Buyers and Bugs?

[Nicci]

Hi Everyone! I just got the game and have been playing a lot of it and I just cant, for the life of me, figure out the buyer likes and dislikes stuff when doing a house before auctioning it. Is it bugged? Am I drastically misunderstanding?

For instance, I was building a house for the guy who loves speakers and TV's. I put in a bunch of TVs, speakers all over the living room and his dislikes were still not registering I put any in! This seems to be pretty common where I'll drop say a big bed and buyers still dislike the house saying there's no big bed anywhere. Same with sauna, I'll build a room with a sauna and buyers will still show they want a sauna and there is none. How does this stuff get registered as I feel like it hasn't worked for me yet no matter what I do. Thanks.

[Cardcaptor Sakura]

Check if the rooms have the right tag. For example, Jimmy Traitor likes multiple TVs in the living room. You need a sofa and coffee table to turn a room into a living room, so first check if you have those. The type of the room should show up on the side in blue while not using the tablet.

Next up, I've noticed not all furniture of a given type counts towards a thing. For example, placing two armchairs of a certain type didn't give me a living room. Sofas seemed to be the way to go for that. Maybe something similar happened for your double bed?

[Nicci]

Originally posted by Cardcaptor Sakura:

Check if the rooms have the right tag. For example, Jimmy Traitor likes multiple TVs in the living room. You need a sofa and coffee table to turn a room into a living room, so first check if you have those. The type of the room should show up on the side in blue while not using the tablet.

Next up, I've noticed not all furniture of a given type counts towards a thing. For example, placing two armchairs of a certain type didn't give me a living room. Sofas seemed to be the way to go for that. Maybe something similar happened for your double bed?

Thank you!!!! I'll try that today as I didnt notice there was a room type that shows up!

[Nicci]

As an update still an issue. For example: making a house for the jonson family, they want a big family room. I built a family room (says family room now on the right), its 109M and they still have no big family room in their dislikes.

Also definitely made a sauna, says sauna when i enter the room, gorgio shanua still mad there's no sauna -_-

[BETTYGILL]

I am having trouble trying to buy anything. Store does not open at all.

[piranha]

Yes, the buyers are quite bugged (not like they would be great even if they actually worked properly, but hey, I'd take it). Not all items are internally tagged correctly, and it's pretty difficult to make sense of things at the start. There are guides, but I think it's more fun to figure things out oneself, which is why the bugs are really problematic. Don't know what to tell you other than that in a few weeks you will have learned a lot of this by exposure, or you will have made a spreadsheet so you can keep better track. ;)

When trying to make a house for a specific buyer, it's as important, if not more so, to make it unattractive to certain other buyers, or they will always outbid the one you're aiming for. So, put in kid stuff to turn off the childhaters, expensive furniture to suppress the people who want it cheap, leave some dirt/trash to get Veronica, *grin*. etc. Colours don't matter much even though some state colour preferences, but you can paint the whole house green inside out and it won't get Chang Choi to commit. It's quite challenging, in part because of the bugs, and if you can look at it as an exercise with artificial constraints it might be less frustrating.

You can also just decide to ignore the buyers if they get on your nerves, and build whatever you like to please just yourself. It's a fun decorating game, and the bugs don't matter so much if you don't try to get the buyer achievements. You'll always sell the houses, and it's pretty difficult to lose money after you got over the initial hump. I did all the achievements because I liked the initial structure it gave to me to sell each house to a new buyer, but I have more fun now that I am done with it.

[Nicci]

Originally posted by piranha:

Yes, the buyers are quite bugged (not like they would be great even if they actually worked properly, but hey, I'd take it). Not all items are internally tagged correctly, and it's pretty difficult to make sense of things at the start. There are guides, but I think it's more fun to figure things out oneself, which is why the bugs are really problematic. Don't know what to tell you other than that in a few weeks you will have learned a lot of this by exposure, or you will have made a spreadsheet so you can keep better track. ;)

When trying to make a house for a specific buyer, it's as important, if not more so, to make it unattractive to certain other buyers, or they will always outbid the one you're aiming for. So, put in kid stuff to turn off the childhaters, expensive furniture to suppress the people who want it cheap, leave some dirt/trash to get Veronica, *grin*. etc. Colours don't matter much even though some state colour preferences, but you can paint the whole house green inside out and it won't get Chang Choi to commit. It's quite challenging, in part because of the bugs, and if you can look at it as an exercise with artificial constraints it might be less frustrating.

You can also just decide to ignore the buyers if they get on your nerves, and build whatever you like to please just yourself. It's a fun decorating game, and the bugs don't matter so much if you don't try to get the buyer achievements. You'll always sell the houses, and it's pretty difficult to lose money after you got over the initial hump. I did all the achievements because I liked the initial structure it gave to me to sell each house to a new buyer, but I have more fun now that I am done with it.

Thank you!!!! this was really helpful to read. Glad it's not just me doing something super wrong.

[Lord Hoagie]

Originally posted by Nicole:

Originally posted by piranha:

Yes, the buyers are quite bugged (not like they would be great even if they actually worked properly, but hey, I'd take it). Not all items are internally tagged correctly, and it's pretty difficult to make sense of things at the start. There are guides, but I think it's more fun to figure things out oneself, which is why the bugs are really problematic. Don't know what to tell you other than that in a few weeks you will have learned a lot of this by exposure, or you will have made a spreadsheet so you can keep better track. ;)

When trying to make a house for a specific buyer, it's as important, if not more so, to make it unattractive to certain other buyers, or they will always outbid the one you're aiming for. So, put in kid stuff to turn off the childhaters, expensive furniture to suppress the people who want it cheap, leave some dirt/trash to get Veronica, *grin*. etc. Colours don't matter much even though some state colour preferences, but you can paint the whole house green inside out and it won't get Chang Choi to commit. It's quite challenging, in part because of the bugs, and if you can look at it as an exercise with artificial constraints it might be less frustrating.

You can also just decide to ignore the buyers if they get on your nerves, and build whatever you like to please just yourself. It's a fun decorating game, and the bugs don't matter so much if you don't try to get the buyer achievements. You'll always sell the houses, and it's pretty difficult to lose money after you got over the initial hump. I did all the achievements because I liked the initial structure it gave to me to sell each house to a new buyer, but I have more fun now that I am done with it.

Thank you!!!! this was really helpful to read. Glad it's not just me doing something super wrong.

The buyers are bugged, although just in my experience, nothing game-breaking (like they'll get upset temporarily if I plaster a wall or something). Or suddenly everyone wants a sauna, as you mentioned. I found the below guide to be helpful, although as Piranha said, the bugs make the guides only somewhat useful. I'm not especially interested in Achievements either (although it's a legit frustration for other players) so I always just do what I want re: interior design styles. So like 99.99% of my sales have been to the elderly couple and the Veronica chick but hey, it's a game and so the most important thing is to have fun, however way you enjoy it the most. :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1392534248

[Lailantie]

I sold a loft with one bedroom to the family of six. Their only complaint was that there were not enough bedrooms :) I wonder if all the kids and the grandma will fit on the two sofas :)