hello!
Got a bit of a problem with my resturant manager.
I set up a nice little resturant on a comunity lot, got all the staff sorted and got everything working nicely. I read in the in-game help that if I set up a manager then manager would run thing while my Sim was else where, Great! So I set up one of my employees as a manager (No cheat, she had enough badges) clicked on "Hold the fort" to get her running things on her own sent my sim (the owner) home and left the lot, so far so good, or so I thought.

A little later I get a message "Your Business did'nt make any money today, you better go and shake things up", okay no problem, sent my sim down to her business to find it shut and everything quiet. So I clicked on the business closed/open sign, called my employees in and opened the place up again.

Everyone came trooping back, as normal, but I find that the manager has now become selectable, she's got her little face under my sim at the side of the screen. (Is this normal?) Okay no problem, used my sim to tell her to hold the fort again and tried to leave. the placed closes, my employees and punter all leave and head off home - not good!

Got back into my business, called everyone back in and got the place opened, and sure enough there she is, my managers face pops up at the side of the screen(family section). So I cheat a little and make her unselectable (Insiminator), seemed to work fine, her face vanished from the family pannel and she was off doing her own thing. Sorted I thought... WRONG! tried to leave the lot, same problem, The place shuts, everyone leaves. (bother! )

I have even tried setting another employee as manager, and enter the lot and up come thier little mug in the side pannel, try to leave the lot and the place closes. My manager is'nt doing their job, should I sack them?

Okay, I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen (and I've got a funny feeling it's not!) and though it not a major thing I would like to let my sim get off and do other things, any thoughts on how to fix my minor annoyance?

I've got all the EP's upto Season's, but not the University (did'nt seem worth it) but as far as I know their all working as should be (apart from this of course!)

When you promote an employee to manager they are supposed to become selectable. The game is functioning normally. Once an employee becomes a manager, they transform into a fully controllable sim while on the business lot, as long as the owner is present and controllable. No worries. The game is running as it should.

Also, your sim has to visit the lot quite a bit to keep the remote income from decaying. Even if you diligently call in to check on the business, it will still eventually stop making a profit. So, send your sim there every two days or so and run the lot for at least 4 sim hours. This resets the decay; if the owner stays home the next day (and calls in), the infusion is the average income minus the initial 20% reduction and a 10% daily decay.

Thanks for that. starting to think the home business was easier to run.

So does that mean that it's normal for everybody to drop "tools" and leave when the owner leaves the lot? Or does this only happen after my sim has been on the lot for an extended period?

I wish I knew this sooner! I went the route of starting a new save with my household and lots transferred over! The manager becoming selectable just seems out of place. There needs to be a warning about this on the wikis, fan sites, mods, or somewhere.

Edit: I forgot to mention I reinstalled the Legacy Collection when I recreated my save and the manager becoming selectable still happened.

Business lots aren't any different than any other lot, when you leave the lot, time stops and nothing happens there until you return again. There being a manager at the business doesn't change that. The only thing the manager changes is that it makes it so that you can call in to the business from the home lot and get some percentage of your typical profits that way without actually playing the business. Get antibusinessdecay if you want the profits to stay the same for longer.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=3882.0