OFB Business Type Questions
Orikes:
First off, I don't have Business Runs You installed. I wanted to get a feel for how to actually do businesses without any major supporting hacks yet. I've so far made a clothing store/salon, as well as a general hang out spot. I've gotten a few questions along the way.
1. Once you've promoted a non-playable to manager, is there a way to assign them to do sales again? The townie I hired and promoted to manager will no longer do any sort of sales unless I micromanage her and click on every sim I want her to sell to. This is rather annoying, so I end up dumping her at the cash register while another townie does the selling.
2. Once you've gotten a business to Level 10 and promoted a manger, how long can you leave it alone to run itself, and will it actually bring in any sort of income for you? How do you actually get the income?
3. Does anyone know of any -good- OFB guides out there that detail things beyond the basics of what's in the expansion? I've done some google searching as well as checking other places, and I can't find anything that details the higher end of running businesses, or gives good examples of how to run different types of businesses.
Tigerlilley:
Number 2: Once you have a manager just don't turn up to work. Ring to check up. Later on in the day/night you'll get a message saying "Your buisness made this much money today".
Number 3: Actually theres some good tips on the BBS sadly enough... have a search round there im sure ive seen tips and hints etc.
Orikes:
*shudder* The BBS scares me. Still, I'll take a look.
Should you do the ring-up option once a day? Or every few days?
purplehaze:
I think the percentage you make goes down every day that you don't physically check in on the biz. You need to go in every once in a while to keep the numbers up.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Orikes on 2007 May 09, 01:42:57
1. Once you've promoted a non-playable to manager, is there a way to assign them to do sales again? The townie I hired and promoted to manager will no longer do any sort of sales unless I micromanage her and click on every sim I want her to sell to. This is rather annoying, so I end up dumping her at the cash register while another townie does the selling.
Nope. Sorry. You'd have to demote, reassign. Need BRY otherwise.
Quote from: Orikes on 2007 May 09, 01:42:57
2. Once you've gotten a business to Level 10 and promoted a manger, how long can you leave it alone to run itself, and will it actually bring in any sort of income for you? How do you actually get the income?
With anti-decay, yes. Just do nothing, and check in ever day, and you will get an auto-income (you don't get anything on the day you return from the business). Otherwise, nope, dies soon and forces you to go back.
Quote from: Orikes on 2007 May 09, 01:42:57
3. Does anyone know of any -good- OFB guides out there that detail things beyond the basics of what's in the expansion? I've done some google searching as well as checking other places, and I can't find anything that details the higher end of running businesses, or gives good examples of how to run different types of businesses.
Any business that you don't run purely family-only is a lost cause, Maxis employees are simply so stupid and useless that they don't function. Sales employees never successfully sell anything of value (and will often give away your entire store with "offer cheap"!), and all employees will quickly stop working and just wander around your store peeing on the floor because they don't know how to handle their motives in combination with having to do actual productive work.
Basically, doing so without the fixes and BRY is an essentially pointless exercise, unless you run it purely family-only.
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