OFB Question

[simslifestories]

Right now I have one Sim who owns 5 businesses, she has the LTW to own 5 level 10 businesses. She has all of her businesses at the very least at a level 5 right now. She has earned Perk Points apparently

Comments

[echan314]

Some of the perks are active things; they give you actions that you can use. Some of them, like the wholesale discounts, you get by going into wholesale mode.

I've never gone that high, so I'm not sure about the extra two, but they're yours forever, as far as I know.

[pne]

You get one perk point for every unique level you reach in a business. (So, going from level 5 to level 6 in one business gives you one point for that level transition. If the business goes down to level 5, you don't lose the point, but if you go up to level 6 again, you don't gain another point since you already gained that business's 5-to-6-transition point

[simslifestories]

WOW. This comment is soooo helpful. Thank you so much! When I started playing OFB the way EA meant us to play OFB, I had no idea how complicated it actually was.

[pne]

Also, "the way it's supposed to be played" probably involves "spending" the perk points soon after earning them, since the point is that they're supposed to make it easier to gain more levels sooner, and just leaving them in your "account" is also kind of "wasting" them. (For example, with the discounts, you could set your items to be cheaper - making sims more likely to buy them and happier about their purchases = more loyalty stars, while still letting you make the same profit.)

But, as you have noticed, you can also save up your points and spend several of them at once.

The money perks are perhaps most useful for starting business when your cash flow is a bit uncertain, but are also among the "weakest" ones since they only have a one-time effect.

Also, the "head for numbers" perk I find a bit annoying since your phone book will instantly explode :)

[unholypassion]

Some of the the motivation perks help emplloyees sell, others help with the customer's attitudes. They can also be used outsie of the business.

[simslifestories]

Cool. I am slowly figuring them out now. I use the Rally Forth or Rally Call, whatever it is, a lot. I also use the new "Manipulate" a lot when selling to customers. Only thing is, they both drain my Sim instantly of all her stats. I just use boolprop to pull them back to to green. LOL.

[unholypassion]

I do that too. :oP
Be careful, there is something called "Death by Rally Forth".

kudos :x

[dorkiusmaximus]

I hardly have the capacity to run one successful business, let alone five. I felt that running one took up all the time, do you appoint managers or focus on each store - how do you manage all that? I think I might go try it now >_>

Re: kudos :x

[simslifestories]

First of all, I use a lot of cheats to get there and I play the whole game with a lot of cheats

[pne]

I've had bad experiences with NPCs assigned to sales, but mostly because they tend to use "stronger" interactions and get rebuffed because the customers don't know them well enough to be comfortable with that - but if they're already friends with everyone, I can see how it could work out!

Someone said I could run the business from home, but I am not that far yet. I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

IIRC, all you need is to have a manager in that store. Then you can call the store on the phone and talk to the manager and he'll report, and you'll still get money even though you didn't visit the store in person that day. (But the money will go down slowly - 30% a day if you don't call the manager, 10% for each day that you do IIRC - so you do have to show up in person every once in a while.)

[ejanieey]

WWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.. I am totally confused by what you just said, but i understand it.