"You Can't Do This". Okay. Why the hell not?

[Jivebot]

My Zois keep getting urges to do stuff. I have the necessary items for them to do it. But when I click the command I just get a weird "You can't do this" alert with no further explanation for why.

Is there somewhere I'm not looking that might explain what the problem is?

My Artsy sensitive chick wants to study tarot. The tarot cards were cheap so I bought and placed them. But everytime I click the study command I just get that alert.

Same with an athletic Zoi who wans to box. I have the punching bag. But he wont go punch it.

I tried changing the boxer to his athletic clothes and it did not help

[Rob]

The tarot cards make sure they are on a dining table with a chair and are placed properly

The punch bag make sure it is clear around it and they can get to the side that has the little arrow

[Badmagic]

I would confirm the chair you used is correctly snapped to the desk/table position, it seems to be the most common issue as sometimes they are temperamental in auto finding the attaching point, you will know for sure if the chair jumps to a specific placement when hovering it around the general area.

Additionally, if you happen to use Alt key placement, things will be highlighted blue and allow placement even inside one another but keep in mind, if its overlapping things it simply will give the "can't do" message regardless of how inconsequential the clipping, I bumped into the issue when a wall shelf clipped the back edge of a desktop computer, not visually, but its bounding boxes overlapped by approximately 2 pixels.

I've seen it with all sorts since then, musical instruments, plants, appliances etc but at least now I know what to check first when it happens. Even something on a desk as inconsequential as a pen next to a computer will mess you up if you accidentally overlap with the alt key placement. This may not be what is causing the issue for you but its a possibility.

[Jivebot]

This is continuing to be a problem. Sigh.

I set up a computer desk. Put a computer on it. Put a chair in front of it. But none of my Zois can use the computer.

Nevermind that it is nearly identical to the default computer in another room when I first activated the prefab version of the house.

Except that computer desk's chair is WAY closer than the game will allow me to set the chair without using Alt Placement.

I've tried multiple chairs, even scrapped and rebuilt the whole desk/PC setup and I just can't make it happen.

[Whoami]

Originally posted by Jivebot:

This is continuing to be a problem. Sigh.

I set up a computer desk. Put a computer on it. Put a chair in front of it. But none of my Zois can use the computer.

Nevermind that it is nearly identical to the default computer in another room when I first activated the prefab version of the house.

Except that computer desk's chair is WAY closer than the game will allow me to set the chair without using Alt Placement.

I've tried multiple chairs, even scrapped and rebuilt the whole desk/PC setup and I just can't make it happen.

place the chair before you add the computer.

[Cynistir]

Originally posted by Jivebot:

This is continuing to be a problem. Sigh.

I set up a computer desk. Put a computer on it. Put a chair in front of it. But none of my Zois can use the computer.

Nevermind that it is nearly identical to the default computer in another room when I first activated the prefab version of the house.

Except that computer desk's chair is WAY closer than the game will allow me to set the chair without using Alt Placement.

I've tried multiple chairs, even scrapped and rebuilt the whole desk/PC setup and I just can't make it happen.

I noticed that when placing chairs I really had to fiddle with my mouse a lot while holding the chair. I had to move it around the comp desk or table before the chair would snap in to a place where it would be functional.

[Jivebot]

How do you "Snap" a chair to another object?

I noticed a Snap on and Snap Off magnet icon but honestly couldn't see much difference trying to place the chair with it either way

[Rob]

The chair will get a blue area around it when it is in the correct place