Buyer Feedback

[elbit]

Please add in buyers with personalities / preferences like HF1, that was the core mechanic for me in the first one that kept me playing more.

Or at least some generic buyer feedback on why the prices the buyers are offering are so low (for me so far).

[King DaMuncha]

Everyone hated that and it made no sense so they took it out. e.g. the old couple offering significantly less money if the house has more than two bedrooms.

[elbit]

Well obviously not everyone hated it. You just had to tailor the right house to the right family, which to me gave the game more... point?
Anyway, even if the particular families are controversial, and were taken out for a reason, why is there no general feedback when selling a property, to give you a sense as to how you could improve your sale price for future properties.

[akaplan1]

I would at least like to understand what increases a home's value. I don't really know if I get any more value out of fully furnishing a house, versus plopping down a fridge and two beds. Does anyone care if the furniture/appliances are "high end?" Do design choices, such as materials, color schemes, etc. matter? I'm guessing not, due to the subjectivity of it, but buyers in real life are opinionated, so I don't know ... maybe buyers in the game have some sort of randomized "taste" in decor that skews toward trendier styles or something? Anything? However it works, that's fine, I'd just like more info about it.

[Revannia]

I think what people hated in HF1 was that the buyers' preferences didn't stop them from buying completely inappropriate houses - mainly the families buying 1 bedroom apartments or having to sell mostly empty houses to try to get some of the buyers to be top bidder to get achievements.

I liked the idea of HF1's system and was hoping they would improve the system, not remove it, so that bidders bought houses that made sense based not only on their tastes but number of bedrooms, etc. If there are no preferences to go by or any guidelines as to what (if anything) can increase sale prices an auction system doesn't seem necessary. We can just set an arbitrary price and some no name person can buy it.

[Mimi]

That explains why I can't find the buyers anywhere!
I also miss this, it just feels currently like I can plonk stuff everywhere (no room designation either as far as I can see)

[suspiria_2]

has anyone tried to just clean and sell a house yet? i did some cleaning and furniture changes in the cheapest house and of course the single bidder only bid $5k over what i paid.

i do wonder why they don't give you at least 3 people to bid a house to start with, and then the further options would be that you receive feedback from the buyers (perhaps not individualized to a single buyer) that get more detailed, along with more buyers later. or maybe the reverse--you get plenty of feedback in the beginning but not many buyers, and both increase over time with those perks.

unless you have a real tear-down IRL at least a few people will look at it.

[ttv.chaipanduh]

Originally posted by suspiria_2:

has anyone tried to just clean and sell a house yet?

I just tested this on the second cheapest house, fully cleaned with the dingy furniture sold (but not replaced) would have given about $1000 profit.
I wish we had some type of feedback at all, like "its still dirty" or "theres not x room". Like, give me something to work with

[Chuckle Nuts]

They literally removed any bit of realism from this game and it shows.

[The_Outsider]

I liked the feedback, it allowed me to get what the NPC's were looking for.

[Fyreflyy]

I think if they kept the buyers, but allowed you to sell to one of the three even at a lower cost for the achievement it would have been better

[CyberDiva]

I liked getting feedback in HF1. Loved it. It made things much easier for me. What I hated was the limited number of buyers and the fact that the old people or the artist wanted every damn house I made, no matter their preferences -- even when only catering to other buyers' preferences. Add a single plant or rug in the house and suddenly those were the top two buyers. It got really annoying.

I am hoping the feedback is brought back, but in a much better way this time.

[NyoEi]

I love feedback. I really love the NPC's in the game and I'd enjoy getting to know more about them, and doing more work for them. Feels a bit lonely when you are in a story and you don't see a single soul. I'm not money driven at all so I'd much prefer to be told I was doing a good job, and I'd do the community centre for free to be honest. Give me that option please.

[Unseelie]

I'm surprised that people liked the buyers - I couldn't stand them. I kept having to make whatever I was working on my office to get them to stop whining. I was so relieved when they let you turn them off; finally I could make a house the way I wanted without them crying about no saunas or whatever.

If they do add buyer feedback back in, I hope they let you turn it off - I'd rather not have the distraction. Or the stress; it was hard to relax when it felt like a crowd was watching and judging everything you did.

[tatiana]

Originally posted by Unseelie:

I'm surprised that people liked the buyers - I couldn't stand them. I kept having to make whatever I was working on my office to get them to stop whining. I was so relieved when they let you turn them off; finally I could make a house the way I wanted without them crying about no saunas or whatever.

If they do add buyer feedback back in, I hope they let you turn it off - I'd rather not have the distraction. Or the stress; it was hard to relax when it felt like a crowd was watching and judging everything you did.

It seems to me that people are asking for buyer feedback at auction, to figure out the reason for the prices offered, as opposed to commentary during renovation.

[Duggy]

I think the whole auction thing needs an upgrade its not great... Doing up the houses to sell is the main aim no?..