"Inappropriate" behavior

Yeah, they made this awfully broad when they added it to the game. It shouldn't apply to strong friendships, family, or club members where cooking is a club activity.

Probably just another thing EA didn't think through. You'd think family members and close friends could feel right at home when visiting you, and vice-versa, but nope. If you want to be able to do what you want at your friends and family's houses, you need to get the reward trait "always welcome". Which is something at least... Not sure if it works with households that you aren't currently playing though, like if you get that trait for grandma and then switch households and your sims won't get offended anymore when she cooks at their house. Never tried it myself.

"Kalen615;880268" wrote:
Why is cooking on another sim's lot inappropriate? Is this a bug or was it designed that way on purpose? It seems pretty harsh to yell at Grandma when she comes over and bakes cookies for your kids.

They needed a reason for the always welcome trait. It was quite useless in the game if you can do anything in anybody's house. But I agree, I didn't like it in TS3 and I don't like it now.

I wasn't happy they tweaked it to make it inappropriate .. but people complained it wasn't appropriate and there you go. I am glad though that we have a trait as Cinebar mentioned "always welcome" that allows it... I kind of wish the game had started out like that though. I don't like when they take away stuff we get use too.

Well yes, that trait makes more sense now. But I still don't understand why there can't be an exception for friends and family members. I got pretty frustrated when my sim was spending the evening at her fiances house and he kicked her out when she wanted to cook dinner for them. I've had to change my gameplay a lot after this was patched in. Not a fan.

Yes, this is highly annoying. My Sim, who was a gourmet chef, goes to cook dinner for his mother and is thrown out the kitchen by his sister. But when he and his wife decide to woohoo in the hall closet, everyone just stands around and laughs.

So Sims don't like good food being made especially for them, but random body fluids on their coats is totally fine.

I don't like the "inappropriate" behavior they have added. At least, I can buy the trait on all my Sims. I rarely buy traits so I have enough points for that. But I don't like that they all end up in the personality panel. I wish the personality traits were visually distinct from the gameplay traits.

"Tomatplante;14638103" wrote:
Well yes, that trait makes more sense now. But I still don't understand why there can't be an exception for friends and family members. I got pretty frustrated when my sim was spending the evening at her fiances house and he kicked her out when she wanted to cook dinner for them. I've had to change my gameplay a lot after this was patched in. Not a fan.

LOL, I think believing this team can write code to make the game exempt family and friends was funny to me. (No offense to you or them but I had a good laugh) when the game isn't complicated enough (intricate) to remember my Sim's nephew is still her nephew (kid) even when her brother dies. For some reason the game thinks they are no longer kin. And we expect this team/Maxis to better or know how to fix these things to make certain the game remembers family most of all. Not happening.

So I see that this is still not fixed yet?

I just brought my sim over to his mom's house with his fiancee and kids, and tried to have him cook something for everyone to eat, and his mom yelled at him with the "react to inappropriate behavior." They have a 100% relationship, by the way. She didn't autonomously cook anything for them and the grandkids were hungry, so what else is he supposed to do? What grandmother wouldn't want her grandkids to be fed? He can't ask her to cook something for them. He can't ask if he's allowed to cook. So everybody just starves or they go home? Or they run halfway across the neighborhood and use a public grill and waste a ton of time?

It just feels so anti-social. It's his mom's house, his childhood home, and his kids are hungry. How is that even inappropriate behavior?

There NEEDS to be different rules for close family members. This is silly.

"S100Headache;14650484" wrote:
It would be a lot easier with an "ask permission" social.

This. It would be realistic.
Please, dear Gurus. <3