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kayafulmaniac
Seasoned Scout
10 months ago

Front door changes

I notice a little annoyance from the Business & Hobbies expansion, nothing serious, but it's annoying and could be easily fixed I think.

I assigned my house door to be the "front door". When you open your business for the day it change your business door as the front door of the whole building which is fine, but then when you close the business, it doesn't switch back. So people coming to visit you end up always using the business door, even if it closed, instead of using the house door. It would be handy to have two sorts of front door, business front door for client when the business is open and house front door for friends and all when business is closed.

What do you guys think?



Game Version:
1.113.291.1020DX11

I have all the Expansion Packs, almost all the Game Pack (Except Wedding Story and Journey to Batuu) I have the following Stuff Packs: Nifty Knitting, Moschino, My First Pet, Laundry Day, Vintage Glamour, Backyard, Romantic Garden, Movie Hangout and Perfect Patio. I also have those Kits: Holiday Celebration Pack, Grim Ghoulish Guitar, Desert Luxe, Decor to the Max and Bust the Dust.

I USE ZERO MODS.
PC: Windows 11

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title, added pack tag

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EDIT by Kayafulmaniac:  As the user
Gingerxyz commented : It's not triggered by the business being closed, but it happen when you reload the lot. I just re-tested with my game and the front door keep being reset to the one closer to the place where sims disappear to get off the lot. 

I seems to happens everytime I quit the lot and come back. (I thought it was related to closing the business, but it was a mistake, the theory of Gingerxyz is the right one! I was able to replicate the bug everytime with it!)

 

39 Replies

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 months ago

    Hi all,

    This is currently working as designed, as Sims will route to whichever door is closest to the lot's spawn point. 

    Please feel free to provide your feedback here if you'd like us to revisit this design choice. 

  • Ho_Mi_Jo's avatar
    Ho_Mi_Jo
    Seasoned Scout
    3 months ago

    I have two exterior buildings in addition to my sims house and for some reason every time I load the game or leave the lot and come back the front door assigned to the house is now assigned to the green house instead.

    How do I make it so that the front door I assigned(the house) stays assigned and I don't have to fix it every time I load my home lot?

  • csigacsilla's avatar
    csigacsilla
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Hi, I am getting more and more frustrated about this one.

    I usually like to place houses downloaded from the gallery or already move my sims into pre-placed lots. And right from the start it is working well, but after arriving back from travelling with any of my sims, another door gets selected as a front door. The other time I had a shed/wine cellar in the backyard, and it's door got selected as the main front door. 

    So NPCs like to go through my house, through my main door just so they could knock on the door that is for the backyard. 

    I keep switching it back, whenever I notice it, but it always gets replaced once I leave the lot again..

     

    Anyone else noticing this??

  • SparkleTheFey's avatar
    SparkleTheFey
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 months ago

    Heya! I think that's a great design choice, but the greenhouse in my haunted house is at the back of the lot, furthest away from the spawn point on the Hallows lot in Willow Creek. When I get this glitch, it's never the frontmost door that becomes the front door, it's always the one furthest away (the back door, the shed/greenhouse/outhouse in the back garden). No matter how many times I set the actual front door (at the front of the lot, always the closest door to the spawn point) as the front door, visitors will always revert using the back door/greenhouse door/shed to knock once there's been a loading screen.

  • Nikkision's avatar
    Nikkision
    Rising Adventurer
    2 months ago

    That's odd I have almost all the dlc, including businesses and hobbies play on ps4 and pc and have never experienced this issue with any of my households.

  • Also, this issue with the front door changing when I have multiple doors leading outside occurs on a normal residential lot when I switch households and return to play on that lot, but when I stay on the same lot after setting the correct front door again, it doesn't change. 

    This happens with or without mods.

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