Do you have unwanted sims in your house after you went travelling or after you had a party. Sometimes someone you don't even knows comes over and sleeps in your bed, eats your food, uses up all your computer time, How dare they and why on earth are they doing that? Its simple really, since the last update all houses are reset to generic, which means your home is no longer your own residential home, Oh no, now its almost like a community lot and free for all
So what to do, I will show you a very step by step tutorial on how to change your lot from Generic back to residential and get rid of those pesky little parasites living in your house
Step 1
Make sure that they are indeed people that just moved in and not an actual visitor, you can always ask a visitor to go away and leave, but not someone that is visiting your generic house, as you can see in my pic, the option to chase them off is not available, some of them my sim has never even met, how dare they?
Step 2
Click on the three dots in your upper right corner and then select manage worlds from the pop up
Step 3
You will be asked whether you want to save and manage or just manage, I suggest saving
Step 4
You will be taken to the world map. There you hover the mouse over your property and then click on the three dots to get more options
More steps continue in next post as to not overcrowd one post with lots of pics
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Select the option to change your lot type
Step 6
This is where you see the problem, see your lot is now generic and free to all townies to come and do as they please and when they wanna. So change it to residential by selecting it. After selecting residential then click on the tick
Step 7
a pop up will come up prompting you that your sim will need to be evicted (no worries no job progresses will be lost and your furniture will stay behind) So click on the tick to say yes
Step 8
another prompt will come up telling you that you need to go into build mode to finish up your changes, click on the tick
More steps to follow
Build mode will load, once it loaded then click on return to world map in the upper right corner
Step 10
It will take you back to the world map, there you select the household management button in your upper right corner
Step 11
The page where all your sims are will pop up there, look for your sim that used to live in that generic house and click on them
Step 12
Click on the little truck to move your sim into a lot
last steps coming up
Select the house your sim used to live in before the whole neighbourhood decided to move in with them
Step 14
The pop up will come up asking furnished or unfurnished, select furnished
Step 15
Now just select the house to play your sim without any snoopy townies living in your house
Step 16 (just if you want too)
Follow step 1 to 6 to make sure your house is now residential, this should be your result
Now your sim is by herself, mine is a little sad cause the party I threw to make this tutorial was not a success, hopefully your sims will be happier.
I really hope this step by step tutorial will help you all out. Hopefully with the next update this will be fixed and we won't need to go through all these steps just to live a happy simmie life by ourselfs
That is weird. No idea how to solve that one, sorry
Pleasure ceejay, just trying to help out a bit
I know the feeling. I get upset when they sleep in my sims bed and then she is sooo tired she passed out on the floor. I am glad i know how to kick them out.
Wish I had the time to make it earlier. I just hope I help people with this. Took forever to make lol. Pregnant Sims need their bathroom, must have been tough on her.
@crinrict thought this might come in handy as a referral for you
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Yeah its a pain, it should work for you, mine also usually happens after a day of two from moving in to a new house.
Deffinetly with houses from the gallery, I have also had it happen with houses from my own library as well. Must be the new lot type because of the new game pack coming soon
Always a pleasure to try and help out crinrict, you do amazing work and we appreciate all your help
Yes it has worked. Thanks for this. I see there is an update patch. Just read the notes on the patch,no fix for this I see.
So happy I could help
Yip I read the patch notes too, wonder why they would not fix this, its a biggy too
I am going to load my game now and will test it. I only have the patch though not the new game pack yet, so it might be a good idea if someone with the game pack test it too Will keep you updated on my findings @ceejay402