Blah.  This game is depressing.  I really want to play the business side of the game, and it's so not cooperating.   After thinking about Cyberdodo's comment I inferred that to mean I should do a reinstall, and that is statistically less likely than me binning the game into the nearest sewer. 

But that can't happen because PETS are coming!  I know you all just love pets!   

Twitty Employee Behavior of one sort or another happens on all lots, all the time.  I did a reinstall three months ago after a reformat, and really don't see the point of doing it again.  I guess Twitty Employee happened in the beginning as well, which is why I only played the game briefly.

Please, please, please, is there a wacky hacky in the works?

Hoho that was funny.  But it took me a bit to know what Maty meant.   And I just now noticed the "thanks" button on every post. 

Have you noticed that most of the time the creator's possessiveness is inversely related to their talent?

Good question, thank you.  I'll check.

Usually I don't feel guilty for being a demanding snot.  Now is not one of those times.  But anyway.


Played the twitty employee business lot again.  Still as twitty as ever.  The only reason the cashier is still alive is because the game will probably spawn another twit just like her.  Thought about throwing the game away, but then decided if I pester you genius hackers enough, someone might make a workable hack just to make me go away.   

New info:  I can click on the cash register whenever I want and "assign cashier".  Twitty Employee will march over to the cash register, stand there for 30 seconds real time, and then wander off.   Repeat ad nausum.

If a customer is waiting to be checked out, even if Twitty Employee is currently manning the register, Twitty Employee will stare at him for 30 seconds real time, and then wander off.  Business loses stars.  Shopping bags on the floor. 

There is no way to "assign restock", "take break", or most importantly "you're fired bitch, now leave this place forever and don't come back"  to said Twitty Employee.  My sim can only "shoo" Twitty Employee temporarily.

I haven't found any way to adjust Twitty Employee's pay scale.  Oh, and I was afraid to kill Twitty Employee on lot without firing her ditzy butt first, because as screwed as the game appears to be, I figured I'd just wind up paying the ghost of Twitty Employee indefinately.

I once again gave Twitty Employee anything and everything to improve her mood (if that was the problem), and let her have at it for as long as she wanted, but she never did anything other than "joke, annoy, chat, hit so-and-so with water balloon, etc".

Twitty Employee also went around looking at stuff to buy, with that sales bar above her head.

I suppose I could install all those no-chat, no-fight, no-this-no-that hacks, but they apparently apply to everyone on the lot, and if everyone acted like a robot things would get kinda boring really quickly.


Sorry for the novel, thanks for reading.   

He probably smells anyway.     kidding!


Ok.  updating my request.  I looked through all those threads about the OFB hacks as mentioned above (thank you!), but alas, have decided that JM is a control freak and I am not.       Admit it JM, you just want to redo the whole game!

Again I wish to request a hack to make those stupid twitty employees just do their freakin jobs, and not otherwise interact with the customers.  An employee wouldn't last five minutes on a real life job if they behaved that way.

*Disclaimer*  I haven't played with those businesse hacks installed yet, so they may work ok.   They are going to change many aspects of the game that I have no problem with and perhaps not really fix what is bugging me, so I kinda have my doubts.

Also, just found this thread http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2086.0  It gave a description of hacks, thanks nenechell!  It doesn't look like any of the available hacks make the employees stop being so ditzy.   

That was fast!  Thanks for answering, and I'm sorry that it was a redundant post.  I thought I'd looked through everything, but I guess not.  oopsies.

*sob* I could just about  JM for making all these incredibly useful hacks!  Really don't think I'd bother playing otherwise. 

Am I the only one who has no patience with the employees?  Or have I just not played a business with employees long enough for them to learn how to do their freakin' job!?  A newly hired npc was assigned to the cash register.  Even though she already had the gold register badge, all she did was wonder around the store interrupting browsing customers by chat, joke, etc. 

I'd been playing this art dealership for awhile where the owner had built up many customer loyalty stars, profits were rolling in and so forth.  I wanted the owner to expand but she couldn't handle any more interactions by herself without hurting the business.   Within hours of this little twit being hired, no one was buying anything and most of the customers had left.  Even though the employee had been assigned cashier duty, she took so long heading for the register (if she ever did, I missed this part) that the customers threw their bags on the floor.  Meanwhile, she was busy interrupting customers while they were shopping!

I was constantly checking her mood and it was great. She did have access to food, comfort, etc, if she needed it.   I was also using Merola's energize painting. 

This is only the third or fourth time I have attempted to have a npc employee, but this is ridiculous.  Blah.  Oh, and "assign restocking" was not available as an option, even when she first arrived for work.  The only options my sim had was to send the npc home, "to shoo" or "call over".  Slapping her silly was not an option.   

Am I the only one who has this problem?     

This is always good to read again, thanks.

As an apparently casual gamer, it drives me batsharf insane that someone would make such high poly count items in the first place, considering that they are so into the game and/or making stuff that they should know better. 

To a large extent, I really am depending on other people to do the helpful thing by alerting gamers whenever a polygon hog is found.  Not sure if this is still a problem, but considering humans are kinda pesty critters, it wouldn't surprize me.

I remember Reflex Sims was supposed to be really bad about it at one time.  And sims2ellis.narod.ru,  if they haven't improved.

Any others I should know about?  In particular, any others at TSR?  I've noticed they're not listing counts like they used to.

I really do appreciate your skill and generosity very much.  You are beyond cool.

And this is a rilly rilly nice message board thingie as well!

JM!  My long-lost hacker god!   My happy-hacker maker!  My plethoric pixel-pal!  My game hasn't been the same since . . . well, since I quit playing.    I was over at MTS2, baffled as to why none of the hacks appealed to me even though they had dozens to choose from, when I discovered you'd moved over here.  Oh.  So here I am, and on the very first page I see quite a few that will do nicely.  And you made them, so I know they won't kill my game!  Oh, the joy!

Would you like my list of demands here (oh I meant requests) or in another thread?