No Playable Shoppers
Motoki:
Quote from: Klaatu on 2006 March 14, 18:48:22
If you move a townie in to your lot, does he/she bring with them all the stuff they've ever bought? If so, it could be quite a windfall when you finally sell it all.
I can see it now: Jane Golddigger goes around marrying all the townies she can, selling all their stuff, then they somehow wind up dead from trying to fix that TV with zero mech skill! LOL
Supposedly, the Prima guide also says that they only keep the last 3 items they bought, except I'm finding that not to be the case. They do have bottomless pockets too I can confirm that, hell I sold a business deed to some teen townie for 100,000 lol. Those get sold back though, they don't keep them. But the items they do.
NPCs also have unlimited spending money. Normally, they don't show up as shoppers but they will if you call them or if they walk by and you greet them. Be careful though as walkbys have been known to shoplift and leave without paying. :P
Oh and the funny thing is, you can marry a townie with LOADS of expensive junk in their inventory and it doesn't count as marrying a rich sim. ::)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: anelca on 2006 March 13, 14:16:41
hmm...i quite like the playable sims coming to buy stuff, but it has been concerning me exactly how much crap they will buy. wtf does a single sim do with 2 little sister computers and another, custom teen only, one?? not to mention the 3 alarm clocks, all bought on the same outing
The fact of the matter is that playable sims buying things is irreversibly broken. Firstly, they buy these things at an illogical loss, meaning your money is simply going down the tubes, since anything they buy cannot be returned for their money back. Secondly, they tend to buy useless things, perhaps because your stores tend to sell useless things. Thirdly, you have to manually junk everything from their inventories if you want ANY of your money back.
The short version is that for logic and sanity reasons, playable sims simply should not buy things unsolicited. On the off chance you DO want them to buy your things, I have left a trigger method so that you can designate specific sims as designated shoppers on a temporary basis. But as a general rule, they really, really, shouldn't, for the above reasons.
PlayLives:
So if you teleport your sim to a business to buy something, they have to have the money-order trigger in their inventory, otherwise they won't be able to buy?
rma:
Wait, so townies keep everything they ever bought? Please say that isn't so, because it sounds like a really bad idea. What happens if I sell them some custom content and later delete it? Would that cause the whole 'hood to go KABLOOY?
Karen:
Would it be possible to extend this to banning townie kids and teens from visiting business lots during school hours? Whenever a townie kid shows up on one of my home business lots during the day, I want to yell at him, "Aren't you supposed to be in school?!"
Karen
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