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Guide to Houseboats in game & in CAW
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You either need to be owner/occupier of the boat or go into edit town to do it.
I found the same issue in with the river in Appaloosa Plains.
When I click on the helm, I only get move boat or foghorn. I don't get Change Port.
Is there are cheat that forces these beneath the stairs walls?
I've enjoyed the construction of my vessel the Pinthis and all of the new adventures that the vessel provides...
... but I am a little aggrieved by the chronic intrusion by other NPC Sims.
Will it eventually be possible to purchase ports so that we can add gates to the dock and set access permissions to allow only family members onto the dock and the houseboat?
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Can Sims dive directly off a housboat?
Can Sim go diving in worlds other than Islo Paradiso?
Other than Twinbrook, is there any other worlds you cannot have houseboats in?
And if a Sim expires on a houseboat that's driving out in open water, will the Grim Reeper arrive as normal? Because I once had a Sim expire on the pavement, not on a Community or Home lot, and the Grim Reeper couldn't get to them.
Thanks for putting this guide together! I have just ordered Island Paradise now...
You can then redecorate them with different wallpaper
Seriously, how do I sell my houseboat ?
I have bought and built it so I own it, & its at a port.
I've tried moving the family within the neighbourhood to another lot and they now have a large island lot but I need the funds released from the houseboat sale, to build a new home!
is it even possible ?
Many thanks in advance x
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It's a waste of time to place the lot then build the dock, only to discover you can't place a houseboat there.
I'm going to try and get it done sometime this upcoming week - depends when I can find the time to squeeze it in.
That's a nice idea, but at this point it'd be a feature request that'd be unlikely to happen for a game we've already shipped. As it currently stands, a docked houseboat shouldn't attract any more Sims than any other normal home lot, and when out at the ocean the only Sims that should visit (unless you call them to come over) are service NPC Sims that have to be there.
Most of your houseboat questions should be answered elsewhere in this guide, but a quick note about death... yes, if you die on a houseboat the Grim Reaper will show up there!
Sorry to hear about the difficulty, it'd be really difficult for me to diagnose the issue on a case by case basis like that though. My best suggestion would be to ensure that there is plenty of room for the Sims to route on each side of the gangway, that the gangway/dock were built at the proper height, and that the ocean depth is deep enough in that section of the port to not cause any interference.
The other thing you may want to check is if you have a basement or hot tub on the deck of your boat, players have had problems with route fails when fishing off the side of the boat. I don't explicitly know if it may cause issues with routing off the gangway as well, but it's something to potentially consider.
And I'm sure that you've been asked this already, but do you still have any of the other lots your created for the previews like the trash barge? There was also a boat with horses and other pets on it that looked liked like Noah's Arc that I thought was awesome But I'm not sure if you created that or not
I do have a question however; Can my sims get abducted from their houseboats? Also, can aliens even visit a houseboat?