Yeah, mine work fine as well. Take out all your hacks and try again. Then narrow down witch one is messing things up.

And invuln dormies suck. Get the hack and MAKE THEM SUFFER.

Use a cheat and bring any that die back as zombiees and return them to the dormiee town pool.

I have Dave Letterman and Paul Shaffer as a gay couple in my town. Jeff Rowland also joined the group recently.

I just messed with joy.

Nah. Just let him suffer!

Yeah. The game towniees suck.

Before I started my first real hood I destroyed all towniees, and added several lots of hookers, trailer parks, juvenile detention centers, homeless people, twinks on the prowl, etc. I wanted it to look real at a comm lot. Sadly that was before we knew about the flaming ball of doom and I did some strange things that led to 1300 characters...

I remade the whole hood, recreating all the sims in it, but left the towniees in. SO I have 500 or so char files, but a huge number of the people wandering are my sims.

Besides, with that kind of sim you can do fun things. Like the homeless people lot, I go in every so often and lower all their hygene, aspiration, and social to the lowest level. That way they are EXTRA attracted to talking to your sims on comm lots, but stink, and I make them mean...

Or could he have eaten bad food at one of your lots while he was uncontrollable, and now the game has him saved as poisoned until you play him for a few days?

You need to work on your hiring practices.

I have no employees paid over 40$ an hour.

Don't hire employees with skills and badges other than the one job they are being hired for. All it does is raise the cost.

Cheap unskilled labor, toss them into their new job at 15$ an hour and as they move toward gold in that one skill, raise their pay to the 30s.

Why pay for a charismatic sim who can bake, and make toys to restock when you can pay someone 1/4 the cost who only knows how to restock?

All the homeless people, trailer park trash, and mentally challenged sims in my hood are very grateful to get 15$ an hour and be forced to wear their underwear while they work.

For a million bucks I would let Coolone come to my house and use my computer to post ont he BBS.

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I work my employees until they are red even completely surrounded by snapdragons. They head straight to bed!

Depending on the shop and if its run by one of my typical sims, they may get a nooner for their break as well.

With the combination of snapdragons,the sleep on comm lots hacks, and a breakroom with nice beds, breaks work well. Otherwise they are worthless.

You had no get back to work option? It doesn't say anything like end your break.

If on break the negetivity of telling them to get back to work is almost negated.

Although if low paid and/or very low in needs they will never come back until you send them home for 6 hours or so.

Is this thread a euphamism?

Lot selling works. Just hang the deed ona  wall and mark it for sale, it won't be long before you get kicked off the lot because someone else bought it.

I am sure you can. I haven't tried it though. You may have to relearn the perk though. I think it actually passes the perk on. But any of those ltw=5 high rated business sims have plenty of spare points (30 to be specific).

I play with it on (its in my startup.cheats file) all the time.

I use it for 2 things.

1- seeing when thingsblow up so I can reset/delete them.

2- Killing any sim that pisses me off witha  palgue of flies.

If you have the skill/perk and want an NPC to have it, you can promote them to manager, and then pass on the skill.

Thats odd. I never play without testngcheats turned on and have never had a problem.

I saw something about hitting ahuge number of hours played triggering it.

Supposedly if you save while at a comm lot with your car, then exit the game (or crash, or whatever) you cannot come back to the lot or the shop.

Huh?

I have a flower/art shop with over 200k of profits.

Take out your downloads folder first to make doubly sure everything is ok.

If it still doesn't work, reload a backup and reinstall.

Yes, that long haired girl grew up to be Susan Powter...

Manipulate lowers loyalty. hard sell doesn't if it works.

If it fails you get a nice hit to daily and should get a loyalty hit.


And rank DOES play a role. There are more suckers to buy your crap.

Anyway, with a gold sales badge, Max outgoing, high nice, and snapdragons around, you can pretty much spam sell plasma TVs at 10k+ as fast as you can restock them. Its like using a cheat for money if you are a SLLLLLOOOOWWW typist. One dazzle will complete the sale, then invite them to look at the one next to it, dazzle, repeat....

Don't drive to comm lots. Maxis fucked up and you may get bugged and lose that household until they come out witha  patch.

Take the taxi. You can bring multiples by "invite another sim".