It's nothing new, sims in ts4 are the worst when it comes to eating activities. In a household they can cook multiple dishes, even if there already is served food to grab. If you enter a house at 3 AM, you can be pretty sure that minimum 1 household member is (randomly) busy preparing a group meal, if there is a bbq on the lot, he or she will even be grilling the food - in the middle of the night. Nobody in the house will be asleep, instead their energy level will be pretty green, while they all might be about to satisfy their hunger. 3 AM...It also annoys me how sims can start cooking a new meal *next to* another sim who is already busy preparing a group meal. Don't these sims ever talk, or see what the others are up to? There need to be improved programming/coding for this. It should not be very difficult to program a code line hint to other sims to see if hungry, before they even walk up to the fridge.I just entered a house to age up a child. I directed mom to cook a cake. While she was busy doing this, the child walked up to the fridge grabbing a single dish. The birthday kid should definitely be a bit interested in that cake being prepared for him. And even if he had no idea that he was about to grow up, he should think that - hey, chocolate cake coming up, yummy!When cake was done, I moved it to their dining table. Mom lit the birthday candles. This should definitely be a hint to everyone that some cake eating is coming up *very* soon. Not so. Older brother walks outside to grill something (it's Winter, snowing and windy...), and mom who just prepared the cake rushes off to the kitchen to prepare a group meal!!!This is too messy to even be charming. It can't be happening in just my game? Please improve their hunger satisfying routines!

Adding: often a very hungry sim will prepare a meal, but then leave the dish on the counter not really remembering to grab a plate. When hungry enough to cook by free will, a sim should of course be smart enough to also eat the food... ;)

Lol, I try NEVER to enter a house between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am. It just annoys me. Generally, I save my game between 6 am and 6.30 am and then switch households in my rotation. This gives me a fair chance that sims will have 'normal' levels of things (or, at least, fixable) before setting off for school or work.The food thing is annoying though. I can keep an eye on smaller households enough to not let such things happen, but in larger households it is frustrating watching them cook beside each other, or take things from the fridge when a meal is being made.Just one of many things that need fixing...

This is why I refuse to allow my sims autonomy. I know what they're like, and they're better off standing around than trying to take care of themselves when I'm not managing them. Just my opinion, but I get what you're saying OP. If one of my sims in a household goes out on the town, I can be pretty sure that when I get back to the home lot someone will be grilling regardless of what time it is.

I've noticed when I play, I definitely need to control the Sims when it comes to cooking. Numerous times I've had one sim cooking dinner, and then everyone else just runs to the fridge either grabs left overs, or makes something new. If they would also go sit down to eat, that would be great.. Instead of standing IN FRONT of the fridge, with their plate of food.

"calaprfy;c-16913954" wrote:I'd love them to just gather round the table at mealtimes.They only way I've worked around this is to deny access to the kitchen for everyone except the designated cook (or butler, if you have one). Then have that sim cook a group meal, drag it to the centre of the dining table and call the others to it.Yea, I might do this too, in houses that I play most. Hate to lock doors though, but maybe there could be a tiny storage room behind kitchen for the fridge. Then they might still have access to the kitchen. I think the bbq will still be a problem though. Just wish they were smarter...

Hunger and eating logics need improvement

13 Replies

Simmerville
Legend
7 years ago
Adding: often a very hungry sim will prepare a meal, but then leave the dish on the counter not really remembering to grab a plate. When hungry enough to cook by free will, a sim should of course be smart enough to also eat the food... ;)
elliebreton
Legend
7 years ago
Lol, I try NEVER to enter a house between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am. It just annoys me. Generally, I save my game between 6 am and 6.30 am and then switch households in my rotation. This gives me a fair chance that sims will have 'normal' levels of things (or, at least, fixable) before setting off for school or work.

The food thing is annoying though. I can keep an eye on smaller households enough to not let such things happen, but in larger households it is frustrating watching them cook beside each other, or take things from the fridge when a meal is being made.

Just one of many things that need fixing...
belpita
7 years ago
In relation to this is the fact that these needs never line up with other events like going to school or work.
GreatBritney99
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
This is why I refuse to allow my sims autonomy. I know what they're like, and they're better off standing around than trying to take care of themselves when I'm not managing them. Just my opinion, but I get what you're saying OP. If one of my sims in a household goes out on the town, I can be pretty sure that when I get back to the home lot someone will be grilling regardless of what time it is.
Gaphlipta
7 years ago
I've noticed when I play, I definitely need to control the Sims when it comes to cooking. Numerous times I've had one sim cooking dinner, and then everyone else just runs to the fridge either grabs left overs, or makes something new. If they would also go sit down to eat, that would be great.. Instead of standing IN FRONT of the fridge, with their plate of food.
Simmerville
Legend
7 years ago
"calaprfy;c-16913954" wrote:
I'd love them to just gather round the table at mealtimes.

They only way I've worked around this is to deny access to the kitchen for everyone except the designated cook (or butler, if you have one). Then have that sim cook a group meal, drag it to the centre of the dining table and call the others to it.

Yea, I might do this too, in houses that I play most. Hate to lock doors though, but maybe there could be a tiny storage room behind kitchen for the fridge. Then they might still have access to the kitchen. I think the bbq will still be a problem though. Just wish they were smarter...
gemjasmine
7 years ago
I sometimes play a household with a large family and whenever I direct one of the parents to cook a group meal I have to stand guard by the kitchen to make sure no one else fixes food for themselves. If I see a sim walking up to the kitchen, I will manually cancel that action and make them do something else. It makes me feel like my actual mom. Like, "you will eat what I'm cooking or you won't be eating at all!" :#
GalacticGal
Legend
7 years ago
I'm totally frustrated over this very issue. I can understand if a Sim is hungry at whatever hour, and fix themselves something to eat. However, if a Sim is also out in the kitchen cooking, or one at the grill outdoors, the smell, alone, of cooking food should alert the hungry Sim that a meal is in progress. Face/palm.

I just had a Sim manage to not follow through on the command to bake a tiered cake. My bad, I forgot that unless you're creating a calendar event, you don't get to set the time. Oh, would that we could. The groom was busy setting things up and his sister was supposed to do the baking. She never got to do that. So it's partly my fault. Happily when they got to the venue, there was a kitchen. But even though directed to do so, she must have gotten distracted, because I found a bowl of batter on the counter and no cake anywhere. This after someone had eaten HALF of the tiered cake she made originally. (I knew she was hungry, but still.) I had other Sims to attend and by the time I got back to check on her progress is when I discovered she'd made a piggie of herself. Face/palm.

So much for the wedding. Oi!
CapitanTony
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I wish their hunger was such that they got hungry enough to eat two meals; my sim usually just eats breakfast.

BTW, if you use SCAM, you can block autonomy just for single meals, which forces sims to cook group meals. Helps with bigger families a little at least.
SimTresa
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"elanorbreton;c-16913494" wrote:
Lol, I try NEVER to enter a house between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am. It just annoys me. Generally, I save my game between 6 am and 6.30 am and then switch households in my rotation. This gives me a fair chance that sims will have 'normal' levels of things (or, at least, fixable) before setting off for school or work.

The food thing is annoying though. I can keep an eye on smaller households enough to not let such things happen, but in larger households it is frustrating watching them cook beside each other, or take things from the fridge when a meal is being made.

Just one of many things that need fixing...

Or ignore the platter of eggs and toast their mom just made in favor of grilling hot dogs for breakfast. When there were also hotdogs in the fridge too.
I need to try your way. I tend to switch in the middle of the night just so I can sort out the larger household's needs without having to rush them out the door for school/work.