Please use this thread going forward: [FR] Cannot set/change a front door in an R-Rental building | EA Forums - 11936188
This is a known issue. The reason the front door keeps changing to your back door is because the game chooses a door to the outside as the front door by default. If you change an interior door to your front door, the setting will only hold until you travel or reload the lot. The next time you enter the lot, the front door will revert back to the, in your case, back door. So, if you want another door to be the apartment front door, it has to open on the outside. From what I see in your pic. If you change the outer door at the front of the building to an arch, then the front door setting will hold for the door you want to be the front door. The game does not see arches the same way as it does doors and so the setting on the front door will hold when the lot reloads after travel or starting play.
It was first reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FR-Cannot-set-change-a-front-door-in-an-R-Rental-building/m-p/13382756#M267400
Hope this helps.
I have a house and a greenhouse and my front door keep changing to the greenhouse.
Without more info, it's difficult to say why that might be happening. Can you add a couple of pics to your post to show where the doors are in relation to each other? An overhead view of the lot would be ideal so I can get an idea of the lot arrangement and where the doors are.
Hope this helps.
The house was made in the image of Curious Goods from the TV series (not the movies) Friday the 13th. Curious Goods was a combination of a house upstairs and store on the first floor. I created greenhouse to the right of it. I do have mods.
Just to be sure, what is the venue type? Residential Rental or something else?
And is the door to the apartment the one on the back shown in the 2nd pic? Or is that the back door to the store below and you get into the apartment from inside the store?
One thing I see is that the apartment does have 2 doors leading to the outside on the upper porch, so the apartment has to have at least 3 doors unless that space is assigned to the apartment. I'm assuming the porch is not assigned to the apartment though and you left it as shared. Since the porch is fully enclosed with no other way out, then the game looks elsewhere for a front door.
If the apartment entry door is the back door of the building, then the front door designation should hold if the space inside it leads from is assigned to the apartment. If the apartment front door is inside the building, like off a foyer, it won't hold. So, the game picks a door that does lead directly to the outside. Why it picks the greenhouse door over the others that I see, I have no idea. It could just as easily have picked one of the others.
For a front door designation to hold for an apartment front door, it must lead directly from a space assigned to the apartment to the outside if the apartment has more than one door out. Otherwise, the game will always assign the front door as a door leading out of the building.by default.
If you would like, I will take a look at the build for you. All you need to do is upload the lot to the Gallery and reply here with the name of the lot and your user id if different than you use here (grpruett).
Hope this helps.
