"Instant Meal" bug?
schmoopee:
Anyone had this little joy of a bug happen to them besides me?
Lately when I play my favorite hood, I sometimes get this glitch where I click on the fridge and the only option I get for food is the instant meal. Even though my sims have high or maxed cooking skill, a stove, are home (I know you get only the Instant Meal option when they are at work, if you try to queue it up for them before they get home), etc etc.
I've tried deleting the fridge/stove & buying a new one, deleting the sim, forcing an error on the stove, fridge, sim, everything. I don't have any custom foods, or any food-specific hacks I can think of.
Luckily this doesn't stay broken, it seems to cut in and out - and it doesn't affect all sims in the household at once, it hits different sims at different times, fixes itself at random. I find if I tell them to go get the instant meal, let them head for the fridge, then cancel it, sometimes tthat brings back all the food options. Happens on many lots, including ones I've been playing for months with no problem.
Is this one of those "your neighbourhood is getting too big and this is an impending sign of implosion" bug? Any ideas on fixing it?
gillies:
Are the sims inside rooms with doors placed on diagonal walls when this happens? I get this in some houses but once they're outside the room they have all the options again.
Ancient Sim:
Was just about to say the same thing! It's usually caused by diagonal doors, although only since Uni was installed. If you get them to "check supplies" first, they should then be able to use the fridge as normal. Those diagonal doors are a pain since Uni - several of the Maxis-made houses have them and even they don't work. I had to change all the ones in the Pleasant house when Dirk almost died using the computer in one of the bedrooms.
schmoopee:
Hmm, nope I don't think so - I don't recall any diagonal doors - some of these houses I've been playing regularly since at least last November with no problem. Thanks for the info though, I'll be sure to avoid that just in case!
Baddmark:
I had this happen in the Pleasant household. Everyone had all the usual meal options except Angela. If she was in the kitchen all the meals appeared in the "pie" menu (ho ho). Anywhere else on the lot and she could only remember how to "make" instant meals. The problem only appeared after the twins became adults, and it seemed to fix itself - I didn't test anything by changing the fridge or whatever but the next time I played the household she had no problems with meals.
Academic now, since she's shacked up with Alexander Goth - I wonder which nose the kids will inherit?
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