How can i prevent visitors ringing at the back door?
KatEnigma:
Quote from: Inge on 2007 October 29, 15:24:41
Normally homes have a fence round their back yard. If you do that and lock the gate to "family only" that might help.
No, then they just stand at the gate and stomp their feet. ::)
I always thought they wanted to go in the door closest to the mailbox. :-\ I will have to test this "first door placed" thing. It would be Eaxian to do it that way, since that's the way the One Desk works. (And yes, in that case, you HAVE to delete all other desks and place the One Desk first again)
ZephyrZodiac:
Very annoying piece of coding, seems like if your house needs a porch remodel and a new front door, you have to replace all doors every time! And no doubt the problem with Maxis houses is they don't always have the front door placed first.....
Personally, I hate the "one desk" thing, it's a pity they didn't make desks ownable like they did beds, which even without TJ's Smart Beds are slightly ownable.... I used to find tired kids would take themselves off to their own bed, and very lazy YAs will do the same - one or two of the Maxis students will do that. And since in Uni students will use any available desk that's not behind a Myne Door, (or any table) why can't kids do that with homework? If you place the kid's homework on a table, they'll do it there with no problems, so why can't THEY put it there?
neriana:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 October 29, 23:28:44
So if you remodel a Maxis house, you should remove all the doors, then replace them, starting with the front door? If you just replace the front door, then they'll be drawn to the back door instead?
That would probably be a good idea, yes. I haven't extensively tested this or anything; I just read it somewhere like mts2 a long time ago, and it's worked for me since.
notveryawesome:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 October 29, 23:52:20
Very annoying piece of coding, seems like if your house needs a porch remodel and a new front door, you have to replace all doors every time! And no doubt the problem with Maxis houses is they don't always have the front door placed first.....
Personally, I hate the "one desk" thing, it's a pity they didn't make desks ownable like they did beds, which even without TJ's Smart Beds are slightly ownable.... I used to find tired kids would take themselves off to their own bed, and very lazy YAs will do the same - one or two of the Maxis students will do that. And since in Uni students will use any available desk that's not behind a Myne Door, (or any table) why can't kids do that with homework? If you place the kid's homework on a table, they'll do it there with no problems, so why can't THEY put it there?
Dizzy (I think -- could be someone else) has a 'homework on desk' hack, but it only seems to work on teens and YAs (at least in my game it works this way, but my Downloads folder seems to have become corrupted, and many of my hacks no longer work how they're supposed to). Once the kid/teen/YA sim has slept in its own bed at least once, then the sim will start placing its homework on any desk or table in its room. I think locking the door to 'Allow Me Only' also has the same effect.
Inge has a homework-placement mat that you put on a desk or table and assign to a specific sim, which causes the sim to always place its homework on that exact spot.
Doc Doofus:
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Normally homes have a fence round their back yard. If you do that and lock the gate to "family only" that might help
Don't I wish. I have had them blow right past the locks over and over again. Not every time, or even most of the time, but frequently. I already mentioned the flowers on the back porch thing.
No, I don't have any lock hacks or door hacks. This seems to be just an inherent flakiness in the locks ever since OFB introduced them. In fact, it's a real problem at times because a customer Sim will sometimes walk right through a locked door on a business lot to get to a refrigerator or hot tub, and then not be able to leave without manually unlocking the door.
Maxis locks are just flaky.
What I would like is some doormat or something you can place in front of a door to block that door to non-family members who *have not already been greeted.* Even if that causes problems for the maid. The block would have to interfere with routing so the visitors don't waste time walking all the way around the house just to stand there waving their fists. That's just as bad.
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