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o-RayeGunn-o
Seasoned Scout
4 months ago
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[BH] Business open when visiting as guest after visiting as customer

So I have a save with several small businesses, and i want to visit  one of them as a friend, not a customer, but every time i go to the lot, the business is open. I selected to visit as a guest, but it is open anyway. I went into the business owner household and bought a second lot and closed it on the home lot in hopes that this would allow me to just visit my friend, since there would be only one option available to visit but... it still opens the business when visiting, i can not select plain old 'residential' as a lot type. I tried visiting other small business lots in the save, but they worked fine. This lot USED to work to visit as a friend, but somewhere along the way it seems to have broken. Does anyone have any idea what caused it to break and how to fix it? I did recently rebuild this lot from scratch to get rid of the Irresistible Scent "perk" which I ended up absolutely hating, but it's.... scent emitters got stuck on the lot, I think one  emitter may remain though. But the lot did work before when it had all the stuck emitters, just, that's the only thing about it that's changed recently. I am playing as an employee of this business, and as a ghost, so thought maybe one of those two was messing with things, but i tried with another sim that has no connection to any small business, and is still alive, and the same thing happened.

Tried to visit as a friend, but it's open.Welp, guess i'm going to work. :-/ the business owner and other employee are doing their tasks as well. didn't get paid though.It did allow me to go into the part of the lot marked as private, without teleporting. And I can use objects there, like i would be able to do if i was a guest.it is not supposed to open on this lot at all anymore.visiting this other small business lot as a guest works fine.

I do have a bunch of mods, but did remove the folder and tried again, but the problem was the same 

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25 Comments

  • i just encountered this bug, same steps. problem is i only noticed it much too late to role it back without losing too much progress. is there nothing else that can be done other than to sell the business?

  • You can transfer the business to another household member rather than selling it entirely, but other than that I haven't found any other way around it. 

  • mourningdove163's avatar
    mourningdove163
    Seasoned Rookie
    19 days ago

    Thank you for commenting to confirm! very disappointing as this really does impacts gameplay if you rotate. 

  • o-RayeGunn-o's avatar
    o-RayeGunn-o
    Seasoned Scout
    18 days ago

    Yep, and i suspect that's why more people have not noticed it. If you are playing a legacy or something, you may never encounter this, unless you befriend one of the Nordhaven families. And even with rotational players, because there is a delay between triggering it and seeing it's effects, you end up with something like happened with you, where you trigger it, but only try to visit the household months later.... there's probably lots of people who have triggered it and will discover the broken household some time in the future. I was just lucky i happened to try to visit Johnny's household not too long after I triggered it. But the Koopmans are still borked for me, I discovered later. I must have gone to a pottery class. But at least I don't really visit them, and they're gonna die soon anyway. (rotational AND long lifespans... so they've hung on for quite a while, but getting there) 

    I miss being able to go to my small businesses as a customer. 

  • mourningdove163's avatar
    mourningdove163
    Seasoned Rookie
    16 days ago

    yes and i didn't realize this totally makes it so sims can't visit the household AT ALL. i have two very important households who i know i visited as a customer at least a 2 months ago. trying to roll back to another save isn't really realistic for me. 😓 i will save you the 90 paragraph rant...hopefully more people will vote on this issue because this is pretty major and very disrupting for me

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