Ack! I take back everything I said. Took out all of my business related hacks and there’s still just the three of them (hey at least there’s now three) showing up on my lots. Exception: when I play one of them, then the game pulls another one out of the Sims pool (still have to figure out if it is coincidential or if it always chooses the last Sim played). This is just… ridiculous.
Playtesting. I rebuilt the entire neighbourhood (since it’s a pre-made hood, it really wasn’t much work). Good news: The game seems to be able to send another Sim if one of the “favourite Sims” owns the business they’re supposed to visit. Bad news: a what I would call concerning amount of Andrea Hogan and Brandon Lillard.
I’m really at my wit’s end here. It’s a new neighbourhood, clean (I checked it before I started moving Sims in). Considering it seemed like the business feature worked just fine in my test neighbourhood (I might want to check that again though) and the hack conflict utility detected no conflicting behaviour (but, man, it HATED the bouncy baby chair from the SimsStore!), I am very confused. I will take out all of my business hacks to see if there is some conflict the utility didn’t detect, but if not… I have no idea what else to do, to be frank.
…but Sandy shows up late because when the car arrived, she went to make the bed… why is that uncancellable again?
Brandon is pissed off and refuses to give her another chance.
After work, Sandy spends a relaxing afternoon at home, before she heads off to the Park, where she’s got a date with Brendon…
Work’s slow that day. Brendon and Joe are still the only Sims that ever show up on owned community lots…
And we start our next round with Sandy heading off to work after a quick chat with fellow romance sim Brandon.
After a short night’s sleep, Christy starts her day by writing in her diary.
And that’s it! The first round of Middleground is completed!
Late that night, Christy heads over to BeeGee’s to get refill her fridge. She’s the only customer there.
Christy’s little store is pretty successful and sells out on the first day!
(Okay, am I going mad or are Brendon, that reporter and Joe the only Sims that ever show up on owned community lots?)
Say “Hi” to Christy Stratton, the last inhabitant of Middleground and a determined home business owner. Despite her rather sporty demeanour, Christy actually loves cooking and opens up a small home business to sell some of her baked goods right away.
aondaneedles 