TheCheat
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As if OFB didn't have enough annoyances, right? ![Undecided](/smf/Smileys/default/undecided.gif) So, I found the Reporter on my first business lot that I've opened, writing away on his clipboard. I think, "Okay, the Prima guide claims that the Reporter only needs to gain 100 Customer Loyalty points (enough for the first Star)." So, I go over and Dazzle said Reporter, he gains a Star, and immediately decides he wants to check out. After checking out, he leaves. End of story. No Good Review, no Bad Review; he just leaves. This is really frustrating me, as my business owner keeps rolling the want to win a "Best of the Best Award." Plus, I want to plant a few of those awards around the store because, according to the Prima guide, Sims who view them will gain a jump-start to their Buy bar on the next item they browse.
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Motoki
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Supposedly, he will stay for 5 hours and if in that time he doesn't get +100 or -100 then he'll leave without writing a review. If he left in less than 5 hours without writing a review something is definitely wrong though
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TheCheat
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Well, the Prima guide mentions an invisible "Shopping" want that all Sims now possess and the goal of a business owner is to not complete satisfy that want. Apparently a Sim whose Shopping want is nowhere near filled will get larger starting bonuses to their Buy bars than one whose Shopping want is almost satisfied. Perhaps the Reporter I had didn't have much of a Shopping want in the first place? I dunno.
I had another Reporter on another lot earlier today who gained three Customer Loyalty Stars within 3 hours, stayed for the other 2, and still left without giving a review.
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Myth
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I have played my home business lot to a full 10 stars and have yet to see the reporter. I thought it had to do with it being a home business, then my son downloaded my house lot for the exact home and made abusiness on it. Bingo! Reporter!
Oh well, at least he didn't have a sim spontaneuosly combust and have to have the Hydrobot put him out.
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Rohina: Motion to Expel Myth from the Senate. Just testing an hypothesis. Nothing to do with the fact that she smells like ass. Flowerchile: Have you be'd norty again Mythie? Mythchick: No, I just followed Rohina around a little and now smell like ass.
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Darkstormyeve
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Glad someone mentioned this. In my first ever shop in downtown I got the reviewer twice. First time good, second time bad. Next, I open a shop which I build myself in Pleasantview and no reviewer until star 10! A guy comes in writing on his clipboard and I dazzle him etc etc. He leaves happy but no report! Frustrating.
I will try again with my real estate business in Blue Water.
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Motoki
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You may have seen him and not known it. I think everyone has the same Bluewater npcs and if so he has red hair and that weird pony tail with the sides shaved hairdo. He'll be scribbling on a pad and paper.
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In communist China Peggy's hairs cut you!
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Simlover
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I had one just after my shop opened and I didn't know who she was and I got a bad review. I mean gimme a break my poor sim was still trying to learn how to work the cash register. ![Huh](/smf/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
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straycat
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I had one just after my shop opened and I didn't know who she was and I got a bad review. I mean gimme a break my poor sim was still trying to learn how to work the cash register. ![Huh](/smf/Smileys/default/huh.gif) Same here! It's terrible. My Sim was simply too busy with so many customers in the newly opened shop. The business is doing so well now. I wonder if there is a way to get rid of a bad review. Will another reporter come by or are we stuck with that initial bad review for all eternity? *weeps*
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sanmonroe
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I haven't ever gotten any report, but I have gotten several Best of the Best awards from my reporter.
wait!!! Maxis would never mes up something so vital!!! YOU BASTARDS HAS HAXX!!!
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sorry...
channelling the BBS.
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When you do something because of the internet that is wrong. When you make love to a man in a giraffe outfit. When you discover you masterbated online to a picture of a relative.
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TheCheat
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Question: Where is this "star 10" crap coming from? Last time I checked, customers only had 5 slots for positive Customer Loyalty stars... And, although I appreciate the input that people have been having regarding the Reporter working in their game, that doesn't really help me now, does it? ![Undecided](/smf/Smileys/default/undecided.gif) EDIT: D'oah...you meant Business Level 10... ![Cheesy](/smf/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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First reporter I had gave my Diva's home-based business a bad review, even though the lot was absolutely full of entertainment, entire floor devoted to refreshments, extremely comfortable seating ... then I'm playing my newly-graduated Fortune female who immediately wants to buy a community lot. She buys the cheapest one available, hires a townie with a Silver Badge in flower-arranging and while he's furiously making bouquets, she pops a few cheapie vases and plants onto the stands from the catalogue, while this builder person adds a little shack with a toilet, plus a cheapy picnic table, a barbeque, a swingset and a bubble-blower. The reporter is going around with positive signs all over the place, stops to have a quick swing, then tells my Sim he thinks her business is top-notch and he's giving her a great review. No stars, though. I reckon the whole thing is totally random.
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terrakosmos
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TheCheat, I've had this problem too. Actually, I've only ever gotten one review (home business, positive). Other than that the reporter shows up, scribbles, racks up 2-3 loyalty pts, scribbles, makes a purchase, then leaves without giving a review. I know I've met the criteria to receive reviews, dammit.
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ThyGuy
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I've had that sneak bastard reviewer spy through a window outside of the building on numerous occassions, completely out of sight, then come into view and give a bad reveiw.
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Lythdan
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I had a reporter the very first time I tried to do a business... it was that florist lady.
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I've had two reviews... The first one I had, the business had only been open a couple of days and my sim was still trying to find his feet. Needless to say the review was a bad one! ![Tongue](/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) The second review was when the business reached a 10 ranking and had been open for a few weeks. This time the review was a glowing one ![Smiley](/smf/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Scotty
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My first review was a great one. I got that award and placed it on my wall. Sims seem to like seeing it, and it helps my rating too.
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My first business, first day, got a Best of the Best Award without even knowing what she was doing. I think it was because the environment score was so high (surrounded by masterpieces).
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If the reporter leaves and you get do not get a good or bad review, it meant you got a "meh" review that was neither good nor bad.
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
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Darkstormyeve
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So what do you have to do to get a good report? I dazzled the reporter sucessfully and talked to him socially. Appreciated him. I made sure he got personal service from my sim at the register (she's a gold medal check out chick) and did everything but kiss his butt.
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sanmonroe
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Pucker up next time.
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When you do something because of the internet that is wrong. When you make love to a man in a giraffe outfit. When you discover you masterbated online to a picture of a relative.
Webcest.
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Darkstormyeve
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Yep, pucker buttercup.
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Not to burst anyone's bubble, but the second review I got, which was a glowing one BTW, I didn't even realise the reporter was on the business lot until I got the pop up that told me about the good review! So, I don't think puckering up works (unless one of my other non controllable sales staff kissed arse big time while I wasn't looking? ![Grin](/smf/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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Inge: credit to Kewian for educating me as to where my clitoris is and what it does
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He was the second customer on the opening night of my home bakery. Micha Eliza joked with him for a while then tended another customer. She worked on her sales skills with him so he wound up buying a few things, hung around for a long time (always getting in the way since the bakery is small), then gave her a great review.
I had no idea who he was until he pulled out his clipboard.
Maybe he liked the jokes she told him...
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TheCheat
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If the reporter leaves and you get do not get a good or bad review, it meant you got a "meh" review that was neither good nor bad.
So we're to assume that the Prima guide's info concerning the Reporter and how many Customer Loyalty points he/she needs to gain is BS?
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Darkstormyeve
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I have been hassling the Electronic Boutique guys about the Prima guide and 'James' just told me that boxes have arrived, he hasn't had a chance to open them but to call back in 2 hrs. So hopefully in 2 hrs time I'll be in my car driving to the store to get a copy of my guide. I hope it explains all.
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