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7 years ago
"samlyt22;c-16358548" wrote:
@DeservedCriticism Is the problem with dine out definitely something people are still having an issue with? It's just that I literally played with restaurants today for the first time in forever and both times I went the whole experience was about 2-3 hours. When the pack first came out I'm sure it took half a day and felt too long but today I was surprised with how quickly it went. Maybe they've tweaked it?
Your post got me curious cause you have a point; they did patch to try and fix some of the simulation lag. I loaded up my game to visit a restaurant and see how it went, and I clocked in at 4 hours. This is absolutely an improvement from before, though still could use improvement. As I said, the main issue is definitely that the Sims spend ages oooh'ing and aaah'ing at the food. Some might view 4 hours as acceptable, but the thing to consider is that if you have an event like the food being dropped, it can easily turn into 5-6.
So yeah, it's nice to see it has been improved, though I feel this is mostly a happy consequence of the patch to simulation lag rather than direct tweaks to how the restaurant itself runs. I would expect the same bugs encountered when running a restaurant to still be there, for example, because those have less to do with simulation lag and more to do with the retail system it was built upon.