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Why does dinner take so long?
catmando830
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My sims met at a resturant at 11am and at 6pm are just getting their entries - PLEASE developers, make the time more like real life - heck we don't even have the option to complain "what is taking so long to make my meal"
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Can I just say thank you so much? Honestly have a wonderful day.
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I just read in another thread that changing the clock time through MCCC will throw off when holidays occur. 🤷♀️ Sometimes we get unintended consequences so I try to gauge how much something bothers me and how easy it would be to get around it before resorting to mods.
I have MCC but don't really explore it much but I might have to look into this! Thanks for the tip!
EA should put this on the front of the TS4 box.
It did use to break 9to5 jobs because as the default timetable, EAxis used to forgo specifying a starting time so the game would just use "default schedule", and with time slowed it would start at outlandish hours like 4.30am.
I used a mob to fix that, but I'm not 100% sure it's still needed. That was over a year ago.
The length of time to get food is such an easy fix. Played sims order should go to the front of the food line. If you don't order right away, you will be waiting a long time for your food. In sims 2, it worked like this. Your sims order was always at the front of the line so you got food pretty quick. I think they should also speed up the cook time on the chef stations. I think that would help too.
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My restaurant time is about 2 hours. The only bug I get now occurs when they finish their drinks, they stop eating. I can make the sim that I control finish his plate. The sims invited eat a bit, half or whole plate. I think it is quite realistic.
I don't know about that. It seems rather bad design for a meal at a restaurant to take almost all day long. If we had that kind of service in a restaurant in real life I'm sure there would be plenty of complaints. Considering the sims is a life simulator it seems a bit odd for a meal to take half a day or more don't you think?
The game really should prioritize the players controlled sims once an order has been made. That design would of made sense. Why should the random townies and premades that aren't being played be put first? It doesn't add anything to the experience of the game to serve them first.
It is bad design. For a game that (tenuously) still classifies itself as a “simulation”, it’s crazy that the dining process takes such a proportionally huge chunk of the 24 hour clock. It feels like it takes an eternity for the routing of diners and restaurant staff to resolve, and even longer for sims to nibble away at a meal. Sometimes it’s thirty minutes between bites! And the situation is made even worse if they’re having a conversation.
I’ve seen it take anywhere from 4 hours (if I forcibly expedite the process) to as many as 10 hours with routing delays and an incredibly drawn out eating phase.
A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
Time enjoyed is never time wasted
As soon as they arrive, I select their table. Then order their meal from a waiter.
Usually 2-3 other tables get served before them, giving tome for my sims to chat, and use the loo.
Eating takes about as long as waiting for their meal took. They're too busy waving their arms around while the talk.