please make them stop

[LynnMar]

my sims are cleaning the da_ _  plates again, since I had to unistall Inge "no plate clearing hack"  Do you have anything here that will replace it, that will work with NL and OFB?

I hate OFB,  I just got it about a week ago and I wish I had my 30 dollars and they had a feather you know where , then we would both be tickled.   

sorry about the rant but I had my game perfect before OFB and now everything is messed up.  I am getting weird animations again,  this lady in the hot tub was giving this man a massage only he was turned around not facing her with his arms stuck out behind him.   I wonder if I will ever get this ep working right.   

[Sandilou]

I don't know about here, but Squinge has one over at the InSIMenator.net

[LynnMar]

yes but it will not work on downtown nightlife lots.   I already tried it.

[Ancient Sim]

Didn't work for me either, so I took it out.  I'm currently being driven mad by the same thing.  What gets me is, Sims with little or no Neatness are falling over themselves to clean these pots, when they never do it at home because of the slobs mod.  Quite why they feel the need to do it when they're out is anybody's guess.

[LynnMar]

thanks ancient sim,  at least I am not the only one with the problem.   Maybe if more people get it someone will make a fix.   I sure miss Inge, she would have it fixed by now.   

  I tried to explain to Squinge in a post that it was not working on the NL lots and some smart-ass answered my post and said I shouldn't have downloaded it if I didn't have OFB and it was not Squinge's fault.   I replied "I am not a complete idiot, but I have all the ep's and it don' t work.

when I put it in and went downtown,  there were plates everywhere, even the waitress would not clean any plates after the people got finished eating.   So my sim lady had to sit down and order something and then when her order came, the dirty plate disappeared.   This is the funny part,  the man she was dining wiith he disappeared completely off the lot but she still had to order him something so that she could eat.  Then when she got in her car to leave, she would not leave because she was waiting for him, so I had to exit without saving to get her home.   

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't have anything for plate-cleaning or otherwise, but I've never observed this problem.

[twojeffs]

I've been playing a dorm a lot recently testing and this has been driving me INSANE. But, I haven't had the time (or taken it actually ) to fix it. Perhaps I'll do that though.

[veilchen]

JM, I'm surprised to hear that you let your sims out into the neighborhood :D

Yeah, that's driving me batty too. Why would you go to a restaurant/grill/etc., and then proceed to clean the plates off.

TJ, if you fix that, I'll be forever grateful, and by the looks of it, I'll not be the only one.

* veilchen still loves TJ's avatar :D

[J. M. Pescado]

I haven't seen any of the community lot visitors trying to clean the plates. What exactly are you doing that causes them to spontaneously start?

[Emma]

I uninstalled Inges 'no plate clearing on community lots' hack too, quite simply because my sims couldn't clean up dirty plates on the university secret society lot, nor influence others to do it

[J. M. Pescado]

I uninstalled Inges 'no plate clearing on community lots' hack too, quite simply because my sims couldn't clean up dirty plates on the university secret society lot, nor influence others to do it

Meh. I suppose I could look at it and do a more selective update.

[JenW]

It also prevents Sims from cleaning up on owned community lots.

I don't have Sims clearing their own plates every time I go to a restaurant, but I have seen it more than once

[Ancient Sim]

I had the SS problem with Inge's mod, too, I'd forgotten about that.  I think the main reason they start cleaning them is because they're bored - I remember a vampire I was controlling was so bored she spent the entire night cleaning everyone's pots, although that was before I installed Monique's mod that lets the vampires fun & social go down. 

Quite often when I'm on community lots I bump the fun & social of my playable(s) down, sometimes that stops them messing about with pots.  I think the main reason they do it is because they're maxed-out on fun & social and there's nothing else immediately to hand.  Trouble is, they get in the way of the staff and get into strops because they can't reach the sink - that's why it's such a pain. 

[Jelenedra]

I haven't seen the problem at restaraunts, but on community lots where someone grilled something. First they had to serve EVERYONE. Then they had to trek to the dinky sink in the bathroom for each plate after everyone ate.

[LynnMar]

mine clean up plates on the downtown lots especially if they are high in neat points.  Vicund would get out the car and go in and start clearing plates and washing dishes.  A lot of mine if I would cancell there eating because they were taking too long eating, they would clean up their plates even if I had something else queche up for them to do.   You, know when they are on a date, they only have so long and here they are cleaning them plates and the message pops up "time is running out"   

whoever can fix this a big thanks to you JM or TJ.   

in the meantime I have put back in the Inge hack and am not playing the business part of the game until I get a fix.  I was going to uninstall it but then I would have to put all the old NL hacks back in and I am not going thru that again.   

[veilchen]

Yeah, mine clean them up everywhere too. I took Inge's mod out, because I play some businesses. So now my poor pixel people can't go to restaurants/grill-places on their dates anymore. I've gotten into the habit of having them have their dates at home. At least I have a little more control over things there.

[Emma]

Dates at home are much better IMO I use Downtown for outings, or for scanning for the perfect mate for my sim.

[MissDoh]

Lynnmarr Squinge made an alternate version of his mod so sims will clean plates at home but not on community lots.  I am personally using this version and it works fine.  The server do clean the plates on community if they are not too busy serving sims food, I had that problem of servers not cleaning plates before I had that mod in if they were just too many sims to serve because they we're all lining up at the podium, they simply did not had time to clean the plates, this can happen on lost like The Crypt because there are many tables to serve all in different areas on the lot.  Maybe you tried the wrong version. 

You could also use JM new restaurant fix mod along with it, it does wonder.

[J. M. Pescado]

Ah well, in that case, nevermind, someone did it already.

[Jelenedra]

Yeah, but it's all... Squingey.

[MissDoh]

I haven't seen the problem at restaraunts, but on community lots where someone grilled something. First they had to serve EVERYONE. Then they had to trek to the dinky sink in the bathroom for each plate after everyone ate.

Crammyboy made a mod so sims won't serve every dish when they make a bbq on community lots.  It works fine with OFB.

EDIT:  I have Crammyboy, Jm and Squinge mod together and my sims are no longer serving BBQ plates on community lots or attempt to clean dirty plates on any community lots, and bonus they do not line-up like crazy thanks to JM mod.  These 3 mods are a nice combination together and do not conflict in any way together.

[LynnMar]

okay I will try it again along with JM's and see if that works.   thanks Miss Doh 

[MissDoh]

okay I will try it again along with JM's and see if that works.   thanks Miss Doh 

Make sure to try the one with alt in the name, it is the newest he made.  You could also add Crammyboy mod I just suggested above.   Here is the link to Crammyboy mod:  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,1494.0.html

[LynnMar]

I did and it works.   Yeah!!!!  thanks again.   

[MissDoh]

Really glad to hear it is working fine now   Another annoyance gone for you.