Apartment Life Borkiness, or how i ended the world in 1 hour.
Lerf:
This one is kind of obscure, but should be mentioned somewhere.
I build a lot with a bunch of mobile homes. The kitchen and living room were one room and for authenticity's sake I used one of the flat floor strips found under fencing to mark off the kitchen in each of them. Units were rectangular boxes and the last five squares of one end were enclosed by the metal strips.
When the unit was rented the kitchen was not considered part of the apartment. Nothing could be put in the kitchen, and the only options on the refrigerator were juggle and the OFB make and make many. I also noticed that in trailers occupied by non-playables the rest of the trailer was black, but the kitchens still showed.
I moved the tenants out, rezoned to residential and removed most of the strips. In one trailer I left the strip intact, in another I left a gap. In a third trailer I put in a regular fence with a gate. The result was that the kitchens with no strips, the kitchen with the partial strip and the kitchen with the fence and gate all worked as normal kitchens again. The one I left the whole strip in was still shown as being "outside" the rented space. Oh, and the units rent roughly doubled due to the place having more space and appliances.
Conclusion. If you put a fence in with no gate which fully encloses a part of an apartment the enclosed part of the apartment is considered a common area and can't be changed. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that it includes the fences that can easily be stepped over like the floor strips.
I don't expect this to be fixed, but I figure it should be documented for when someone else runs into it and doesn't realize its the floor strip thingie that's causing it.
(I hope my explanation was clear.)
powercut:
Predictably enough, date/outing gifts and apartments don't play well together. Gifts are dropped off in the common area, and then can't be moved/sold from buy mode.
So now I have an expensive telescope that not only takes up a lot of space, but can't be used by anyone because it's placed right next to a pool. /whine
Alex:
Quote from: Lerf on 2008 August 28, 06:47:41
This one is kind of obscure, but should be mentioned somewhere.
I build a lot with a bunch of mobile homes. The kitchen and living room were one room and for authenticity's sake I used one of the flat floor strips found under fencing to mark off the kitchen in each of them. Units were rectangular boxes and the last five squares of one end were enclosed by the metal strips.
When the unit was rented the kitchen was not considered part of the apartment. Nothing could be put in the kitchen, and the only options on the refrigerator were juggle and the OFB make and make many. I also noticed that in trailers occupied by non-playables the rest of the trailer was black, but the kitchens still showed.
I moved the tenants out, rezoned to residential and removed most of the strips. In one trailer I left the strip intact, in another I left a gap. In a third trailer I put in a regular fence with a gate. The result was that the kitchens with no strips, the kitchen with the partial strip and the kitchen with the fence and gate all worked as normal kitchens again. The one I left the whole strip in was still shown as being "outside" the rented space. Oh, and the units rent roughly doubled due to the place having more space and appliances.
Conclusion. If you put a fence in with no gate which fully encloses a part of an apartment the enclosed part of the apartment is considered a common area and can't be changed. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that it includes the fences that can easily be stepped over like the floor strips.
I don't expect this to be fixed, but I figure it should be documented for when someone else runs into it and doesn't realize its the floor strip thingie that's causing it.
(I hope my explanation was clear.)
Yeah, this fence is considered a wall/fence with no access. You can use it to create a second entrance (surround the door/gate with the fence then lock it).
Roxxy:
Quote from: banshee on 2008 August 27, 20:38:27
The cellphone is useless for incoming calls. When they try to answer the damn things just disappear from the inventory.
I was wondering why my sims cell phones suddenly kept disappearing.. I even found one lying on the floor one time and picked it up. Odd.
X-Phile:
Quote from: IAmTheRad on 2008 August 27, 02:08:01
Entering a non-playable sim's apartment building.
I have the same problem with the appartment were the Cleveland's live.
One of the apartments downstairs stays black. In that appartment I constantly see a sim
jump rope. :D
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