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gjam:
Quote from: Liz on 2007 March 09, 05:05:14
And I'm so jealous of you guys who haven't had any problems with the pet bowls! I prefer to keep pet dishes next to the wall where they're more tidy, but in the house I'm playing now, first the Sim fills the bowl, putting it back down somehow "facing" the wall so the pet can't access it (the hell? it's a *round* bowl!). So, go into Buy Mode, grab it, turn it back around. Then the dog goes and does such a vigorous job of chomping on lunch that the bowl gets turned around again. Back to Buy Mode, grab the bowl... rinse and repeat ad nauseam. ::) I wonder why that's happening in some games but not in others?
I've played two houses with pets so far. One has the most expensive round bowl, and the other has the cheap square bowl. In both houses the bowl has been in two different locations: in a corner and against a straight wall with another object to one side. I haven't had any problems* with them at all.
I have noticed that the square bowl rotates 45o and the pet stands at the same angle while eating. It occurs to me that might cause a problem if the bowl is blocked on three sides, such as against a straight wall between two other objects.
* I don't think it's related to the bowl: My glitchy cat originally ran away while Grimmy was standing in her food bowl (he came to pick up the elder who was trying to refill it).
Liz:
My round and square bowls both turn to a 45o angle when the pet goes to eat, and I've never blocked a bowl on more than two sides (I usually place them next to a counter (or nothing) against the wall). But either way, with any bowls I've tried - with dogs and cats on many different lots - either the owner filling or the pet eating (or sometimes both) will somehow spin the dish around to an angle where the pet can't "reach" the food.
Just the fact that a perfectly round dish would be coded as "reachable" from one angle and not another makes no sense to me ???
sudaki:
While I haven't had the problem of pets being unable to reach food, I have repeatedly had cats get stuck in between a bowl and the wall. Not even my real cats are this dumb.
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