Moving to University Sells Home Lot Furniture Without Consent

@crinrict I just tested it in an unmodded save. Still happened. Everything in the house was sold even though I know for a fact that I did not tick the "sell furniture" box. Putting everything in the household inventory doesn't help either. It still gets sold.

@The_Ratticator  Just curious but was that the only sim in the household when you moved to university?  I'm guessing that it probably was.

One of the things about moving into a lot with the university housing venue lot type is that there is no family inventory while you are there.  You don't have open access to build/buy either on that venue type.  If you use the bb.enablefreebuild cheat, you can get to build/buy but there is no family inventory at all.

@CGrant56 Yes, they were the only Sim in the house. However, prior to the latest patch, I've sent Sims who were the only one in the house to university without issue. Their home furniture was never sold, because I didn't tick that box. It's also not just household inventory being sold. It's all of the furniture in the house. This is definitely a new problem that wasn't happening prior to the latest patch.

@The_Ratticator  Ok, now that does sound strange.  I had it happen to me too but it was day before the last patch and the furniture, etc. got sold but stayed in the house like it always had but I lost everything in the family inventory because that got sold too. 

So am I getting this right?  Since the patch, when you moved the last sim to university, the furniture also disappears from the lot they came from just like it would when you chose to have all of your belongings come with you when you move a sim from one residential lot to another???

@CGrant56 Yeah, that's right. Whenever I send a Sim to university, when they arrive, they get loads of Simoleons added to their funds. Sure enough, if I go to Manage Worlds and check their home, all of the furniture will be gone. I made absolutely sure that I did not tick the "sell furniture" box. It really is just like if you had chosen to sell your Sim's furniture when moving. I tested this on an unmodded save, and it still happened.

@The_Ratticator  Ok, just thought of something.  In a normal move or merging two families on separate lots, if you want the furniture, etc. to stay, you have to click the sell furniture button.  If you click the other one, all the furniture, etc. ends up in your family inventory.  I can't begin to tell you how many times I've ended up with empty lots and tons of stuff to sell out of a family inventory because I clicked the wrong one when I moved some sims.

So in the case of moving the last sim to university, I think you should be clicking the sell button so maybe not ticking it is the wrong thing to do as there is no family inventory.  But I can't recall atm if there was even a button to do that when I moved my sim to university.

@CGrant56 I might have to try that sometime and see if it works. If it does, then that is some seriously bad design. You'd never guess that you would have to tick a box for selling furniture if you wanted to keep the furniture. So either this is bad design, or a bug. I think a bug is just as likely, though, because this wasn't a problem prior to the latest patch.

@The_Ratticator   I don't think it's really a bug.  I think it's by design because there is no place to keep the stuff from your last house since you don't have a family inventory for it to be stored in that particular venue.  You can't keep it.  The furniture and other stuff has to be sold and left behind when it's the last sim in the household moving out to university because of the lack of a family inventory.  What gets me is that they left a button that creates the problem if you don't click on it or have the box checked or whatever.  So if you try to keep it by not ticking the box, you end up with an empty lot and the furniture and whatnot disappears into cyberspace somewhere.  Just wow.  I am just going to start my test game to see this one tomorrow.

Well, I can see one workaround anyway.  Just move another sim into the house before sending your sim to university to hold down the fort until your sim graduates and can be sent back to his original house.   Plus, that'll give you a place to send him when the term ends and the game makes you move your sim out if you don't want to reenroll immediately.  Found that one yesterday when I ended my first term in a dorm with the University Housing venue type.