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@CGrant56 wrote:Is it that the setting will not hold on the door you want to be the front door?
And if you would like me to test the lot to see if I can find the problem, upload the lot to the Gallery.
yes, when neighbors/vamps/friends come i notice they knock at my kitchen door (usually?). check the Front and it gives opt to change, again.
i'm not sure if leaving the lot (Travel), or just going off the grid of the lot changes it, as i do jog or explorer often. i have spellcaster and sometimes she'll stand next to house out of bounds to practice.
also, if during test -if you have For Rent- and want to see why my Solar Water Heater isn't functioning that be helpful too. i've a Topic started describing that error.
named in Gallery as Shipping Crates, my name is same.
i've all DLC, bt general shell is Basic or Eco.
I downloaded the lot and tested this morning. When I installed the lot and moved a sim in, the kitchen door was set as the front door. So, I changed it to the shipping container door in the front. Then I traveled and returned. The setting held. I started traveling back and forth to the lot and other zones in EH, then several other worlds. The setting held every time. I also traveled to different venue types - gyms, bars, museum, library, etc. and visited other residential lots. Every time I returned to your lot, the setting for the front door stayed as I set it. So, it held for me, and I have no idea why it changes on you. I could find nothing wrong when I tested.
On the hot water solar panels, I see what you mean. They say there is no water utility. I haven't tried using them in my game yet, so they were new to me, so I wasn't sure how they are supposed to work. Pretty simple though. I moved them around to other positions and to the ground, but nothing changed. I went to another lot and placed one on the ground and it was operational. Then I went back to your lot and looked at them again. I copied one and it still said no water utility. I did find that there is a nonfunctional solar water heater under roof sculptures that looks the same and thought that's what you had placed but they don't give any message when you mouse over them. Then I grabbed one out of the catalog from Activities and Skills>Outdoor Activities and that one worked but the two that were still there didn't. So, I just deleted those 2 and replaced them with new ones and they worked. I have no idea what went wrong with the ones you placed. I used the same item from the catalog, and it worked. It had to be a new item, not a copy. Copying the ones that gave the no water utility message didn't fix it. So, you can try deleting the two that are there and replacing them with new ones from the catalog. That should work.
Hope this helps.
@CGrant56 wrote:So, I just deleted those 2 and replaced them with new ones and they worked. I have no idea what went wrong with the ones you placed. I used the same item from the catalog, and it worked. It had to be a new item, not a copy. Copying the ones that gave the no water utility message didn't fix it. So, you can try deleting the two that are there and replacing them with new ones from the catalog. That should work.
tryd this, originally it said No Power, again. grr, what did i break now? i thought i fixed that part! bt it was 2-3a so... ok i'll wait for breakfast to see if changes. suns out, panels are heating. check them and says functional. look at shower/bath, both have full list of opts. woot, thx so much!
@CGrant56 wrote:So, it held for me, and I have no idea why it changes on you. I could find nothing wrong when I tested.
did you goto World Manager and/or close-reset the game? i know i have set the Front Door multi times, and seems every time i play the fam it resets.
@Applecorn80 I didn't quit and restart the game. Although, I went to the world map screen every time I traveled. I did exit the lot and reload it several times as well. The container door held the front door setting every time I entered the lot.
Hope this helps.
This is an old bug that just keeps coming back. It's not just a For Rent problem, it's a "game chooses which door is closest to the front of the lot" problem. Almost every time you go into build mode, do something in manage worlds and come back, the door will reset to the one closest to the ground level / front of the lot. The weirdness of it is that it doesn't always do it. It mostly does it. (Usually when you forget to check to see if it's done it or not. 😛.)
At any rate, the bug can pretty easily be replicated. Simply build a two-story building with a door leading outside on each floor. Mark the second story door as your front door. Now go into build mode and come back out. The door on the ground floor will most likely be reset as your front door. If not, just keep going into build mode a few times, travel with your sim or do one of other myriads of actions listed in this thread. It will eventually reset.
