Anybody else having coffee cup weirdness with NL?

[pearlbh]

I have the coffee cup hack which is on the list of hacks that works with Nightlife, but lately my Sims seem to be back to trudging off over hill and dale to find a table to put their coffee cups on.  Usually then they IMMEDIATELY pick it up and go wash it in the sink.  I considered the possibility that Inge's no cleaning up at restaurants hack might have been causing this, but I took that out and it's still happening.  So alas, I suspect the coffee cup hack isn't working right with NL.  Unless there's yet another hack I have that could be conflicting, but I don't know what.  Anybody else have any ideas on this? 

[Assmitten]

Yes, my hack is not working alone or with other hacks. Bye-bye coffee!

[Ancient Sim]

Don't know about coffee on residential lots, but on downtown lots once my Sims have drunk their coffee the cups just vanish into thin air.  I haven't reinstalled the coffee-cup hack since NL.

[Velax]

I don't have the hack, but coffee cup behaviour does seem a little stupid.....my sims sit down in the kitchen to drink their coffee, then go into another room to put down the cup on a coffee table. Why? There are plenty of bench or dining table spots available in the kitchen.....perhaps ours sims are unaware that, despite the name, coffee tables are not the only places available to rest coffee cups on?

[dusty]

I have the coffee cup hack with NL and it seems to work as well as it ever did.  Sims take their cups straight to the dishwasher or sink when they're done drinking.

[simposiast]

There are plenty of bench or dining table spots available in the kitchen.....

I would rather they don't put coffee cups in the kitchen. My sims have a hard enough time finding a free kitchen counter or table as it is, without adding coffee cups to the rest of the clutter.

You could put the coffee machine in the living room or dining room instead.  If all your coffee-able surfaces are either occupied or or close to the coffee machine the sims won't walk miles to put the cup down.

[witch]

My coffee cup hack is working fine in NL too. Sims wash their cups or put them in the dishwasher.

[pearlbh]

I have two houses where I've noticed a problem.  In one, they drink standing up in the kitchen, then put the cup on the floor, even though there's a sink and dishwasher RIGHT behind them.  Then this other guy in a new house I just built sits at the kitchen counter to drink the coffee, then goes into the dining room, up the stairs, into the TV room and sets the cup on a coffee table.  Then if I let him alone for about three seconds he'll pick the cup up, walk downstairs, into the kitchen and wash it in the sink.  Sometimes I think certain Sims are just plain crazy. 

Anyway my solution may be to put an invisible coffee table in the kitchens.  I got one (an invisible coffee table) recently to replace the payathtebox hack; put it next to the mailbox so they'll set the mail on it and you don't lose track of it.  I don't use them for that now though since Monique's computer lets you pay bills online.  But invisible tables can come in handy for a variety of things.

[Akharra]

Monique's computer?? Where do I find it, please?





Found it! Thanks anyway!

[IgnorantBliss]

Both before and after Nightlife, the coffee cup hack doesn't always work in some houses in my game. I don't know why.