Dude, what happened to the food in my inventory?
C.S.:
Everything edible vanished from my playables' inventories while they were manning the shop. That's not supposed to happen, is it? I've never played an owned community lot prior to this incident.
I allowed a sim who already owns a home business to fulfill his 'Purchase a community lot' want. He bought the Maple Springs Pool & Spa and I took him there early in the morning to do some renovation and setting up before opening for business. The 'customerselector' thingy was set to allow only NPCs, the electrono ticket machine was activated then I had him call and invite his NPC friends. I had checked his inventory a few times throughout the day and the food was still there when he left at the end of the first day.
Second time he went back to the business, I had the whole family follow. Well, except the pets. They were too busy barking and didn't manage to get into the car. The same five NPC friends were invited to visit when they opened for business at 7am. The teen in the family got hungry with all that dazzling, but his needs weren't all low enough for a trip to the energizer. There was one plate of grilled cheese sandwich in his inventory so I pulled it manually from his inventory for him to eat. This was before noon, and nobody's missing food from their inventories still. After the teen ate, I decided to buy a grill and have him make hotdogs and hamburgers for the customers on the lot so they stay a little longer. I dunno when it happened - before the grill or after - but the next time I looked, everything edible in my playables' inventories were gone.
My sims had been on Macro>Be Salesperson. The macro set one of my playables on macro>eat. I caught the action and cancelled it out before she could make any food because I wanted her to use a platter from her inventory. That's when I found out all the food in their inventories had been wiped clean. (See, I have my sims max out their skills, then spend about a day and a half cooking everything available on the menu usually before they go to college). All the group meals my 2 elders, 2 adults and 1 teen 'made many', they are all gone, not even a lousy bowl of cup o' ramen left. Where did the food go? No error logs had been generated, except for the ones I forced. But it was on the clothing racks and only because they were stuck in use after the customers decided to leave with a buy bar still hovering over their heads. I have all EPs except Seasons. Every EP is patched except Pets.
Anyone know what's going on?
J. M. Pescado:
Someone shot the food!
All food tends to become corrupted whenever you patch to a new patch or expansion pack. An experimental "Don't Shoot Food" is included as part of the Director's Cut to prevent this food-shooting, but food that has already been shot is obviously toast. If you had Macrotastics in your game, Macrotastics already detected and destroyed the shot food. Shot food can be recognized by the only options for it being "resume cooking" (which doesn't work), or "clean up". If you see this, someone shot the food!
Remember, don't shoot food!
C.S.:
I read about the patches issue, but the thing is, I had installed all patches before restarting the neighbourhood. The only patch I installed after I had started playing was the Bodyshop one. And then my sims was able to pull serving platters/bowls with the macro without any problem before the owned comm lot incident. :-\ Grrr. I hope it's a one time glitch.
J. M. Pescado:
A current theory not firmly substantiated is that the core Pets or Seasons code by default shoots any food removed from the inventory, resulting in any food stored in the inventory becoming shot. This would upgrade Don't Shoot Food to a Yellow. Verify this behavior without Don't Shoot Food, and then see if it goes away when Don't Shoot Food is enabled. If so, inform us so I can put it as a standalone Yellow Alert hack.
Remember, don't shoot food!
jsalemi:
I have don't shoot food installed (and have for a while) and it doesn't work 100% reliably with Seasons. Every sim I've played so far that had food in the inventory before I installed Seasons can't use some or all of it. In one case last night, a sim had two platters of pork chops that were both bad, and a platter of omlettes that were ok. In most cases, the food in the inventory is bad.
On a separate note, I had a different type of disappearing food on the same lot. One sim made pancakes for breakfast and put the leftovers in the fridge. Later, another made pork chops and put the leftovers away. That night, the father went to the fridge, took out the pork chops and the platter just disappeared from his hand. Gone, completely, no where to be found. He was able to take the pancakes out, eat, and put the rest back, though. It was a standard maxis fridge, so no wonkyness caused by a custom fridge, and no error thrown.
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