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JollyDrifter's avatar
8 years ago

Restaurant download saved as residential

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Almost all of them.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go to lot that has the Blues Nightclub on it. Edit the lot and bulldoze it. Change the lot to restaurant and build something on it. Download the lot to your library. It will save it as a residential instead of a restaurant.
What happens when the bug occurs? It downloads the lot to my library as a residential lot instead of restaurant.
What do you expect to see? See above.
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

I went into the world that has the Blues Nightclub in it. I bulldozed the lot and changed it to a restaurant. I built a restaurant and then downloaded the lot to my library. I bulldozed the lot again to rebuild and when I went back to my library to add the restaurant back onto the lot, I find the download saved as a residence. 

I resaved/re-downloaded multiple times to make sure I wasn't saving it wrong and it still saves all my restaurants as a residence.

  

Any way to fix this glitch?

As a side note, the game will not let my sim purchase that lot unless it is a restaurant. I tried to buy it when it was listed as a cafe or generic and it says the lot is already owned. Even if the lot is bulldozed and empty.

4 Replies

  • HI @JollyDrifter

    does the same happen if you download any restaurant from the gallery or just with the one you uploaded ?

    Can you not change the lot type to restaurant once you downloaded it to your lot ?

    Also, did you fulfill all the requirements before uploading ? For me, it saved as residental until I made sure they are all fulfilled. 

  • Hi there!

    I haven't tried downloading another restaurant from the gallery, but I imagine it would work because they would have the same label.

    It wouldn't let me put the restaurant on the lot because the labels were different. But it doesn't let you change the type of business once it's owned. You have to do it before you buy it.

    They should let you change the lot/business type of items in your gallery when you edit them in the gallery.

    But, in response to my original post side note: I did figure out how to get my sim to buy the cafe or generic building. All I did for that was place it on the lot "unfinished" according to the cafe requirements and then had my sim "buy a retail space" or "buy a restaurant", which let me buy the cafe, but it changed the label from cafe to retail or from cafe to restaurant. Lame. But whatever, it's still a cafe, label or no label.

    They need to go back to where we could just buy a business without the labels like we used to. There's no option to "Buy a cafe" on the computer. Lol.

    Oh well.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago
    For me the label restaurant was correct after I added all the requirements of the restaurant, so could you test if that is true for you to

    Everything else is by design and not a bug.
  • Moving this to tech issues for further troubleshooting and info 

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