Suite Life 1.2 (Hotel Ownership) Public Release

---- July 20 Update ----

Suite Life 1.2.1 is now available fixing issues introduced in the 1.2 Guest Suite refactor and other issues with Hotel Ownership:

• Fixed issue preventing NPCs from autonomously booking rooms in certain conditions.

• Fixed picker issue preventing hotels to be purchased in certain conditions.

• Fixed EA Pizza/Grocery NPCs unable to knock on the door and complete their deliveries.

• Additional improvements to laundry autonomy weights. Sims shouldn't be stuck with the constant laundry balloon anymore.

• Guests requesting maintenance on an object in the common area will skip the door knocking phase.

• Adjusted logic that makes staff get back to work when they have a task to do.

• Improved NPCs feeding pets autonomously.

• Fixed staff access not removed from guest room after completing a room service task after v1.2.0. This issue will resolve itself after the next room service request to the room.

• Fixed staff unable to access rooms that do not have guests checked in.

  Additional fixes for staff not taking their mandated breaks between shifts.

• Temporarily disabled rummaging trash and mailboxes for secrets to prevent exception as it expects a residential home owner.

• Continental Breakfast Surfaces are now limited to 3 surfaces. Limits have to start being added as people are abusing the system and building/uploading hotels on the gallery that are just not realistic to run.

• Added toggle in Hotel Settings for autonomous vacuuming (Bust the Dust required).

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Hi everyone! This might be my biggest update yet. I hope y'all enjoy what it has to offer, it includes many highly requested features.

PSA 🚪 Sliding Doors still have several issues surrounding them and I still do not recommend using them for exterior/entry suite doors. I discovered a new bug this week where the locks are completely ignored because the doors do not have a front portal. I have locked both sides but Sims could get trapped in rooms if they've been kicked out, so be cautious when using them if you use them at all, please don't... 🥴

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⚠️ Core Library 1.31 is required to continue using Suite Life ⚠️

It seems you may need to update your game to 1.116 to use the latest Core Library and thus this Suite Life update.

🚨 If you experience issues or exception reports, join Discord and report your issue with files and logs in 🆘 mod-support to receive help.

You can upload your exception and log files in the 🤖 bot51-scanner-channel at any time to get an automated report about my mods. It can also help detect issues with your hotels. Just enter the cheat hotels.print before uploading the log file. (Although it needs to be updated to debug these new features)

⬇️ Download now from my Website!

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Ranch Stables Hotel Perk (Horse Ranch EP Required)

Grab your boots, you can now add the Ranch Stables Hotel Perk to board Horses on the lot, taken care of by Hotel Ranch Staff. 

• A Ranch Hand will work during the day and autonomously take care of any animals on the lot including Cows, Llamas, Chickens, Goats.

• Toggle Horse Boarding on individual Horse Beds to have a horse assigned to the lot. They will ultimately stay there until their death or are "fired" and a new horse will be boarded.

• If you have Free-Range, the latest update will give you a 100% discount when purchasing for unowned hotels with the perk. If you're an owner, funds will be pulled from your business account.

Hotel Ownership

Expand your real estate empire into the hospitality industry and become a Hotel Owner through Pillow: The Premiere Hotel Realty App! Build your brand and rake in 💸 simoleons with multiple hotels around the worlds.

• This feature is a WIP: Hotels are only simulated while you're on the lot. You will not earn revenue or accrue expenses during time spent off lot.

• All Hotel Business features are Base Game Compatible.

  • Custom businesses are unable to display in the business panel in the bottom right corner. Instead you'll need to manage your owned hotels through the custom management interactions on the phone and concierge bell/signs on the lot.

  • Hotel business funds can still be transferred between other businesses and household account through the Simoleon button next to the total funds in the bottom left of the UI.

• Similar to the new Small Business system, Hotels will track all payments that occur on the lot and award the business account. You'll receive a report each morning with expenses, wages and revenue for the previous day. You can view your overall Finance Report from the Concierge Bell or from the Manage Owned Hotels picker on your phone even when you're away.

• Don't forget about the Room Service and Table Service Multiplier in the Hotel Settings. You can apply markup to food ordered through these services to help make up for food costs.

  • Food costs will be tracked anytime food or drinks are made by an employee or owner. 10% of the original recipe price will be deducted from the business and tracked in the Finances Report. In the future these costs will vary based on the quality of ingredients offered by the hotel, affecting the quality of the food produced.

• Revenue from Services includes Guest Suite check-ins and services like Room Service, Table Service, and any other purchases made by guests.

• As a Hotel Owner you can Hire and Fire employees; Send them home; Give them Praise or Criticize their work.

• You will have the choice to micro-manage which employees are hired, or keep it on autopilot as the mod has worked in the past with HR•AI. 

  • If the Human Resources AI is turned off, you will need to manually hire each employee and ensure you have enough staff to cover a full business day from 5AM to 5PM. Staff also require a 4 hour rest period after a full 8 hour shift.

  • As a result you will need to hire more than 1 Sim per Staff Position to keep the business at peak performance especially if you have 24 Hour Services enabled. Some positions like Housekeeping and Porters will need additional staff depending on the size of the hotel and operating hours. This will be displayed in the Employee Manager as Expected Sims along with a count of hired and clocked in sims. Each employees clock out time is listed to help detemine if additional staff is really required, or just need to wait a few hours for someone to be available. More staff = less money for you.

  • You can now control Operating Hours for Concierge Bells. As a Hotel Owner, you can fill the gaps and Tend the Concierge Desk or Table Service Host Station yourself! Currently, tasks complete autonomously, but would be fun to make it manual to check in guests, etc.

  • You can also complete basic Housekeeping and Maintenance requests from guests if those staff positions are unfilled. You will receive a notification upon request with info to complete. Requests arent required for you to fulfill but guests may keep complaining.

  • All employees currently earn 12 simoleons per hour on the clock

• If an object breaks in the common area or a staff room, you will need to repair it yourself or request maintenance from the object. You can also request maintenance or housekeeping services for guest suites that are empty to prepare them for new guests.

• New socials can be found in the Hotel category under Friendly and Mean. Owners can Welcome New Guests, Give Free Nights, or Shoo them to their room when they're breaking the rules. If you're visiting a hotel, have a friendly chat about the hotel or Ask about Hotel Perks to learn about the specific guest services offered. Complain and Give Compliments when they're due and you might receive something in return.\

• If you are playing as a Guest, Hotel Owners can be summoned to the property from your phone or Ask to Speak to Manager from staff.

  • If they are a played household you can switch control to them through the Actions menu.

  • If they do not have access to a bed and their needs are failing, they will go home. If you want them to leave early, Send Home through the Actions menu. If any dependents are on the lot, they will leave when the last caretaker of age is leaving.

• Once a hotel is owned, if you are visiting a lot as a guest you will no longer be able to kick out other guests, modify the hotel settings, menus or perks. You can however toggle the Business Open and Closed in case it was unintentionally closed by the game to prevent needing a reload to the other household. On the flip side, as an Owner you can no longer fill vacancies on demand - you'll need to wait for guests to arrive autonomously. (In the future this could be influenced by advertising?)

• If you have Businesses & Hobbies, place an Open for Business! Wall or Floor sign to display the Hotel's Open and Close status. 

• Vacancy signs will illuminate "No" when closed. You can also manage all of your hotel settings and perks from all signs.

Hotel Owner Suite

• Live the Suite Life and and build your own 🚪 Hotel Owner Suite. The new door type is available on any door.

  • All Room Services are available!

  • The same rules and limitations apply as Guest Suites and Staff Rooms. Multiple separate Owner Suites is currently not supported. Make sure the suite only has one entrance.

  • Like other owned lots you can click directly on the hotel in the world map and play as the owner household without needing to select the primary residential lot first. Additionally, if you save on the hotel lot, you'll Resume right at the hotel.

  • Your sims can go to school and work from this lot, however if no selectable sims are left you will travel back to their residential lot. Keeping a pet on the lot can work around this.

  • Give Sims a Key to your Owner Suite and Manage Access on the entry door.

Guest Experience Updates

• Claim an Additional Suite for other Sims in your travel group. 

  • You can give full access to everyone in your party, or just the Sims assigned to the room and knock on the door otherwise. You can also Manage Assigned Sims to move them around.

  • You will be charged the daily rate by the total remaining days of your vacation upon confirmation. This is non-refundable if you decide to Release the Room Early.

  • If you are checked into multiple rooms, when you Upgrade to a Room you will be asked which room to upgrade.

• Connect multiple Guest Suites with a Shared Door!

  • This new door type will exclude the door from room searching so they stay "physically separated".

  • Any guest who has access to either suite will be able to traverse through any door in any of the suites due to the game's default routing behavior. However, sims will only autonomously use objects in a suite they've been specifically given a key to.

  • You may have multiple shared doors connecting between two suites, but please do not connect more than two suites together at this time or I'll be seeing you at 3 o'clock.

• If you have the For Rent EP you can Eavesdrop on other Guests' doors. If you've been invited in or you're an Owner you can Snoop around their rooms for secrets.

• You can now Schedule Events like Weddings and Family Reunions at Hotels. 

  • Because hotels are considered Rentals, you will need to check in to the hotel before you are able to select the lot in the event planner. 

  • Staff on the clock will be unable to participate in events, avoid inviting them.

  • More events will be added to the compatibility list over time.

  • Please let me know if you experience any hotel breaking issues with these events.

Day Trips

Send your tourists on a Day Trip to 7 different local destinations including a Gym, Beach, Pool, Casual & Formal Restaurants, Science Center, and Nectar of the Brush. Your Sims will be sent into a rabbit hole for several hours to refresh their needs, boost skills and relationships with their friends and family.

• All Day Trips are Base Game Compatible. The names are simply there for fun.

• Currently the whole group is sent on the trip. Only one Day Trip can be active at a time per travel group. Trips range from 2 hours to 6 hours, you can bring everyone back early by canceling one of the sims' interactions, but you won't receive any souvenirs.

• Fees are calculated based on total guests in your party, what you see is what you pay; Some destinations are free!

• Autonomous Day Trips are currently turned off for NPC guests but they will be enabled in the future after more balancing.

• The beach trip will only be available from worlds that realisticly have a beach within driving distance.

• If you have Island Living, don't forget to put on sunblock - your Sims may get a tan or burned while at the Beach or City Pool.

• Sims will return from Nectar of the Brush with a souvenir.

• Restaurants will max out the hunger need.

• The Gym will provide Fitness skill and a Workout.

• The Science Center will help build Logic and Handiness for adults, and almost all skills for kids.

• Additionally, all Sims will boost their fun need if they're having a good time. 

• I definitely want to expand this feature more including more dynamic buffs and souvenirs, if you have ideas let me know in the comments. 

• If you're a creator, the DayTrip class will be added to the Tuning Builder so you can add your own if you'd like, its super easy.

Cater your Events

Added a new On-Demand Catering service! 

• Customize your Kitchen Menu and add recipes to the new Catering menu. You'll be able to select from any Family or Party Size recipes.

• As long as the kitchen is open through Room Service or Table Service you can select any surface in the common area and Place Catering Order under the Hotel Perks menu. 

• Similar to Continental Breakfast, your order will be prepped then served buffet style on the table selected. Any food that can't be slotted will remain in the platter, otherwise if the full order has been slotted the platter will be taken away.

• You can place simultaneous orders on different surfaces.

Debug Visualization Commands

I have added a new command to help find issues with doors/stairs, and room connections. Enter the cheat hotels.debugvis.start to start the visualization:

• Objects that are associated to a Guest Suite will have a colored line segment shooting up, with each color representing a different Suite. (This only supports up to 6 Suites)

• Staff Room objects will use a white line segment. 

• Connected Doors will have arrows pointing in the direction to match the green build mode arrows. All arrows should flow OUT of the room (except Sliding Doors).

• If you see that objects in common areas are highlighting, it should help indicate whether suite or staff room is causing the issue.

• Any doors that are totally broken will have a red circle around them.

• You can keep the visualization on while building, however they will not update until you exit build mode.

• Once you are done, enter hotels.debugvis.stop to end the visualizations.

Additional Fixes & Changes

• Please update to Core Library 1.31.1 to fix an issue preventing homeless sims from being hired in the Employee Manager.

• Additional fixes for hotel data loss when exiting to main menu and loading a save without exiting the game completely.

• Upgrading to another Suite now costs money! The amount you see in the pie menu is the prorated amount for the remainder of your vacation. If the room is the same value, you won't need to pay anything to just swap rooms. There could be a fee in the future tho.

• Added 3 new Kitchen Menu Presets: International, Henford-on-Bagley (UK Inspired), and Batuu; Also updated the Diner preset with refreshed recipes and Catering options.

• Fixed an issue where selected recipes could become deselected when updating menus because a similar recipe was added to the picker before it.

• Fixed staff not taking their government mandated break after a full shift.

• The Late Check Out Paradiso Perk now actually modifies the check out time. Additionally it has been extended to 4pm.

• Fixed bug causing all non-hotel vacations to end without displaying the Extend Vacation dialog. Please note that Hotel Vacations will still end silently if you are not at the hotel when it ends. Extending hotel vacations off-lot is still in the works.

• Moved Set Surface Type menu to Hotel Perks category.

• Hotel Occult Settings now supports Custom Occult names and will use EA's provided name without a need for me to maintain a list.

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⚠️ Core Library 1.31 is required to continue using Suite Life ⚠️

It seems you may need to update your game to 1.116 to use the latest Core Library and thus this Suite Life update.

🚨 If you experience issues or exception reports, join Discord and report your issue with files and logs in 🆘 mod-support to receive help.

You can upload your exception and log files in the 🤖 bot51-scanner-channel at any time to get an automated report about my mods. It can also help detect issues with your hotels. Just enter the cheat hotels.print before uploading the log file. (Although it needs to be updated to debug these new features)

⬇️ Download now from my Website!

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