Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
jsalemi:
I've discovered that if I have a controller and a toddler's potty in the same room, I can't have a parent potty train the kid because the controller keeps trying to chase one or the other (usually the toddler) out of the bathroom. I have to either move the potty outside the bathroom, or temporarily move the controller to someones inventory to keep the conflict from happening.
Anyone else seen this happen? It's not really a big deal; more of a minor annoyance if I forget to 'disable' the controller before the first time a sim starts the potty training...
J. M. Pescado:
Putting the potty actually *IN* the bathroom is unwise on several levels. Firstly, anyone attempting to use the bathroom will attempt to shoo the toddler out of the bathroom. The toddler will probably become confused by this and block the terlet until everyone pees themselves. Secondly, the toddler would be unable to use the potty while the bathroom is in use. Thirdly, it puts the toddler in the bathroom! The bathroom controller does not LIKE toddlers in the bathroom for one very, very obvious reason, and very aggressively attempts to purge toddlers from bathrooms.
HelloKit:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 January 13, 13:26:36
Firstly, anyone attempting to use the bathroom will attempt to shoo the toddler out of the bathroom.
I've never seen a toddler get shooed out of the bathroom. All of my Sims just go about their business as if the toddler isn't even there.
RainbowTigress:
I don't put potties in the bathroom anymore. Even before I had the bathroom controller, the toddler was unable to get to the potty when he needed to go if someone was already in there. I saw this with Brandi Broke's house when I first got the game. If someone was in there, the poor toddler would sit outside the door crying with a door in his thought bubble.
The issue I have is that if a parent takes the toddler to the bathroom to bathe them, the bathroom controller is trying to throw out the toddler, so when the parent finishes bathing the toddler, the Return action is voided, and the parent puts the toddler on the bathroom floor. The toddler is then thrown out along with the parent, but the problem is when the bathtub is on a different floor and the toddler cannot get back to the nursery. I have to get the parent to pick up the toddler and carry them back to the nursery if it is on a different floor. Otherwise, the poor kid sits at the top of the stairs complaining about the stairs. My toddlers end up needing at least one bath during the toddler stage, especially after they are potty trained.
jsalemi:
I haven't seen the bath issue, but I guess that's because I've disabled the bathroom controller before then. I usually put the potty in the bathroom to save the parents steps when emptying it, and because some of my more well-off sims have more than one bathroom, so the conflict isn't a problem. But I guess I'll just put the potty elsewhere from now on. :)
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