Stop crowding the DJ, ugh

"Triplis;d-873172" wrote:
I made a giant dance floor today. It looks like this:

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah248/Tripliss/dj-crowd-1_zpsbi0ln3mh.png

Cool, right?

Except that, uh, as you can see... they're all just crowding the DJ.

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah248/Tripliss/dj-crowd-2_zpst21lr5gs.png

They can dance to the DJ's music from below, on the dance floor. But the AI won't do it for most of them.

I can't think of any way to get around this, short of some convoluted process with clubs, doors, locks, and crossing my fingers. It's a public venue, so door-locking settings are limited.

The DJ area is supposed to be for the DJ, but there's no way to tell the sims that.

Any ideas for how to make this room design work? So far the main component of the venue is a wash because these autonomous plumbobs want to all cram themselves into the DJ area.

I'm not holding my breath for a patch, but it would be nice if the AI was a little smarter about dancing to the DJ's music. This isn't the first time I've had sims act weird around DJ booth's. The main issue seems to be that they want to cram themselves in as close to the booth as possible for some reason (in general, not just in this instance). Allowing them to dance to a DJ from further away might fix stuff like this.

I think it's primarily coded that way so that the Sims can learn how to DJ. Have you tried the celebrity rope to keep them out? I do have to say that even though you can lock a door against NPCs and Paparazzi, they still get in. They keep storming the stage of my Rock Star. It's frustrating as all get out, so I feel your pain. Maybe there's a mod for this? It's worth checking around.

By they way, you did a fabulous job on that build. I really like the notion of a DJ booth. But for the stark failure of the locking system. Why, EA, why?