Sims eat too fast!

I did a double-take at the title of this thread because for the longest time, it would take forever for my sims to finish a meal, sometimes even pausing for what felt like half an hour while they were still urgently hungry. I don't know about simulated people, but when I'm so hungry that I'm legitimately uncomfortable, I will wolf that food down like the Cookie Monster at an Oreo factory. I'm glad my sims learned how to chow down and be done with it.

I like Sims eating faster than they used to, but they made it a little too fast. Sometimes I want the family to eat together and I make a Sim call others to meal, but the first one at the table is usually already eaten when the last one arrives. It's really annoying for example when they're eating a Winterfest dinner.
I would've preferred the eating speed to be somewhere between the old and the new speed. The other solution would be an option to make Sims start the dinner together at the same time. When called to meal they should all sit at the table together first and then start eating.

I use a mod so they don’t wash their dish when done eating. So they don’t leave the dinner table when they’re chatting with other sims there. It works out well for those situations. But I think 1 bite more would be ideal. They did make it a little too fast for me. It’s better than how slow it was before, imo.

I hate the changes they did to eating. I liked the way sims ate before, and now it’s ruined the game for me. I’m also looking for a mod to make eating the way it was before, but haven’t found one yet.

I prefer the slow eating.

This entire “fix” goes to show what kind of society we live in. Zero patience and an inability to manage a more balanced lifestyle.
Funny that this fix was focused on sims filling their needs quickly so they can get to work or school on time.
Yet folks are constantly asking for more family gameplay and family time together. I thought the breakfast and dinner table is part of that?
Work is more important after all. This so called “realistic” life simulator is suddenly a little too realistic yeah?

Why not upgrade the beds so sims’ energy bar fills faster?
Why not upgrade showers so sims’ hygiene bar fills quicker?

Do folks want more challenging gameplay or not?
I don’t think so. People just want to fast speed through this game and then afterwards tell the community how boring it is….

Anyway, slob sims are great. They use the bathroom without flushing after wards. They never wash their hands. They also use the bathroom while taking a shower. They never clean their plates either. So handy. If you’re an impatient simmer get yourself a slob sim. It works for me. ?

It is indeed a shame that we have to get mods to get the eating speed back to the way it was before. ?

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17980557" wrote:
I prefer the slow eating.

This entire “fix” goes to show what kind of society we live in. Zero patience and an inability to manage a more balanced lifestyle.
Funny that this fix was focused on sims filling their needs quickly so they can get to work or school on time.
Yet folks are constantly asking for more family gameplay and family time together. I thought the breakfast and dinner table is part of that?
Work is more important after all. This so called “realistic” life simulator is suddenly a little too realistic yeah?

Why not upgrade the beds so sims’ energy bar fills faster?
Why not upgrade showers so sims’ hygiene bar fills quicker?

Do folks want more challenging gameplay or not?
I don’t think so. People just want to fast speed through this game and then afterwards tell the community how boring it is….

Anyway, slob sims are great. They use the bathroom without flushing after wards. They never wash their hands. They also use the bathroom while taking a shower. They never clean their plates either. So handy. If you’re an impatient simmer get yourself a slob sim. It works for me. ?

It is indeed a shame that we have to get mods to get the eating speed back to the way it was before. ?

"Sims eat too slow!"
"Sims eat too fast!"

Developers must be having double face palms. :D

I ended up getting a mod. It didn’t bother me much when my sims were eating alone.

But I love having my sims eat meals with friends, family, or significant others.

I would have preferred them keep eating the same and just speed up quick meals.

I think the best solution would be to have an additional command that allows them to eat slower. They could click on the food and "grab a serving" to eat fast or click on it and select something like "enjoy a meal together" to eat slow.

If I'm playing a single sim there's no reason to take an hour and a half to eat a sandwich, but I can certainly understand wanting it to slow down for family meals.

I made a thread about this after the eating speed got nerfed. It got deleted because people couldn't help but argue ?
But anyway, here I am again. This was NOT RIGHT at all. I understand people kept complaining they couldn't get to work on time. I seen it all over twitter for a long time. But the devs should have gave us a "eat quicker" meal option for those who want it. Because this has ruined every family dinner and dinner date and school lunch role-play I enjoy setting up. Even restaurants are weird now eating in 2 bites. And I love loooooong dinners. I Spend a lot of time planning meals, downloading tons of delicious looking custom food, setting up dinners, sims cooking together, then boom ? 2 bites and one sip of water later they are all getting up to wash their dishes like good little choir boys.
Gotta get back to that computer time I guess huh?

Another thing I loved totally nerfed ????
I don't like the shower change either. My sim couldn't even sing in the shower. I LOVE LONG showers. My sim can't even enjoy one anymore. But the food bothers me more.
Really makes me not like live service sometimes....
In the future devs if you have to nerf something (Don't do it) please provide OPTIONS so that those of us who enjoy things the way they are can still enjoy the game too. Please... ???

Coolspear had a mod for longer eating. He retired a long time ago and said anyone can take over his mods. Perhaps a modder here would be willing to do it? I updated it once with help but I'm not a modder and can't keep up with the constant patches. Especially since I barely know what I'm doing? and don't want to mess anyone's game up including my own lol ?

But still. This needs an actual fix so that console players who love long dinners can enjoy too. This quick meal needs to be an option. Not default.

I agree with captain. Really goes to show how fast and impatient the culture has become. People had no problem with this in older games. This seems to be the only one.