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iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

Game Needs More Vegetarian Checks

Just commenting that I feel like the game needs to do more checks for Vegetarian Sims in a Household. In Sulani, I've had neighbours repeatedly bring over Kalua Pork to a Household that was a single Vegetarian Mermaid Sim. More recently, my Butler has been cooking meat dishes for my Household of 2 Vegetarian Sims. Getting sick of my Butler putting out things like Fish and Chips or Chicken Saltimbocca when no one's going to eat it. Worse still, he makes food when there's already a platter of food on the counter. I had just made an 8-serving platter of Butternut Gnocchi when my Butler made one of Fish and Chips, then walked away. What he made just ended up in the bin. The Sulani neighbours could check for Vegetarians and bring over Island Vegetable Feast platters, and Butlers could perform a check and limit to Vegetarian dishes when working for a Vegetarian Household. It's great the options and filters exist for it, but when NPC Sims are cooking for Vegetarians, it should be taken into account as well. If I'm a guest in their house, that's one thing, but if they're preparing food for me, they should be doing so appropriately. Same goes for Lactose Intolerant Sims as well, in all honesty. A Butler shouldn't make Mac & Cheese for their lactose Intolerant employer.

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  • gertie47's avatar
    gertie47
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    @iamsweetmystery As a workaround, I usually cheat the butler/nanny personality traits to be vegetarian and lactose intolerant. 

    But honestly, Vegetarians and Vegans need proper representation in the game. For now, at least, I am grateful for my vivid imagination. 
  • iamsweetmystery's avatar
    iamsweetmystery
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @gertie47 - I'm not vegetarian myself, though I was for a year. I am glad to see representation on some level for alternative diets, and now with the Fish filter, pescatarians also get a little assistance. I don't make every Sim Vegetarian, mostly Hindu ones, Mermaids, and a few others I think fit it in terms of how I want them to live their lives. It's just unfortunate that NPCs weren't coded to check for it when making or giving food. Significant oversight that should really be corrected at some point.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I’m a vegetarian and I agree. I would use the vegetarian and lactose-intolerant traits more often if I didn’t have to micromanage them so hard. (I haven’t played a vegetarian since the “vegetarians no longer grab meat leftovers patch,” and hooray!)

    Generally I just refuse to have any offending food in the house, so I had a household with one vegetarian sim and one lactose intolerant sim and the whole household went vegan. Similarly, any household with a Child of the Ocean does not serve fish, period. (I’ve still stopped Paka’a Uha from autonomously making tuna casserole. Honey, I don’t want to watch you cry so stop it!) Paka’a married a Sim who loved to fish in one of my saves and we gave it up to support his lifestyle.

     But yeah, butlers. Yeah. While I love the vegetarian caterer option, I know I personally really hate throwing away perfectly good food that I can’t eat when Instacart screws up, so the butler constantly cooking meat would feel passive-aggressive to me.

  • iamsweetmystery's avatar
    iamsweetmystery
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @xochiquetzl_xkvn - Butler cooking choices are random, but absolutely shouldn't be. They're hired to serve the household and should be doing so on their terms. My most recent butler has cooked vegetarian-safe dishes a few times, but it should be all the time when every member of the household is on the same alternative diet. They should be coded to check for it, but they never bothered adding it. Another option would be to add a selection to the fridges to restrict everything that comes out of it. If a real butler was working for a real family and they were all vegetarian, their fridge wouldn't be stocked with meat and the butler would have to work with what was available. Just like with utensil preferences, we could click the fridge and set household food output to whatever restrictions the family wants.

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