Suite Life

You must update Core Library to Version 1.30.1 to continue using Suite Life.

There have been significant changes to hotel staffing. Previously, Chefs were hired on a curve based on the number of stoves in the staff rooms with a max of three. Now a Chef will be hired for each stove (similar to the original release of Suite Life). You will need to manually turn off "Hire Staff to Tend Object" on the stove/oven to reduce the number of Chefs, however you now have full control!

New Barista Hotel Perk!

Hire a Barista to tend Espresso Bars (Get Together), Bubble Tea Counters (High School Years), or Coffee Counters (Businesses & Hobbies) in the common areas!

Additional Changes

• Fixed hotel data (kitchen menus and settings, etc) disappearing when saving the hotel lot in Manage Worlds.
• Fixed Request Table interactions appearing for Sims not checked in.
• Added custom icon for Bar Service
• Changed tags used for Surface Type settings. This should allow more objects than before including surfaces that may not be compatible. (Adds Continental Breakfast support for the new Bigger Gatherings Banquet Table included in the Blast from the Past event)
• Improved Continental Breakfast delivery so each order goes to a different designated table. Sometimes food would be delivered to a table that had already been served.
• You can now save custom Kitchen Menu Presets! These are accessible globally across all of your saves. The new "Save Current Menu as Preset" option is available in "Customize Kitchen Menus" on the Concierge Bell. A new lot51_hotels.dat file will be generated in your Mods folder. You should keep this file between updates!
• Added "Allow NPC Auto Booking" toggle on Guest Room doors to prevent sims from autonomously checking in to specific rooms. This can help reduce sim count and keep the rooms locked from other guests. You can still manually check in to these rooms as the player.
• Added "Minimum Vacancy" Hotel Setting to control the number of rooms that should stay vacant at all times. This is an alternative to the Auto Booking setting to allow any room to be booked autonomously but reduce sim count on the lot.
• Shifts for each Staff Type/Hotel Perk are now all synced together based on 4 shift blocks:
  • Morning: 5am - 11am
  • Afternoon: 11am - 5pm
  • Evening: 5pm - 11pm
  • Late Night: 11pm - 5am (Available via 24 hour Services)
• Staff will work for 8 hours so they may work during multiple shift blocks.
• Improved shift rotation to clock out sims with the longest active shift first.
• When traveling to a hotel after a long period of time, if a staff member has overstayed their shift they will be booted off the lot during zone load behind the loading screen instead of leaving shortly after the loading screen disappears. A replacement staff member will be hired in the background but may take a few sim minutes for them to show up.
• Staffed objects (Bars, Stoves & Ovens) now have individual operating hours that can be customized, for example, Open a tiki bar late night but close the lobby bar late night. This can help reduce the number of sims on your lot by only hiring staff at your own designated peak hours. Note: Operating hours will be saved when sharing the hotel in the Gallery.
  
  
• Similar to the Table Service Podiums, you can choose to not staff a Bar or Stove/Oven at all using the "Hire Staff to Tend Object" setting. This can help reduce the number of staff hired if you want to use the object as décor. Not all staff types support this, like Spa Attendants, Bellhops, Housekeepers.
• You can now release any table claimed for Table Service in case a guest is stuck, or you just want them to leave.

• Fixed pets not checking in to guest room with player sims, and their skewer portrait greying out.

Table Service and Yoga Hotel Perks are now available for everyone! With a few additional fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing the hotel picker from opening when an icon is set for a hotel.
• Fixed an issue preventing autonomous cooking at other venues.

Table Service Perk (Base Game Compatible)

You can now nectar and dine with food delivered to your table! Select any table with seating in the common area and set the Surface Type to Table Service. When the kitchen is open you’ll be able to request the table you click on, seat yourself and order food. The same kitchen requirements apply.

• You must be a checked-in guest to Request a Table. My intention is not to create open multi-functional lots nor create a free alternative for Dine Out Restaurants.
• Once your plates are cleared off the table by a housekeeper or porter you are free to order another course. Your sims will stay seated until you manually Release Table.
• NPCs will autonomously request tables and order food with their group members when hungry, similar to ordering room service. If the Room Service Perk is offered, NPCs will prefer indoor dining when it’s raining/snowing and will fallback to room delivery if there are no tables available. If table service is their only option, they will attempt to endure the elements to eat. I would recommend placing heaters by the tables if you have Dine Out.
• This perk is compatible with the Room Service Perk so you can offer just one or both!
• If you have any packs that include a podium or lectern like Dine Out, City Living, or Life & Death you can allow a Table Service Host to be hired and assigned to the podium. When a host is on duty, Sims will need to request a table and be seated by the host at the podium.
• If you have the Parenthood GP or CC placemats like SurelySims’ Paper Plate Settings (https://www.patreon.com/posts/94644997), click on a Table Service Table and you can customize the specific placemats used when your sims are seated! A random setting will be picked from the options you’ve selected for each dining group.
• If you have the Dine Out EP sims will read menus while seated and children of all ages may draw on a coloring sheet autonomously or manually.
• Customize food and drink pricing with the new Table Service Multiplier in Hotel Settings.

Yoga Perk (Spa Day Required)

• If you have the Spa Day GP you can now offer a separate Yoga Hotel Perk which will hire an instructor to give free yoga classes 3 times a day. There is a sunrise, noon, and sunset session. You’ll be notified when class is starting and you can join the class by clicking on the instructor.
• Note: Interactions on the instructor will show prices but you will not be charged.

• Fixed an exception preventing the Travel to Hotel with picker from opening in certain cases.
• Fixed bartenders no longer able to tend bars at any venue.

⚠️ Core Library 1.27 is now required, please be sure to update to continue using Suite Life. ⚠️

• Special thanks to SurelySims for another commission creating a beautiful new food platter for us! Sims with the Preferred Guest perk or in a VIP room will have their food delivered in a gold platter as well. [No download necessary, any existing platters in the world will be replaced by the new model]
• Laundry autonomy has been re-worked and re-enabled! Sims will pick up all available laundry in their inventories and guest room before starting the wash cycle. Laundry sessions will automatically end after 8 hours in case sims do end up getting stuck for some reason, however they should be able to complete their task in that period of time. Note: Laundry that is left in the common area will currently not be picked up by anyone, so drag them to a guests room or hamper if you see any.
• Added ability to assign an icon to hotels in Hotel Settings. This icon will appear in other hotel pickers to help identify them.
• Added Room Service Multiplier to Hotel Settings to customize food/drink orders through Room Service.
• Pools and hot tubs are now accessible to sims that have room keys even if they are not checked in to the hotel.
• Fixed another edge case where checking into a room would display “Unknown Household” and not successfully start a vacation. At a minimum, the person checking in to concierge will be added to the vacation so you can invite the others on the lot if they weren’t able to be pulled in automatically. (Click Actions > Join Vacation on those sims)
• Porter autonomy should be more responsive when they pickup and put down the platters so they’re not just standing waiting for the next autonomy ping.
• Staff members will automatically have the hotel career removed if a hotel lot they were assigned to is no longer a hotel. You can also use the cheat hotels.remove_npc_careers to clear out all assigned NPCs at all hotels. In future updates you will be able to manage the employees on your own.
• Fixed porters resetting after serving Continental Breakfast.
• Redeemed Paradiso Rewards will save to sim trackers as expected.
• Changed Room Service icon to differentiate from Table Service.
• Created custom icon for 24 Hour Pool & Hot Tub Perk.

• Fixed exception preventing Chefs from being hired/infinite loading screen when loading hotels while Dine Out is not installed.