Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
RainbowTigress:
I played a college dorm for the first time in a while, since my last batch of kids graduated and moved home, and I've been raising babies and getting kids ready for college. I was having the problem described by ness above, only there were 7 dormies and 2 playable sims. I tried resetting the TP, but that only worked for a minute, because they were soon piled up again, with one of the dormies exhibiting bladder desperation actions, i.e., clutching his crotch. I finally ended up using Merola's mirror to get him to the toilet, but things still weren't right. After everyone cleared the bathrooms, I sold all the TP and bought new ones. I configured them as before, with the male TP rejecting females and vice versa. I think this may have fixed it, but I'll have to play more and see. I usually cancel out the automatic TP action queued up by the Sleep clock for sims who don't need to go because it causes a traffic jam in the mornings when everyone wakes up, and they don't really need to go because they are going to run straight out the door to work/school and they can go there. :P
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, since I've been using this hack, after JM insisted I try it out, I wouldn't be without it, and although very occasionally a sim is not getting thrown out since I put in Macrotastics as well, and updated the BC I don't think it's caused by diagonal doors, but doors which opened inwards. I frequently use Windkeeper's single sliding doors which solves that problem but otherwise, just make sure your doors open outwards so sims don't stop in mid-flight and decide to stay put!
the thing I find really wierd, though, is when there are three or four bathrooms in the house, you have a family of active sims running hell for leather all over the house to go to the toilet in one, and then shower in another! And whatever happened to ensuite bathrooms for the parents?
However, I do like the way, if there's a bath and shower, or a combi, then a sloppy sim gets to use the bath and save a puddle all over the floor! Also, that they unclog the toilet before you even find out which one went kaput!
RainbowTigress:
Heh, I'm glad you've come to see the wonders of the Toilet Paper, ZZ. :D Sims will go shower in another bathroom sometimes if the shower is broken in the one they are in. Sometimes though they will repair the shower first. I guess it depends on how desperate they are. Also, I'm not sure about doors that open inward, I'll have to pay attention to that. I do know that JM has said the TP is not compatible with custom doors. I had a problem with using it a while back with Inge's locking doors. But if you say it's working for you, I dunno, just keep that in mind in case you have any strange behaviors down the road. It is kind of hard to have bathrooms reserved for parents in the master bedroom, but I don't see any way around this, except to not put TP in that bathroom. Sims will still try to use it autonomously, though, because they just have this way of knowing that things exist without even being able to see them.
Nec:
From what I have found is that sloppy sims will go to another bathroom if there is only a shower so they can use a tub and not make messy puddles.
I am having a problem with macros, too. And even if I have a roll for each toilet stall in a dorm, they all stand there looking dumbfounded in the bathroom. It also seems if there is only one toilet and one roll, that fairly often a second sim (usually non-playable) will walk into the bathroom and just stand there. If there is only one sim trying to use it there is no problem.
However, there is no way I could live without this in my game - especially in businesses where the non-playables all gather in the smallest space (usually the bathroom or behind the bar) so they can all stand there and scream their heads off because they are all trapped because they are all trying to get in and out at the same time.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I have one sloppy sim who, before I used the BC, would always choose the bathroom with only a bath, but now he quite often goes from the toilet in a bathroom with a shower-tub to one with only a shower!
Oh, Rainbow, try windkeepers sliding doors if you have them, they are great for small bathrooms. In fact, hers are the only custom doors apart from recolours that I really use - I love her La Fenetre door too, and that works fine with the BC. I think it's because these are not new meshes, but adaptations of existing Maxis doors that they are so problem-free.
Yes, I finally gave into the temptations of the BC after I created a family with 2 adults, 2 teens and 2 kids and only the old Broke trailer to live in! Trying to get 6 sims to the toilet in the morning before work/school was a nightmare, even when I added an outhouse! (The family now occupy a pair of semis with a couple of connecting doors, and it really is funny to watch them scurrying about when the BC and the sleepclock click into action!)
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