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I always tip. The amount I tip varies from house to house and day to day, based on the level of service. The bare minimum I will tip is the $1 per plate of food I eat that the buffets cost, with as much added to it as I can afford if the hosts there do other things besides just feed their guests and dont' stay afk the rest of the time. Stuff like staying on top of hiring the repairman without having to be reminded 10 times, having a maid on the lot so that they don't harp at players to pick up their plates every 5 minutes, doing serenade rounds once every 30 minutes or so, or at least in the dining area of the house so that avatars get help with greening while they eat, stuff like that. I've been known to tip as much as 50 simoleans per green cycle I am at a lot if hosts actually take the time to do all the things I listed, which is way above what the cost of the food itself is, but I won't reward players for doing the bare minimum.
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ok and thats fine but in my case, i am only one running house 99% of time, i am using my other sim to teach to make money to feed guests at our skill house, so no i dont sing at skill house im too busy making money to feed you. so does that mean that u should only tip me $1 for the 5 plates you ate that cost me $4 a plate to feed you i think not. My teacher sim made 2k today,, guess where it went, stocking fridge at skill house hmmmmmmmm seems something isnt right there u know
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If you were teaching, then the sim that you taught should pay you in proportion to the service you provided *them* just like I would tip you for the service you provided me and/or the rest of the house. The effort you expended went toward the sim you were teaching, and them only, and it cost the rest of the guests to go red shorter than they would have. As far as $4 a plate, I am guessing you are using the wrong fridge, because the silver fridge feeds HC at $3 a plate, not 4 or 5. I tip the 1 per plate for poor service because it is common practice in those houses to set out buffet more than HC, and 1 simolean is what a plate of buffet food costs. We established last week through testing that I did and posted about it that if a sim owns a buffet table and the sim has 20.99 skill, then that buffet table has more hunger value than if a person with 0 cooking skill owned it. Based on my testing it is determined by the owner of the buffet, not the setter.
So again I don't understand why I am responsible for compensating you more for a service that you provided to
another person, and did not have a spare sim set to do serenades, hire repairman, cook, that kind of thing.
Now tonight I went into a house that was further down on the list because I could NOT find mech skill anywhere, so all of this guys roomies was home, so they made sure I had my 118% skill speed that I'd been hunting down for hours. They weren't very talkative the one guy was controlling all of the roomie sims and had one of them at his sim job while he was hosting. Considering that I think he did very well.....none of the sims timed out, you didn't have to ask more than once for food, and they were very friendly. So despite the fact that serenades were missing (though maybe I did get serenaded by someone once or twice while I was there) I did what I do sometimes for struggling houses and I called the repairman and made that my tip since there was quite a few objects broken. Ended up costing me about 200 simoleans which is a huge tip for a single house, but it was a very pleasant afternoon, I made some new friends out of it so I consider it a good return on my investment and it wouldnt surprise me at all to see this house jump some of the others in popularity. I already won't go to two of the houses in the top 5, so I am hoping that one of the other properties in the top 10 will drop down further on the list in 'honor' of the negative experiences I have there, that of course we cannot discuss within the RoC the details of that.
Put it this way though, when it happened in both houses my husband was sitting beside me the way we do sometimes when we are bored and don't wanna read or watch a movie and rarely has he ever put his foot down and said "I do not want you or I to ever plant our sims there again", but he did there and since it is such a rare ocassion that he did it and I was offended by the goings-on myself, it makes sense to broaden our horizons and meet new people and try out new houses. I love it.
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not wanting compensated for teaching, but if ur at the skill house just compensated for feeding you not asking too much and yes hc is 4 a plate if its good quality. which mine is
