Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
ZephyrZodiac:
Thanks for the tip, Rainbow! It's not so bad now that my sims have managed to build a second bathroom, but with two elders in the family, the BRs get a lot of use!
jsalemi:
It looks like the latest version of the BUY controller pretty much solves the 'run to the bathroom because you don't have anything better to do' syndrome, at least in houses. I'll try playing a dorm later to see if the same is true there.
Magicmoon:
Tonight I had a strange problem, but it occured on only one lot. Every time a sim got done with BUY they would stand in the bathroom and quiver. Just kinda shake all over while the BUY symbol stayed in their queue flickering quickly.
Figuring that it had to be something specific to that lot, I started deleting things to find out what was causing the conflict. Turned out to be a Maxis bathtub.
I had set up an old age home and set the room just outside the bathroom as a treatment room containing among other things a bathtub with no corresponding controller. I wanted them to use this when they had the "bubble bath" want or just to soak for some comfort. It was never intended for use by the BUY.
I've done this before in houses, but that was a few updates ago. I just set the BUY controller for room-not radius and it would see the items in that room only or in other bathrooms that had the controller. The tub in the other room had no effect on the controller and vice versa.
I experimented for quite awhile. Bathtub in another room=sims that can't leave the bathroom. Take the tub out and all is normal.
I found it a little weird because if their hygiene was low the BUY would shower them in the bathroom and never sent them to the tub. But when it came time to kick them out, whether after using toilet and not needing hygiene or after toiilet and showering, sims would always get stuck in the shivering/flickering condition if the tub was present in the other room.
ZephyrZodiac:
They normally get stuck in the bathroom because the BUY has queued up another sim, and the route is thus blocked. Try adding another door to your bathroom, this sometimes helps.
Magicmoon:
I had added 3 doors to the bathroom before I started deleting stuff. That wasn't the problem. They were stuck standing where they finished. If they just left a stall and didn't need a shower, then they stood outside of the stall. If they took a shower afterwards then they stood next to the shower and quivered. The BUY icon flickered very quickly. I tried many, many things before deleting the tub in the other room. Once I got it working right I put the tub back. Same problem. Remove tub, works ok. I took the tub in and out several different times checking results each time. It was definately because the tub was in the other room.
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