Potential Roommates Never Show Up

@hanmariemay I hear your frustration. I don't understand why it worked in my game and not in yours either. I'm only mentioning these things since these are features my friends and I were discussing that we added to our lots and things that seemed needed to attract and keep our roommates.

I did find some buggy things in my roommates, including that thing where they keep leaving the lot to come back with group dinners, eating spoiled food that they are keeping in their personal inventory (I married one of my roomies to a household member and he had several spoiled meals in his inventory). They obviously leave the lot for showers sometimes, it's hit-and-miss as to whether they'll eat, bathe, or use the toilet on the lot even though they're hungry or need to shower/pee, and each roommate seems to have at least once where they have to send out that 'I can barely take care of myself' message... to name the main things that come to mind.

Roommates are a great feature, and I'm glad they added it, but I think the whole roommates thing still has some bugs to work out. 🤔

I am also not getting candidates for roommates. I have only had one sim show up, but I turned her away because she was a klepto. It has been several days since the ad was placed. I’m not sure if the roommate process is  designed to take this long or if there is a problem somewhere.

I have enough space, beds, desks, chairs, bathrooms, side tables, and dressers for four roommates after assigning rooms/beds to the two sims in the household and their butler. I have a pet bed for my cat and two extra pet beds. I also have a separate kitchenette (along with two full kitchens) that roommates could use which contains a fancy fridge, coffee pot, and microwave. The house is also loaded with games and skill items. Roommates would  have access to basically EVERY cool thing this game has!

So, after I closed the game for the night, I realized that I have the “private residence” lot trait. I also have three ghosts and a butler who reside with my one-cat-and-two sim household, so maybe there are already too many beings on the lot? Do you have ghosts or a private residence lot trait by any chance? 

The next time I play, I’m going to change the lot trait to see if that helps. If it doesn’t help, I’ll release the ghosts as a test to see if there are possibly too many “extras” on the lot. I’ll let you know if anything helps!

Here’s my system/game info: 

PS4: 1.20.101.3400 (64 bit)

English

EXPANSION: Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Island Living, Discover University

GAME: Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Realm of Magic

STUFF: Moschino, Bowling Night, Vintage Glamour, Kids Room, Romantic Garden, Movie Hangout, Spooky, Cool Kitchen, Perfect Patio, Luxury Party

FREE: Holiday Celebration, Ghoulish Guitar

@Rae_Regenbogen Yes, I would try taking down the ad, remove the private dwelling lot trait, and unlock the front door, and probably evict the ghosts.

Make sure that you have a bed on-site for each of the pets, each baby, and any toddler (even if they have a bassinet/toddler bed), and for Servo, plus beds assigned to each resident including the butler. I would then make the space for the roommate to include a room with plenty of elbow room, no moo placement of objects, a dresser, a desk, and a bedside table. These items seem to keep them happy and give them the proper surfaces to place their crap - or they will get mad.

They also enjoy a coffee maker, stereo, TV and couch in the living room, and mine love the gamepad. Also, if you make ice cream and drag it to the fridge, they love that. A butler helps tons with keeping them happy and picking up after them. I ran my household with 5 sims, 2 pets, 1 butler and 3 roomies at once fine. The butler doesn't count, and roomies can add two more slots to the 8 sims max.

Adding a mini fridge in the kitchen (along with the regular fridge) seemed to help me get them to eat. When they bring dishes home of food, drag those to the fridge. They prefer to eat from those. Also, if you add a talking toilet and the highest quality tub they seem far more likely to 'use the facilities' in your home and not bug out and walk around miserable doing the pee-pee walk and grubbed out because they need to leave the lot to go pee, shower, or eat. <sigh> 

Now put your ad back up. 🙌

Good luck!! The 'roomemates' code needs some love. I look forward to this. 

@SheriGRI have only just recently added Discover University so I am very new to the roommate experience. I'm playing a single YA Sim and I added two dorm-style rooms, plus one additional bathroom, to her house. I asked an NPC (homeless) friend to be a roommate and everything seems to be working fine with her so far.

When she comes home from school she'll hang out in her room, watch TV/ listen to the stereo in the living room, or read books. She's eating regular meals I put in the refrigerator and she'll use either of the bathrooms in the house (it's fine I don't care which one she uses) instead of leaving. It's only been a few days but she seems happy enough so far. I guess we'll see how it goes. I'm doing all of this on a test save so if everything works great then yay for me, but if not, well live and learn I guess.

I ran an ad for a second roommate but no applicants so far. It's only been a couple of days and my Sim has been off lot several times. After reading your posts at least now I know a few things to try if more time goes by without any applicants showing up. Thanks! :D

@RandomBuzziness I look forward to hearing of your continued experiences with your roommates! It sounds like you have a great start in that you have them comfortable, happy, and interacting well to fill their needs! 🙌

@SheriGR  Hi Sheri 🙂 It's been four weeks in my roommate experiment and still no applicants to my roommate-wanted ad, so that part hasn't been going well. For the roommate that I asked directly everything is still going great! She seems to be using only the items on my lot to fill all of her basic needs, i.e. eating, sleeping, using the toilet, taking showers, staying entertained. The only time she leaves the lot is to go to school or to fetch a friend and come back. Several times she has autonomously formed a group with my Sim and tags along to another location. She'll often clean up after herself even though she does not have the Neat trait. She has not made a single complaint in 4 weeks.

• She sleeps in her designated bed every night. It's just a dorm-style single bed, nothing fancy.
• She always eats meals from the refrigerator that were prepared by my Sim. She never cooks or brings back meals from off-lot
• She'll use the toilets just fine and never does the I-need-to-pee-really-bad walk to an off-lot location. They are medium-quality toilets that have been upgraded by my Sim.
• Same with the showers, she'll use them before she gets the green fog of funk. These are also medium-quality with at least one upgrade.
• The two showers in the house are identical, except for that one has 1 upgrade and the other has 2 upgrades. She always uses the shower with 2 upgrades.

It's just a starter home in Willow Creek that I modified to include two additional dorm-style bedrooms and one additional bathroom. So that is three beds total for just 2 current occupants, my Sim and one roommate. The bedrooms have DU build/buy furnishings, a single bed, bed stand, desk (with medium-grade computer), and a dresser. Having the upgrades to the toilet and shower really seems to be making a difference as they are not high-end fixtures but my current roommate uses them just fine & seems happy enough with everything else.

I don't know if the Willow Creek location is an issue with getting applicants to my roommate-wanted ads? I can't imagine that it's anything to do with furniture. I do get random NPC Sims who will knock on the door but they are not tagged as potential roommates. I think they are just random NPC strangers. My regular NPC friends still visit as usual.

This is a no-mod, no-CC test save.

@finelinetracksix  love you heaps!

An odd thing has happened twice now with my current roommate. She will walk in and use the toilet when my Sim is in the same room (once while my Sim was cleaning a sink and another time when she was upgrading a shower). It's just a regular home bathroom with a regular toilet and not a toilet stall, not a uni dorm set-up or public restroom. She does not try to shoo my Sim out of the room & they have zero romantic relationship. They are friends but like just a regular friendship. Is this normal behavior for roommates?

@RandomBuzziness If the sims have a high enough friendship they will use the bathroom and not be embarrassed or shoo, last I knew. I wouldn't worry about that. Same goes for sharing a double bed.

Sounds like the roommate is doing fantastic! I expect there are are a number of factors that can effect various aspects of the roommate situation. And in my experience of Sims there seems to be a bit of random chaos factored into the algorithm with certain traits and situations. I'm a micromanager in my game, so having sims I cannot control in my home is a bit unnerving - and a great way to mix things up. Anyway, whatever the known and unknown factors are, your roommate and sim seem to be a great match!

As far as the non-answered ad, you could try taking it down, leaving the lot/game, re-entering the lot maybe make sure there is an extra bed plus all of those items you mentioned that you have for the current roommate (the dresser, bedside table and desk). Then put the ad back up again. I'm playing a different save now and am finding running the ad isn't working so great when I leave the lot with one of the sims. Also, it can take 1-3 days for them to start to come, then they taper off more if I don't pick one for a while, it seems. Anyway, a few things you can try.

Looking forward to hearing more! The information your shared is very helpful and well tested. Thanks!

@RandomBuzziness In order to keep a thread in General Information on the subject this chat is not being merged. But... please also check on the bug report about getting and keeping roommates. You could add your information/troubleshooting there and 'me too' it to help others and for EA to have it with the Bug Report. Thanks!

Bug report on  getting and keeping roommates: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-DU-Roommates-complain-and-leave-after-24-hours/m-p/8442055