Automated Baby Controller
Karen:
This was posted in another thread a couple of weeks ago: The scenario is that when there is smartmilk available but no adult or teen in the house is at gold aspiration level or higher, all adults/teens in the house will attempt to feed toddler *regular* milk, in an apparently endless loop. Even if the toddler's hunger level is at 90% or greater, they don't stop trying to force-feed bottles of regular milk to him. I just had this happen (again) in my game. Even if you attempt to break the cycle by ordering the adults to do something else with the toddler (play, diaper change, whatever), the action just drops out of the adult's queue and they go get yet another bottle from the fridge. Meanwhile the poor toddler is crying and miserable because no one can tend to him. The only way to break out of the cycle is to get one of the adults in gold aspiration level or higher, at which point all you have to deal with is an exhausted, cranky toddler with social, fun, and probably also hygiene all the way in the red. :(
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 March 07, 00:21:12
The situation you're describing appears to be impossible, since there's absolutely no condition which would apparently allow a toddler to be fed normal milk at a hunger level of greater than -20 in the absence of smart milk....
Are you certain you're using the most recent version?
I'm absolutely sure I'm using the latest versions of macrotastics and the baby controller, and nobabyharassment. I always leave the baby controller set to "always smart milk" and "dispose bottles".
Let me know if you need more details. I've been seeing this for weeks, long before Seasons came out.
Kyna:
Have you tried putting the smart milk dispenser in someone's inventory? When I was having this problem, putting the smart milk dispenser in an inventory (or deleting it) stopped the endless bottles of fridge milk.
I don't have "always smart milk" on. When the baby transitions to toddler, as soon as there's an adult/teen in gold or higher then I spend the asp points to get a smart milk dispenser and feed the toddler all 5 bottles straight away. It gives them an IQ of around 440 or thereabouts. Pescado refers to this as "supernuking" the toddler. After that they only get regular milk for the rest of their toddlerhood.
Karen:
Quote from: Kyna on 2007 March 18, 13:21:20
Have you tried putting the smart milk dispenser in someone's inventory? When I was having this problem, putting the smart milk dispenser in an inventory (or deleting it) stopped the endless bottles of fridge milk. So it would make sense that deleting the smartmilk dispenser or putting it in inventory would stop this behavior.
I haven't tried that. But I agree that the presence of the smartmilk dispenser seems to be what causes this behavior (along with the absence of any adults who can actually make the smartmilk).
I understand about the super-nuking of toddlers, and I do take advantage of it, but again, that only works if one or more Sims in the household can actually make the smartmilk.
EDIT: I duplicated the scenario very easily with only the following hacks installed:
ACR
autosoc
autoyak
babycontrol
bathroomusesyou
ffsdebugger
lesswhiny
macrotastics
nobabyharassment
phonehack
phonehack-talkmodule
skillinator
synctimer
In this particular example, the toddler's hunger is at about 80-85% and social is rapidly dropping. All the adults continue to try to feed bottles, and everything else you direct the toddler to do (or direct the adults to do with the toddler) drops right out of the queue. No adults in the house have aspiration level at gold or higher. The smartmilk dispenser in the kitchen is full. In the screenshot, the icons displayed are "wait for food" and "be fed".
I forced error on the toddler in the hope that the error log might be able to tell you something.
Karen:
And one more thing I forgot to add: When I entered the lot, the family servo had "make smartmilk" in his queue, but as he was in red asp level, he went to the fridge for a regular bottle instead. That seems normal, but the behavior I described above definitely is not.
J. M. Pescado:
Try now.
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