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Empty socials have to go
ravynwolvf
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Here's how a meal just went in my sim home (and this is with only two sims and a dog), and it's pretty typical. Wife sat down to eat, then ran into the bathroom and threw up because she was preggers (alright, I'll give you that one). Made her go sit back down and finish. But husband also sat down to eat, and she decided to give him a hug. They both stood back up and hugged, and then she finished her meal while standing. He decided to not finish his, and put it down on the table. I told him to start eating again, and he sat back down. Then the dog came over to him, and he stood back up and did a greeting with the dog. He decided to stop eating AGAIN, and put the food on the table. I made him start eating again, and he sat back down. Then the wife decided to give him a kiss on the cheek, so he stood back up, and did that. He started eating again while standing, and the dog came up to him again so he put the plate away for a second and did something with the dog. Then he finally finished eating.
This is utterly ridiculous, stupid, and every other negative adjective I can think of. Not one of these interruptions were even a real social interaction, all hidden little empty interactions. There are already pauses in place between bites of food, so why can't these greeting socials be fixed so they don't make sims stand up and interrupt what they are doing? I swear they used to wave across the table if they were sitting. Or better still, if you can't do it right, just get rid of them altogether; I don't need my sims to kiss before they kiss or say hello before every conversation start.
This is utterly ridiculous, stupid, and every other negative adjective I can think of. Not one of these interruptions were even a real social interaction, all hidden little empty interactions. There are already pauses in place between bites of food, so why can't these greeting socials be fixed so they don't make sims stand up and interrupt what they are doing? I swear they used to wave across the table if they were sitting. Or better still, if you can't do it right, just get rid of them altogether; I don't need my sims to kiss before they kiss or say hello before every conversation start.
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This is what I do when I get them sit down to eat. I have them talk to another sim sitting at the table. The other sims is usually eating too or they may just be in the same room doing something else. That usually prevents them from picking up another action until I cancel out the conversation. I know it takes them longer to finish eating or whatever they are doing. However it would take considerably longer fighting them from all of the distractions that might pop up. Plus they get their social up and improve relations while they are at it.
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Yeah, I don't mind some autonomous hugging like in Sims 2, but I wish there was something in the code to cancel autonomous standing socials when a Sim is sitting down.
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Or make it so that sims hug another when that person is sitting from behind or (If there is no object obscuring the space) front. Though the chances are unlikely due to how developers cut corners and prefer recycling animation (sigh).