Don't You Just Hate It When …

Don't you just hate it when you go to a bar, order a drink, and see that the cost of the drink was deducted from your Sims household funds just as the bartender decides to check his phone which cancels my Sims drink order? After checking his/her phone the bartender stands around chatting for several seconds before tending the bar again. You have to time a drink order between the incessant need to stare at cellphones on the part of your own Sim as well as that of the bartender.

I don't really hate when this happens, but it is annoying. I've probably been seeing this more than usual because I've been play-testing various bars and restaurants in my game.

"DaniRose2143;c-18185283" wrote:
As a storyteller who does a lot of group activities, it drives me nuts that the average sim's attention span is like 0.05 seconds. I'm trying to get a group together around a table to shoot a scene. As the last sim sits, the first sim gets up to go do something totally random. It reminds me of acrobats, one stands on the teeter-totter and another one jumps on the other end and launches them.

Edit to add a better analogy

ikr?! It reminds me of the wack a mole game. Can't keep em all down at once. Thank good ness they made the "set the table" option that gets people to all sit qnd eat together. Also the hot pot, that does it too.

"Behappy1st;c-18185686" wrote:
I hate it when you Q up actions and they drop half of them. Feed the baby and cuddle. Go to next sim give instructions. Go back to first and she's cuddling baby, ok thats done but 2 seconds later the baby is flashing a bottle. She just breast fed you didn't she? So I tell her to breast feed AGAIN. It's a extra long feed so that means she didn't feed the baby. When I feed too often they get a negative reaction and won't eat.My point is when you fill their Q and they drop some you don't know what they did and what they dropped. It's so annoying, I want them to do things in the order I want. They seem to be dropping a lot lately.

Have you tried turning off autonomy?

I was pleased that Sims are now more likely to do sensible things like Go to the bathroom and eat, on their own, but if you find your Sim is refusing to look after their baby and there's no underlying cause to address, like mean or hates children traits, maybe turning off autonomy would help.

Also if they have parenting as an aspiration, it makes them far more attentive as parents.

"ignominiusrex;c-18188000" wrote:

"DaniRose2143;c-18185283" wrote:
As a storyteller who does a lot of group activities, it drives me nuts that the average sim's attention span is like 0.05 seconds. I'm trying to get a group together around a table to shoot a scene. As the last sim sits, the first sim gets up to go do something totally random. It reminds me of acrobats, one stands on the teeter-totter and another one jumps on the other end and launches them.

Edit to add a better analogy

ikr?! It reminds me of the wack a mole game. Can't keep em all down at once. Thank good ness they made the "set the table" option that gets people to all sit qnd eat together. Also the hot pot, that does it too.

"Behappy1st;c-18185686" wrote:
I hate it when you Q up actions and they drop half of them. Feed the baby and cuddle. Go to next sim give instructions. Go back to first and she's cuddling baby, ok thats done but 2 seconds later the baby is flashing a bottle. She just breast fed you didn't she? So I tell her to breast feed AGAIN. It's a extra long feed so that means she didn't feed the baby. When I feed too often they get a negative reaction and won't eat.My point is when you fill their Q and they drop some you don't know what they did and what they dropped. It's so annoying, I want them to do things in the order I want. They seem to be dropping a lot lately.

Have you tried turning off autonomy?

I was pleased that Sims are now more likely to do sensible things like Go to the bathroom and eat, on their own, but if you find your Sim is refusing to look after their baby and there's no underlying cause to address, like mean or hates children traits, maybe turning off autonomy would help.

Also if they have parenting as an aspiration, it makes them far more attentive as parents.

I don't think it was refusing to feed the baby. I believe it's the fact that all my sims keep dropping Q's. Let's say I have 4 sims, I'll Q up 4 or 5 actions for each and then go back and check on them. They will be doing the 4th or 5th thing but the first three were dropped. And they don't have ant traits that would be a problem.

My pet peeves:
Having random townies pinch your drink after the Mixologist has finished his juggling act.
Families of Sims all late for work / school if you step away and then come back to them a couple of days later.
Random townies interrupting dates or social events.
Wrangling groups of Sims is like directing kittens or ducklings - amusing but frustrating.

"asimbsim;c-18184734" wrote:
Don't you just hate it when...you pay nearly £1000 for a game that you can no longer play due to game breaking patches?!
Yep. That's the main one for me!

Oooh honey, you wasted no time with that one. I'm here for it! :p

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"DaniRose2143;c-18185421" wrote:

"Lucy_Henley;c-18185417" wrote:
Actually I’ve only done one wedding since getting My Wedding Stories. But I didn’t need a caterer or mixologist. I don’t think. Oops, can’t actually remember… I’ll be doing another wedding soon so I’ll have to look.

You don’t need one. I have MWS and I just had a wedding in my favorite save and it didn’t require me to assign those roles. I could hire a sim or assign one of my sims if I wanted, but it wasn’t required.

Perhaps, not the wedding itself since they released MWS and it's all changed up. But other events do call for a cook and a mixologist.

@GalacticGal There are so many hysterical animations in the game but I think the cooking animations are the funniest. The actions themselves and the facial expressions that go with them are to die for.

I talk to my sims a bit. When I'm creating a new one in CAS I'll pose questions to the sim on screen and sort feel for how that sim in front of me would answer and let that guide me in choosing traits and outfits. That is if the sim in question is going to be one I play a lot. If they're just background filler, then I just throw something together that looks presentable.?

"GalacticGal;c-18185476" wrote:

"DaniRose2143;c-18185421" wrote:

"Lucy_Henley;c-18185417" wrote:
Actually I’ve only done one wedding since getting My Wedding Stories. But I didn’t need a caterer or mixologist. I don’t think. Oops, can’t actually remember… I’ll be doing another wedding soon so I’ll have to look.

You don’t need one. I have MWS and I just had a wedding in my favorite save and it didn’t require me to assign those roles. I could hire a sim or assign one of my sims if I wanted, but it wasn’t required.

Perhaps, not the wedding itself since they released MWS and it's all changed up. But other events do call for a cook and a mixologist.

I had a birthday party yesterday (I usually don't, but scenario called for it) and I didn't need a mixologist or a caterer. I just had the kids mother bake a cake, and that's it.

"Kathykins;c-18185699" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18185476" wrote:

"DaniRose2143;c-18185421" wrote:

"Lucy_Henley;c-18185417" wrote:
Actually I’ve only done one wedding since getting My Wedding Stories. But I didn’t need a caterer or mixologist. I don’t think. Oops, can’t actually remember… I’ll be doing another wedding soon so I’ll have to look.

You don’t need one. I have MWS and I just had a wedding in my favorite save and it didn’t require me to assign those roles. I could hire a sim or assign one of my sims if I wanted, but it wasn’t required.

Perhaps, not the wedding itself since they released MWS and it's all changed up. But other events do call for a cook and a mixologist.

I had a birthday party yesterday (I usually don't, but scenario called for it) and I didn't need a mixologist or a caterer. I just had the kids mother bake a cake, and that's it.

That's way cool. Finally.

"GalacticGal;c-18185060" wrote:

"Lucy_Henley;c-18185045" wrote:
Omg yes getting out of bed just to pass out on the floor! Sims really are stupid sometimes :D

I’ve never actually hired a caterer for a wedding or any other kind of event. Seems like I shouldn’t!

Unfortunately, when setting up these events you can't escape choosing a caterer and mixologist. But, I use the Banquet tables, nevertheless. That way the Cook can go about and do their own thing and my guests get treated to something other than sweets, only.

Unless they changed it with wedding stories, I have never hired a caterer for a wedding. I just always used a buffet table for food as it came early in the game with luxury party stuff. I have always hired a mixologist though to make it more convenient.