Dine Out nearly unplayable

"Paigeisin5;c-17278994" wrote:
@Camkat Most of the mods I use are there to stop many of the autonomous actions such as the constant need our Sims have to grab glasses of water then leave dirty glasses everywhere. The toddler harassment where one Sim puts the child to bed then another Sim will drag the poor thing out of bed. They do this with the highchair as well. I am using around fifty of those types of tuning mods, and with each new pack or update that list seems to grow. The rest are bug-fixing mods to repair broken features such as the ones we got in Dine Out. I have a couple that do change the game around more to my liking, but there are only about twenty of those in my mods folder. One of those adds hygiene and fun to swimming. Which makes total sense to me, because why should swimming just be about fitness. It's more satisfying sending my Sims off to swim when they get to have fun while doing it. Otherwise it's a waste of time once a Sim has max fitness skill.

I use mods because I am tired of waiting for bug fixes, and to bring a bit of sanity and clarity back into the game. The devs can't do that for me. They don't know what I want and every new feature seems to have problems attached to it, it doesn't work properly, or it doesn't make sense to me on any level. I passed on buying Realm of Magic because the devs didn't include a way to turn off the magic portion which I did not want to see in all the worlds. And many players are saying they're seeing magic folk flying around on brooms in all the worlds even when they have not taken a played Sim through the Portal. One can make potions, but the devs forgot to tag those as retail objects. And all I wanted from that pack was the new world, and not to have the game decide what I had to do with it. So I won't buy that pack until I find a mod that lets me control how I want to play. The days of buying any pack at full price are over. When, or if, I purchase anything more, I won't be paying full price for it. Buy it at half price, throw in a couple of mods, and I'm totally cool with that. The same goes for the updates. I now wait for my mods to be updated before I install anything. Playing off line isn't ideal, but it beats playing a vanilla game. Most modders update their mods in a couple of days, so playing off line isn't that tough to do. So give a couple of mods a try. The restaurant ones are especially nice. But he has a lot of mods that are useful and can save your sanity if your Sims are doing something that doesn't make sense to you, or is driving you crazy.

I've definitely got to look into some mods. The more you pile it all up, the more it is that does need fixing. I've got that silly water issue too and all my homes end up looking like that little girl from Signs has visited with water glasses just littered everywhere. You're smart to wait on ROM, everything you've mentioned I've seen in my game. Funny thing is, ROM is the first pack I had paid full price for. Literally everything else I have in game I had bought on sale (including the base) because of the issues in game, I've never felt they were worth my full dollars. *sighs* and yeah, the 2 things that I bought it for, being able to sell the potions with GTW and the ancient bloodlines are completely broken. I LOVE spellcasters and I'm a generational player so this ancient bloodline thing was going to tell a lot of stories for me. I thought ROM was going to be worth my money because of how much I love the theme and I adored all of the CAS/BB but the 2 of the very most things I wanted, were broken and useless. That will teach me. I know there's a mod out there to fix potions too.

It really makes me angry that I do have to look into mods. There's so much now and it baffles me as to why the sims team has just left it yet the modders seem to fix them no problem. :/