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JochenWeiss
8 years ago
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[FIXED] NPCs coming into apartments/houses uninvited

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? Deutsch How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? n/a What expansio...
JasonVega2's avatar
JasonVega2
9 years ago

I've noticed this happens when my apartment-dwelling Sim interacts with the neighbors. My neighbors are always complaining about the noise (my Sim isn't making noise - but that's another issue) and they pound on the door. I ignore it and then they tell me I am a "terrible neighbor" and *then* they walk into the apartment and start watching TV.

It looks to me like the game has initiated a social interaction (not an event) and can't remember that I never invited them in - or doesn't distinguish between a negative and a positive interaction. This only seems to happen in apartments - like the game doesn't really consider a different apartment a different house.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    Did you check on the traits ?

  • JasonVega2's avatar
    JasonVega2
    9 years ago

    Double-checked the NPC neighbors' traits. My Sim is living in the Culpepper apartments and the NPC neighbors are Raj and Geeta Rasoya. Neither of them have the Goofball or Insane trait.

    I've locked the door to keep them out for now. So, they hang around outside the door for awhile and then tell me "I've got to go, thanks for hanging out with me." Very strange behavior after they've been pounding on the door complaining about the noise and I've ignored them!

  • JasonVega2's avatar
    JasonVega2
    9 years ago

    My Sim has moved to Medina Studios and is continuing to have this problem with the new neighbor, Salim Benali. Again - he does not have the Goofball or the Insane trait.

    Every time he has said anything to my Sim he then feels free to come on into the apartment. He came in after they said "hi" in the hallway. He came in after my Sim's stove caught fire after yelling about it before my Sim put it out. Interacting inside the confines of the apartment complex seems to been an invitation to come into the apartment itself.

    I've removed all mods and am running clean right now - so I don't think this is mod related.

  • bttrflies25's avatar
    bttrflies25
    9 years ago
    Same exact issue with Greeta
  • ZGamer's avatar
    ZGamer
    8 years ago

    Playing on Xbox at the same apartment, people just flood in!

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    @ZGamer Please make a separate thread for console.

    Thanks

  • LadyAelswith's avatar
    LadyAelswith
    8 years ago

    Same thing has happened to me, but i owned a restaurant and this guy walks in and he didn't have any star review above his head, he was just there talking to all the people and i couldn't ask him to leave, there was no option.. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    i´ve got the same problem, and it´s 2018 guys...

    the sims "terrorizing" me are my neighbours... i don´t even have the option to "ask them to leave", nothing... they come in and stay, no chance to get rid of them...

    i can´t believe this issue has been known for so long now and no solution is present...

    also one question, maybe a request... if i lock the door for all but my household, will sims with a key be able to get in?
    If not, would it be possible to add that? seems a better way than deleting my neighbours frequently...

    Edit: Okay, i tried and appearently, Sims with a key can´t enter or leave a locked appartment... which looks kinda like a huge overlook to me...i mean, what´s the point of a key if they can´t use it :P

    an option to "lock the door for all but Sims with key" would be great i guess 😉

  • DreamaDove's avatar
    DreamaDove
    7 years ago

    also, locking the door isn't always the answer because if you lock it and then play a different household and visit that apartment you can't come in--even after you've been invited in :/

  • Kathykins's avatar
    Kathykins
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago
    I started experiencing this issue today. I moved a sim to the 1 Torendi Tower Penthouse (she won the lottery, and could therefore afford a less humble house than what she had). Welcome wagon went as normal on her first day there. The next couple of days, different sims keep showing up and entering her place without being invited in. They are sims she already knows. Some come in, then after a while go out to the elevator and THEN ask to hang out because they're bored/whatever.
  • Iyasenu's avatar
    Iyasenu
    7 years ago
    I had this issue with Apartments, too.

    When Neighbors would be in the hallway checking their Mail or something, they would sometimes wander into my apartment of their own volition, usually to start performing an action, which would then cancel shortly when they realized they were in my apartment.

    I mostly ran into this issue with Lumps of Clay or Tablets that were left on tables that were against the same wall that bordered the Hallways.
    The Neighbor would waltz on inside, pick up the clay or tablet, fiddle with it for a moment before placing it on the ground and walking back outside.
  • SimQARobo's avatar
    SimQARobo
    Icon for EA Staff rankEA Staff
    7 years ago

    @Ryvaz @JosuDavidMC @BlueSeaWaves @DreamaDove @Kathykins @Iyasenu

    Unfortunately, after several attempts we have not been able to see this issue.

    EDIT: Actually there is one case that we're aware of - If there is a toddler in the area, their caregiver may mistakenly try to enter your home.  We're looking into that case.

    If the issue that you're seeing is not related to that, and if you have any other information or save files that you would be willing to share, please do.

    Instructions for sending files are here:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065302

    Also, just to make sure that you have this information, I want to reiterate that in some cases, this is by design:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-NPCs-coming-into-apartments-houses-uninvited/m-p/5698931#M50364

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