Business Controller: Business Runs YOU!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: magicmoon on 2006 October 06, 19:54:30
So is there any way to tell a lazy sim from an active one before you hire them? After I saw your post (and already have an active sim who is a stellar employee) I hired a guy with 6 body points, assuming that no one with so few skill points would have put most of it into body unless they were active. I was wrong. I told him to put on a uniform and got the "lazy spin". So I fired him. Probably the first person ever fired for dressing lazily.
Skillpoints for townies are random and correlate to nothing in particular. They are often assigned at random so that the sim qualifies for his similarly randomly assigned job.
As for how to tell, if you have "Call Over Hack" from More Awesome Than You, move a short distance and call over. If they respond snappily, they're good. Otherwise, learn from experience who = suck.
Magicmoon:
I'm having trouble with some employees that are assigned crafting tasks. I'll see an employee that is supposed to be crafting standing in front of their bench instead of working. They will have the red comfort icon in their bubble. Finally I'll make them selectable. Generally their comfort and energy will be at zero (The halfway mark on the bar), but their other stats will be in excellent shape. They will have 2 items in their queue; their crafting station and BRU, which when hovered over says "be taken by break". These 2 queue items will rapidly flip back and forth between each other. All the while the employee just stands there.
I have 2 expresso machines, a gnome, a sofa, food, and BUY available to the employees. These items are not being blocked when the glitch is happening. Cancelling all the icons and issuing an order to caffinate will temporarily stop the problem, but unless I manually fix all of their needs, the BRU controller takes back over and puts them back into the loop.
I lost track of one employee for awhile and when I found him he was standing still in a puddle of his own pee. Evidently he had been stuck in the loop for quite awhile. I've been sending these employees home and then recalling them when they go into the loop, but they shouldn't be going into a loop in the first place.
By the way, is there anything I can click on that will zoom me to a missing employee? Maybe I could have saved my sim the embarassment of peeing on himself in front of customers if I could have found where he was.
I just now downloaded the latest BRU, so if this problem has already been addressed, I apologize.
EDIT: Another question. I hired several employees for crafting that had no badges. But soon one employee (Brandi L) was demanding $80 an hour for her QC to be 17-19%, while her colleagues were getting $15 with QC 1-2%. This was a new neighborhood. In a previous neighborhood I had made that sim a manager, but I can't see how she could remember that from a deleted neighborhood. So what's her problem? BTW, her and the owner are best friends, so it isn't because they don't get along.
RainbowTigress:
You can zoom in on an employee by right-clicking their icon in the employees panel. I think that's it, I don't have the game open right now. If that doesn't work, try a left double-click, but I seem to remember right-clicking.
Magicmoon:
I thought I tried all that, but I'll try again when I load the game. I think the problem comes if the camera is a little "pulled back" from the lot so that you can see the whole thing at once. Then you click on the employee, but it doens't actually "zoom in", just kinda centers the camera.
RainbowTigress:
Yeah, that's probably it. It doesn't actually zoom in, it centers. Wrong choice of words, sorry. :)
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