Business Controller: Business Runs YOU!
DrBeast:
What do they do if you force-error on them? I think that might make them behave after a reset.
Avalikia:
I've only gotten these if they get reset while they're asking for help.
DrBeast:
Quote from: Avalikia on 2006 September 17, 02:56:15
I've only gotten these if they get reset while they're asking for help.
Oh? Strange, I sometimes force-error on those asking for help but are ignored by the employees, and they set off to the nearest rack right after the reset.
Motoki:
Okay Pes can I suggest some stuff? Well too bad, because I'm going to anyway. :P
Can you make the menu show the current assigned duty but have brackets around it like Maxis did so you can tell who owns a car when you click change owner? The reason being I was playing with 8 employees yesterday and it got confusing figuring out who does what. Now I can and did sit there and look and figure out which job was missing hencer which was their current, but it would be easier to have this at a glance.
Also could you possible integrate making food into the controller? Currently you can't assign it and if I do assign a sim to make food by clicking on the fridge and doing assign job make group meal bla bla then the BRY controller will not work for reassining them. According to BRY they are reassigned but they keep cooking and I have to have the owner or manager go up to them and tell them to take a break.
Another suggestion is could you add an assignement for an employee to gain cooking skill into BRY? I have a chef with 10 and so most of the foods my restaurant serves are high level ones but when the chef is on break I need someone else to do it. I had been training another employee as a backup but had to do it in a very roundabout way by having the owner sit and watch the Yummy channel and then invite her to join. Also I can't get her to wear a smart cap at all. I suppose I could only get the manager to do that since I can control her.
Training body might help too since it seems that servers need it, or at least they seem to gain it.
Overall BRY seems to be working pretty well for me now. I do also use Simwardrobe's don't sell to Sims in a bad mood hack and that seems to help the repeat negative sales. I only had it happen once yesterday when it used to happen a lot.
Had a couple of minor issues. One of my managers kept caffeinating when her clearly didn't need to and I had to keep manually forcing him to stop, he went back and did it again several times too. Once he even did it right after he came out of the aspiration reward recharge machine and all his motives were at max. ::) Not sure what that was about but none of the other employees did that.
I did have a sim visit the business on a date and it acted as if she was a manager or owner. She could assign sims and she made money too. Damn, wish I could walk into a restaurant as a customer and walk out with their profits. ;)
Did have a stuck loop issue with sims spinning over and over but not going anywhere. Found out there were looking for showers and I didn't give them any. As far as I'm concerned they can sponge bath :P but I put some university showers in and that seemed to fix it.
Oh and I think your whole wage calculation thing is complicated and confusing but you're stubborn so I know you won't change it. :P I use another hack (Simwardrobe) to do auto fair pay adjustments. I know you say you can underpay them, but I've had sims quit on me before even with BRY and I'd rather not have to deal with figuring the optimal salary amount.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Can you make the menu show the current assigned duty but have brackets around it like Maxis did so you can tell who owns a car when you click change owner? The reason being I was playing with 8 employees yesterday and it got confusing figuring out who does what. Now I can and did sit there and look and figure out which job was missing hencer which was their current, but it would be easier to have this at a glance.
Will think about it. That's not quite as easy to do since every single string would require a bracketed and non-bracketed version as a result, and this essentially would double the stringspace needed...which has already been assigned to other things.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Also could you possible integrate making food into the controller? Currently you can't assign it and if I do assign a sim to make food by clicking on the fridge and doing assign job make group meal bla bla then the BRY controller will not work for reassining them. According to BRY they are reassigned but they keep cooking and I have to have the owner or manager go up to them and tell them to take a break.
Research into foodmaking is already in progress, but it takes awhile, since it's an argument-based command, which is dependent on the food objects to build a menu. To sidestep this, I'm trying to code dynamic analysis so it will analyze what your store stock is and then make food to fill those requirements. This is not easy.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Another suggestion is could you add an assignement for an employee to gain cooking skill into BRY? I have a chef with 10 and so most of the foods my restaurant serves are high level ones but when the chef is on break I need someone else to do it. I had been training another employee as a backup but had to do it in a very roundabout way by having the owner sit and watch the Yummy channel and then invite her to join. Also I can't get her to wear a smart cap at all. I suppose I could only get the manager to do that since I can control her.
Vocational training programs are currently outside the planned scope of the project. This may be looked into later.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Training body might help too since it seems that servers need it, or at least they seem to gain it.
Servers already gain body skill just while working as a server, even when not serving.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Overall BRY seems to be working pretty well for me now. I do also use Simwardrobe's don't sell to Sims in a bad mood hack and that seems to help the repeat negative sales. I only had it happen once yesterday when it used to happen a lot.
Probably unrelated, as the BRY/Autosoc selection code is independent, although I increased the kick aggression for surly customers so they tend to sod off faster once they've become useless.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Had a couple of minor issues. One of my managers kept caffeinating when her clearly didn't need to and I had to keep manually forcing him to stop, he went back and did it again several times too. Once he even did it right after he came out of the aspiration reward recharge machine and all his motives were at max. ::) Not sure what that was about but none of the other employees did that.
Not sure what prompted that, although managers have autonomous actions, especially when not given a chore they can do. Was he doing this EVEN though a "Be Something" was in the queue? Also, some "Be Something" actions aggressively caffeinate as an idle behavior even when energy is still green, especially when the job requires constant alertness. The last thing you want happening is for your minion to stand there forever until his energy runs out, which is generally when customers show up, and then he won't have enough energy for the next 3 hours while he recaffeinates. Thus, certain employees, particularly servers and chefs, will caffeinate anytime their work looks satisfied and nothing is imminently looming.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
I did have a sim visit the business on a date and it acted as if she was a manager or owner. She could assign sims and she made money too. Damn, wish I could walk into a restaurant as a customer and walk out with their profits. ;)
The "assign" options will appear in BRY even if you are not manager/owner, in case an employee has forgotten what he was assigned to due to attribute corruption and thus is preventing you from shopping. This was recently enabled. The "profit leakage" bug is Maxis.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Did have a stuck loop issue with sims spinning over and over but not going anywhere. Found out there were looking for showers and I didn't give them any. As far as I'm concerned they can sponge bath :P but I put some university showers in and that seemed to fix it.
If they can't repair hygiene, they can't work.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 September 17, 16:08:32
Oh and I think your whole wage calculation thing is complicated and confusing but you're stubborn so I know you won't change it. :P I use another hack (Simwardrobe) to do auto fair pay adjustments. I know you say you can underpay them, but I've had sims quit on me before even with BRY and I'd rather not have to deal with figuring the optimal salary amount.
There's no wage calculation feature right now. What you set is what they get, and nothing changes it yet. A ZQC autoadjuster is in the works, which will calibrate underpaid employees for zero-quit-chance (ZQC) rather than "fair".
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