Hi there!

I am new to OfB (actually still new to TS2, period!) and I saw a problem. Not enough perks!! I heard that the best business (max lvl) is level 10. That means a total of 10 perks you can get for your business. But I wanna earn them all!

Is there a mod that gives you more levels with another perk you can choose for each level? I don't want a mod that just let's you get all the perks without earning them. I need more EARNED perks! So umm.. ?

You can actually have multiple businesses to unlock them all. Not sure if that's what you're looking for though.

If you start a new bussiness with the same sim they can get the other perks. The perks will apply to all the bussinesses though.

But I have a home business. When you have a business on a separate lot, it's always closed unless you're on that lot, right?

No - you can appoint a manager to run the business when your sim is not there.

The manager won't be stupid about it like most sims, right?

I never use managers, you have to ring in every day from home and it takes ages and even then every day the profits get less. i used a manager once back in, i don't know, the year OFB came out? Never again. There may of course be a mod out now to make managers work better, but I like my sim to go to their business and run it themselves.

Basically hiring a manager still lets your sims get some money from the bussiness but doesn't actually change anything. The lot won't change until you go there. If you want to build up a community lot bussiness you actually have to visit the lot regularly (or in one really long session) to get it to go up in rank.

There's a hack to stop the profits plummeting, I think it's a Pescado one. I can't remember the name but maybe someone else can. Antibusinessdecay maybe?

Once a sim has earned certain perks (like Perk Up or Head For Numbers), they can pass that perk along to other sims, whether those sims own a business or not. So you could have one sim earn 10 pass-along-able perks and pass them on to everybody, and then someone else learn 10 more and pass those along to everybody too. You could even set up a "business school," since the perks can be passed along at home or on a community lot. The wholesale and cash rewards each business owner would have to earn for themselves, but there are five of each, so maxing those out wouldn't take you over your ten available slots to earn.

EDIT: And the passing along process is pretty tedious even if you take the shortcut of using the start-stop method, so you could definitely say that you earned them!