A study of Buy Bars
Gus Smedstad:
That's the first decent breakdown I've seen of why a Sales interaction succeeds or fails. I hadn't realized that "Can I help you?" cared about Daily Relationship.
I don't really get the intent of the testing tree. As I understand it, "can I help you?" generally only applies to Sims who have just come on the lot, though now and then I've seen a Sim finish shopping and get the baffled look. So you'd think that this tree would always succeed, particularly with the badge adjustments. Either something is borked, as you say, or I'm not understanding something, because I've had a fair number of "Can I help you?" interactions fail with a Gold sales badge.
- Gus
LordHellscream:
these are making sense now, with mind-control mirror i checked and found out that all my best customers (those who buy the most frequent and never reject my sales interaction) are very very outgoing.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2006 March 10, 22:00:53
I don't really get the intent of the testing tree. As I understand it, "can I help you?" generally only applies to Sims who have just come on the lot, though now and then I've seen a Sim finish shopping and get the baffled look. So you'd think that this tree would always succeed, particularly with the badge adjustments. Either something is borked, as you say, or I'm not understanding something, because I've had a fair number of "Can I help you?" interactions fail with a Gold sales badge.
There's several reasons for why this might occur: First, there's the possibility that your target just unnaturally hates you for some reason that is invisible to you on your panel. If your subject hates you, possibly due to lousy chemistry (only -25 is needed), or perhaps an extended history of personal assault, you auto-fail, period. Secondly, some sims are just unnaturally surly when they arrive for some reason. Letting them bask in some snapdragons for a bit may help, but usually if they behave this way, you're better off just kicking them out of your store.
LordHellscream:
if chemistry plays such an important role then does it mean that those people without NL can sell stuffs more successfully? since chemistry was introduced in NL expansion pack.
J. M. Pescado:
No. Even though Chemistry was introduced in NL, it's a core game feature so remains active in OFB, even for those without NL. Turn-ons and turn-offs may or may not exist in OFB without NL, but the basic chemistry functionality remains.
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