Steamed Vegetables - Autonomy
Is there any chance someone knows of a way to stop my sim from making steamed vegetables? Every time I build a house with a sauna, my sims automatically go make steamed vegetables as soon as I don't have them doing something on the home lot. Like seriously, within 3 or 4 sim minutes of them ending some other task, they're on their way to the sauna to make steamed vegetables. It's really irritating.
I've shut off autonomy completely and it stops them from making steamed vegetables, but it also stops them from answering their phone as well which I don't want.
I've got the Nraas Master Controller, Overwatch, and Returner mods running. I'm not sure if there's a setting in one of those that can help with this. Master Controller has so may settings, I still don't know how to use them all.
Like I say, I want to maintain autonomy, I just want my sim to stop making steamed vegetables. It wouldn't be bad if they only did it once and then did something else, but they just keep making dish after dish, only stopping long enough to eat a plate or two before they head back to the sauna to make more. It's also only ever my starting sim that does it. If they get married, people move in, or their children grow up, nobody else makes steamed vegetables, just them. Everyone else acts normal.
The traits of the sim that's doing it right now are Charismatic, Party Animal, Night Owl, Schmoozer, and Brave, so I don't really know what logic is driving her love of an endless supply of steamed vegetables. If anything I'd think she'd be turning on the stereo and dancing every chance she got. She's got three stereos to choose from, all with improved speakers.
I suppose the only other option would be to never install a sauna again (and remove the ones I already have installed in my houses), which it just may come to that.
@DoofenshmirtzH Sims are weird. They do weird things. They have habits that are understandable only to themselves and often seem to defy both common sense and the traits and skills that you yourself have assigned to them.
With that in mind, yes, you can probably use Retuner to make steaming vegetables, or at least using the sauna in general, less attractive to your sim. Or, I think you can eliminate the option for your sims to autonomously use it entirely. I've never tried this myself, but Retuner's Interactions page says you can both change the advertised output(s) for a specific object—meaning it appears to provide less fun or less hunger fulfillment or whatever, making it less likely your sims will choose to use it—or disallow its autonomous use. Here's the page:
https://www.nraas.net/community/Retuner-Interactions
I believe you have to first enable object menus so that you can click directly on the offending objects, unless you want to search through the whole City Hall menu. This setting should show up when you click on City Hall and select NRaas > Retuner. When you've tuned the sauna to your liking, you can turn object menus off again.
By the way, this is the kind of subject that would normally belong at NRaas. AHQ isn't really for mod help, even though I know just enough about NRaas mods to answer the more straigntforward questions. But you can always ask at NRaas—the site still supports its mods, and a number of posters are active on the message boards.
P.S. It's entirely up to you, but you might want to add ErrorTrap to your mod collection. Overwatch is great, but the best game corruption cleanup comes from having both in place. Be sure to get the version that matches your patch level and type of install; there are different versions for 1.69/Origin, 1.67/disc (or mac), and 1.67/Steam.
