Please reduce the BBQ attraction

"Simmerville;d-978578" wrote:
All my sims are obsessed with grilling. When I switch to the next house during the night (3 AM normally, because I want to get the 5 AM growth in their garden), if they own a BBQ there is a 99% chance that I find one household member grilling. Quite often that sim will not even eat whatever was grilled, but either leave it on the coffee table (because they no longer place food on counters or dining tables, but that's another story).

At 3 AM you should expect them to be more tired than hungry, but no - all needs are 70-100% in the green, except hunger that is normally red or yellow. I wish they would consider the clock, and be in bed rather than at the grill. NO - and I repeat NO - household member will be in bed at 3 AM - not even toddlers. There has to be some missing programming code involved...

Also - why on earth must the BBQ be so attractive? If they are hungry and there are leftovers in the fridge, why start grilling a serving for the entire family at 3 AM? And why do they NEVER use the kitchen stove to satisfy their hunger when I enter a new house?

I just played a house, where the mother woke up at 7 AM. She was hungry, so she marched right out to the garden grill, during a thunder storm!!! Instead of using the kitchen. There was plenty of leftovers in the fridge too. But no, she preferred grilling in the garden while it rained???

Please EA, fix the grill, or we will need to just delete the grills from all lots. You need to make it less popular - in fact I would not mind if it would ONLY be operated if I direct them to.

It's a half of a year later and this is still happening to me! Plus, I turned 'autonomy off' in the game play options last summer! Yet, they're still grilling in the middle of the night (or any time of day) as I enter the household (although there is plenty of food in the fridge). They also do things like take an empty plate to a bathroom sink upstairs while having a dishwasher and kitchen sink in close proximity on the ground floor. It's rather annoying. Regarding the grilling, many of my sims have the 'Stove and Grills Master' perk. Do yours? I wonder if that might play a role. (Btw, grills can be put in the personal inventory of a sim and one can have the sim place it in the world when you wish him/her to.) I agree, it would be nice if the sims would be in bed if one enters the household during sleeping hours. Another annoying thing in my game is that the 'Needs' bar is almost always mostly red upon entering a household, although I always leave my sims green and happy. It's like a punishment to the player for taking care of his/her sims.