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Game Restaurants completely Broken after this patch
Yolee
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My Sims cannot run any restaurants after todays patch. Cooks do not enter restaurants, they stand outside. Also, older problems that were never fixed: Sims not eating, gathering around and not staying seated, etc. And dont refer me to that garbage technical Issues website as the advice there is totally useless.
FIX THIS GAME EA!
FIX THIS GAME EA!
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First I Dined in:
I first should point out this was in a vanilla save with no mods or cc at all. I also used a vanilla Maxis build of the Chez Llama for my tests. The version that shipped with the Dine Out pack with no modifications that I downloaded from my library, Everything worked as expected.
But as you stated the chef (Dennis Kim in this case) did stand outside. He was out there when I arrived and remained there until I ordered food. Then he came in and cooked and performed as expected. (Edit to add:) All the other employees were in their expected places and performed as expected immediately upon my arrival.
Then I bought and ran a restaurant:
I bought and ran the same vanilla as Maxis shipped it version of Chez Llama in the same unmodded, cc free vanilla save.
You should make sure you have removed all your mods and cc and deleted your localthumbcache file. This patch broke tons of mods including MC Command Center which won't be fixed until Friday or later as Deaderpool is on vacation this week. Overall though I found restaurants to be working fine except the sluggish chef, but that doesn't seem to be an obstacle to overall functionality in a vanilla save with a vanilla restaurant.
The part of your post that I bolded is a known CC specific issue. You need to remove the CC in your restaurant to figure out which CC is breaking the restaurant. Broken CC will prevent your employees from entering the restaurant.
The new patch has broken a ton of mods, so it goes without saying that it has more than likely also broken a bunch of CC items.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
The only issue I saw was one sim had to pee and went to the toilet about 5ish times, sat on it, flushed washed his hands but never actually emptied his bladder.
He is paranoid so don't know if he has issues with public restrooms, but I never saw this happen before. Finally he went to the kitchen and peed on himself, drank his Alien drink and went home.
this made me laugh…..
Also, when you are referred to the technical issues website (Answers HQ), it's usually so you can report the issue properly and have it looked into by a developer, as they don't read these forums. It also allows other players to see if they are experiencing the same problems as them.
I have all packs installed and as I posted earlier in the thread, both patronizing and owning a restaurant worked perfectly fine in a vanilla save. In fact I had forgotten how fun and challenging owning a restaurant was so now I think I will have a sim buy one in one of my saves.
The chef standing outside isn't caused by broken cc. The chef standing outside and never being able to come in to the restaurant and cook (even after food is ordered) is the specific problem caused by corrupt/broken cc.
I've had that issue happen with a few of my restaurants to the point that I just no longer bother using cc in any restaurants anymore to save myself the hassle of trying to figure out which item is causing the issue. For whatever reason, restaurants are easily corrupted by items used in them (source coding issues?).
It's also worth noting that cc items that work perfectly fine elsewhere in a game may still end up causing an issue in restaurants, for whatever reason. That's why I've gone the easy route and just simply stopped using any cc in restaurants. Problem solved.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
Ah, I see! Sorry I completely misunderstood your comment.
I have no idea about coding and won't pretend that I do, haha! Restaurants are one of my favourite features though, so to have them completely non-functional must be so frustrating, I don't blame you for not using CC in them.
OK, this is why I cant get my head around this game: I REMOVED ALL CC AND IT STILL HAPPENED! I dont even use alot of CC, the 10 or so that I used was for the Sims appearance lile a skin or lipstick/ I dont use furniture, clothing, etc CC. I would think if Im coming to the forums as a Sims player with ALL packs it would be understood that CC was removed and the issue STILL OCCURRED. Also, the restuarants are a hot mess, with no one sitting at their tables, waiters chating outside. the ONLY thing working is the hostess. She seats people only for them to Automatically get up and stand around or go chat.
Ill say it again: EA FIX YOUR GAME!
The hostesses do work hard. I hope they all get bonuses, because they earn them.
Exie hay, cavero, mabza meeah vendarzo.
Yevsas mairzeemo!
Yes its fustrating and I want a refund at this point, for all my packs. I cant play the game as intended. Also, I OWN restaurants so thats what Im talking about. My restaurants cant function with these bugs.
After you removed your cc did you delete the localthumbcache file in your Sims 4 folder? Because sometimes mods and cc can leave lingering “footprints” in your game after you remove them and deleting that file can clean that up.
Hopefully they'll fix the issue so you can enjoy your game again. *makes a note to not try running a restaurant right now*
Exie hay, cavero, mabza meeah vendarzo.
Yevsas mairzeemo!
Except without cc or mods running a restaurant works just fine.
No they do not. But I'm not belabouring this anymore.
I saw a folder that says "onlinelocalthumbcache", is that what you mean?
Yes that’s it.
According to my testing which I posted earlier in the thread they did.
There are a lot of things that can go wrong with restaurants. Too much clutter and too many tables, and too little spacing between tables (less than one full tile) can all cause bottle necks and routing failures making it difficult or impossible for your customers and staff to move about properly. That’s why I rarely ever download restaurants from the gallery anymore and on the rare occasion I do I usually have to edit them heavily because people try to cram too much in, or make them too big. I generally stick with the Maxis built ones in my library and carefully redecorate them, or build my own modeling them off of the Maxis ones as far as table count and space considerations.
As someone whos main Sims does nothing but run restaurants, some of which generate $10K and up per session (8hours) I know what your saying is true. If I do download I empty them out. I ususally build my own for this reason. I ensure pathing is spacious, I dont put extra seating around (Sims tend to sit on them and chat instead of staying at their tables) etc. I know the tricks to making a restaurant run well and profitably. Most of the stuff in the gallery is for "show" and are not pratical when your running it and have way too much seating. Ill try deleting that extra file and see how that works.
You need the file called localthumbcache. That's the one with gameplay cache. The folder is for stuff you looked at online.
You can but it’s not true and it’s not fair to let other players think so. I had so much fun testing this I am still running Chez Llama and it’s working absolutely fine. Maybe your game file is corrupted.
Luth is right I went back and looked, the localthumbcache file is the one you want to delete it’s near the bottom of the list in the Sims4 folder and has an icon next to it that looks like a dog eared sheet of paper like this 📄 and not a file folder like this 📁.