[BY DESIGN] Sims constantly walk in on other Sims in the bathroom
It happens really often that my sims is taking a shower and another sim is walking in that room to "Chat" with the sim under the shower and they get both embarrest. It's really anoying that they just don't get that the sim in there is taking a shower. They should detect that, right? It happens so often and it so irritating.
I asked the engineer who owns the privacy system about this one, and this is working As Designed. We want this scenario to happen in the game. I imagine we want this to happen way more for user directed vs. autonomous, but if you think about it, if there is only one bathroom, one Sim is showering and the other one really has to pee, then we should allow them to pee. Also note there are a lot of complications around who is and who is not allowed to enter privacy regions (e.g. romantic interests). So sometimes it's best to not write any code to ensure than the 2nd Sim will prune actions to do in its autonomy ping while the 1st one does something semi-prohibitive.
To summarize, we don't evaluate privacy when a Sim decides what to do. When they are routing, if they enter a privacy region, that's when the interruption happens.
Now, if the concern is that both Sims are getting Embarrassed, that might be something we could fix. I know the Sim who enters the bathroom is supposed to get embarrassed, but we might be able to make it so that the Sim in the shower does not. That will depend upon both how much of a concern this issue actually is with the community, and what Design thinks.
