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When I try to mark them for sale with the appropriate tool the robots are not clickable, it only says "cannot be set for sale". How do you do it?

Which ones? I think once you use or activate them you can't make them for sale. Have you tried just taking them straight off the bench and putting them up for sale? That always worked for me.

HydroBots and CleanBots.
I haven't used them, only put them from the inventory onto a shelf. I will try moving them directly from the bench.

Hmm, I just put mine on the floor when I sold them and grabbed them straight off the bench. It shouldn't make a difference though. *shrug*

Try to click on the base instead of the robot : it works for me.
Pioupiou

I think I've tried clicking on about every spot of the robots  ???

Can you click on the shelf itself? Doing that should make everything on it sellable.

Also, to be clear, you are in the sell mode, right?

It's normally impossible to put a robot on the shelf.  It's attached to a recharging base, and the base won't fit on a shelf.  The base is the thing you mark for sale, not the robot.

My guess is that you have MoveObjects on, and you moved the robot to the shelf without the base.  I've never done this, but if the base is gone afterwards, there's nothing you can do.  Throw away that robot and build another one.

 - Gus

I've definitely sold them at a home based business, it was on the floor though if that makes a difference.

Regarding putting them on shelves, I haven't tried yet so I don't know if it's possible. Numenor also has a hack at MTS2 that supposedly lets you put ANYTHING on shelves. I installed it recently but haven't tried putting the robots on shelves.

It is a home business, but it really was the moveobjects on that caused this. I turned it off and the robots are no longer able to be placed on shelves and they have a base which is clickable for sale.

Yeah. At first I was using this very flat shelf/display that I was putting right on the floor and couldn't even see once I put a hydro/clean/muchie/sentry on it, and i could click their bases for sale fine, but I could not restock.

Took me awhile to figure out it was the shelves, but I ditched them and all works fine.

The base would still be sitting on the bench for you to grab and put the robot back on. The bench itself would be glitching out with no options but "sell for $0."

There's a reason I know this.  ;)

I still haven't figured out how to unmark items for sale after marking them for sale. 

If you accidentally mark something for sale, is there a way to undo it without getting rid of the item in buy mode?

Just click on it again with the pricing tool.  If it's currently for sale, that marks it as not for sale.

 - Gus

You just click on the item or shelf again in pricing mode and it unmarks them.

I must say, a lot of the basic functions of how to use the interface in this expansion are not intuitive. They weren't for me at first either. It almost seems like you have to buy the damned guide to figure out the game. The scrap of paper that's a piss poor excuse for a manual is not much help.

Blurgh, really. I've never had any desire to buy a prima guide, particularly since I have access to message boards, but I've been getting so frustrated with some little things in this expansion that I've been tempted several times.

But I refuse to pay $20 for the basics that should have been included in the instruction manual anyway.

I just keep holding out and hoping more info starts showing up in the War Room.

The guide is now down to about twelve bucks at Amazon.

There was new OFB info posted at the help site at EA; sorry I can't provide the link as I accessed it at my office computer which has broadband.  Home is rinkydinkydialup and I would never venture there from here.  If you read Kane's sticky under the topic, the link is there.

Is Amazon actually shipping anytime soon though? Last time I checked they said ships in 4-6 weeks!!! I broke down and bought it at EB.  :P

*edit: Hmm, says ships in 24 hours now. Figures. Anyway, it's $13.59 and I get hit with tax because Amazon does business in my state. Then there's shipping too unless I combine it with something else to hit the $25 for free shipping.

I ordered my guide from amazon.com and got it Monday

Thanks. I think I've found it. Maybe it will be helpful.

Twelve bucks is still too much for me for the guide since I just hate the whole concept.

Yeah - I had ordered mine 2/27 in combination with a pair of snowshoes.  Got free shipping and the snowshoes arrived two days after the order was placed.  Amazon shipped the guide Tuesday so maybe it will be here by this weekend.

The snow is melting but I still need the guide. 

I don't think the guide is necessary. I've figured out quite a lot of the business stuff in one playing session with ToolTips on and clicking on stuff. I have no idea how bad or good the actual manual is; mine is in Finnish and I can't read Finnish well enough to make much sense of it. The ToolTips have been really useful, though.

Wow, their shipping is even more horrible than mine. At least *MINE* has a reason for taking 6-8 weeks.

hey, I am Finnish too :)
I haven't read the manual properly either, I was too impatient to get to play the game :D Just looked through it a couple of times.
But I don't really miss a guide either, it's fun to find out stuff for yourself. Except for the things you can't figure out, but luckily there are forums like this ;)

I usually do read the manuals to everything, but I'm not actually Finnish and only have six months of language instruction under my belt.  :D I could have had the husband read it to me or sat with it and a dictionary and puzzled it out, but I wanted to get to playing the game.

forget the guide!  You don't need it!

I had no trouble figuring things out...  but I did the unthinkable and turned game tips on.

Yeah, yeah, smarty. I did too.

But when I'm talking about basics, I'm talking about things like "do not put robots on shelves because you wont be able to restock and you will sit there for an hour like a fool wondering why."

Then again, maybe they expect me to turn moveobjects off once in awhile.

You need to click on the square base station, not the actual 'bot.

I wasn't able to sell the hydrobots or the cleanbots either, from a community lot business. I tried just placing them on the floor and making sure I didn't lose the base, and then selling them, but it didn't work. I don't remember if I tried clicking on the base or not- I will try it the next time I have access to the game.

I've had game tips on since installing and it's not a huge help.  For example, it gives little blurbs about buying shelves and placing items on them, using the phone to start up your business, so on and so forth.  I've yet to see any info on how to actually deal with customers and get them to buy your products.  It did tell how to price things manually, but it took some fiddling around to figure out how to actually lower the prices using the option on the cash register.  Otherwise, I keep getting useless nonsense about my sims now being able to date, having influence points, so on and so forth.  I'd imagine it's because this is a fresh install so the computer thinks I need all the game tips and not just the OFB ones--and I need WAY more than the OFB tips are giving! LOL