the podium phone.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 May 30, 00:35:58
It's not shitty, it's pretty.
The two are often closely correlated. The better it looks, the shittier it actually is.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 May 30, 00:35:58
It's also highly inefficient due to the way the game works and the fact that townies seem to really, really like sitting at the bar.
And due to your poor placement of seating and employee staffing, yes.
Zazazu:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 May 30, 10:22:32
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 May 30, 00:35:58
It's also highly inefficient due to the way the game works and the fact that townies seem to really, really like sitting at the bar.
And due to your poor placement of seating and employee staffing, yes.
Which would not be an issue if the simmies drank at the bar stools instead of eating there, and preferred the cushy chairs downstairs rather than the hard barstools upstairs in the noisy club. I understand in part why they coded it that way: Maxis-designed community lots favor diners, which of course often have you eating at the counter/bar. And really, unless they specified certain stools as barstools and certain ones as counter stools, there's no way to prevent it.
Eh, I'm still not saying it isn't inefficient design on my part knowing the rules, I just haven't been to a Maxis lot since...uh...right around when Nightlife came out other than a short foray to PURE and I generally don't do club/restaurants like that. So I forgot. I also forgot that if you place the dj booth on a riser with any real space around it, sims will try to dance on the riser behind the booth(so as to be on the same level with the booth) instead of on the huge dancefloor in front. That's going to take some fiddling, but I've fixed it before. Worst case scenario, it gets shoved down to the floor and I place a half-wall around it. No biggie. That's what playtesting is for.
vilia:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 May 29, 17:05:49
I'm inclined to chalk this up to a combination of understaffing and shitty design.
Mr P - any chance you would release a AwesomeSpec for restaurants/bars?
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