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🕑 Added 2025-06-14 14:46:50 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
Firstly, I'll try to clear all my old mods before the upcoming expansion pack, which should make updates easier. I can't guarantee it, but I'll do my best!
Secondly, I'm currently working on a few things.
You know that annoying 'For Rent' bug which prevents you from paying the rent because there are no options to do so? Even the cheats don't work properly. Well, I fixed it.
It was a terrible experience: while the Sims code is basically good — I see much worse things at work — these 'For Rent' things are my personal nightmare.
I mean, they actually implemented residential rentals based on the Own Business system from Get to Work. It's so clumsy — what does 'open' and 'close' mean in this context? It should always be open while there are tenants.
But that's not the only issue. The business system also implicitly closes a business (including residential rentals) if there are no valid owners. And guess what? There's a bug here too! Although it supports NPC owners, it doesn't handle NPC rental apartment ownership properly (yes, I'm talking about Panya Li in the first instance) – so the owner household validation fails and rental apartments are closed. If the business is closed, what bills do you expect to receive?
And I haven't finished yet! With Business & Hobbies, we see specific behaviour: a small business is owned by a single sim, rather than by the entire household. Instead of checking the owner sim only in the case of a small business and the owner household otherwise, they always check the owner sim – while any other business owner sim is None. This only made things worse.
They wrote functions that were kind of a fix for rent units, but it didn't help anyway, lol.
I had to log almost every function relating to business functions to find all the bugs. And it finally seems to work fine. However, this mod is still in the testing phase, just to make sure there are no problems in edge cases.
Another work in progress is much easier. I just keep working on group orders from food stalls. It's boring because there are a lot of stalls and I have to copy and paste the same code with a few differences for each one manually. Still, it's only a matter of time — nothing difficult. You can read more about it there.
Hope you like it!
