I have a business (Get to Work pack) in another neighborhood (not on my home lot neighborhood) and my employees and my customers would just take things that are not for sale but for decoration. I had to move the business because it isn't in the neighborhood I live in and therefore cannot vote to remove it the N.A.P.
In the same neighborhood, I had a bar that I had my sims visit, and when I left, it became an "unfinished lot" because someone cared TOO much and took a barstool, a required item for that lot type! I had to go in and fix it myself. I noticed it because when I tried to take my sims back there on a date, the game told me I couldn't take my sims on a date to an unfinished lot.... even though we were just there the other day. I agree that something definitely has to be done about this N.A.P..
Sharing is Caring basically breaks the game!!! Everyone is in agreement. It's not like some Sims can come over to your house and take some of your stuff, when it comes to commercial venues it literally BREAKS THE GAME because you go visit a lot and the whole place gets cleared out and becomes nonfunctional. There's no way they had that in mind when they designed this and I cannot believe they let the expansion pack release with this level of game-breaking bug in it. To echo another simmer here, "The fact I have to turn off NPC voting, then go to every single community and cheat in four N.A.Ps so sharing is caring isn't activated isn't my idea of fun." Just the fact that I had to stop my game and come on the forums looking desperately for a solution, along with many many other players, is case in point that this expansion pack bug is breaking the game and needs to be fixed asap.
For those of you that have retail/businesses in not your own neighborhood, you CAN remove the NAP to fix your business! Go to Manage Worlds and play another household in that neighborhood. Shift-click on the mailbox, select instant repeal the NAP, add an alternative NAP so all 4 slots are full (so Sharing is Caring can't be voted back in again). Back in Manage Households, mark the household as unplayed again if you want it to remain unplayed.
I haven slowly but surely gone round and revoked that NAP in each neighborhood. For a neighborhood where there are no Residential lots, I have to switch a lot to Residential, move a sim in, revoke the NAP, evict the sim, and switch the lot type back.
Jiminy crickets!
