The different actions include the basic sale, the cheap offer, the "hard sale", and the dazzle. The sales can be accepted or rejected depending on customer loyalty, mood, and the badge level of the salesman. A successful sale will raise the sales bar, which, when full, will cause the customer to buy the item.
Sales: The ability to convince a customer to buy an item. A Sim must repeatedly perform an action to raise that badge's level. "Open for Business" adds a new "talent badge" system. Domed, conical and octagonal roofs in different sizes are now available. Arched Columns (Two columns with an arc shape joining them) are available in the Build Mode catalogue. New elevators both open a new possibility for public interactions and create a risk for fatality by plummeting. Open For Business adds more functionality to Build Mode. If a Servo is neglected from its needs too much, it will end up destroying itself. Being robotic, Servos do not age, so will not die from age. A program Servos perform is to do chores automatically, and will clean, cook, or repair for the normal Sims around the house. Power can be restored by recharging during the day (solar based recharging), or sleeping in a bed if the sun isn't out. Servos have only four needs power, fun, social, and environment. Then you can determine whether you want it to be male or female. Then, click on a Sim while holding down the shift key then click "Spawn" and choose "New Servo". Hold CTRL+C+Shift and type "boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true".
A Servo will copy the traits, aspiration and the turn-on/offs of the Sim that activates it, and usually have maximized skills. Servos can be activated as either a female or male, then become playable Sims for the player to control. Servos also appeared in the original game's expansion pack The Sims: Livin' Large as it's known in North America and Australia and The Sims: Livin' It Up as it is known in Europe.Ī robot that Sims can build if they have a gold robotics badge. Some new items, called "Bots" in general, aim to increase productivity on a lower scale than Servo's operation, usually performing one task, such as cleaning the floor, watering plants, bringing food or stunning burglars. Also added is the Servo, a household robot, which can perform basic tasks and function like a Sim in regards to Social interaction. Additional items include those aimed specifically at enhancing the business setting like an old-style Cash register, Beauty salon chairs, child-oriented toys, and Mission Style furniture. Sims are able to craft new items, including toys, flower arrangements and robots. Open for Business adds new functionality to a Sim's productivity around the house. The game also rewards the player for meeting several predetermined goals also, a mystery shopper may visit the business and critique it. The game allows the player to control various aspects of running a business including picking which products to sell, hiring and firing employees, crafting goods, and restocking shelves. This is a new direction for The Sims 2, as it now includes elements of a business simulation game. The concept of running a business is the game's main new feature. Several features from Nightlife and University, such as influence levels, turn ons and turn offs, are available to players without those expansion packs. While furniture styles and the build-mode selection have been expanded, the biggest difference is the addition of business-oriented items such as shelves, elevators, and crafting centers that Sims can use to create things to sell. For example, you can lock a door to just non-employees. Some changes to items from the base game are also present. Like the previous expansions, new Wants and Fears and interactions were added, including a new Lifetime Want and several new interactions for children. Reloading their household automatically takes the player to the community lot where the Sims are located. Players can now save the game while their Sims are visiting community lots. A number of Sims live here, such as a toymaking family, a woman who owns a home-based flower shop, a family bakery, and a rich tycoon who owns a nightclub and an electronics shop.Ĭommunity lots are more flexible now, removing many of the gameplay restrictions that were present on them in the original game. The main change to the core game introduced by Open for Business is a new neighborhood type - the Shopping District, the default one being named Bluewater Village (which is also the name of a British shopping center).
Although it is not a direct reimagining of Open for Business, The Sims 3: Ambitions introduces a related theme of following playable sims to work and creating salable items using numerous skills.
Aspyr released a port of the game for Mac OS X on September 4, 2006. The Sims 2: Open for Business is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2, released on March 3, 2006, which allows Sims to run a home or community lot based business.