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sunshinestation1
Seasoned Adventurer
1 day ago
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Sims Stand while Eating Ordered Meals at food stands

The 1.129 was said to fix sims not sitting down to consume meals. But sims still continue to eat standing in front of stalls/cafeterias. Especially if the sims aren't active sims.

For the longest time, sims, when ordering food, rarely ever, if at all, use dedicated spaces for eating. Be it sims ordering on the streets from stalls, ordering from vending machines or what not, they'll buy their meal and then stand and eat in place. High School cafeterias are always so dull because nobody uses seats unless they're chatting, which can be unpredictable. In general, the game's atmosphere would benefit from sims sitting down when eating meals (like lots built with the bistro kit would actually work as intended if this was fixed)

Even Tomarang's market looks so empty because nobody sits down to enjoy their meal.

seats next to the sims....seats literally right in front...

 

8 Comments

  • TecioTS4's avatar
    TecioTS4
    Rising Spectator
    1 day ago

    This is happening with me too! I thought this update was supposed to fix this

  • sunshinestation1​ to be sure, it's food stalls kinds of objects you see this ? Not in homes and restaurants anymore ?

    Could you maybe put a small list of what's still affected for you in the first post ?

    Also, if it's still residential and Dine Out, make new threads for those individually so this can be properly tracked.

  • sunshinestation1's avatar
    sunshinestation1
    Seasoned Adventurer
    1 day ago

    It doesn't make a difference, i think the wording of the title makes it sound like it's just for stalls, but it's just in any public space for most sims (mostly noticeable for sims outside the household, from testing, but it could likely be affecting all sims, i'm not too sure on the technical aspects of it). Active sims seem to lean towards sitting when told to eat, but other sims just don't seem to do it whenever they're consuming any food (the consume interaction is pretty global and doesn't differentiate between situations, so it should be a relatively easy issue to track down).

    The restaurant seating to dine situation is fixed from what I'm seeing, as there's other things making sims sit down, but that's unrelated to this specific problem of sims just not sitting down to eat meals

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    1 day ago

    Anything where you can buy something at an object can be summarized as food stall. All the examples you gave sound like these. Vending machine, cafeteria, food stalls, basically anything you can buy food at.

    The question is, do you also see it at home still with guests ? Do you see it on public lots with grills or other means of cooking ? Like if they cook themselves and not buy it somewhere. 

    I couldn't think of a better word than food stalls but it sounds different than the bugs that got fixed.

  • sunshinestation1's avatar
    sunshinestation1
    Seasoned Adventurer
    1 day ago

    Yeah you named everything right!
    At home, guests and sims seem to sit down to eat
    The grill in public thing is hard to test for me, as I'm struggling to find situations where I can guarantee the activity enacted at all as it involves a lot more waiting around, unlike the stall/cafeteria stall/vending machine ones

    I think in general there was some confusing/inconsistent wording as the video promo said sims should sit down as if it's a global thing, but the excel file from maxis/patch notes only mention the fix for restaurants

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    1 day ago

    The other main thread might have been a bit of a mixture and was also closed fix but it's good to have separate threads for separate situations so all can get looked at. It's really hard to tell what should be separate and what shouldn't be, especially if there are old established threads.

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