Can we fine tune the eating/seating behavior, please?
My sims will do just about anything to avoid eating at the dining room table I've placed so conveniently near the food preparation area. Bad enough that they would walk halfway across the house to go sit on a bed to eat near a kid trying to do their homework. But now when there's no one else in any other room of the house they can go take their plate to awkwardly bother, they just plop down on the kitchen floor right by the fridge.
I know the dining chairs work fine, because if I manually direct the sims to sit in them while eating, they most of the time do, and then later sims will come join them at the table if there's already someone seated there. But in large households with busy schedules this is maddening to micromanage; Sims are late to work and school because they just had to walk halfway across the house to eat near a cat that was sitting on the couch rather than just suck it up and eat at the actual eating table alone.
I could get it if sims with the Outgoing trait were this codependent about being unable to digest food without the presence of another person or animal nearby, but most humans do not do this. When I make myself something to eat, I don't go wander through the house until I find another person and then park next to them holding my plate awkwardly while I get crumbs on their bedsheets. I sit down at the table like a civilized human. Even if the couch in the next room is slightly more comfortable. BEDS AND COUCHES ARE NOT FOR EATING ON.
I would move that sims should ALWAYS default to finding the nearest dining chair/table when eating/drinking, and if people WANT them to eat somewhere weird, THAT is when they should have to manually direct them.
But it's apparently been like this since launch, so I don't have a lot of hope anyone will listen... /shrug Just venting, mostly, I guess :)
I know the dining chairs work fine, because if I manually direct the sims to sit in them while eating, they most of the time do, and then later sims will come join them at the table if there's already someone seated there. But in large households with busy schedules this is maddening to micromanage; Sims are late to work and school because they just had to walk halfway across the house to eat near a cat that was sitting on the couch rather than just suck it up and eat at the actual eating table alone.
I could get it if sims with the Outgoing trait were this codependent about being unable to digest food without the presence of another person or animal nearby, but most humans do not do this. When I make myself something to eat, I don't go wander through the house until I find another person and then park next to them holding my plate awkwardly while I get crumbs on their bedsheets. I sit down at the table like a civilized human. Even if the couch in the next room is slightly more comfortable. BEDS AND COUCHES ARE NOT FOR EATING ON.
I would move that sims should ALWAYS default to finding the nearest dining chair/table when eating/drinking, and if people WANT them to eat somewhere weird, THAT is when they should have to manually direct them.
But it's apparently been like this since launch, so I don't have a lot of hope anyone will listen... /shrug Just venting, mostly, I guess :)
