@puzzlezaddict I use UI cheats and make sure my sims are very hungry before they eat, the hunger line is not all the way full when they finish eating sometimes. However they still gain weight in about 5 real life hours of game play so many Sim days have passed. I am always surprised because I know how careful I am at checking their intake.
@ReneHollyDesign1 @SqueamishNerd I wonder whether not eating until full actually helps at all. Since the hunger bar will decline at the same rate (absent a mod or reward trait), don't your sims just end up eating more smaller meals throughout the day? I'd only expect that to help, from a game mechanic standpoint, if being full was itself a contributing factor to weight gain.
At any rate, I think we all agree that there should be a way for sims to maintain their weight without reward traits or mods, and without having to spend a lot of their time in designated athletic activities.
@puzzlezaddict I think the only way for them to stay the size you made them is for the game not to have weight gain at all. I'm sure people would complain about that not being very realistic. I know people like Seasons in the game for realism however I don't care for it at all. There were too many rainy days and plants dying. The game just seems to go over the top on features. I got rid of Seasons however I can't fix a way around the weight problem. Even only allowing the sim to have a meal once a day and using UI cheats to top them up if needed they still gain weight. Sometimes there is no win. I still love the game as glitchy as it is. LOL
@SqueamishNerd I tested today and only let the Sim have one meal a day and she was very hungry with the line in red before I let her eat. Salads and Yogurt she made. Then when she was hungry later I top her up using UI cheats. I spent from about 1 pm till 11:30 pm with this Sim to see if it would stop them from gaining. It didn't work. I took her in CAS and she was bigger. Not a whole lot bigger but still bigger, still she gained weight. Over time it would be the same problem.
@SqueamishNerdI'm definitely thinking it is a bug or tuning issue because lately as the game has got so busy with Growing Together and Horse Ranch, my Sims have just had an inventory of harvestables and snacked on fruit and veg during the day while rushing around, but still gained weight. I'm testing on a family right now without the High Metabolism Creation Trait, eating fruit salad for breakfast and a healthy meal like Mushroom Steak in the evening. I've got the husband's sister in a different lot who hasn't eaten yet as she's new, then I've got some recent Sims with High Metabolism and I'm studying all of them to see how they change. It's like Sims Health Census 2023 here.
Plus there's the Sims I've previously created who just continue to gain weight after I switch households. They're not eating at all effectively except for if I invite them over.
I want them all to have different body types and just stay that way but it's one extreme or the other.
Another thing I'm going to test is making them thinner with the reward potion and doing the same with the Taste of Diet ice cream, then shaping them with sliders to give them curves, etc and seeing if they stay that shape.
There is a bug report for NPCs going back to 2018 here:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CL-Extreme-Weight-Gain-for-NPCs/td-p/7016756/page/3
I mean, the fact it's so old doesn't give me hope. I notice that reports of played households as well as NPCs have been added too, and recently as well.
