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But honestly, Vegetarians and Vegans need proper representation in the game. For now, at least, I am grateful for my vivid imagination.
- iamsweetmystery2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@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_xkvn2 years agoSeasoned Ace
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.
- iamsweetmystery2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@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.