Where can I find a similar experience to Sims 2 Open for Business?

[DaniTheHero]

I loved it as a kid.

[Sovereign Dark]

I wish I knew. OFB was everything. Retail and business options in Sims 4 don't come close to it, and they're very buggy.

[DaniTheHero]

Originally posted by Sovereign Dark:

I wish I knew. OFB was everything. Retail and business options in Sims 4 don't come close to it, and they're very buggy.

There is NOTHING like it at all?

[Xeriath]

No, I don’t think that a game or mod exist which give you a similar experience. Maybe LittleMsSam Live in Business or Carls Dine Out Reloaded but will still be different.

[Ani Blade]

That really depends on which aspects you're looking for. The home based business isn't really an option as a default, but sims can have retail stores with... Get to Work? I've honestly never tried to run one yet myself, so which pack it came with is iffier for me.
I don't know if you specifically need Dine Out in order to make a restaurant, since I don't have it. I imagine it would give us the lot type for that though?
Cats & Dogs gave us the vet lot type, Spa Day the spa one, etc
But whichever pack gave us Magnolia Promenade is where the ability to have your own retail store came from.

[Jarl Tobi]

Originally posted by Ani Blade:

That really depends on which aspects you're looking for. The home based business isn't really an option as a default, but sims can have retail stores with... Get to Work? I've honestly never tried to run one yet myself, so which pack it came with is iffier for me.
I don't know if you specifically need Dine Out in order to make a restaurant, since I don't have it. I imagine it would give us the lot type for that though?
Cats & Dogs gave us the vet lot type, Spa Day the spa one, etc
But whichever pack gave us Magnolia Promenade is where the ability to have your own retail store came from.

Get to work gave us magnolia promenade

[DaniTheHero]

Originally posted by Ani Blade:

That really depends on which aspects you're looking for. The home based business isn't really an option as a default, but sims can have retail stores with... Get to Work? I've honestly never tried to run one yet myself, so which pack it came with is iffier for me.
I don't know if you specifically need Dine Out in order to make a restaurant, since I don't have it. I imagine it would give us the lot type for that though?
Cats & Dogs gave us the vet lot type, Spa Day the spa one, etc
But whichever pack gave us Magnolia Promenade is where the ability to have your own retail store came from.

The whole training employes, the different skills, the way your sim needed to start off on his own, hiring and gaining skills until he managed to hire people that were better or train the existing ones. The whole interaction was fun.

[Coffee Addict]

not sure which aspects of OFB your looking for, i have 2 sims who own a retail store one runs a bakery the other a pizzeria, its not perfect but it works

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by DaniTheHero:

The whole training employes, the different skills, the way your sim needed to start off on his own, hiring and gaining skills until he managed to hire people that were better or train the existing ones. The whole interaction was fun.

i dont think you can do that in a retail store however if you own a restaurant/vet clinic you can pay to have your employees get training which increases their skills,

you start off with only 1 slot for an employee so in the beginning its either just you or you and 1 other sim until you can unlock the perks to hire more

all employees start off with low skills you have to train them up, if you start a restaurant you have to start with low skill food for your chef to cook until their cooking skill improves otherwise they will just keep burning the high skill foods

the one thing i can think of from OFB that sims 4 doesnt have is as the owner you cant fill any position you wanted, example in the sims 2 if you bought a restaurant you can be the chef if you wanted however in the sims 4 you have to hire a chef the player sim cant cook the food or serve the guests that aspect is missing which sucks,

you can kinda get around that by making a retail store its not the same but kinda works

[Ani Blade]

Originally posted by DaniTheHero:

Originally posted by Ani Blade:

That really depends on which aspects you're looking for. The home based business isn't really an option as a default, but sims can have retail stores with... Get to Work? I've honestly never tried to run one yet myself, so which pack it came with is iffier for me.
I don't know if you specifically need Dine Out in order to make a restaurant, since I don't have it. I imagine it would give us the lot type for that though?
Cats & Dogs gave us the vet lot type, Spa Day the spa one, etc
But whichever pack gave us Magnolia Promenade is where the ability to have your own retail store came from.

The whole training employes, the different skills, the way your sim needed to start off on his own, hiring and gaining skills until he managed to hire people that were better or train the existing ones. The whole interaction was fun.

Employees should still be trainable. I've only had a vet clinic so far, but I could actually pay to send my employees to training seminars for the veterinary skill. As you satisfy customers you gain perk points and then can buy perks.
It's not exactly the same, but I also don't know what the standard vs vet ones would be. But there was being able to hire more people, customer rushes, etc
The only thing I don't know how to do is transfer ownership of a business. The whole family can access it while the owner is alive and there, but after they die ownership just... ceases to be.