Hack for canceling out of automated prepare food from fridge?
MrMugg:
In Sims 1, if your sim went to the fridge you could cancel out of the action before the food was pulled out and not lose anything.
In Sims 2, however, if you cancel out of the transaction, they place the unprepared food on the table. Are there any "awesome" hacks that would allow you to cancel out of a sim getting food on their own when you don't want them to?
Examples of why this would be useful. Suppose your sim decides to go to the fridge to prepare food. You were busy checking on another sim, and realized the hungry sim just opened the fridge door. You would rather cancel out of that action and tell that sim to create a group meal instead.
talysman:
I bet Pescado won't be interested in creating a hack like that, since it encourages laziness on the part of players.
However, I think a more generally useful hack would be one that allowed unprepared food to be placed back in the fridge. Consider the case where an *uncontrolled* sim, like a nanny, or any sim on a community lot with a fridge and counterspace, starts to prepare food and then abandons it. If it's a home lot and you have OFB or higher, you can either make the kitchen lockable or build a separate lockable pantry, but this might not be an option under some playstyles or challenge rules (Email, for example.) Replacing unprepped food in a fridge fixes a problem caused by both playables and unplayables, so it seems like a better solution.
J. M. Pescado:
Such a hack doesn't appear to be possible, or I'd have done it by now. The problem is that the entire animation is canned and by the time you could insert a breakpoint, the damage has already been done. I recommend using APO to deny autonomous kitchen access!
knightguy:
you could get Simlogicals...
NO AUTONOMY FRIDGES PATCH
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This global patch should affect all Maxis fridges and most custom fridges.
It stops Sims making meals or snacking unless either you tell them to, or their hunger goes below -70 (so that you don't accidentally starve them to death). Getting bottles for babies and toddlers is unaffected.
then you wouldnt have to worry about them cooking/making any food till you tell them too unless their hunger goes below -70
Firefly:
CSI for the Sims 2 http://www.geocities.com/papillonwells/Gaming/pwggame2b3c.html, and you can have total control of you sims eating habits with their No Autonomous Refrigerators. Nanny's and Servo's will autonomously use this fridge. Parents will also get bottles for toddlers if the toddler asks. Sims will not prepare food so they can starve to death unless you dictate you want them to use the refrigerator.
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