Borked fences

[shadow]

You know those little dividers in fences that came with Pets?  They don't work with apartments or trailers.  It's not a big deal but I like to use them to divide dining and desk areas when I want an open look but don't want stupid sims reading at the table or desk. Worked great, until now.  It's okay with houses so it must have something to do with apartment doors.    You don't suppose EA borked something else, do ya?

[jsalemi]

Known bork -- been discussed extensively in the AL Borkedness thread a few down from here.

[shadow]

Wow.  I searched but didn't come up with anything.  Anyway, it was pointed out to me that they are not really broken but since the game sees them as walls (without doorways) everything outside the 'fences' is seen as common area.  If you changed it so the game didn't see them as walls they wouldn't work at all, would they?

[talysman]

Does this happen even when the divided-off area doesn't share a wall with the outside? I'm thinking of this:

Code:

   --------------------
  |                    |
  |                    |
  |    ========        |
  |  ||        ||      |
  |  || DESK   ||      |
  |  ||        ||      |
  |    ========        |
  |                    |
  |                    |
  |--------------------|

versus this:

Code:

   --------------------
  |                    |
  |                    |
  |========            |
  |        ||          |
  | DESK   ||          |
  |        ||          |
  |========            |
  |                    |
  |                    |
  |--------------------|

[shadow]

That could be a work-around.  I'll try it.  I would think that as long as it doesn't include the apartment door in any way it may work.  You probably couldn't move anything within the area but that would be okay. Thanks