then I phone up the taxi, and decide to go to another community lot, shop a bit, etc, etc. When this happens, Ian, the owner begins to clear ALL SIMS OFF THE LOT.

 Huh

I don't understand! The manager was there...

Oh, and another issue? I don't like how the manager becomes controllable, when you promote them. =(



Do you have an open/close sign?  I think if you don't have one on the lot the business is open when you are there, and closed when you aren't.  Wait, let me check with Prima...yep, that's how it works.  So without a sign the owner can't leave the lot and have the business stay open.
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« Reply #9 on: 2006 March 06, 16:12:12 »
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I've been very disappointed in managers as well. It seems he just randomly assigns people to stupid jobs. He took my gold badge toy worker off the toy crafting station, assigned him to restocking, then went and made pet bricks. WTF???
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« Reply #10 on: 2006 March 06, 16:34:10 »
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I've been very disappointed in managers as well. It seems he just randomly assigns people to stupid jobs. He took my gold badge toy worker off the toy crafting station, assigned him to restocking, then went and made pet bricks. WTF???
Uh, did you honestly expect Maxis to be able to figure out how to run a business algorithmically?
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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #11 on: 2006 March 06, 20:30:34 »
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Maybe they're trying to build-up their skills in other areas, so all the staff have equal skills and can do any job?  I suppose there are situations in real life where you'd do that.  Maybe. 
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Re: Problems with managers? I'm very confused...
« Reply #12 on: 2006 March 06, 21:55:32 »
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yes, they call it crosstraining in real life. Smiley
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