Re: [OPEN] [CD] Cats can't use the litter boxes
Nick wrote:
I'm hearing that we limited the object picker range for pet bowls and litter boxes because of performance issues. Not to say this is "by design" but yeah, that's why it's happening.
Detection radius for litter boxes on the cat's occupied floor is about 60 units. If the litter box is one floor away, this shrinks to ~30 units. Cats cannot detect litter boxes that are two or more floors away.
So yeah, I'm guessing this is primarily an issue for bigger houses/lots. If you place multiple self-care items (litter box or food bowl) on the lot and space them out, does that stop the issue from happening? Thanks much for the reports!
Interesting. Yes, one of my buggier cats lives in Ophelia Villa (the Goth house; Alexander aged up with the RNG trait "Cat Lover" and married one of my Sims). She has kibble towers and litterboxes on multiple floors and has trouble finding them sometimes. Like, she's on one side of the basement I added and saying she's hungry or needs a litterbox when she has a kibble tower and laser litterbox on the other side of the basement. She also has a kibble tower in the kitchen and a litterbox in one of the second floor bathrooms, but those apparently don't exist. (That said, well. Her name is "Princess" and that's how she's treated, so she has eager human attendants telling her about her dishes whenever she seems hungry.)
The other is over 900 Sim days old, based on Simology panels of the elders he lives with. He lives in a 3 story house with a greenhouse on top and litterboxes and food dishes on each floor but the greenhouse. I love him dearly, as do his human-Sim companions, but he has terrible trouble finding his food dishes. He can be maybe five build mode squares from his food and still be generating popups reminding me to fill his dish when he has a full kibble tower.
The cat in Riverside Roost is a lot younger and has never had trouble finding her (single) food dish or litterbox. Nor has the very young cat (aged up from kitten a week or two ago) in the Chieftain's Villa lot in Sulani.
I always assumed the issue was the age of the cats, since pets from my oldest save were super buggy in that regard. On one memorable occasion I lost my temper with a cat requesting a nice clean litterbox when she had four, so I went into build buy and purchased her maybe 10 and surrounded her on all sides, to no avail. (Perhaps I confused her.)
