kaie's journal

Things I've learned part eleventy-billion and two:

1. If you create a toddler or child with parent, then move them into another household, then kill off the parent to orphan the child, the child will not be related to any of the other sims on the lot. This means that you cannot use the Encourage reaction to modify personality. Sims subsequently added to the family were not be able to teach the toddler any skills.


2. You will need at least three controllable sims to start a restaurant business: a chef, a server, and a host(ess). In the early stages, the server can act as a greeter.


3. Seating that works one day may stop working the next day. Starting with two counters and barstools caused a jam when the third customer appeared. Therefore, I added a table with two chairs. The next day, the only possible seat was one of the chairs at the table; the barstools and counters no longer counted as usable seating. Note that customers do not want to share tables.


4. Elders are not recommended for operating a business; they are forever running to the bathroom and complaining that they are uncomfortable. You will need to use adults who have maxed out their aspiration benefits so that their needs don't drop as quickly.


5. As a side note, having at least one witch stocked with the ingredients for the mood-raising spell helps keep the business open long enough to make money each day.

Amazon Rank

ETA 1 and 3: More here and here.

ETA 2: I should also note that, as a bookstore employee of five or six years now, a book's sales rank is incredibly important. There is a reason the store corrals the bestsellers into a prominent area; people walk in all the time and want to know where they are. The majority of people don't care about books that don't sell well; they won't buy them, and they won't read them. Not ranking certain books hurts the authors. And, of course, removing them from search - so that people who know exactly what book they want still can't buy them - is completely ridiculous.

Note that:
Heather Has Two Mommies,
And Tango Makes Three, and
Uncle Bobby's Wedding
can all still be found at a competitor.