The Sims 4’s latest EP released a few days ago and feedback so far has been good. There are some things you can’t do in Businesses & Hobbies, though.
EA’s latest Sims 4 Expansion, Businesses & Hobbies, has brought several new elements to the gameplay experience. In addition to the main theme of owning a small business players can now have multi-use Lots, make and sell candy, make pottery, give tattoos, pass on knowledge, make special signature recipes, and more! Overall players have been pleased with these latest offerings but there are still some limits that we wish would change.
Things You Can’t Do In Businesses & Hobbies
Some of these limitations are intentional to the game while others seem to be unintended effect that we hope will be rectified in a future patch.
You Can’t Have Multiple Businesses Open At Once
Your sims are able to own more than one Small Business and/or your sims can have more than one member of the Household own a Small Business, but you can only choose one business to be open at a time. It’s easy to work around this though by having your businesses operating on different schedules, such as one open during the day and one at night, one open during the week and one during the weekend, seasonal businesses, etc.
You Can’t Ask Employees To Arrange Flowers
While there is a huge variety of tasks you can assign to your Small Business’ employees, your sim’s dreams of opening a floral shop will have to wait. Currently there is no option to assign your employees to arrange flowers. This should be on the task list but for the time being it seems there’s a bug with the game that hides the option. You can get around this by assigning your employees to other tasks and having your sim be the one doing Flower Arranging, as well as any other Household members you have control over at the time.
You Can’t Have A Small Business In For Rent Apartments
Because the Small Business system is assigned based on a specific Lot Type, you can’t have Residential Rental Apartments in the same space. The option would likely overload some lower-end computers as well with the number of sims that would need to spawn to make everything feel immersive.
You are able to split between Apartments and Small Businesses in the apartments found in San Myshuno and Evergreen Harbor though. The game basically treats them like a normal Residential Lot so it’s not as tricky to add the functionality there.
You Can’t Have Separate Shoe-Wearing Control
It’s nifty that we can tell our sims whether or not they should be wearing shoes when on our Lot. It’s less so when you’re running a Small Business and your customers are walking around barefoot. Currently any shoe removal assignments you make to your Lots will carry over into your Small Business. This isn’t such a problem for places like a private Yoga studio or Spa, but it’s not as welcome in other settings like a small retail location or somewhere food is served. EA will hopefully change this but for now, you’ll have to manually toggle between shoe options based on what aspect of the game you’re playing with.
You Can’t Romance Trashley!
A new NPC added with the expansion is Trashley Reelpearson, a mysterious vendor in Iverstad who teachers the player about running a Small Business. Trashley can be befriended and has no Dislikes, but their romantic interests indicate that they’re not looking for romance or to WooHoo with anybody. Considering that Trashley is no ordinary sim, this makes sense.
More on SNOOTYSIMS: Curious about who Trashley really is? You can learn all about them here!
Closing Thoughts
Those are 5 things you can’t do in Businesses & Hobbies! Some of these limitations make sense and will likely remain for the lifetime of The Sims 4 while others are probably oversights that should be rectified in an update. Hopefully none of them are too annoying or game-breaking for you!
Is there anything else you’ve discovered that you can’t do in Businesses & Hobbies? Are there any other changes to the EP you’d make if you could? Let us know in the comments and until next time, happy simming!
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“You are able to split between Apartments and Small Businesses in the apartments found in San Myshuno and Evergreen Harbor though. The game basically treats them like a normal Residential Lot so it’s not as tricky to add the functionality there.”
“You Can’t Have A Small Business In For Rent Apartments”
I don’t understand what you meant by this? Are you saying that we could have businesses and apartments operate on the same lot or are you saying that we can’t have a home business in an individual apartment unit? I’m confused here.
Hi Aliyah! If you live in an apartment that came with City Living or Eco Lifestyle, you are able to make it a Residential Small Business and run a business out of your sim’s home. If your sim lives in a Residential Rental (introduced in For Rent) they cannot subdivide the space into business space.
The lot can be a Residential Small Business or a Residential Rental, but not both.