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margtyrell
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago

[BH] Customers buy all food servings

The patch released yesterday fixed the issue of customers paying single serving price for all servings. However, the customers still purchase all servings from the food display cases as opposed to buying individual servings like they do from the selling table in Home Chef Hustle. This doesn't work great for running food related businesses like a café or candy store. It would make more sense for sims to buy individual servings. And I don't think you should have to make your sim grab a serving of candy and try to cancel it before they start eating it to be able to sell individual servings of candy with the new pack.

The HCH selling table still works as intended and starting a food sale through that pack makes the customers buy individual servings. 

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  • Nixieland's avatar
    Nixieland
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 months ago

    While I'm very glad the latest patch fixed that customers were only paying for one serving while taking the entire meal, there is still an issue with them buying the entire meal instead of one portion. Fortunately, they now pay the entire worth of the meal, so the money is good, but the functionality is poor. 

    Buy buying the entire meal a few things happen: 

    1. Food runs out too quickly (again, money is good but it breaks the immersion of running a cafe/restaurant/bar, etc.).
    2. Sims take out portions of the meal from their inventory while hanging out at the business. They often get distracted and don't finish the portions, and then take out new portions. Rinse and repeat. This creates a lot of mess and clogs up all available tabletops.
      (I have discovered I can drag the portions to the case and resell them, which again is good for money but annoying and immersion-breaking...also gross, haha). 
    3. I'm not 100% sure on this one yet but I think the food might spoil in the sims' inventory if they hang around long enough, and it certainly spoils on the tables if I don't clean it in time. 

    Biggest issue in bold.

    I have used a couple mods in the past but have everything disabled and deleted now. Playing on PC.

  • This is the direct result of this fix.

    But I'm going to consider this a bug and worth reporting. When Get to Work came out, selling a full platter of food sold one single individual serving. With Home Chef Hustle, selling a full pizza or platter of food sold one single individual serving. It is only with B&H that Sims started buying the entire thing.

    The "fix" made it so Sims pay for the entire thing...but the actual bug was Sims buying the entire thing, not that they only paid for one serving. The actual intended function of the game is for Sims to buy one serving from a set, not to buy the entire thing- as indicated by precedent set by Get to Work and Home Chef Hustle. (There is also no interaction to split a serving into individual plates, and it takes ages to do so manually, with cancelling interactions repeatedly. There's no way we're expected to do that to sell one plate of food to one customer, right?)

    Certainly, having Sims enter your establishment, buy 8 plates of spaghetti, and dump all 8 into their pockets before sitting down and eating 2 or 3 in a row and leaving, pockets full of spaghetti, is not the intended behavior?

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