According to whois

Any new neighborhood (not subhood) gets the 'famous townie battalion'

They start later because they are premade specfically for Plesantview, so when you start another hood they just copy them from the PV template and there are your townies.  If you start a blank Downtown/Uni you will get the same not-so-fugly downtownies/dormies each time as well but they will have unique names.  That is what I think happens at least.

Note that the shower is in use in the above picture.  Could this just be the same bug jsalemi was talking about?

I think seek is off by default and I never turn it on.

Negative.  It reappeared.  The whole shower thing makes sense now that you say it, but I don't understand why a controller in another room set to block Females put my female sim into an ugly loop. 

I updated my hacks, removed the gender specific doors, doubled the number of stalls showers and BUY's, and I am now having a new bug.  My sims can only go one at a time.


I forgot to mention that when this bug happens my computer lags out big time.

I have nothing but awesome hacks and face replacements in my downloads folder.

EDIT:  I forced errors on all the BUYs and replaced them and this seems to have eliminated the one-at-a-time bug.
EDIT2: I deleted all of the BUYs saved/reloaded place 4 new buys for each bathroom and now I can only do two-at-a-time
EDIT3: I had the deer-in-headlights bug again and forced errors to find out that the sim was caught in a loop with a TP controller  from the opposite sex bathroom that WAS set to reject females.  I have attached the two logs that generated.

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The game already lowers your energy cap?  So if you contract the plague you can only recover up to 80% (or some other arbitrary number) of your energy not the full 100% or am I not following correctly and you are referring to the rate at which you recover energy?

That is a good idea.  Most of the time when you are sick you always feel tired.  What if you lower the maximum amount of energy you can recover while suffering from the plague?

I set the Reject - X for the appropriate genders on all 4 BUYs and I am sure they are set correctly in that manner.

The problems I have explained are not always present, but they do present themselves at least once or twice a sim day in an 8 sim dorm plus 4 dormies.

I removed the 2 extra showers because they were useless.

Here is the layout with and without the wall separator.

I have noticed two things with the bathroom controller.

1.  If I place the showers in a seperate, but adjoining room to the toilets the BUY controller goes on the fritz and tries, but fails at sending my sims to the shower and ends up in an ugly loop.  I am referring to stall toilets and uni showers.

2.  I have multiple stalls and multiple BUYs (2 to be exact) in a dorm bathroom.  Both the showers and stalls are in the same room.  From time to time the controller(s) will wig out and repeatedly re-que my sim to go to the bathroom but he/she just stands outside the bathroom like a deer in headlights even though there is only one sim in the bathroom.  From what I can tell the controllers are working against each other but I can't say for sure.

I have also been having problems with dining chairs becoming unusable.  "Force Error" does nothing to fix it.  I was downtown at "The Hub" and eventually all of the chairs became unusable forcing sims to eat downstairs at the bar.  Not sure if this is related or not.