Mostly Off The Grid Frustration

"Plainevil;c-17141844" wrote:

"JCStormy1;d-962073" wrote:
Hello,

I've been playing (or trying to play) with off the grid since Island living came out and I've encountered a few things that are raising frustration to near the point of wanting walking away. It was a feature I was really looking forward to.

• Can't clean toilets or sinks
  
• Can't change the water for the wash-bin
  
• Can't wash toddler in any off-the-grid functioning bathtubs; nor does he gain any hygiene for playing in the ocean (not sure if they are also supposed to)
  
• Off-the-grid friendly lights are not labelled (not sure if this was intentional)
  
• (from Key Point lot) anti-environmentalists are in my queue from half the island away to argue with me, then stay on my lot as an invited guest (when they were not...)
  
• Some routing issues in the island cleanup, more-so with volcanic waste
  
• I'm also not sure if it's intentional that if you live off-the-grid, that there is no feasible way to adopt a child or a pet
  
• Oh, and sometimes fish traps disappear when you attempt to place them in-world. Sometimes they reappear if you exit the save, then re-load
  
• I also got some bugs with "fire" on my lot. I had a campfire, and nothing caught fire. Literal nothing, the tile next to it, caught fire and no sim could route to put it out. I had to wait until it died out completely from burning absolutely nothing.
  
• Also for the "angling ace" aspiration, the "fish at 3 different locations" - it doesn't count any fishing places in Sulani
  

Not fixes but things that can help.

Toilets, sinks, showers and cookers can be upgraded to self cleaning. Since we allow our Sims to wash in less than clean water, I would allow my my Sim to clean her plumbing items with it.
Wash Bin no plumbing or access to clean water, really needs the self cleaning upgrade added or access to clean water.
Bath, apparently you can have the parent or child/dog click the other and can bath from there instead of on the bath itself.
Adoption like buying plumbing parts most likely requires you own the PC, if you have a laptop taking it to the library or a lot with power may work.

Thanks, I gave it a try. The toddler can ask for a bath, but then the sim handflails saying that there's no bath. Toddler can't ask for a bath by clicking on the tub, either. And I bought a laptop to bring to a public venue and the option was not there to adopt anything - same options as if you were to use a public computer