Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2006 January 14, 14:31:53
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.
Well, I find that emptying is an infrequent occurrence, and usually needs to be done yesterday when you notice it, so usually you wind up selling the potty for a new empty one because there's no time to empty it or you'll miss your housebreaking window.
I've never seen the conflict with a toddler and washing it. It has been known to cause duelling if the someone tries to use the bathroom while the toddler is in use, though. An integration of this functionality is currently under consideration.
RainbowTigress:
Emptying the potty isn't an issue for me, because I use the no-empty potty hack. :D I got annoyed with sims having to empty it all the time, and if the first attempt failed because the kid got off the potty before he was done for some reason, they couldn't put the kid back on again until they had emptied it.
cwieberdink:
wonky issue with showers in a dorm:
I have some sims in the smallest dorm (8 room) at SimState. The girls bathroom is setup very similar to the boy bathroom. There are two stalls with terlets and an archway leading to the shower room with two or three of the wall showers.
At first, I configured the controller to reject females in the male bathroom and vice versa. Initially, the women would wait outside the male bathroom even though the female bathroom was open. The "waiting" icon was not up, only the soviet symbol one that indicates they are being used. After x-ing out this icon, they then went into the female bathroom. The males did not do this with the female bathroom.
Anyway, when the girls finally figured out they needed to use the girls' bathroom, they still will not automatically be called and use the showers. The guys do fine. I have one controller in each stall and I then also put one in the shower room, but to no avail. They don't shower after using the terlet, and they will go into hygeine failure and not shower. They spongebathe at the sink instead. If I click on the showerhead and tell them to shower, no problem, but they won't do it on their own with the controller.
I played this dorm before and haven't had this problem. Weird
C
J. M. Pescado:
It sounds like radial crosstalk. If the bathrooms are too close together, you're getting items from one bathroom caught in the detection radius of one of the controllers, and the controller thus thinks the item in the other bathroom is part of the current bathroom and tries to send them there. Of course, they can't get there. This is, of course, bad. If the showers are all wall showers, you may want to consider simply knocking out the wall and archway to make it the same room and use room mode instead of radial mode.
Or maybe that's why they're not using the shower, because you're on room and not radial mode.
cwieberdink:
Thanks. Will try that. I can't remember if I have it on room or radial mode. I think I've tried both. But the bathrooms are very close together.
C
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