Re: [FIXED] Random Sim in apartment/house /Guest not leaving (Patch 1.63.133)

I totally agree it's really annoying to keep locking every door just so people don't waltz in and break your things. (I had an angry NPC keep wrecking my daughters dollhouse). Whenever I play now I have to lock all my doors and whenever there's an NPC I do want over I have to go through a hassle of making sure no one else gets in. I was happy to see the send home option so we don't have to waste time asking everyone to leave, but with the bug that's not even there! So you just have these people acting like your lot is public when it's not. There are several bugs with very lengthy feedbacks from hundreds and thousands of people experiencing it, I do really hope they get to it soon. But yay I guess we can name cow plants! Looool

I’ve also had this issue since the June update/Eco. Random townies keep coming to my house, this happens usually within minutes if i forget to lock all the doors. It makes having parties/guests over so hard, because the second tour guests walk in, random townies appear as well and there’s no option to send them home! They sometimes they stay around only for a sim hour, sometimes days, even if I manage to lock my doors they might hang around on my yard, grilling, using the pool, and sleeping on my benches. This issue is so annoying! It ha ma made me to build many walls around pools as a revenge...

From my research, sharing the saves have not fixed the problem. Multiple players have shared their saves, yet the problem still persists. It is extremely annoying to have to remove lot traits to put "private dwelling" so that this does not happen and even that does not work if they doors are not also locked (I just found this out recently with the penthouse). Having to have to doors locked all the time ruins gameplay bc I'm almost hurrying them inside so that I can hurry up and lock the doors, then I have to unlock them again in order for the sim to leave. There was a send home option, but with this glitch that is no longer available I can only "ask to leave" which takes a lot of time and I have to switch between players so they can cohesively work together to send all 10 sims home before more come in. This should not be happening within a game I've played since it's release. This has never happened until the newest patch update. I am really not trying to go through the same steps everyone else did, just for the issue to persist or the forum being closed "as fixed" when it has not been fixed. 

Yeah, I sent my saves to them awhile ago and they haven't even looked at it, I was hoping it would be a next patch fix sort of thing but it might be a long time. There are multiple other bugs with lengthy threads dating back months that are still unresolved. I understand similar issues to NPCs wandering in have always been around, but there's multiple people saying this is a lot different and new, I don't think it should be shrugged off. 

 @Player_h99fn6u3  What town is it happening in for you? Maybe if enough people collaborate we can make some progress 🙂

I've seen this, too, most recently in Newcrest, in a lot marked as Residential, in a house, in vanilla game. Often they come in through back or side doors, because I monitor, lock and continually reset No Trespassing (because it will randomly reset to default allow all) on the front door. It's funny when it happens on stream and it's great when the Send Home option is available, but recently there's been an uptick of sims that don't have that option. They're walkbys, and some of them just pass through the house if both the back door and front door are unlocked. They'll walk in, take a moment, and then the hand up thought bubble appears and they leave through a different door. What's annoying is when they don't leave right away. You can see this happen in Kelsey Impicciche's 100 Baby Challenge videos. Apartments only differ in that they only have one door to the outside. I'm still seeing that in saves where I live in an apartment, whether it's City Living or Eco Lifestyle. The only lot type I personally haven't experienced it is Tiny Home Residential. A bug that makes content is great and all, but when it gets in the way of telling a story, it's time to fix it.

I'm wondering if maybe it's something that's making the game register the residential lots as community ones because most of the time you can't even find an ask to leave dialogue option (which has always been there) let alone the new send home one. When I try and shoo the sim they usually just go into another room and wreck something out of anger so that doesn't work. The only success I've had is just keeping all my doors locked which only helps if you pay attention to them and make sure to relock them after letting wanted NPCs in. I originally thought the issue might've been with eco living because it happened to me the most on power conservation day, instead of passing NPCs, it was like the whole town made my house a hangout spot for the day. Since people without the pack have this issue that means it's not the root of the cause, I didn't notice it until the patch that actually added the send home option, it worked fine up until that power conservation day and after that sims wander in for me. Do you guys notice anything at all when it first started? Maybe it's so small as that we all have the same light fixture in 3 different spots on our lot which causes all this for some unknown reason, it could literally be anything. Let's hope they get to it soon, there are other bugs that I can shrug off for a while like the sage and basil bushes changing form after harvested, but ones like this where I have to find workarounds makes me want to play the game less because It feels like a chore to just play it.

Yeah I'm wondering the same thing. Now that I have been locking my doors and making the residence a private dwelling, it seems that my sims friends have been showing up nonstop uninvited. They come up and ring the doorbell as if the private dwelling trait isnt there at all. THEN THEY STAY for hours to the point where the time won't speed up when my sims are sleeping bc the game is reading that they have company (although they were never invited and I never got a notification that they were just "popping in"). I just installed Get Together, Outdoor Retreat, and toddler stuff. My sims are now living in Windenburg and that is where this new thing started where their friends ring doorbell or show up like they have been invited. It's not as bad as the other issue with all the random townies coming into the homes and never leaving. I'm just hoping it gets fixed because my gameplay has been lackluster since my sims can only communicate with invited guests OUTSIDE of their home because I am scared to unlock it and have to ask 10 random people to leave along with my friends. I really wanna throw parties and not with Get Together be able to meet with the group and not have to keep unlocking and locking my doors back at super speed so I don't have random townies ruining my home, setting fires, spending my sims food by cooking, etc. It's like they have access like someone in the family would once they're in the home...I've had instances of random townies bypassing room locks and sleeping in my sim's bed. 

I had a Sim show up uninvited and start swimming in my other Sims’ pool. She was there for hours and said “Thanks for hanging out with me” when she left. My other Sims had just moved to a new house, so they hadn’t given anyone a key to the house. She came when my other Sims were sleeping. The doors were locked to anyone but household. 

I have a similar issue but slightly different. My Sim lives in 17 Culpepper House and a sim, specifically the old lady with grey hair who lives with Raj Rasoya, will come in the front door, and proceed to take photographs and research the plant that's next to the door. She won't do anything else, but every few days, she comes in, does this, and leaves. She won't do anything else, and you can't send her home.