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Half-rose
6 years ago
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Penthouse invasion?

I'm not exactly sure if that's a bug or a feature at this point, but I certainly would love to find a way for it to not do it. I've made a penthouse at San Mishuyo where Stargazer Lounge used to b...
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  • DonroaAkashu's avatar
    DonroaAkashu
    6 years ago

    @Half-rose   I tested this: made a household and changed the Stargazer Lounge into a residential lot, moved my sim in and played for a week. The neighbours come often, especially if they are friends, but they did so in an originally residential lot as well; and no other sims visited, and no talent shows were announced. I also bulldozed the particular lot and placed the lot Uptown Glass from Gallery/CL there and did the same routine. No talent shows or random sims visiting.

    Maybe the change of lot assignment did not take in your game.

    First, exit the game and delete the localthumbcache.package in The Sims 4 folder, in Documents>Electronic Arts. Do this every time you troubleshoot. It will recreate every time you play.

    You could then try to redo the lot assignment, by saving your household and lot; evict the the household; then bulldoze the lot; making sure it has the assignment residential; place the lot out again making sure the lot itself is residential, and place your household back in it. You could also toggle other lot assignments on the specific place; exiting build mode in between, saving, exiting the game, deleting the cache. Let me know if you need more info on how to do this and I will write a more detailed description.

    It would also help if you described more detailed how you went about changing the lot from lounge to residential.

    But I also read a couple of bug reports on talent shows on residential lots, which were fixed for other residential lots than the active home; but the same problem with the specific lot Stargazer Lounge is reported on officials, with no solution, here:
    https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/952848/talent-showcase-issues

    So maybe you want to create a bug report here on AHQ?

DonroaAkashu's avatar
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

@Half-rose   I tested this: made a household and changed the Stargazer Lounge into a residential lot, moved my sim in and played for a week. The neighbours come often, especially if they are friends, but they did so in an originally residential lot as well; and no other sims visited, and no talent shows were announced. I also bulldozed the particular lot and placed the lot Uptown Glass from Gallery/CL there and did the same routine. No talent shows or random sims visiting.

Maybe the change of lot assignment did not take in your game.

First, exit the game and delete the localthumbcache.package in The Sims 4 folder, in Documents>Electronic Arts. Do this every time you troubleshoot. It will recreate every time you play.

You could then try to redo the lot assignment, by saving your household and lot; evict the the household; then bulldoze the lot; making sure it has the assignment residential; place the lot out again making sure the lot itself is residential, and place your household back in it. You could also toggle other lot assignments on the specific place; exiting build mode in between, saving, exiting the game, deleting the cache. Let me know if you need more info on how to do this and I will write a more detailed description.

It would also help if you described more detailed how you went about changing the lot from lounge to residential.

But I also read a couple of bug reports on talent shows on residential lots, which were fixed for other residential lots than the active home; but the same problem with the specific lot Stargazer Lounge is reported on officials, with no solution, here:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/952848/talent-showcase-issues

So maybe you want to create a bug report here on AHQ?

  • Half-rose's avatar
    Half-rose
    6 years ago

    It actually worked. It worked and also helped me solve a secondary issue I had where a residential lot had a bar icon on it and was treated as so. Doing what you said actually fixed both the issues. thank you!

    • DonroaAkashu's avatar
      DonroaAkashu
      Seasoned Ace
      6 years ago

      @Half-rose   I am very glad to hear that!

      I still think you can make a bug report, especially since you experienced this problems on other lots, and that is has been bugs regarding talent shows/lot assignments not sticking before. You can describe what you did to solve it, as a workaround.

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