Off the Grid and Laundry

EA even has a wishing well (Get Together?), though the animation for tossing in a coin won't work for pulling up a bucket of water. As someone suggested earlier (this thread or another), a hand-pump such as the ones you can find at some primitive campgrounds in the National Forests would be ideal. Might take more animating than they consider worthwhile to do, though.

We can water plants, though, so maybe they can use that animation for a 'refill laundry tub' action, the 'carry laundry' animation (which is broken in my game, btw--the bug fix didn't work) but substituting a bucket for the laundry bag, & have us refill at a sink-object that's been redesigned to look like it's a pump. I didn't put that in the correct order, but trust you'll catch my drift. Not that EA will ever read this here, or that the programmers need the suggestion!

Hey Sucom! Could you replace the dirty water in the tub? After one load, it won't let me replace the water due to plumbing/off the grid trait.

Love that idea Tiarella!

"sixdeadqueens;c-17139284" wrote:
Hey Sucom! Could you replace the dirty water in the tub? After one load, it won't let me replace the water due to plumbing/off the grid trait.

Hi, I'm afraid I got so fed up of my sims being hungry all the time, I moved them into a regular lot so never tried emptying the water. If I had not been able to empty the water, it may possibly have irritated me that little bit more. It was bad enough when the fire caught 'on fire' twice, and twice burnt the chair next to it and my sims, and some neighbours who arrived at the island, were unable to get to the fire for some reason so couldn't ever put it out. I don't think I will play off the grid again. It's just too annoying.

"sixdeadqueens;d-961741" wrote:
I'd like to request that the washtub be made to work "off the grid" so that my Sim can do her laundry at her little camp of sorts. Maybe instead of running on plumbing the washtub water can be changed out with water from the sea or something. Thank you for reading!

@sixdeadqueens - thanks for creating this thread. I thought it was just me. I had my Sims do laundry only realizing that you can only do laundry 1 time because you can't change the water in the washtub. This to me is just ridiculous. To your point, water can be changed out several types of ways. But there's a toilet that works with off the grid. How is that toilet working? So it seems pretty inconsistent. I like the concept of the lot trait, I think it just needs better execution. It does make the game a lot more challenging for rags to riches gameplay so I'm excited about that.....but some of the off the grid objects just doesn't make sense.