Am I The Only One?

JaiSea

I haven't been on the boards for a couple of weeks, so busy with the holidays. But I'm starting to catch up on somethings now. Currently I'm going through the Favorite Screenshot post, some good pictures in there. It's making me want to load my game.

Any way! What I noticed about the pictures of families eating is they only have a plate of food. Am I the only one that gives my Sims drinks when they have their meals?

munchie885

I don't usually make them get drinks with their food because they already have a juice addiction and will probably get 5 cups of juice or milk after dinner...

Rflong7

Hi

Do they have to get drinks separately? I thought they'd be there when they sit and eat.

JaiSea

@SelenaGrey I would love if they could serve drinks. I'd also love if they meals were served on the table as in the past, instead of everyone having to go get their own plate.

@Rflong As far as I know. I usually just make my Sims go to the fridge and grab a glass after they've gotten their plate off of the counter. I love this feature and was surprised more people don't do it.

Rflong7

SelenaGrey wrote: »

Rflong7 wrote: »

Hi

Do they have to get drinks separately? I thought they'd be there when they sit and eat.

It's buggy. Sometimes my sim will have a drink in hand and grab a plate to sit down, other times she will put it down, play musical chairs, then stand by the wall and eat. ;P

Ah, okay - Thanks.

Rflong7

CamaroSycopaChic wrote: »

@Rflong As far as I know. I usually just make my Sims go to the fridge and grab a glass after they've gotten their plate off of the counter. I love this feature and was surprised more people don't do it.

Thanks~ Do they fill up faster or eat slower with drinks?

JaiSea

I think they fill up faster. If my Sims are in a hurry to get on the bus or to work often times they don't have to finish their meal or glasses and I just send them off. If they have nothing else to do I'll let them sit and over stuff themselves.

TheMomminator

The routing still isn't that great around eating. Sometimes I call them to a meal and they all grab a plate and sit down. Sometimes there is still a lot of shuffling, stamping, yelling, and eating standing up blocking everyone else from getting a plate. Adding drinks to the mix just adds another layer of redirection. I'm exhausted enough after a family meal.

It also causes them to eat quite slowly. Breakfast or dinner can drag on for hours while they eat, drink and talk.

Then there is Fat Sim Syndrome. If you have your sim eat anything other than salad, they gain weight. So not fun but what are you going to do? At any rate eating and drinking will put the pounds on them.

Ayradyss

Just IMO, it takes too much bother to get them to grab a drink as well as a food plate, and it takes forever-and-a-day for a Sim to drink a drink in TS4, slowing down the whole process a goodly bit. It's not important enough to me to see a glass sitting there. Maybe if I wanted to stage a picture for a story I might take the time to set up the minutia, but just in regular play? Not for me.

Biotic_Warlock

munchie885 wrote: »

I don't usually make them get drinks with their food because they already have a juice addiction and will probably get 5 cups of juice or milk after dinner...

My sims only ever do that if all the gaming objects are used. Sims automatically using the fridge has so far never been a problem for me.

stilljustme2

CamaroSycopaChic wrote: »

@SelenaGrey I would love if they could serve drinks. I'd also love if they meals were served on the table as in the past, instead of everyone having to go get their own plate.

@Rflong As far as I know. I usually just make my Sims go to the fridge and grab a glass after they've gotten their plate off of the counter. I love this feature and was surprised more people don't do it.

I'd love a "Serve Drinks" or "Bring Drink to..." with the option to choose which Sim when there's a bar in the home, or even an ordering option like "Order Drink For..." when at a community lot with a bar. And a similar option on the coffee and tea makers at home. (We also need a hot chocolate maker for kids, and the option for adults/teens to make hot chocolate for the younger set.) I'd love it if my mixologist Sim could take a drink or cup of coffee to his husband when the latter is working on the computer, for example.

I actually did the get drink option quite a bit with my single Simself, but as my families grew it became a lot more time consuming especially with everyone trying to get to the refrigerator at the same time. And meals take long enough with everyone talking with each other, and I'm watching the time to make sure everyone gets off to work/school at a reasonable time.

rbridges430

CamaroSycopaChic wrote: »

I think they fill up faster. If my Sims are in a hurry to get on the bus or to work often times they don't have to finish their meal or glasses and I just send them off. If they have nothing else to do I'll let them sit and over stuff themselves.

What bus do you speak of?

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SimplyJen

I don't even think to unless they do it themselves. It's easy for sims to overeat and I'm not sure if extra drinks will make them gain weight but it fills the hunger bar.

JaiSea

So yeah, I'm the only one. lol

@rbridges430 The bus in my imagination.

songsmith2003

SelenaGrey wrote: »

Rflong7 wrote: »

Hi

Do they have to get drinks separately? I thought they'd be there when they sit and eat.

It's buggy. Sometimes my sim will have a drink in hand and grab a plate to sit down, other times she will put it down, play musical chairs, then stand by the wall and eat. ;P

We sure do. We also need "serve meal" as well as "call to meal." Serve meal would mean the platter of food is delivered to the dining table and the sims sit around it and eat. My sims hardly ever use their dining table anymore.

katycat737

I love to get them drinks sometimes but it's a bit tedious and more micro managing than I want.

Maybe an choice to drink watér autonomously when I click a dish to eat instead of having to get juice (which by the way, the only time I've seen a sim drink water [NOT juice] autonomously is in the Sims 2 eating at a restaurant)

Naydi

Does anyone else have this issue: Adults NOT getting a plate from an already prepared meal, but going to the fridge and cooking a whole NEW meal for themselves? The only ones that automatically "grab a plate" in most of my households are the children. The adults start cooking new food when they are hungry. I am annoyed that I have to interrupt them to tell them to "grab a plate."

songsmith2003

@Naydi, that has happened to me when I failed to check everyone's wants. Sometimes they have the cook/retrieve meal option queued up before the call to meal is made. I wish the call to meal would cancel out the other action.

What's worse is that most of the time your sims are charged for the meal (or the painting or anything else that costs money) even if you cancel out the action. At least, I hear the kaching of the money going away. I never hear it coming back even if I cancel before they get out the food or plop down a canvas.

SimsFur

i only have my sims make tea in the afternoon or night.. just cause there nothing else to do

JaiSea

@Naydi, I do have that problem, but it doesn't stop there. Once in awhile when there is a meal awaiting on the counter tops my children Sims will get some leftovers out of the fridge.