@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.
It would be nice if we could get a comment from a Guru on this. Because I could swear this never happened before.
