After discovering that WA brought back the old stairs behaviour with stackable stairs I had a lot of fun with a new house last week. I fiddled and tried and was really happy. Yesterday I had my dear Penelope move in to test it. And the stairs don't work. Just the same as before WA - she wants to climb the stairs and at the end she stopps, complains and returns. She descends without complications from the highest floor to the lowest but the other way round it doesn't work when another stairs are above. I was so disappointed, I changed and used the hammertool like mad - I didn't get it done. I took Iris' old Cottage (where the stairs work without any complications) to look what I've done there - no difference to be seen. After trying and retrying again and again I finally quit - after about 12 hours and fell right into my bed.

You could say: Just change the stairs, doesn't matter. But I want to know, why! Why does it work on one lot and doesn't work on the other? Those things I do not understand are driving me mad. Where is the mistake in my thinking? *sigh*

It seems I haven't understood sims3 at all ... Oh, why did EA change the building issues that way? You allways had to be carefully with all the CFE-settings, I know well. And I am carefully using it, you can believe. For now I've lost all drive to go on ...

But my Penelope gave me amusement in that awful trying. I had her moved in a testing lot - well, just a copy of her, of course - to let her try every single step I was doing. But even with her copy I cannot neglect her wanting. She was feeling bad by again and again walking up and down my stairs, she was hungry and needed a toilet. Since she had her food-replicator and all her books in her family inventory, I just bought her a toilet and a cheap bed and let her have a perfect salmon. And guess what she did? No, she didn't have her meal just standing. And no, she didn't sit on her bed. She walked down the stairs into the basement where I placed her toilet, sat down and had her meal there. (see the screenshot) I'll tell you, that's not the way you should treat a absolut loveble and loyal sim like my Penelope! I begin to think, that builders are not feeling bound in honour. But they should ...