The Sims 2: Open for Business

The Sims 2: Open for Business, or OFB is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2, released on March 2, 2006 for US and March 3 for EU, which allows Sims to run a home or community lot based business. A Mac version was released on September 4, 2006.

Open for Business gives you the ability to run a business, either on a playable Sim's home lot or a separate community lot. You can run a business through Workbenches (such as the Robot Crafting Station), the Perk system, the talent badge system, and the Customer Loyalty system. Open for Business also adds a new type of sub-neighborhood called the Shopping District, and includes a shopping district called Bluewater Village.

With this expansion, playable Sims can own community lots. When you send the owner or a member of the owner's household to an owned community lot, you can save, access Buy Mode and Build Mode, and access those Sims' inventories. You also need to watch their needs, as they can die on that lot. The EP also introduced elevators, some new interactions, and music. It also modified doors so they can be locked.

Running a business is the main theme of this EP. You will need to hire employees, adjust their position and wages, assign them jobs, and possibly even fire them. Players must gain customer loyalty to have their business in a higher rank. You can choose your own mascot, customize your menu, sales, handle reviewers and sell almost anything you want as long as it is available in game.

The life status introduced in Open for Business is the Servo. Sims can build robots (Servos) on the robot creation bench and the Servo becomes a member of the Sim's family. You can only create one if the Sim have a gold robotics talent badge and can only be activated it if you have less then eight household members in your residence.

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