Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: FreakyRufus on 2006 January 22, 02:46:43
Quote from: rainbow on 2006 January 22, 02:18:47
If you look at what the icon says when they run out of the bathroom, the one with the footprints, it says "Be thrown out." :)
Yes, I know. I was just being too verbose, as usual. :)
That's ok, I do that too sometimes. ;)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: rainbow on 2006 January 21, 22:49:54
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It doesn't matter how far away the bathroom is, if someone is using or blocking the sink or dishwasher in the kitchen, then they wiill treik all the way to the bathroom, even if it's on another floor.
It actually does matter: They'll attempt to use closer objects before further objects. HOWEVER, "closer" is determined by "ethereal crow" distance, not height-adjusted distance, so if your bathroom is above the kitchen, that can cause this behavior. Preference is also given towards dishwashers over sinks, and redundant dishwashers can help a lot.
Swiftgold:
Oh yes, something else - Inge's shower kit you can stick anywhere is also enabled for visitor use. I have a house where, despite the controller, some visiting Sims (kids I think) can use it without a problem. Mostly, however, visitors will get stuck where they are stinky and want to use that shower, but unless I control them and let them use it, the bathroom controller keeps kicking them out. They won't go off and do something else, though, they just stand by the bathroom and continually try to run in again.
J. M. Pescado:
Most showers are not visitor-allowed unless the visitor has a certain flag which is set at some unknown time. Making the sim selectable will bypass that. The Bathroom Controller checks for this flag and does not perform the showering thing for visitors unless it is set. Variant showers may confuse your visitors as a result. No loitering is permitted in the bathroom, so anyone trying to enter, such as aforementioned visitors, will be ejected to keep the docking port free.
RainbowTigress:
I don't use custom showers, but I have had visitors get stuck in the bathroom when they are too stinky. They try to use the shower but can't, and if they are tired enough, they will fall asleep standing up because they are trying to use the shower and can't. Like Swiftgold, though, making them selectable allows them to go ahead and shower so they will then free up the bathroom.
Another funny thing happens on dates at home that is rather annoying. If the sim initiating the date uses the bathroom, the date controller keeps directing the sim to follow them, so it makes them go into the bathroom with them, but then the bathroom controller throws them out. This happens constantly, over and over, until the sim finishes everything, which can take awhile sometimes.
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