Bathroom Uses You - Yet Another Interesting Semaphoric Scenario
syberspunk:
So... and I don't know how I always seem to get these issues, but... looks like I ran into another interesting deadlock dilemma. Don't you just love the lovely alliteration? ;D
I was playing in another dorm yesterday, goin about my usual business. This time, I added the appropriate number of controllers per toilet. This has solved the issue I had previously, so now my communal bathrooms are actually being used by more than one sim. Works like a charm! :D
But... I noticed something a bit strange and silly in one of the communal bathrooms. This one is unisex or... er bisex... er whatever, it services both males AND females. Well... it seems that, even if there are two controllers, one controller will have a tendency to dominate over the other. As such, that toilet gets used more often than the other, and gets dirtier faster. Actually, that's just something to note, not the Actual problem.
The problem I had was, two dormies were sort of fighting over trying to use the same toilet. I don't know how it happened, but it seems like the controller got a hold of one dormie, who was trying to use the toilet, and somehow another dormie managed to get in there. They were both female. Dormie 1 would try to use the toilet (it was the kind with the green bathroom stall), and Dormie 2 would try to shoo her away. I'm not sure exactly if dormie 2 was trying to use the shower and she was too embarrassed to get nekkid? Or if she was trying to use the toilet instead? I was sort of half interested, and only curious if the cycle would go on forever before I had to intervene. See... after Dormie 2 did the shoo animation, dormie 1, who was like just in the middle of her animation to sit on the toilet, would immediately get up off the toilet and exit the stall. Then, I guess her bladder must have been very low, because she would turn around and sit try to sit back down again. At this point, dormie 2 would try to shoo her away again, and the cycle would repeat. This happened oh, about maybe almost 2 sim hours time. :P Who knows how long it had been going on before I noticed. Eventually, the cycle somehow broke, and dormie 1 ran out of the bathroom as if she were ejected by the bathroomusesyou hack, as what usually happens. I don't know if, between her very brief spurts of sitting down, perhaps she managed to empty her bladder finally, after all those cycles, that she was then kicked out?
Anyways, after she ran out, I think dormie 1 went to use the stall that dormie 2 had just ran out from. I can't remember exactly, as admittedly, I stopped paying attention. But I thought that was very strange and somewhat amusing. ;D
Well... just thought I'd share the unusual stuff I find. At least no one got stuck or froze this time. :P
Just curious, is there a privacy issue with dorm bathrooms? I don't think I had ever seen a dormie shoo others out before, unless it was a single bathroom. Anyone else get this?
Ste
RainbowTigress:
No, the usual showers that are used in dorm bathrooms don't require any privacy, so unless you were using another shower, they shouldn't have needed privacy to shower. Are your controllers set for All and not male or female?
syberspunk:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 August 18, 07:43:10
No, the usual showers that are used in dorm bathrooms don't require any privacy, so unless you were using another shower, they shouldn't have needed privacy to shower. Are your controllers set for All and not male or female?
Yeah... I wouldn't have thought privacy would have been an issue. This particular dorm has a female and a male bathroom on the 2nd floor, equipped with two bathroom stalls and two public showers in each bathroom. I put two controllers for each stall, and those work fine.
The bathroom that I did have a problem with was a unisex bathroom. It also had two bathroom stalls and two cheap, shower stalls with curtains. I also had two controllers, and they were set to Seek.../All and Room Only. Changing any controller in the same bathroom seems to affect all controllers within the same room. I checked to make sure, just in case something weird was happening, but this was not the problem.
Anyways, dunno why it happened. It was amusing for a bit and I'm glad the loop broke. Just wonderin if anyone else ran into this.
Ste
linolino:
Hello People, I was going to create a new bathroom uses you thread, but then i searched and found this one, since its not bloated with posts, I think i'll post just here.
However it's a different problem from what you were havinh syberspunk..
I noticed that when i have visitors come over, and i propose to them to stay the night, they are not able to use the shower, while the bathroomusesyou object is placed in the bathroom.
They go and stand in front of the shower, take their clothes off then put them on again and leaves the bathroom running... then repeat the process.
they didi this utill i delete it the bathroom uses you object, afte what they normally got into the shower.
C.S.:
Quote from: linolino on 2005 September 02, 12:13:49
I noticed that when i have visitors come over, and i propose to them to stay the night, they are not able to use the shower, while the bathroomusesyou object is placed in the bathroom.
They go and stand in front of the shower, take their clothes off then put them on again and leaves the bathroom running... then repeat the process.
Me too, having same problem.
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