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crinrict's avatar
3 years ago
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[BY DESIGN] [HR] Horses come into house autonomously

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.99.264
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All, including Horse Ranch (Thanks so much to the EACN for supplying me with an early access code)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Move into a house that has no or a low foundation/platform 2. Have a horse in your household 3. Let it do whatever it wants.
What happens when the bug occurs? The horse comes into the house without being directed to do so.
What do you expect to see? Horse only coming into the house when I tell it to do so.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Installing Horse Ranch

Some pics of the unwelcome horse. I do like it that the go inside when you tell them to but just like biking, it should always be user directed

  • Heya @crinrict 

    Also, the alternative was this:

    Which we decided was "real creepy" and went with the door option. 

10 Replies

  • EA_Cade's avatar
    EA_Cade
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Heya @crinrict 

    Also, the alternative was this:

    Which we decided was "real creepy" and went with the door option. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @EA_Cade sad to hear. I can lock the doors but then I need to unlock them when I do want the horse in the house.

    Oh well.
  • gooochyeee's avatar
    gooochyeee
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @EA_Cade I think this is a bit disappointing but fair enough (Though them looking through the window would be cool)
  • Khaat's avatar
    Khaat
    2 years ago

    Thank you for responding and clarifying this. I would be fine with that if it seemed to work, but for me, I have all the doors of my house locked for my toddler not to get out and for my horses not go get in, and neither appears to do diddley squat. So, at this point, i will either keep working on it, or decide to just try to live with chasing the toddlers in and the horses out. But I do appreciate the clarification. 

  • @Khaat It won’t necessarily help with toddlers, but horses can’t use stairs. So if you put the house up on a foundation it should at least keep the horses out.
  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago

    I thought that a single level platform would help keep them out because as @PipMenace says, they won't go into a house on a deck. But just having a single level platform actually doesn't work in the same way as a deck and the horse steps up onto it. The only way to stop them is to add a little step to the platform and the horse won't use the step (images attached before and after). I only had the front door locked for horses on my new build because it was on flat ground, but the back of the house is on a platform and Nougat just moseyed right on into the kitchen every morning to say Suly Suly. On one occasion, leaving a little present on the floor for his person while she was eating breakfast. Once the step was added, Simone got the "listen to horse" socialisation on her queue while she was indoors but then it vanished as Nougat couldn't get up the step.

    Poor Nougat, he was allowed indoors when he was a foal but now he's just too big!

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @ReneHollyDesign1 look what was happening to me 🤣 even solid walls and furniture didn't keep mischievous Nougat out of the kitchen! But the step stopped all of it, phew.

  • CircuitD's avatar
    CircuitD
    Seasoned Veteran
    7 months ago

    Poor and lazy coding is not design. It’s just trashy coding. Period. I don’t know how illogical and erroneous actions can be called design. That means that either the designer is not very bright or that your blunder is covered up as a design feature rather than calling it error EA doesn’t know how to fix. Sims 4 is a bad game. It’s mostly that because it’s designed in lazy and sloppy way.