Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!

[J. M. Pescado]

Found it, fixed it, redownload.

[GayJohnScarritt]

   MostAwesomeOne, i redownloaded, installed.  Went to that dorm, cancelled her waiting BUY, instructed her to macro/use bathroom and she immediately went and took a shower while the other girl was taking a shower.   Later on, 2 male dormies also took a shower at the same time.   Works perfectly.   
   Later on, i'll retest the Maxis dorm that has one unixex terlet area with 2 gender specific shower areas attached.  I'm guessing i'll need a BUY in each gender shower area (set to room radius of course) plus the neutral BUY's in each Terlet for that setup?  i'm also guessing the neutral BUY's be set to a bigger radius so they see the showers?  Or would that cause the shower BUY's not kicking out a sim when finished, as it'll send them to another Terlet area?
   Editors note:  Deleting the example i put up on TS2, also removed the thank you as i have no goat available -  even when that "EP that shall not be named" arrives, i will still have no goat available.

[jsalemi]

Yup, working fine now.  No problems with multi-shower bathrooms anymore.

[jsalemi]

Hmm, ok, seems like another problem has cropped up in the latest version.  It works fine in common/dorm bathrooms now, but it has some problems in residences, where two (or more) sims will go into the bathroom at the same time, even when one is already doing a BUY action (i.e., using the terlet).  The additional sims get 'stuck' for a while, until one of them finally shoos the rest.  It seems like it's taking a while for the 'eject and wait until the bathroom is free' command to kick in.

I've tried replacing the existing controllers, but that hasn't helped.

[syberspunk]

I've actually had this happen in my dorm. Although... I didn't replace the existing controllers. I suppose I could try that... but it pretty much happens as joe describes. Sometimes two sims will get stuck in the same bathroom, sometimes one sim will be in there, and another sim will get stuck as if they are trying to go into that room, but other bathrooms are free. The sim that is stuck doesnt get the waiting clock sub-icon thingie. The regular BUY icon sort of just blinks in and out... as if it is fading but then gets instantly pushed back onto their queue. When the sim in the bathroom finishes and leaves, the stuck sim now enters that bathroom that was previously occupied. *shrugs* I'll try replacing the controllers to see if it does anything.

Ste

[J. M. Pescado]

Try now. Found another error, may or may not be related.

[jsalemi]

Try now. Found another error, may or may not be related.

Sure, as soon as you post the new version.

[Magicmoon]

I was getting ready to load in my game. I usually check MATY first for updates. Will you be uploading the new BUY soon?

[jsalemi]

It's up now.

[J. M. Pescado]

Yeah, apparently the FTP program wigged out and pretended to upload but didn't.

[KevinTMC]

Damn Goombas.

[witch]

I had the same issue, two old sims, locked in a lavatory, they were there from Monday to Saturday - ahem - sorry - yes icon blinking and two sims stuck for a moment. I'll try the new download too.

[Motoki]

I had the same issue, two old sims, locked in a lavatory, they were there from Monday to Saturday - ahem - sorry - yes icon blinking and two sims stuck for a moment. I'll try the new download too.

Ma, ya' gonna use the can?

No paw, you go first.

No you.

No you.


 

[Magicmoon]

I set up a business on a comm lot with 2 bathrooms, one male and one female. Since I set the BUY appropriately, I used normal doors. The females could use either bathroom, but the males could use neither. Then I rechecked the configuration to make sure it was correct, then installed male and female bathroom doors. After that, the females could use the female bathroom, but the males could use neither bathroom.

So I made a male selectable, and tried to get him to manually enter the bathroom. He couldn't do it. I replaced the bathroom, gender-specific door with a regular one, and he still couldn't use it. Finally, I made a unisex bathroom and now everyone can pee.

Can you check to see if you got the male/female part mixed up? "Reject females" appears to actually reject males.

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't think that part was changed...make sure that the options are actually correctly set: If the "Reject" option appears, then it is currently set for "Accept": The option which appears is the option to change to that option.

[Magicmoon]

The options are correct. I've checked several times. I'll find another lot with his and her baths and see if it behaves better over there.

[Magicmoon]

What am I doing wrong?

I rented a two story Uni house for my YA. The door leading upstairs is locked for all except household (Maxis door lock). The upstairs bath has a toilet and tub/shower combo. The downstairs bath has a toilet only. Both bathrooms have BUY. The upstairs buy is set to reject visitors, seek on. The downstairs bath has seek off, reject visitors.

The problem comes in with the YA who lives there. When he has to go to the bathroom, it usually pulls him into the downstairs bath, which has a toilet only. Then it spits him back out instead of sending him to the upstairs shower. After a few seconds, the BUY pulls him into the downstairs bath again because his hygeine is low. Then it just spits him back out again, and keeps repeating this sequence.

In other households, when one family member finishes using the toilet and the shower is in use, or blocked, or there isn't one in that particular bathroom, the controller always sends them to another bathroom to finish their needs. So why won't it do it for this house? Is it because of the locked door?

I know I can add a shower to the downstairs bath to solve the problem, but I enlarged the bedroom to accomodate a double bed, which made the bathroom smaller. Besides, I just wanted to use the downstairs bath for visitors.

[Havelock]

I hope it is related here got an error loop with don lothario while trying to shower.
Error log attached.
 I have only "Awesome"  Pets  compatible hacks and the old StillivePainting. (moodbooster)

Sorry not related it was  noteleportpuddle hidden in my new hack folder.
*Walks off in shame

[J. M. Pescado]

I still needed that, you know.

[dizzy]

Code:

Object id: 268
name: N002_User00317 - Porthos
Stack size: 8
Error: Flag reference is out of range.
Iterations: 1
  Frame 7:
    Stack Object id: 268
    Stack Object name: N002_User00317 - Porthos
    Node: 4
    Tree: id 394 name 'Flood - Create' version 17
    from global
    Prim state: 0
    Params: 268 0 0    Locals: 0
  Frame 6:
    Stack Object id: 244
    Stack Object name: Destination - For Pee
    Node: 1
    Tree: id 4157 name 'Event - Create Pee' version -32755
    from Destination
    Prim state: 0
    Params: 101    Locals:

I'm guessing it's this (from noteleportpuddle):

Code:

     4: Global(Game Edition) Flag Set? 64 (0x40); true: 5, false: 7
     5: Pet - Is Pet?(Param 0); true: 6, false: 7

[redmachine]

I'm getting errors every time a dog pees on the floor. Removing noteleportpuddle seems to fix this. It might be related to what dizzy has posted about above...
Here's the error log, anyway.




Edit: Soz, it seems this error has already been posted on two other areas of the site......it's hard to keep up.

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[Motoki]

How is BUY working with Pets? Anyone have any experience? I am running very lean on hacks at the moment. Just the ones I absolutely can't live without (lesswhiny, noroutefail, nowhatsthis).

I did notice my sims will happy use the toilet with a pet in the room, so at least they aren't a problem in that regard. They can cause traffic jams in the small bathrooms though. I had one cat and one sim do the doorway shuffle (move. no, you move. no, you move. no you).

Also, it's possible to train cats to use the toilet. 

[Karen]

Also, it's possible to train cats to use the toilet. 

I have seen this option a few times but I don't see an option to train them to use the litterbox.  Are they supposed to just use the litterbox on their own?  I haven't played cats long enough to be sure.

BUY seems to be working OK for me so far.

Karen

[Motoki]

I think the litterbox is just instinctual, although I bet you can praise them for using it and/or scold them for going to bathroom somewhere else to try and reinforce that behavior, but it's not a command that you can tell them to do like using the toilet once they are trained.

Actually, if you adopt a pet by phone they come already with some reinforced behaviors. It's rather convenient because you can tell which animal is going to be a total spaz or destroy the furniture and which are well behaved before you adopt them. I didn't see any cats in the adoption pool though, but maybe that was just coincidence?

[Karen]

I didn't see any cats in the adoption pool though, but maybe that was just coincidence?

Did you click on the correct icon in the adoption window?  There is one for large dogs, one for small dogs, and one for cats.

I wish they'd shipped the game with more, um, attractive-looking dogs and cats in the adoption pool.  I can see now that I'm going to have to spend some time this weekend figuring out how to use the Create-a-Pet, because most of the ones shipped with the game are just ugly, IMHO.  (Knowing Maxis, that's not exactly a big surprise....)

Karen