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ajpc2393
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
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[GTW] [BH] Refrigerated displays only count as selling surfaces

Before Businesses And Hobbies, I used to use refrigerated displays like the ones that come with Get To Work as a fridge, especially when my sims had dinner parties or toddlers living in the house.

My sims recently had a dinner party, and while my sim could call to meal from the display, no one would eat from it like they normally would. I ended up using the buffet from the Blast From The Past event, but food spoils faster on tables than in the display cases.

My sim is living on a regular residential lot. They don't have an active small business. Is there some kind of extra toggle I don't know about that would let my sims use display cases as fridges and not selling surfaces?

Edit By Crinrict: Added pack tag to title.

7 Comments

  • ajpc2393's avatar
    ajpc2393
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I have a few basic mods: MC Command Center and UI Cheats.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 months ago

    All issues in the bug forum must be tested on a vanilla game.

    To verify on a vanilla game, move your mods folder to the desktop and delete the following files from your user folder.

    - localthumbcache
    - Any lastException Files
    - Any LastCrash files.

    Test a backup of your save as you will loose all cc on the save and see if the same error occurs, then report back.

  • Playing on Mac in a mod free save - 

    I tested a household with all 4 refrigerated displays (two from GTW, one from BH, one from the early purchase bonus for BH) and Sims cannot autonomously grab food from them, though they will if directly told to do so. The "Call to Meal" interaction is available on plates in all the displays, but when used only brings all the Sims to stand in front of the case - they don't grab plates, nor do they give any indication of a pathing error. They just act like all they were asked to do was a "go here" in front of the case.

    Note here my Sim is starving, but since I've removed the fridge and oven and placed food in the display cases instead, she's ready to starve rather than take food out of any of them. 

    I haven't given her any direction for several sim hours, and she takes care of all her other needs decently, and even made some attempts to take care of & teach the kids.

     

    Meanwhile, here's the result of a "Call to Meal" command - everyone walks over, but no one eats.