Re: [OPEN] Pools on elevated terrain are inaccessible by Sims

@crinrict I tried as many pools as I can and thats the only one with the issue. I tried to change the depth and size of the pool and still didn't work. Also I put ladder, still no use. I couldn't find any workaround for this. 

@bilgeytzThis game is easily confused. Just curious, did you try selecting the pool and moving/selling it?

That is, just get rid of the turbulent pool altogether. Then try the house wall stuff and see if it works? You can always put another pool in.

@bilgeytz 

Beautiful lot.  I tested your lot and am pretty sure the problem is with the terrain level where the pools are. Something was just a little off with the terrain elevation at that location. It appears to be just a little low and slopes down slightly from the floor level of the 2nd level.  I adjusted the terrain and replaced the pools and got it so that a sim could get in.  Once they could get in, they could also sit on the edge.  I also made the pools the same height of the 1st level and had no problems with changing the wall heights or adding/changing walls in the house.  It took quite a bit to get it to work so it might just be easier to flatten everything and start over.  The way I got it to work after flattening the lot was that I created stand alone rooms for the pool areas and then brought the terrain up to their level then put the pools in with the water tool.  So it can be made to work but it was time consuming as it wiped out pretty much everything in that area of the lot when I flattened the lot.

Hope this helps.

edit: the pool was on elevated land so i flattened the whole lot and placed the pool on completely flat terrain and now it works... which really sucks cuz the house is heavily reliant on hill-like terrain.. no idea how im supposed to fix this since the whole house is on a huge hill. it will look extremely stupid if i have a big sunken in backyard..

i've tried doing this as well, along with bulldozing the whole lot, replacing the lot, making a 2nd pool in a different spot on the lot which worked for a bit then broke again, making a new save game and moving in a new family with the same house and still doesnt work =/ my sims could use the pool just fine the other day but today they get pathing errors.

I managed my sims to use the pool at last 🙂 Thanks to @CGrant56 I got inspired by the build a room idea. However, I didn't flatten or change the terrain level. I simply created a room around the pool areas with the wall tool and then bulldozed the pools. I build the pools once again and deleted the walls. Now my sims can swim 🙂 

I still can't change or add walls in the house, but I don't mind. I really liked this house and it is ok not to change it inside 🙂

I think we can call this a workaround since we are still hoping for a solution from EA. The pool and wall tools were perfectly usable before the update.

I was so upset when my sim could not use the pool that I had built on a higher elevation, espec when I saw people saying they 
had to flatten the entire lot to get it to work. I worked really hard on making a mountain home on a higher elevation, re-creating
one that I loved in Avakin Life because of it's amazing soothing and beautiful environment.   

Before I even read your comment 
about building a room, I decided to check to see if I made a room around the pool if it would work. I did this I think because I
am so used to losing floor squares and having to build rooms around rooms to get them back. A weird dynamic but it is what 
it is.  So I built walls around my pool, put a door in and had my sim test it. It works.  No having to move and rebuild the pool or 
anything.  So just put walls around it, so that the floor squares come up underneath it to give it "support" and then remove the 
walls should work for anyone having this issue. 

Thank God too bc I was really upset to think that this property I worked so hard and long on to get right (and had to redo
pathing on the driveway that goes down to the main ground level bc I forgot to save it apparently) and having to flatten
it was just not going to fly.  
Thank you so much for your comments !  Although I didn't see it before I tried the room, I very well could have and I am 
sure it will help someone else who is struggling with this issue. 🙂  Happy Simming! 

Absolutely brilliant! I was tearing  my hair out 🤦‍♀️ Followed your advice and it works! Thank you 😊