I noticed that sims now directly take a portion out of a plate whenever they cook a family/group meal. The option to call others for dinner becomes pointless and i end up with separate plates everywhere. I rather have the sim just put down the family meal and wait for me to decide. Just when they cook a single meal, they can eat it. I guess it was like that before too.
Another thing is when i visit another household, i could always just build on the lot whenever i wanted to change or adjust something there, but now i have to go back to the neighbourhood, go into build mode on the lot, load the lot again, close it, come back to my main sims and then they need to knock on the door again to enter the house. Its pretty annoying. Dont see why that has changed.. it does no good.
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It's always been like that for me. I've been playing since January 2015.
No free will for my sims, either, and I haven't done the pre-C&D patch yet, but my sims take a serving for themselves after cooking nonetheless. It only occurs when the cook is hungry (lower yellow). Or, rather, it used to occur, because I use a mod to stopp this behaviour for some time now. When I tell the game I don't want free will I mean exactly that. In case you are interested, it's here, updated for C&D: http://littlemssam.de/no-auto-food-grab-after-cooking/
Thanks for the link! I'm currently playing a vampire with a withered stomach who has two kids whom he has to cook meals for - it gets kind of annoying when he automatically grabs a plate for himself when I'm not looking and ends up throwing up. Happens every time. I focus on the kids for a few minutes while he's cooking and before I know it, he's running to the toilet feeling Very Uncomfortable. Like why dude. Why.
Wow..... Thats a uh.... Oversite for sure... Devs should disable that option completely. Why would a vampire autonomously grab food? I can see why that would bother you, it bothers me and its not even my game haha
However, it did provide me with one rather hilarious moment yesterday - my vampire sim cooked a family meal, automatically took a serving and started eating before I could stop him. Just then one of the very annoying neighbors from the next apartment knocked on the door and did that "Hey neighbor! Can I have some of whatever food you're cooking!?" thing. I sent the vampire over to decline - or possibly eat the neighbor - but what actually happened was he made it across the room to the door, opened it, and barfed all over the neighbor's feet.
Thanks for the laugh. That's hysterical. Too bad the other sim probably didn't react. I'd like it if they'd be like "Gaaah GROSS!" And run off, or throw up themselves.