Business Controller: Business Runs YOU!
professorbutters:
It's good that BRY makes it possible for visitors to change settings. I actually did that a bit. This is a bit unusual, as the lot is owned by a legacy household, and so of course other families can't shop there. It's a giant beach lot with a pirate ship and a lot of other free stuff. The business part is what amounts to a fairly small hut with overpriced souvenirs and a bar. I figure it's kosher as long as the playable visitors just enjoy the beach and don't buy anything, but I'd like for the business to be running reasonably efficiently in the background. Anyway, I hired a few simselves as peons.
Is there something specific that makes visitors to a closed home business Complain? Are the business characteristics of the lot primary even when closed? I have noticed that walkbys tend to come up and browse the art work even when the business is closed. Through the wall, which is freaky.
PB
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 12, 00:36:46
I find that if you have just one sim visiting to grab something and run from another playable's store, it's not a big deal if only they are running the place. Typically your playable visitor is going to pick up everything they need before the other customers are done browsing.
If you don't assign a job, the playable sim will do absolutely nothing intelligent and just wander aimlessly until it pees itself from shitty EAxis AI. Also, the business will be nonfunctional if any jobs need to be performed. Note that Macro-Sales runs much less aggressively when the business is not being played, so as not to deplete the shelves of materiel your playable may be coming to requisition, and drain the employee of power needed to perform secondary functions.
seelindarun:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2008 July 13, 22:07:26
Is there something specific that makes visitors to a closed home business Complain? Are the business characteristics of the lot primary even when closed? I have noticed that walkbys tend to come up and browse the art work even when the business is closed. Through the wall, which is freaky.
This is why I stopped playing home businesses, except as venues. The business part never really seems to close to visitors. They are complaining because they can't find anything to browse. ('Cause the store is ummm... closed?!) I think it's similar to the mechanism that causes townies to complain when you've fallen behind on restocking. I don't remember walk-bys who wanted to browse through the walls, but maybe that's only because most of my houses tend to be built up on foundations. I'm sure if they could, they would have peered through my walls, too. :D
As far as I know, none of the Awesome hacks fix the screwed up AI that keeps pushing the browse interaction on visitors to home businesses. :-\
AnastasiaRenai:
I am currently running several family owned business. I want the family members that live on the lot to automatically work at preset times on the lot. Currently I use this hack to make family members fish, farm, etc. I also use the macrotastic to make them clean. But I would like a time component added to this and the macrotastic so that from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Mon - Fri a particular family would run around doing a task. Cleaning the house, farm, etc. Like a real job. In addition, would it be possible to add a sales feature to buisness runs you hack as well.
Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III:
The BRY controller is designed for efficiency, and scheduling tasks rather than performing them as the controller performs them now would be inefficient and potentially destructive. Example: farming. What if a set of plants is being watered, and the watering action is cut off by the end of the schedule, so not all of the plants are watered?
As to the "sales feature", if you mean "Business.../Be Salesman", that exists.
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