Welcome back, fluorescentadolescent! Didn't realize you hadn't been reading, and I hope you don't mind that I sort of just ran away with giving all these tips. Good luck, and thanks for starting the thread---seems to have been helpful to lots of folks.



I am so thrilled, elly! That is wonderful that we got it working for both your families, including the one with the dog. In your post, for the family with the dog (house A), you can skip these steps:
-Deny everyone
-Permit everyone

Because for that house, you only need to Deny by age group, which will keep the dog moving without restrictions. I only added Permit everyone for the house with the dog because I figured you had already done Deny everyone. What Permit everyone does is only to cancel out Deny everyone. That's why you can skip both of those entirely when your final intent is just to Deny by age, to avoid limiting a pet's movements.

I just realized that roommates should also be on the Overrides list, but then again, if you have a roommate, you are in an apartment, and so you would not need to use the APO in this way in the first place!

Edited to add: Thanks for your previous suggestion that I write a guide. I was considering editing my prior posts in this thread for clarity, and I finally realized that if I'm going to do that, perhaps I should indeed just write a wiki on this. I will look into it, perhaps this weekend.

Edited further to add: Good job, by the way, in realizing that your family B indeed needs to have Deny Everyone set still, because the dog does not belong in their house. So it seems that the two methods, Deny Everyone vs. Deny by age, both remain useful in separate cases, depending on whether a family on such a lot has a pet that is to be allowed only in their house.

I agree on the guide. You must have had the APO forever to know it so well natboopsie.

@natboopsie, thanks for your feedback on my APO setting. Yes, I thought there were some steps I could skip. Thanks for claryfing
I am thrilled too, as I can play those families now and having two of them on one lot was a project I thought some months ago and finally I could complete it thanks to you!
If you write a Wiki about it, I am sure many players will be glad, as whithout your help I don't know if I could have done the settings correctly the first time I used it.
Oh, and I also could try the setting of locking the burglar outside the house. He couldn't enter the houses and as soon as my sims woke up in the morning, I could call the police, who as usually fought with him and (luckly) arrested him.

You're welcome, @elly67. I am so happy to have helped you finally make that gameplay project work!

Very kind of you to comment in support of my writing a wiki guide.

I am also quite thrilled to hear that the burglar setting works as advertised for you. It's a neat feature, isn't it! Lovely that that worked out well too and your sims' belongings stayed safe.

@natboopsie, yes, blocking the burglar is a great feature!
Please let me know if you write the article on Wikia and again thank you SO much for your kindness and your precious help