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This time, I tested the Payment System as a Property Owner side. And the last Feedback.(a little longer)
Test Condition:
・No Mod/CC, on EA app, PC - always I play under this though I didn't write until this comment -
・As Property Owner at Ro Kaya Rockside Lot and build Residential Rental house on the Lot and live there.
・Tenant Agreement keeps default setting.
・Play without quitting the game, from the day getting the Tenants to the day getting the Grace Period.
・Make a fresh Sims 4 folder, and create a new Sim for a Property Owner.
How to get your Tenants when you'll start a new game as Property Owner?
I came up with the following 4 ways:
① You buy a Lot and build Resi Rental, after that you get Tenants from Business panel.
② After got Resi Rental, go to Manage World and choose towny from the Manage Household panel as Tenant. Then let the towny to move in to your Resi Rental.
③ Once let your created Sim to move somewhere, then buy the premade Resi Rental Lot where Tenants already live there, and move in there as Property Owner.
④ Let your created Sim to move in the premade Resi Rental where Property Owner already live. After then, switch to premade Owner and play as Owner.
Since you have to create a Sim to start the game in Sims 4, I think the majority of players will probably start using way ① or ②. So, this time I tested using the ways ① and ②.
To start with the results, I could get the Grace Period using both ways.
In the test using ① way, after doing some preliminary preparations with the Lot type not change from Residential, at 08:35am on Wednesday I selected Tenants from the Business Panel and filled vacancy.
I continued playing the game without quitting, and was able to get the notice of Rent Collected and receive the Rent Fee (not a full amount) at 5am the next week Thursday. And the Grace Period started at 9am that Thursday.
(Bills & Utilities settlement are usually made at 5am.)
And then in the test using ② way, after let the created Sim to buy a Lot, and then make RR house. Go to Manage World and choose some townies from Manage Household panel and let them to move in the RR house as Tenants.
Continue to play without quitting the game as same the test ①.
In test ②, Tenants moved in the RR house on Sunday 07:43pm. On the next week Tuesday Owner Sim got Grace Period at 9am. But at 5amte on that Tuesday Owner hadn't got the notice of Rent Collected.
But the full amount was not paid in Test ① either, so it's possible to Tenant not paid the Rent.
After checking the Grace Period and then played more 1 or 2 days in-game time, I quit the game in both tests.
Of course in both of tests, if loading the save file, Remaining Day is reset to 7 (default Max day) and Grace Period is gone.
Test① (right side is the pic of loaded save file)
Test② (right side is the pic of loaded save file)
By the way did you notice the weird in the above pic of test ①?
The pic of after loading save file, Yarmellino's Tenant Agreement has unit rules.
I always paused the game when take the pics. In this time, I also paused the game for try to do 'Justly Evict' to him and took a pic. And I renovated the unit he was and then select new Tenant after setting the Tenant Agreement newly with continuing to pause.
A new Tenant Agreement's pic is the below.
The point I saved using 'Save as ...' is before I do 'Justly Evict'. In other words the Tenant Agreement contains information that should not have been present at the time of saving. This symptom in not only this time. It happened in testing play as a Tenant.
In this case, you can understand the problem more clearly I think, after I took the pics and saved using 'Save as...', I let my Sim to do 'Sort Junk Mail' and then I paused the game, took the pic and saved using 'Save as...' again for moving to other Lot using 'Keep Furniture'. Therefore a few in-game time goes until Sim moves out. It reflects the results of actions taken in save files after the one I loaded.
The problem of the Remaining Lease Day being reset by loading a save file, and the problem of data that shouldn't exist being reflected in the saved time to the loaded save data - I think these two points are serious problems for the game. I hope that by investigating these, you can find out what needs to be fixed.
As a side note, after observing the FR's payment system up to this point, this is just a guess, but I guess that the calculate program also will try to calculate based on the Tenant Agreement for the figures listed in the 'Rent' column of the Bills & Utilities for the CL and Eco's apartments. That's not exist in CL and Eco's apartment, so rent is always displayed 0.
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