Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? SvenskaHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? -----------What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Parenting, Pets etc Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a family, let one of the members be in the shower/bath or on the loo, let another one walk in to use something in the same bathroom.What happens when the bug occurs? Sometimes they both get uncomfortable, sometimes just one of them. I had a dad walk in to pee when his child was taking a bath and the dad got really uncomfortable, but not the child.What do you expect to see? Family members not to be uncomfortable using the bathroom together! That's super weird! I want to have one bathroom per 2 or 3 members but when it's like this I gotta have a whole lot more bathrooms. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? NoOkay you're probably gonna tell me this is "intended" but seriously, a parent and a child - maybe not a teenager because teenagers can revolt - should be comfortable using the bathroom together, it's the only logical thing.

Honestly I think the main reason this is so annoying is that they will insist on walking in on each other. I'd be okay with them removing the embarrassed sentiment between family members, but assuming we keep it... can we at least have school age children (not to mention college roommates) comprehend that when they watched Mom walk into the bathroom and close the door, they can't immediately follow her in and then be shocked that she's on the toilet or in the shower? I mean you learn pretty young, I think, what a closed bathroom door means. Everyone's needs would be solved faster if Sims were capable of waiting instead of walking in on each other and then having a shooing match until one of them pees themself and leaves to hide under the covers.

I actually am from the US. Lol just considering females always seem to go to the bathroom in groups you would think especially in the case of twins there wouldn't be an issue. Plus it being a game where you can't constantly control where they go that they wouldn't get so uncomfortable and take so long to decide how to react. If I walked in on someone I'd just say oh sorry and backout closing the door. Then go right to another bathroom. I wouldn't be embarrassed and lose all sense of reason and direction.

I actually mostly have children in my households, more children than adults, so I don't know if the parents can use the bathroom together.Aaaand sex shouldn't have anything to do with it, you are family -___- Wow is this an USA-thing or? Like this is very weird for me, I have not heard of any family close to me where they're afraid of fathers like this, and I'm raised as a girl and had mostly girl friends growing up so ... but if you wanna play like that, do it, but we shouldn't be forbidden to like ... be comfortable around each other. And like what do you do if you have three kids or more and only one bathroom and everyone starts the same time in the morning? Naturally, you share.

@Kanelbullet I'm with you on this issue. And for everyone annoyed by this I recommend a mod by bienchen that makes it ok for family members to share a bathroom. Sims culture is very US centered and they have a weird relationship to nudity (as in, nudity is seen almost always as a s*xual thing and it grosses me out) whereas in Nordic countries it's more relaxed and natural which shows in the game. Parents' responsibility is to teach kids and educate how a human body looks like, how it works and how you're supposed to take care of it and also to teach boundaries about what parts are private and what parts are ok to be touched by others. Making nudity something secret, appalled and kind of forbidden is an issue bc kids don't learn what is normal and are taught to be ashamed of their bodies and nudity. ☹️ Even worse is that because of this they become more easy prey to those who actually want to hurt them...

Or a special bathroom door that auto locks/unlocks letting only spouses or whoever can safely enter in, and anyone out, then unlocks when empty. Cause no one wants to put the walls up, adjust camera till no other walls aren't in the way to find door, lock door, forget about locked door when checking other sims, deal with bad moodlets or death(if you forgot that long), readjust walls, camera, unlock door. However I still think the shameless trait should solve all this. It seems pointless otherwise. Even my household of all elderly women ghosts get embarrassed floating in on each other in the bathroom.

Family members can't be in the same bathroom

23 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@Kanelbullet How high is their relationship ?
lepetitemais
New Vanguard
6 years ago
I have this too, with maxed out relationships. It's not a "problem" between sims who have woohooed or tried for a baby, they can use any bathroom appliances together. But I see OPs point about kids. Probably by design, but to some cultures (like mine) this is very strange!
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@lepetitemais @Kanelbullet I think children to parents, yes, it's always been like that but the parents among each other should be fine if they have a high enough relationship.

Do you see it between adults-adults also (with high relationship)
lepetitemais
New Vanguard
6 years ago
@crinrict About the kids: exactly.

Haven't noticed it between adults (haven't played since patch, so at least not before the patch). My "problem"/opinion most likely belong in the feedback section of the forum.
Nakashimafied
6 years ago
As a mother... Yeah I wouldn't want my husband to be able to pee right next to the bathtub my school aged daughter is bathing in. Him helping her by handing her shampoo or a towel or whatever - sure. But getting his own pants off? Hell no.
I definitely would not want my sims to be able to undress in front of sim children older than toddlers. I would find that very disturbing content.
Same sex parents is a different story to most any parent I've talked to, but that enters a whole grey area when you think of non binary sims and people which would make it near impossible for the game to differentiate between ok and not.
Kanelbullet
Rising Vanguard
6 years ago
I actually mostly have children in my households, more children than adults, so I don't know if the parents can use the bathroom together.
Aaaand sex shouldn't have anything to do with it, you are family -___- Wow is this an USA-thing or? Like this is very weird for me, I have not heard of any family close to me where they're afraid of fathers like this, and I'm raised as a girl and had mostly girl friends growing up so ...
but if you wanna play like that, do it, but we shouldn't be forbidden to like ... be comfortable around each other. And like what do you do if you have three kids or more and only one bathroom and everyone starts the same time in the morning? Naturally, you share.
Kanelbullet
Rising Vanguard
6 years ago
Okay, I checked. The parents can use the bathroom at the same time.
The parent that was embarrassed to see child in the tub has good relationship (two smileys and the bar looks full to me, but I don't know how to see the percentage) with the child.
Nakashimafied
6 years ago
@Kanelbullet I'm European, so wouldnt call it a USA-thing lol. Statistically, most bad events of that nature are done by family members. Also seems a pretty normal thing for a child to be taught caution with undressing etc. You find that weird, yet I find it weird to hear you dont have that caution. I have 2 children and 1 bathroom, we take turns :P

I'm sure there's a mod out there that lets you have sims share a bathroom despite a non-romantic relationship. Nothing is "forbidding" you, there's just something preventing the action if you dont mod.
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@Kanelbullet I'm moving this to GD for now as it's turning into an ethics discussion.

I do believe it was always the case for children. For now, treating this as feedback.
SirGelan
4 years ago
Yeah I started a household for the too many toddlers event. Single mom with 3 daughters. Was low budget after building a house and getting what necessary for toddlers so didn't even have a bedroom/bed for the mom. She napped on the couch for hardly any energy and drank potions while working freelance and selling paintings to pay rent. So I got all 4 of them the shameless trait once they became children since I couldn't afford to build more for a while and still none of them can be in the bathroom at the same time. That trait should be the way around the problem and the way for players to decide if they want families to be comfortable with it. Especially in regards to twins and such.