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HuhFaceSus
5 years ago

[ARCHIVED] [ECO] NAP applied to neighborhoods with no residential lots

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.37
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? The Sims 4: Get to Work The Sims 4: Get Together The Sims 4: City Living The Sims 4: Cats and Dogs The Sims 4: Seasons The Sims 4: Get Famous The Sims 4: Island Living The Sims 4: Discover University The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat The Sims 4: Parenthood And a whole bunch of stuff packs i can't remember cuz im at work.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Literally have the Get Famous and Get to Work expansion packs and open a business that sells items. For example I was running an art gallery that sold paintings and carved trinkets.
What happens when the bug occurs? They walk up to a item for sale and just take it. They don't buy it and I can't replace it like a sold item, its just gone forever.
What do you expect to see? Them buy the item like a normal customer, so I can replace it.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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Don't really know if this is a "bug " because I assume it's associated with the Paparazzi's klepto trait, HOWEVER they should not be able to steal items from businesses it completely ruins the expansion pack.

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    @HuhFaceSus Did you check on the open NAPs in your neighborhood to make sure it's not related to sharing is caring ?
  • zoiee2020's avatar
    zoiee2020
    5 years ago
    @crinrict Definitely a valid point for the OP to look into. However ... his statement does ring true. This is suppose to be a real life sim. Why Maxis would program sharing is caring to allow sims to go into a business of any kind and rob the place blind, to the point where the game flags the lot as incomplete/unusable, is beyond me. This NAP was poorly thought about, poorly designed and poorly programed.
  • HuhFaceSus's avatar
    HuhFaceSus
    5 years ago

    So I went and checked and it is INDEED because the sharing is caring Plan. 

    My problem with this is, i had no idea this neighborhood could even have plans because jts the Magnolia District and I took the only residential plot and made it a business/home duplex. So there's literally no one here to vote but me.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    @HuhFaceSus I merged this with the master thread on the issue then. I do find it also rather odd that magnolia promenade lots have the plan as there's nothing to vote there. No families that could vote.

    Question for you: Is this a save you played for a long while and that could have gotten the NAP when it was all buggy at the beginning or did this happen newly ?

    The NAP being so agressive on community lots is feedback at this point but if enough folks are bothered by it, maybe EA considers changing it.

    If the plan is still being voted on in neighborhoods that have no residential lots, then that would be a bug.

  • HuhFaceSus's avatar
    HuhFaceSus
    5 years ago

    The save is from November of last year. But yeah there's no residential lots just all business. (even tho I basically made the top floor of my shop a house for my sims so they don't have to leave.) 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    @HuhFaceSus Thanks. That's from after the big fixes on the NAP so it looks like there might still be an issue.

    I'll split your post again and change the title a bit to reflect the problem of non-residential areas having NAPs.
  • absolutgrndzer0's avatar
    absolutgrndzer0
    Rising Veteran
    2 years ago

    I just got the Eco-Lifestyle expansion on Friday the 13th, 2023, and I am having a similar issue suddenly. While it's not a Sharing is Caring problem, Free Love and other NAPs are messing with my business on Magnolia Promenade.  Everyone is too busy kissing each other to do any work or shopping.   No, there is nobody actually living there... How has this not been fixed?

    EDIT: So maybe it just default adds stuff to neighborhoods? I went ahead and swapped The Roadhouse to residental, moved in a cheated Sim with 10 million dollars, deleted all the NAP, then moved her out and put it back to retail.  Let's HOPE the NAPs do not return on Magnolia Promenade, as I said it's a purely commercial neightborhood so by what others say, there is no NPCs there to be voting.   I WOULD like for NPCs to have votes in actual residential neighborhoods, but then again there is the the entire issue that those things affect RETAIL lots in the first place.

    EDIT 2: Okay, yes.... it seems that NPCs are still voting in Magnolia Promenade despite nobody actually living there.  As I said, I literally just got the expansion last Friday.  So for now my only recourse is it seems to disable NPC voting and give my played households full control. While I don't want to do that, looks like this bug was never fixed.

  • Sketch793's avatar
    Sketch793
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    You do have another option. Each neighborhood is limited to 3 N.A.P.s, so choose 3 that you don't mind and enact them the same way that you repealed the ones you didn't like.

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