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Can we fine tune the eating/seating behavior, please?
SimSiren3
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My sims will do just about anything to avoid eating at the dining room table I've placed so conveniently near the food preparation area. Bad enough that they would walk halfway across the house to go sit on a bed to eat near a kid trying to do their homework. But now when there's no one else in any other room of the house they can go take their plate to awkwardly bother, they just plop down on the kitchen floor right by the fridge.
I know the dining chairs work fine, because if I manually direct the sims to sit in them while eating, they most of the time do, and then later sims will come join them at the table if there's already someone seated there. But in large households with busy schedules this is maddening to micromanage; Sims are late to work and school because they just had to walk halfway across the house to eat near a cat that was sitting on the couch rather than just suck it up and eat at the actual eating table alone.
I could get it if sims with the Outgoing trait were this codependent about being unable to digest food without the presence of another person or animal nearby, but most humans do not do this. When I make myself something to eat, I don't go wander through the house until I find another person and then park next to them holding my plate awkwardly while I get crumbs on their bedsheets. I sit down at the table like a civilized human. Even if the couch in the next room is slightly more comfortable. BEDS AND COUCHES ARE NOT FOR EATING ON.
I would move that sims should ALWAYS default to finding the nearest dining chair/table when eating/drinking, and if people WANT them to eat somewhere weird, THAT is when they should have to manually direct them.
But it's apparently been like this since launch, so I don't have a lot of hope anyone will listen... /shrug Just venting, mostly, I guess
I know the dining chairs work fine, because if I manually direct the sims to sit in them while eating, they most of the time do, and then later sims will come join them at the table if there's already someone seated there. But in large households with busy schedules this is maddening to micromanage; Sims are late to work and school because they just had to walk halfway across the house to eat near a cat that was sitting on the couch rather than just suck it up and eat at the actual eating table alone.
I could get it if sims with the Outgoing trait were this codependent about being unable to digest food without the presence of another person or animal nearby, but most humans do not do this. When I make myself something to eat, I don't go wander through the house until I find another person and then park next to them holding my plate awkwardly while I get crumbs on their bedsheets. I sit down at the table like a civilized human. Even if the couch in the next room is slightly more comfortable. BEDS AND COUCHES ARE NOT FOR EATING ON.
I would move that sims should ALWAYS default to finding the nearest dining chair/table when eating/drinking, and if people WANT them to eat somewhere weird, THAT is when they should have to manually direct them.
But it's apparently been like this since launch, so I don't have a lot of hope anyone will listen... /shrug Just venting, mostly, I guess
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Even in a two-person household it is impossible to have an undisturbed dinner without hitting the pause button at least ten times and deleting interactions from the queue.
Love the idea. Like claiming a bed.
The essence of it all...
A simple blacklist written for it that bans the need to stand up to interact while sitting down and eating/drinking would go a long way to making this much more tolerable.
I have this same problem, especially when they finish grilling or baking.
Edit: Someone beat me to it! But that means it's not just my game.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
The problem is that they want to mulitask even when they shouldn’t.
Also apparently some people complained that they ate too fast in ts3 because it made family dinners impossible. And when they tune something like this they go to extremes. Like people complained that their sims were constantly being abducted/impregnated so they dramatically lowered the abduction/pregnancy rate.
Combine this with
1 how long it takes to actually make the meal in the first place
2 your sims always wanting to stand around and stare into space
and you end up with meals that can take up all morning / afternoon / or evening to prepare and eat
By which time they then eat slower because their hunger bar is in the red
I have honestly had it take them 2 sim hours to make an omelette and another 3 hours or more to actually eat it , Talk about overcooked , the eggs must be like rubber by the time they have made the omelette
On that note, ever notice how, even when the bookshelf is right there in your sim's bedroom, they have a way of wandering into another room to read? You've got a comfy bed, a chair, and a desk chair to sit at, and here you go trudging all the way to the kitchen or the living room...Oh! and journal writing is the worst! They always run to the kitchen table for some reason! They have a desk, they have a bed, but they insist on the kitchen table!
...Seating AI in this game in general is just...wonky.
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I'm having a similar issue with Sims refusing to put books back in the bookshelf. They put the book on the dining table or desk (and sit down at the table or desk). Even if I cancel the 'read' action and tell them to 'clean up books', they have to sit down with the book at the table before taking it to the bookshelf. It's the sitting down part that's annoying - if they just left it on the table, it wouldn't take so much time. I have to stop my Sim reading a good 15 minutes before bedtime or work. I assume it got bugged with one of the recent patches.
They're also playing a bit more musical chairs lately - I always tell them where to sit when they eat, but lately, they think they're Goldilocks - they have to try the other chair and the toddler chair before sitting in the chair that's just right.
Sims cannot sit. They always get up and find other things to do. People dont carry around dinner plates with food on them doing chores and other things around the house. They need to fix eating.
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I do have all the packs with no mods though, so your experience may be different.
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