How to change the "go home" destination?

[Noodles]

OK, the title must be confusing but I can't come up with a proper name for this thing.
You know, when you make your sim "go home", there's a specific spot inside the house where they will walk to when they arrive, before doing anything else in the house? Is there a way to change it somehow?

My sims have lived in this same house for 3 generations. I have not renovated it for a long time. But suddenly this "arrival spot" shifted, not only away from the main entrance, but to the second floor of the house, and all the way to the other side of the building. So my sims waste a lot of time climbing stairs and walking across the building, only to walk back where they came from (kitchen etc is on the first floor).

I wonder why this changed... I checked that the door is marked as the main entrance and obviously there is enough room (I have not changed the house) but they insist on walking there.

[Ricalynn]

Have you recently put in a gate or a fence? It could just be that you moved something somewhere and that is the closest location to the front of the house they can get to now because the space downstairs is blocked.   I've also noticed that they will go to whatever is closest to the mailbox so maybe move where it is.

I have also noticed that since Showtime there are spots that Sims used to be able to walk that were small but now for some reason they can't. 

For most of my houses because of the celebrity plague they get I have a fence around the property and a gate block access.   You can set the late night gate to be the front door and they will just move to that position when they enter.  I tend to keep the mailbox just outside this gate so that could be part of it too.

[Noodles]

Hmm... The mailbox is by the front door, and after that is a very large hall type of room, followed by a large dining room, but they just dash trough them to climb the stairs!  The only fence I have is on the back yard, where the garden is. I'll try moving the mail box around to see if it changes anything. Adding a celebrity fence is a good tip, I have celebrities disabled in my game, but I'm sure the gate still functions as it's supposed to, and would make them "arrive" by the gate. Thanks for the help!

[Saltypaws]

I had the same problem before showtime.  They would go in the side door, which was not designated "front door", go upstairs and then stand there.  I tried everything to change this path.  When the family got quite large and they would all go to graduation, they would all try to go upstairs and have the pathing issue.  Now, I just "x" out the "home" que when they get home, so they won't do that.  It gets kind of annoying, but I guess there is no way around it.

[Twinmum]

I get annoyed at times with them having to go into a certain room before they do anything. If they are out, I either click go home and then cancel it as soon as they arrive on the block or I just go to the home lot and tell them to 'go here'  or even give them an action to perform on the lot.

[Noodles]

I couldn't change it any other way, so I added the celebrity gate and it worked. Now they "arrive" when they've stepped trough the gate, whew. Too bad it's such a huge gate, I'd prefer not to have it on my lot- But I'm feeling a bit too lazy to keep cancelling their actions to make them wander less.

Although Twinmum's tip on using "Go here" instead of "Go home" is also a good one, thanks for that.

[Yarakisagoa]

Noodles, do your sims have the Thief Alarm? It appears that my sims always step in the house and stop near it. Hope this help.

[Galena]

I was building recently, and I was Shift-Control-Clicking some objects, and I accidentaly clicked on the ground.  The option that came up was "Set Front Of Lot".  This is proabaly where your sims go when you tell them to go home.

[Noodles]

I was building recently, and I was Shift-Control-Clicking some objects, and I accidentaly clicked on the ground.  The option that came up was "Set Front Of Lot".  This is proabaly where your sims go when you tell them to go home.

Wow, that's new information, thank you! I wonder if it works with testingcheats? I'll test it out the next time I load the game. My sims have since moved away from this house, but this might come useful again.