Cool Kitchen: Drawers/doors on Wrong Side of Island Counter

MDianaSims

Has anyone else noticed this?


On the other island counters (the one from Perfect Patio and one from the basegame) the doors/drawers are on the side where you can't place a stool, which makes sense. The new counters have them on the side where you place the stools, which is terribly inconvenient (if Sims were to actually make use of it). Anyway, it just looks really weird to me.

jessathemessa

Uh oh! I haven't had a chance to play yet, but that's definitely an issue. You can send in a report to EA. You may be able to tweet the gurus if you have twitter. Maybe @simgurudrake can pass this on to the right people to be fixed?

Sigzy05

Lol...it's not the first time they do something messy, I hope this gets fixed really soon.

Play

Oops! Nice attention to detail, I probably wouldn't have noticed.

SlyStarDust

In the video all of the counter islands were shown like one big round or oblong counter. Maybe it was a design choice to have it be backwards?

KATENESS

Well that's pretty silly.

Good catch! Maybe they can fix it in a patch. And make some cookies in a batch. And lock a door with a latch.

Ok I'll stop now.

Sim2Spore

I have a counter like this in real life, I believe it could be a design choice and not a bug. lol

It's designed for the parts of the counter where the front would otherwise be facing another counter, like at the corner of an intersection, or for islands in the center of a room with seating on all sides.

MDianaSims

I get the part where you could want/need this type of counter, it just looks really silly if you place a stool near it. I mean, you can't reach what's in there and run the risk of hurting your legs on the handles and everything, not to mention when you sit down and someone else hasn't closed on of those doors... I know it won't bother our Sims, it's just realism combined with my more practical side and a hint of OCD that has an opinion about it. (That would make a really interesting ice cream, realism topped with practical sauce and OCD sprinkles...)

SimGuruDrake

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I've passed it along to our QA team.

IngeJones

There's nothing wrong with having the choice between normal and reversed cupboard openings. So some of each is fine by me.

Katrinku

It's fine to me!

azsimmer1

SimGuruDrake wrote: »

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I've passed it along to our QA team.

Is it me or is the top cabinets not have a proper end cabinet or lacking a true middle cabinet?

MDianaSims

So, I've also noticed the same 'issue' on the island counters from the Spa Day GP. It's not that obvious there, so I hadn't noticed before.

Considering the difference of opinion on this matter, maybe we should just ask for an option to choose whether you want doors/drawers/nothing and on which side you want them - that would make everyone happy and our kitchens (and bathrooms and whatever else we use counters for) would end up way cooler! Likewise it would be nice for the top cabinets to be able to choose whether you want transparent doors on them or not - now it's just fixed, on some, like the corner and/or end ones, but there are never transparent doors the short ones and only on some of the regular ones (I think).
But I guess it would be asking too much.

BrokenChaos69

There are counters from the base game like this so I think it's a design choice. It's handy when placing them against walls and having the doors face outwards like that.

MDianaSims

@BrokenChaos69 I'm going to have to prove you wrong, the base game counters do not have doors/drawers on the side you place stools, actually only one has doors and they are on the side you don't place stools, as you can see in this picture:

This is a picture of the other side of the island counters:


Now I haven't said anything about doors/drawers in side or corner counters, because I haven't checked and I don't usually place stools there, so I could live with it.

I get the design choice thing (I may have said that before) and if it is, they did it since Spa Day. However, the thing that bothers me is that the handles on the doors of the Cool Kitchen island counter are so massive that a Sim sitting on a stool connected to them is going to look really weird. The Spa Day ones don't bother me all that much (or I would have noticed before) because those handles are barely visible, especially if you have a, say, more diagonal camera angle (the angle at which most people commonly play/Sims 4 camera).

I hope this clarifies how I see it.

BrokenChaos69

The blue cabinet next to the patio one clearly has the doors on the outside. So they have indeed been doing this since base game. Now, whether it's intentional or not is the real question.

MDianaSims

Actually I never looked at them that way, but now you mention it, those do resemble the doors that the regular counters of that type have.

But as I said, it's the handles that bother me mostly, which is mainly the issue with the new island counters from Cool Kitchen. Considering that these are the only counters in this pack that is meant for your kitchen (which may well have an island with stools) I am not particularly happy with this design choice, but that is just my opinion.

knazzer

They also need to fix some of the colour swatches for windows as they are not matching up with the correct swatch.

azsimmer1

I've been using the counters from the Cool Kitchen against the wall.. but it would be nice to have a choice which side we want drawers.. AND which kind of end we want as well.