Shopping Doesn't Empty Shelves (Patreon)

Edit: I have good word that a Restocking mod is in the works that'll make this less useful, and won't be compatible with it. When it comes out I'll let you know!

Edit 2: This appears to be misbehaving on home lot businesses, and only working on venue lot businesses. I'm not sure why but looking into it. The restocking mod I mentioned will make this mod obsolete IMO so I may not end up resolving it. We'll see!

Just like Kleptos Don't Ruin Venues, this mod makes shoppers not ruin businesses. If the player is buying something, they get the item, but it still remains on the shelf. There is a notification now to let you be sure the sale went through, since you won't see the item disappear anyore.

Other Sims purchases also won't remove the items, when you are playing as a visitor. This was kinda tricky to implement... basically when the game goes to destroy the item, I made it test to see if any of the active sims are currently the owner of the lot. So it'll only destroy if you're the lot owner, and won't if you're not. I got really caught up on and confused on this part. You may have seen this post was for sale for 5000 dollars...that was my way of "pausing" the post visibility while I figured it out and it ended up taking forever lol.

But customers on your own business lots will in fact take the items, warranting a restock!

What this means is that on your business lots, shoppers will take the items, and you will have to restock them. But when you're visiting a lot, buying things won't deplete it of its resources, and other shoppers don't empty shelves either. So your stores are usable in both directions without having to load them up and restock things all the time!

Why not disable it entirely?

Because then you'd pay for that item once, and sell it 20 times...it becomes pure profit after one sale and breaks the entire system.

Overrides the smallBusinessSystem_LightRetail_Purchase and smallBusinessSystem_LightRetail_Purchase_Autonomous tuning.

I won't put this or my other B&H mods from this weekend in early access because I think it's a critical mod for this pack's functionality and doing that is scummy. But I will plug My Kofi.