Front door changes

I understand that as default behaviour, but I have to ask, what's the point of an interaction to set the front door, if that designation doesn't stick? I can't understand how that could be "working as designed".

I keep running into the same bug where my front door will reset to a different door than the one at the front of my house. I turned the entire property from "Public" to "Residential" to see if that would fix it. It did not. I don't have any small business on the lot. I moved my household to three different lots (none of them with small businesses and all of them having the properties set to "residential" instead of "public") and I continued to run into this issue. I have run my game completely without mods of any kind (even disabled script mods and custom content from the options menu) and still ran into this issue. 

As a design choice, that makes sense to the extent of a "default", but when we select to change it (as the game allows), that should become the new default until otherwise changed. 

Beyond that, the design choice doesn't take into account that spawn points are different for when a sim is coming home vs. when a sim is invited to the lot. My main game is played on the big windenburg lot - the spawn point for sims invited over is so far away it takes them an hour in sim time just to get to the house, and then they have to walk all the way around to the "front". I don't care if my sims spawn not next to the front door, because they don't care what is the front door. But visitors are pretty insistent on going to the front door, so it can take ages in game for them to actually show up. I flipped the house and then set the proper front as the front, but then because of this design choice, every time I open up the game I have to reselect the proper front door, which half the time doesn't even seem to work right.

I would recommend either adjusting the design so that it actually sticks, shifting which spawn point is used, or adjusting the spawn points to be the same for visitors as sims. Or a combination. Sims already take soooo long to do things, they often take forever just to start doing what you ask them to do, and this trifecta only adds to the frustration since it further limits the in-game time with the visitor and I doubt anything will be done about the issues with in-game timing and sims taking half an hour in game just to start something you told them to do. 

Hello, this is NOT a solution! 

I honestly don't believe that it's "working as designed" . What is the actual point of having a "Set as front door" action if it doesn't change the front door and it doesn't save it as such? 

Yes we would absolutely like you to revisit this recent design choice that is a mistake that invalid other features. With your answer I feel like you didn't understood the issue correctly, so let me rephrase it, for clarity. 

The game provide the option to manually assign any door as a front door, but now you are telling me that this long time feature is totally useless now, because your recent "design choice" is automatically ignoring this and reassigning the closest door to the lot's spawn point as a front door every time we load the map. Is that correct? How is that a feature and not a bug? It totally erase the other functionality that allowed us to manually choose the front door. 

Also, an other point, with the business expansion pack, we have a shop and a house, so we don't want people to ring at the shop when the intention is to ring at the house or to have sims come back home and pass through the store for some reason. And even without the business pack, we want the option to choose which door is the main door. (Like we were always able to do before).

I have two doors at the front side of the house. Game defaulted the front door to the one I didn't want.  I have been changing the front door to the one I want, but the game keeps resetting it to the other one. I think it keeps changing after I leave the lot to go somewhere else. It's not every time, but often. It might also happen after entering building mode.

I have no small business at the lot (I saw some other problem mentioned somewhere including businesses.)

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version number 1.121.372.1020
PC / Win 10
DX11

I have completely reinstalled the game in May 2021. No mods installed after reinstall.

I use lots from the gallery so I don’t know if that matters, but when I set a new door as the Front Door it keeps undoing itself. I’ve been experiencing this since last year.

My previous house (also from gallery) would reset to the same random side entrance, which happened to be double doors (I don’t think those doors were set as the front when I first added the lot).

When I imported my newest house from the gallery I want to believe the front door was already set to the one I wanted.. but now when my sims go home they keep running to the sides instead of the main entrance, and every time I check the front door it’s saying it’s not marked as the front door.. I’ve reallocated it so many times now 😩

My version of the game is 1.124.55.1030 DX11. I have a residential lot with 3 relevant doors. One door is an entrance to a shared space (on the right side of the image), one is a front door to a private lot (desired front door in the middle) and one is an entrance from a public space that I want to lock for non-households (on the left side). Whenever I set the front door in the middle, it is persisted until I leave the lot and come back. When I come back, it resets to the door on the left side of the image.

Edit By crinrict: Added pack tag to title.