Product: The Sims 4Platform:MacWhich language are you playing the game in? FrançaisHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.103.250.1220What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? For rent Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Please add better gameplay, more interactions. Where are the neighbours What happens when the bug occurs? /What do you expect to see? I expect to see neighbours using common area when I am in my own unit. you won't see them unless you left your unit to visit others Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No /// Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

I was hopeful we could view all the apartments in live mode, like I was REALLY excited for this. Big disappointment that they become hidden and my tenants never venture outside. I spent days building an elaborate apartment complex and now I don't even want to play it. If anyone knows of a cheat or mod that unhides apartments and tenants in live mode, please reply.

@zoiee2020 I just want to watch what is going on in the other tenant homes. I don't want to control them. I know in the Sims 2 Apartment Life, it was the same way. When the tenants went in their apartments, they were hidden but they weren't recluses. They would come out of their apartments all the time.

@nualla_6109You don't control roommates. They come and go as they please. Go to work or school on their own. They do however, use the common gym and come dance in the party room all the time.Again, I think For Rent, the 20 sims cap plays a major part in the lack of common space use, or the ability to peak into their apartment without going through the loading screen.The amounts of autonomy in Sims 4 VS Sims 2 is far greater. I think it's the same amount autonomy that's causing so many issues in game stability. Because Sims 4 is coming to its end of life stage, I doubt the devs are going to rewrite any major code to fix it. More so just bandage up what they can until Sims 5 is released.

I'm having this same problem. The shared spaces are all so empty. I'm scared it might be a design choice but I'm hoping they fix it.

@Andreus64 Make sure that you have amenities in your shared space that your tenants will want to use. For instance, training equipment with a bathroom, pool, grill and seating. Your landlord will likely also want to use these.

[FR] NPCs tenants not using shared space

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zoiee2020
2 years ago
@khitteh How much better is your computer to this build?

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600
CPU: 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3-3220
Ram: 4 GIG
khitteh
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@zoiee2020 wrote:
@khittehHow much better is your computer to this build?

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600
CPU: 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3-3220
Ram: 4 GIG

A lot better than that, not a nasa computer though due to not upgrading yet (it isn't time to upgrade, waiting on next gen CPUs and GPUs so the upgrade will be noticeable, that's right I'm waiting till we can install Skynet 🥳 ).
It really should be up to us to decide what we think we can deal with in settings. Some people don't even mind low fps, and there's a mod to deal with simulation lag.
zoiee2020
2 years ago
@khitteh Those specs are the minimum standard EA has put forth that's required to play this game. You can also still play on PS4. The PS4 came out in 2013.

Because those are the standards, that's what the software must be written too.

I dont know a single game on the market that has different operating features (with the exception of better FX settings) for better built computers.

Because EA allows mods in game, they are essentially allowing you decide what level you want to push your computer past minimum requirements. But you do so, at your own risk.

Until Sims 5 comes out, you will not see any better software written for better computers.
khitteh
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@zoiee2020 wrote:
@khittehThose specs are the minimum standard EA has put forth that's required to play this game. You can also still play on PS4. The PS4 came out in 2013.

Because those are the standards, that's what the software must be written too.

No I think if you played other games you would realise that games have settings where you choose textures etc according to what your own computer can handle, with low spec computer owners needing to choose potato textures etc so their low spec computer can play the game without lagging and crashing.
No reason there shouldn't be settings for low spec computers and settings for high spec computers in Sims 4, in fact there already are such settings where numbers of sims allowed in game at one time can be set to "unlimited" if your computer can handle it. Or set really low for the potato PCs, consoles, and laptops you mentioned.
An additional setting for allowing maximum simultaneous sims to show in Residential Rentals could be added to the settings menu so that people could choose to set their own personal limits depending on their computer hardware capabilities.
flauschtrud
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
Would be interesting to know on what lot with which lot traits and with how many Sims in their own household people are playing that experience this problem.
So maybe you already have 8 Sims in your household, the neighborhood you are in spawns some vendors and you also have a bunch of stray cats on your lot. Then there are probably not many Sims left from the 20 Sims limit that can be used for tenants...
I'm not saying that this would be an excuse for the feature not to work, but it could be a possible reason.

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