Smelly Customers (too frequent, even needed?)

[KNGPIN]

The smelly customer feature was funny, perhaps, once. But now, with my shop at 14 I get smelly customers almost non-stop. This isnt weed shop. Why are smelly customers even a thing in a card game?! To me, chasing around smelly customers constantly is not fun and a negative to this game. Unless the auto air purifier becomes effective, then this needs to go.

Lastly, some stream viewers find it offensive.

[Pvt. Parts]

As someone who has played TCGs for over 25 years, I can safely say this is a very accurate scenario. The magic card players at our store would absolutely STINK. At least 90% of them. And yeah, it was always Magic players. Something about that game and poor hygiene... Those of us who played other TCGs would often go to a friends house and play to avoid the smell of those guys.

However, other than having an air purifier or scented air fresheners plugged in, a shop owner would NEVER spray down a customer.

BTW: Your offended stream viewers are the stinky customers 100%. The only people who would take offence to this are the people who used to be the stinky players.

[Variance]

The auto purifier works just fine if you use 2 and put them next to the door so people have to walk through both. I like to pretend they are just those security scanner poles that detect theft so it doesn't seem so weird to have them there.

[TheDumpyGuy]

Can agree with above, setting two up at the door entrance works amazingly well. I also pretend they are security scanners lol so I'm glad I'm not alone with that thought

[Rapi-shiny]

"some stream viewers find it offensive."

In 2024 people are offended by everything

[KhaviSnakepact]

Originally posted by KNGPIN:

The smelly customer feature was funny, perhaps, once. But now, with my shop at 14 I get smelly customers almost non-stop. This isnt weed shop. Why are smelly customers even a thing in a card game?! To me, chasing around smelly customers constantly is not fun and a negative to this game. Unless the auto air purifier becomes effective, then this needs to go.

Lastly, some stream viewers find it offensive.

As someone who has played a ton of TCGs, TTRPGs and tabletop wargames for almost 18 years. Something about nerdy tabletop stuff seems to bring in the smelliest people for some reason.

Also your viewers are weird lol, my chat and me got a huge kick out chasing around the stinkers and giving them a spray. I will agree that without spending money on sprayers it can get annoying, but it's goofy and part of the gameplay loop. Grabbing 2 of the cheapest sprayers and putting one right inside the door and the other on the path towards your biggest amount of products or tables will get rid of 90%~ of the sinkers before they sit down or get to the register.

[theartofscience]

I think the game needs the underlying system to add some depth to management.

Sure they could change the green uck to a dark miasma, turn the slobs into criminals, and call the purifiers security scanners but it wouldn't fit as well thematically for the game.

It's like 100% accurate if you imagine the purifiers spray out Axe body spray.

[Mungus]

How about stop wanting everything easy, it becomes fun if you actually want to play the game.

[Lieutenant Dan]

It's the most realistic part of the game

[nate24]

Personally hoping for a mod or setting that disables stinky customers. Gameplay mechanic of running around spraying people significantly detracts from my enjoyment of the game. The joke was funny at first, and as a card player I think its totally realistic for people to smell- I just don't appreciate it as part of the simulation.

[smokauweeds]

Originally posted by TheDumpyGuy:

Can agree with above, setting two up at the door entrance works amazingly well. I also pretend they are security scanners lol so I'm glad I'm not alone with that thought :HappyShade:

yeah i set up 2 as well. catches 99.9% of the stinkers. but I feel like the machine needs tweaked. seems odd that you would need to put 2 at the entrance to stop the stink. Im not sure the higher grade ones do better? or just hold more spray.

I will say the machine does seem to be more efficient vs hand spraying.

[Mixolydian]

Originally posted by nate24:

Personally hoping for a mod or setting that disables stinky customers. Gameplay mechanic of running around spraying people significantly detracts from my enjoyment of the game. The joke was funny at first, and as a card player I think its totally realistic for people to smell- I just don't appreciate it as part of the simulation.

Agreed. It's a funny thing at first, but it should be a minor detail, not something that takes up so much of our focus.

You could argue, it's a SHOP simulator and this is part of it, and I agree. But that doesn't mean it should eat up so much of our focus.

As for the upgrades, I shouldn't have to buy multiple machines and spam them around the store, still only achieving 90% efficacy as someone else noted. That's absurd. When I buy an upgrade, it should work.

As I noted in another thread, I wouldn't want to totally disable this feature either. Just tone it down. Personally I'd like an upgrade that would just place an auto-sprayer above the door, outside. Everyone entering the shop would be 100% covered before they get inside.

[daydreamzzz]

Originally posted by nate24:

Personally hoping for a mod or setting that disables stinky customers. Gameplay mechanic of running around spraying people significantly detracts from my enjoyment of the game. The joke was funny at first, and as a card player I think its totally realistic for people to smell- I just don't appreciate it as part of the simulation.

totally agree

[Vorshin]

Originally posted by Variance:

The auto purifier works just fine if you use 2 and put them next to the door so people have to walk through both. I like to pretend they are just those security scanner poles that detect theft so it doesn't seem so weird to have them there.

not always as there is a section (left side as you walk in) that customers walk and escape the spray. More and more are smelly, sure there are but there is deffo not every 2 out of 3 customers require to be sprayed. I run out of spray daily (thats a cost to refill) its a cost to refill the can you have to use running down smellies.

Putting a used box on teh shelf should always place it to be picked up first. Just like supermarker simulator these get shuffled top the back and before you know it what you see are full shelves of box's but probably 1 or 2 items in each box. very annoying.

[ButActually]

This mechanic is allowing me to do what I wish I could whenever I walk into a card shop that reeks of B.O. Let me vent my frustrations out in the game.

[Paronk]

Originally posted by KNGPIN:

Lastly, some stream viewers find it offensive.

Who isn't offended over something. They can figure out how to deal themselves.