Generic Lot bug?
Something super annoying just happened in my game, and I can't pinpoint how it could have happened.
I haven't actually played a household in quite a while, although I've popped in here and there to check out the gallery. I did recently spend quite a bit of time adding likes and dislikes through household management once that update dropped. But I opened up a family tonight, and when I went to make a few edits for the house, I noticed that I wasn't able to buy anything even though the family had a couple of thousand simoleans in the household budget. However, then I noticed that I had... dual tabs?... at the bottom of the screen. One was called household funds, the other "business" funds. Hmmm, I thought. That's very strange. This family does not own, and has never owned, a business.
Then it hit me: I saw that the lot type was generic.
No, the lot was not generic before. It's never been generic; it has always been residential. I created that family and then instantly purchased that same residential lot. They've only ever lived there. I've never even so much as temporarily moved them out and then back in.
So I tried to change the lot type back to residential, but it was greyed out and when I hovered over the lot type, it said that the lot type could not be changed while the lot was owned. Great. So now I've got the giant hassle of moving them out and back in. If I even can? If it's a generic lot, will I even be able to sell the house? I'm also quite concerned that in the process of doing so, I will lose possessions (and this is a house that I spent a LOT of time getting just right.)
In any case, I haven't tried to fix it, because I immediately freaked out that this could have happened to other, or God forbid all, of my households, so I've been checking every world. So far I've only found one other household with this issue, fingers crossed.
I just don't see... normally I would think maybe I just accidentally hit something and changed it myself. But if it's not possible to change a lot type when it's owned, and that lot has ALWAYS been owned... well, I couldn't have accidentally hit a button and changed it if changing it is not even physically an option.
So, tl; dr: has anyone else had a problem with lot types being mysteriously changed? Or is there some incredibly obvious explanation that I have missed somehow?
I haven't actually played a household in quite a while, although I've popped in here and there to check out the gallery. I did recently spend quite a bit of time adding likes and dislikes through household management once that update dropped. But I opened up a family tonight, and when I went to make a few edits for the house, I noticed that I wasn't able to buy anything even though the family had a couple of thousand simoleans in the household budget. However, then I noticed that I had... dual tabs?... at the bottom of the screen. One was called household funds, the other "business" funds. Hmmm, I thought. That's very strange. This family does not own, and has never owned, a business.
Then it hit me: I saw that the lot type was generic.
No, the lot was not generic before. It's never been generic; it has always been residential. I created that family and then instantly purchased that same residential lot. They've only ever lived there. I've never even so much as temporarily moved them out and then back in.
So I tried to change the lot type back to residential, but it was greyed out and when I hovered over the lot type, it said that the lot type could not be changed while the lot was owned. Great. So now I've got the giant hassle of moving them out and back in. If I even can? If it's a generic lot, will I even be able to sell the house? I'm also quite concerned that in the process of doing so, I will lose possessions (and this is a house that I spent a LOT of time getting just right.)
In any case, I haven't tried to fix it, because I immediately freaked out that this could have happened to other, or God forbid all, of my households, so I've been checking every world. So far I've only found one other household with this issue, fingers crossed.
I just don't see... normally I would think maybe I just accidentally hit something and changed it myself. But if it's not possible to change a lot type when it's owned, and that lot has ALWAYS been owned... well, I couldn't have accidentally hit a button and changed it if changing it is not even physically an option.
So, tl; dr: has anyone else had a problem with lot types being mysteriously changed? Or is there some incredibly obvious explanation that I have missed somehow?
