Shops, yes shop again *expoding head*

[MaximilianPS]

1) i've made a sim, A-Sim
2) he have purchased a community lot to build his shop
3) the builded shop have some some toys and robots, every objects are marked in yellow with the proper tool to sell the stuff to the other sims
4) he have placed open/closed sign and a cash-register

then the sims go back to his home, pickup the phone and sell his community lot...

The B-Sim go on the ex A-Sim community lot to purchase a toy.. but the toy are unsellable
and the same appen with cake and groceries in general, also with the rest of the craftable objects and not.

actually i've all expansions and stuff installed (*teen included)
any solution 

[mamainred]

You have to have a Playable Sims own the lot & hire employees to run it.
All you did was set up a store, that know one owns now, so it is not usable
by other sims.

[Gwill]

I usually make dummy sims to make some craftables and run the business up a few levels, then turn them into townies using one hack or another.  Works like a dream.

[ApatiaMax]

Gwill can you be a bit more specific ?
i've made it just yesterday and i've made the sims as townies with insimenator (family trees) but when i've gone back to the hood the plumbob was there and the sims was been playable too, maybe family trees failed


*edit*
here the insim. family Tree works fine.
but on the house now there is a bag, and the lot isn't visitable.



so i suppose that i've to use a community lot ?

[J. M. Pescado]

Do not sell an ownable business, or it will lose all of its ownable shop attributes. Never sell an ownable business "back to the community" unless you want it destroyed.

[ApatiaMax]

indeed we haven't to sell the shop/activity but just to convert the dummie sim in a townies

[gethane]

so does the stock magically restock every trip?

[ApatiaMax]

actually i cant visit the community lot, the game crash everytime that i visit it 

[Emma]

Bulldoze and replace with a clean, unplayed, backup copy. You do have one right? Never sell back to community via phone. Sell to townies if you must.

[ApatiaMax]

Bulldoze and replace with a clean, unplayed, backup copy.

already made it, the backup restoration

You do have one right? Never sell back to community via phone. Sell to townies if you must.

uhh.. brilliant i'll try it now !

[MaximilianPS]

indeed it works
thnx emma, but how do you convert a sim into a townies without insimenator 

[Gwill]

Use inge's shrub/cat or the townie tree/gun.

[ApatiaMax]

the tree/gun made create new townies/npc/special character but i can't found an option to made an existent townies as a sims, and that's why we use family tree

[MaximilianPS]

nope, on the riffle there is the command "Make into townies" but it didn't work

[J. M. Pescado]

Do not attempt to move a business owner to a different family, or else you will mess up the business information tokens and leave debris in your neighborhood files. The Lot Debugger can help you transfer this if you are moving to a different playable family, but it does not work if you try to move them into a nonplayable family.

[Gwill]

the tree/gun made create new townies/npc/special character but i can't found an option to made an existent townies as a sims

I found Make into townie... with no problems.

I'm absolutely sure it's worked for me.

[MaximilianPS]

weird here it didn't work
maybe 'cause  the localization ... or maybe some hacks, i'll test it again with a clean download folder, thnx anyway