So a little rant

The Hot Pot thing might be related to the Simple Living lot trait (if you are using it) as the recipes don't use ingredients.

"EmmaVane;c-18048695" wrote:
The Hot Pot thing might be related to the Simple Living lot trait (if you are using it) as the recipes don't use ingredients.

I can confirm that for me the Hot Pot does not work if the Simple Living lot challenge is active on the lot. I use that lot challenge for most of my played households and I need to disable it any time I want to use the Hot Pot.

My sims also rather stand in front of the fridge to eat, blocking other sims, instead of sitting down. I first thought maybe the tables are too far away but no, doesn't matter where you put the table.

I also have kids and teens sometimes randomly not being able to go to school, they just won't go even if I click for them to do so. Sometimes I have adult stay at home too but their icon say they are at work. So they can be sleeping/ bathing etc at home but working...

If you have Parenthood you can often solve eating at the table or rather not eating at the table by setting it.

"Pamtastic72;c-18049168" wrote:
If you have Parenthood you can often solve eating at the table or rather not eating at the table by setting it.

I've found that even though the table is set properly my sims will still go to the nearest sim and sit with them.

"Pamtastic72;c-18049168" wrote:
If you have Parenthood you can often solve eating at the table or rather not eating at the table by setting it.

If that works 100% a resolution should not depend on another pack for a Sim to do what it was designed to do regardless of another pack being brought and used. The problem is EA/Maxis must do better and tweak their program and they do not aggressively.

I'm not always happy with where and how my sims eat, but I like that they do it differently, based on their person and the household. A sim can walk through many rooms in order to chat with another household member while eating. They often choose whether eating in the terrace or in dining room depending on where the other sims are. I hate it when they go to sit on a child's bed to eat+chat while child is actually trying to do homework. And even stupider it gets when they walk 3 floors and the sim they intended to chat with moved elsewhere before they got there...

About cleaning dishes, I see both. Someone mentioned in another thread that sims often need us to show them what to do to build their preferences, so maybe a sim who is directed to clean dishes a few times will do it automatically after a while?

I find that my Sim will automatically clean up his latest plate after he finishes eating, but he'll ignore any earlier plates that need cleaning, even though they're polluting the property. Then he'll start throwing a wobbly over the dirty environment, very frustrating!

Thanks for understanding guys ,It’s really frustrating that a lot challenge will stop it from being functional.

Also the dishes My sims have been doing the dishes last year it’s only the ending of last year that I noticed that they have stop doing dishes Maybe like sometime around like September October I thought it was just a glitch and that it would be fixed or they honestly just leave them laying around and when I click for them to load the dishwasher or to wash the dishes they will just pick them up pile together and just placed on a empty surface , A previous household that I had same as it normally clean my system would do that anymore they will sit in the mess and then complain about it.
And please tell me that I’m not the only one who noticed our toddlers really have nothing to do they don’t have toys that they can go on example Rocking horse, sandpits ect or anything like that that makes them fun , I don’t play for a long.

Also I feel like there is really nothing different from being a teen from an adult you basically do everything that an adult does.


Also what I find a little bit odd is that if you have a gets famous and you’re related you can’t talk normally to your family members unless you approach them and try to talk to them so I think that’s super weird and then it does not work the first time so you cannot talk to them at all.

Also I feel like family in this game it does nothing like for example if you have a grandmother or an aunt they are basically just a title placed on strangers in the world no effect in your life or anything like that

So on s little happy note is that I had a teen date another household and she went to visit his house and I don’t know how he noticed that she was hungry but he cooked and then he called meal to guest I was super happy about that.

thank you for this thread - i was searching for anyone with hot pot issues because no matter what i do my girl can't use her hot pot and i now know it must be the simple living lot challenge that i always use. irritating this hasn't been addressed.