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    Cannot edit apartment balcony in Evergreen Harbor

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    lovejess2lovejess2 Posts: 3,049 Member
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    So I can't edit the Pinecrest apartment balcony in evergreen harbour. Does anyone know why? Is this a glitch or do I need to unlock something? If so is there a cheat around that.

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      sugateddysugateddy Posts: 1 New Member
      No solution to offer but I'm having this problem too. Very sad as having another apartment with a balcony is part of the reason I bought the pack
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      arae9arae9 Posts: 24 Member
      I am also looking for a solution. I was excited when I saw lilsimsie making over this apartment about a week ago and she definitely could edit the balcony. I cannot :(
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      auroraael14auroraael14 Posts: 988 Member
      I'm also having this problem.
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited June 2020
      My theory is that it's because the balcony is not the part of the property (as the blue framing will ignore it when you hover over the apartment unit in manage worlds/when traveling)...
      But at the same time, I should check it out myself.
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      pepperjax1230pepperjax1230 Posts: 7,953 Member
      But if they saw a game changer doing it we should be able to do it to. They have the exact same game.
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      Akl500PAkl500P Posts: 2,986 Member
      Just checked in my game and can’t either. But saw multiple game changers adjusting it so must be a bug of some sort.
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      lovejess2lovejess2 Posts: 3,049 Member
      I thought I'd add that it's not a mod problem, I already tried to see if it would work without mods.
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      AquaGamer1212AquaGamer1212 Posts: 5,417 Member
      pepperjax1230 wrote: »
      But if they saw a game changer doing it we should be able to do it to. They have the exact same game.

      The game changers had a different build when they played.
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      JACKIEJOYJACKIEJOY Posts: 802 Member
      bb.enablefreebuild maybe?
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      SelinaKylesSelinaKyles Posts: 4,337 Member
      Haven’t gotten the pack yet, but this is disappointing if the balcony can’t be edited. I remember seeing Deligracy or was it James editing it? If anyone is able to edit theirs please give a notice here
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      lovejess2lovejess2 Posts: 3,049 Member
      JACKIEJOY wrote: »
      bb.enablefreebuild maybe?

      I tried, didn't work
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      JACKIEJOYJACKIEJOY Posts: 802 Member
      Bummer.
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      SageRainWillowSageRainWillow Posts: 2,221 Member
      It is a bug. You can click "Me too" here:

      https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-ECO-Can-t-place-objects-on-balcony-in-apartment/m-p/9178298#M134773
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      ChazzzyChazzzy Posts: 7,166 Member
      Just noticed this yesterday. I feel like it should work because this particular apartment with balcony costs so much more money.
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      pallies1pallies1 Posts: 326 Member
      Same here. Can't do anything to the balcony. Can't change community spaces in the two neighbourhoods that my sim doesn't live in. Anyone else having this issue? I've never had so many bugs and glitches in my game as now, never with any other expansion pack.

      Today neighbours, friends and vampires just stepped right into my sims apartment (Pinecrest 404) even though I've put the new function on the door on. If I thought visits was annoying before it's nothing compared to this glitch..
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      GoldmoldarGoldmoldar Posts: 11,966 Member
      edited June 2020
      Ahhh! another bug for EA/Maxis to fix some year. (if it is an bug) If EA/Maxis were able to edit the balconies then the end user should be able to do as well.
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      Sketch793Sketch793 Posts: 1,218 Member
      Check your door settings after your Sims travel, use CAS, etc. The trespassing settings apparently reset whenever there's a loading screen.
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      mcorralmcorral Posts: 512 Member
      I've also got this problem.
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      akaniki0akaniki0 Posts: 470 Member
      I couldn't put anything anywhere that wasn't inside the apartment. How are we suppose to make it green if you can't put any plants and stuff?
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      AncientMuseAncientMuse Posts: 1,062 Member
      I just added my "me too" to the bug thread.

      It looks like the balcony isn't part of the apartment space when you hover over it. When the game changers were playing the early access version, the balcony was probably a part of the apartment space and that's why they were able to place stuff on it... but now it's not. Most likely something to do with the latest patch fix.
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      AquaGamer1212AquaGamer1212 Posts: 5,417 Member
      For the time being until they issue a fix for the balconies, for those who don't mind mods, TMex's TOOL mod allows you to edit the 'uneditable' areas of the world including the balcony, and as you can see, the objects are still usable.
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      SimsLady2000SimsLady2000 Posts: 1,236 Member
      > @JACKIEJOY said:
      > bb.enablefreebuild maybe?

      This didn't work for me sadly :(
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      SimGuruFrostSimGuruFrost Posts: 55 SimGuru (retired)
      edited June 2020
      Hi all, I have info regarding the balcony of Pinecrest Apartment #404 from SimGuruPaul:

      Thanks for playing Eco Lifestyle, Simmers. We want to address your feedback on the balcony of Pinecrest Apartment #404. Some of you might have seen some early videos in which Game Changers were building on balconies. They were playing on an Alpha build that had the issues described below. When we initially designed and built that apartment, we planned for the balcony to be buildable space to make up for the real-life limitation of not having a yard. We ran into some challenges along the way and we’d like to share with you what happened.

      We learned during production that the tech for swapping the apartment exteriors with gameplay could not accommodate this due to complications with the apartment exterior dynamically changing with the neighborhood. The balcony also had a bug in which neighbors looking for the front door would walk through the apartment uninvited to get to the balcony and then knock on the sliding glass door. How rude! We tried a fix that enabled items to be placed on the balcony, but this resulted in more bugs:
      • When the town enacted the Modern Development Neighborhood Action Plan (NAP), the balcony wall did not update to match the wood paneling from the rest of the building. If you tried to fix the pattern manually, the wall did not respond predictably.
      • That NAP caused the window and the door to disappear erratically.

      We explored and attempted multiple fixes, but when they didn’t pan out, we decided the best option was to return to a static balcony and adjust the logic for determining the front door. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused and we hope this at least gives some insight into what went into the decision.

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      Akl500PAkl500P Posts: 2,986 Member
      That’s disappointing but understandable. Lilsimsie seemed to have some massive issues with the balcony after one of the development NAPs was activated. Thanks for the info @SimGuruFrost
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      alexspoom13alexspoom13 Posts: 7,439 Member
      Thanks for the information @SimGuruFrost . After noticing this I went and looked at the City Living apartments and saw at least one where you could edit the balcony. Maybe due to the packs being different there's some technical issues in making it work but if you can edit balconies with those apartments why doesn't this work with the new ones?
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