More Awesome Than You!

If you tell a Sim to influence someone to clean the dorm, the cleaning Sim will stand in the kitchen area and dispose of the food as fast as the cook can make it.  While amusing to watch the hungry Sims try to grab the bowl of mac and cheese before the cleaning Sim gets them all, I gotta think that someone has created a fix for this, but have not found it anywhere.  Is there a fix out there for this?

There isn't a fix for this. I discovered this amusing bit of logic when doing Macrotastics, and fixed it there, but the influence one remains wonky, didn't touch that one. Not worth it. Influence is just not important enough that you'd want to waste it on that anyway. And why would you waste it cleaning a dorm? It's not like it's your mess or your house.

Two reasons.  First, if the cafeteria worker has set off the sprinklers by burning food, the cafeteria has such a low enviro score that the sims complain regularly about it, which is annoying.  Influencing a NPC to clean up all the puddles is less work than cleaning it up yourself.

Second, it annoys me when my sims either have to use a filthy toilet or clean it themselves before using it.  It's more time-efficient to get an NPC to clean all the toilets if several of them are covered in radioactive green scum.

Typically I tell the cafetria worker to do it, since it avoids the 3 stooges routine of the target cleaner madly getting rid of food while the cafeteria worker rushes to replace it.  Sure, it costs 2500 influence, but who cares?  My sims generally have full influence meters all the time anyway.  Besides influence-to-clean, the only worthwhile influence actions are "do assignment" and "write term paper."  "Serve meal" would be OK if it didn't generate a plate full of useless Pepsi most of the time.

 - Gus

I recommend getting "Less Whiny". It gets rid of the pointless whining.

I noticed this in a dorm the other day, but it also happened in a regular house.  What annoys me most though is the way the stupid dorm cook clears all the meals before he/she leaves for the night.  I have to hover around so I can delete them before they do it, sometimes even having to remove a plate of food out of their hands.  I did ask for a hack for this a while back somewhere or other but I don't think anyone noticed.  Sigh.

I think the idea is to keep there from being rotting food lying around all night so your dorm becomes infested with puking dormies. Thus, the food is preemptively disposed of because it would go bad overnight.

I tend to have at least one dormie (controllable) who is a neat freak.  That way whenever there's stuff needing cleaned, I can use the Macrotastics Clean.  Since neat sims like cleaning, they gain Fun while doing this, making them ready to sit down and do some research or an assignment.  The rest of the Sims on the lot can be as slobby as you like and never have to even contemplate washing dishes.

OK, I can appreciate that, but the food is often cleared-up seconds after it was cooked and put out!  No way is it going to go bad in 4 hours.  I then end-up with several of my own Sims all trying to cook at the same time when there were 4 meals sitting there they could have eaten.  Most annoying.  In any case, since I put a hack in for visitors to not leave at the normal time, the dormies have gone all nocturnal.

Actually, I have my Sims clean up the dorms. It helps give them cleaning skill points, which is always good to boost up. Some of them even enjoy being neat freaks.

Can you hire a maid at dorms?

You can indeed, but you have to pay her/him, just like in the regular neighborhood.

G.