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Fun and useful things you can do with the retail system
MrMonty96
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Even though I don't use the retail/restaurant system for it's original purposes because it was a bit disappointing I have found other uses for it in my game.
Number 1: Separate household funds
What I like to do in my game is have separate household funds for my sims so they can save up for things. You can do this by purchasing an empty lot as retail store (or a restaurant if you don't have gtw). Then name the lot the something like (sim name)'s account. Buying the lot will cost money but you can cheat the money back or pretend it's the fee for opening the account. Then when your sim gets paid you can just transfer the money from the main household funds.
Number 2: Owning multiple homes
If you ever have really rich sims and envision them having a second home, you can buy one as a retail store or restaurant, and if you don't place the required objects it will be classed as a residential lot. Easy!
Number 3: Moving sims out but still controlling them
If you play legacies this may be useful to do if you want to move a sim out but don't want to lose complete control of a sim and not get notifications for them. You can just have your sim live at the second location and when you want to go back to the main lot you can click another sim in the household at the main lot and select the option switch control to (sim name).]
hope these were helpful and I explained them properly lol
Number 1: Separate household funds
What I like to do in my game is have separate household funds for my sims so they can save up for things. You can do this by purchasing an empty lot as retail store (or a restaurant if you don't have gtw). Then name the lot the something like (sim name)'s account. Buying the lot will cost money but you can cheat the money back or pretend it's the fee for opening the account. Then when your sim gets paid you can just transfer the money from the main household funds.
Number 2: Owning multiple homes
If you ever have really rich sims and envision them having a second home, you can buy one as a retail store or restaurant, and if you don't place the required objects it will be classed as a residential lot. Easy!
Number 3: Moving sims out but still controlling them
If you play legacies this may be useful to do if you want to move a sim out but don't want to lose complete control of a sim and not get notifications for them. You can just have your sim live at the second location and when you want to go back to the main lot you can click another sim in the household at the main lot and select the option switch control to (sim name).]
hope these were helpful and I explained them properly lol
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My collector Sim used her retail lot and a generic lot as "tax shelters" or a way to avoid high bills in other words. She started out on an empty lot with no money and as soon as she had enough simoleans, I had her buy a retail lot. She slowly built an apartment there while collecting and basically living in the parks. She's a glutton too so her meals were 'free' if a bit gross. lol All her collectibles and large objects; rocket, telescope and observatory are stored on the generic lot.
She's collected all the base game collections and is working on others now from my extra packs. At one point she had a beautiful apartment with the best upgraded appliances/electronics etc., the shop, 75000 simoleans tucked away in the retail account and only paid 35 simoleans a week in bills!
She never opened the shop for business, it was just a front.
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Thanks, I just wanted to share some cool things I found in the game. On another note, I'm guessing that these tips will also work with the vet clinic with Cats and Dogs if it's anything like dine out and get together.
Lol same, the retail system was a bit of a let down tbh.
I feel like it was a rushed feature, like they originally planned to just have the 3 GTW careers but felt it wasn't enough and added retail and aliens.
I've still got to try it out. It could make a lot of money though.
That's clever! I always wanted my Sims to have furniture stores and never thought to do it that way.