Hack for canceling out of automated prepare food from fridge?

[J. M. Pescado]

Food Eats You will force the sim to use Macro-Eat in the event that it detects that the sim is attempting to get food from the fridge. This will cause it to eat the optimally efficient meal prepared using the shiny algorithm. Or grilled cheese. If for some reason your sim never autonomously eats, then it is inert.

[Inge]

Looking at the rtfm in macrotastics, in the Eat section, it doesn't say anything about group meals.  It seemed to indicate it was more about efficiently filling up that one individual sim?   So I thought it would give even more of an impression of every sim for himself than the game usually does?  Have I got the wrong end of the stick?

[J. M. Pescado]

Yeah, you're forgetting that the manual is like 900 years old and was written before OFB.

[Inge]

Lol!  Pescado, working out your hacks, where they are, what they do etc etc is like a mini-game in itself! 

[jsalemi]

Sims will never put leftovers away autonomously --> waste.

Well, not 'never' -- just 'never in an unmodded game'. Dizzy has some hacks that make them autonomously put leftovers away, or get leftovers instead of cooking a new meal.

[sloppyhousewife]

Sims will never put leftovers away autonomously --> waste.

Well, not 'never' -- just 'never in an unmodded game'. Dizzy has some hacks that make them autonomously put leftovers away, or get leftovers instead of cooking a new meal.

I thought it was unnecessary to point that out, especially after having discussed the leftover hacks in this thread already .

[jsalemi]

Long thread -- for those who didn't read it.

[Roux]

Food Eats You will force the sim to use Macro-Eat in the event that it detects that the sim is attempting to get food from the fridge. This will cause it to eat the optimally efficient meal prepared using the shiny algorithm. Or grilled cheese. If for some reason your sim never autonomously eats, then it is inert.

And Macro-Eat now seems to favor inventoried food over cooking, if my play session yesterday is any indication. Previously, inventoried food was only accessed by people not capable of cooking, or if the sim was very low in hunger and the time needed for food preparation would take too long. Yesterday they were always going into inventory to get food, even if hunger wasn't dangerously low.

I haven't added FEY (new acronym!) yet, so I'll have to try it out. What happens if the sim's hunger bar is still pretty high, like 75%? Does the action cancel?

[sloppyhousewife]

What happens if the sim's hunger bar is still pretty high, like 75%? Does the action cancel?

It didn't in my game, but that's maybe because no-one in this particular household can cook anything but mac'n cheese, which doesn't fill much.

[Zazazu]

And actually, it wastes to food to make fish as single meals because you can always serve it and get six times the food out of it.

True, but this will never happen autonomously, either. Sims simply don't cook fish on their own.

Sure they do. Both single and group meals of fish. In fact, I have to watch my fishing houses closer than others to make sure that they don't make fish when I don't want to...sometimes I'm not in the mood to play the no-don't-throw-out-a-half-plate-of-fish dance.

[sloppyhousewife]

Sure they do. Both single and group meals of fish. In fact, I have to watch my fishing houses closer than others to make sure that they don't make fish when I don't want to...sometimes I'm not in the mood to play the no-don't-throw-out-a-half-plate-of-fish dance.

Really? I stand corrected, then. I've never seen that in my game, though. The only fish my sims tend try to cook autonomously is salmon.

[Yimmit]

And actually, it wastes to food to make fish as single meals because you can always serve it and get six times the food out of it.

True, but this will never happen autonomously, either. Sims simply don't cook fish on their own.

Sure they do. Both single and group meals of fish. In fact, I have to watch my fishing houses closer than others to make sure that they don't make fish when I don't want to...sometimes I'm not in the mood to play the no-don't-throw-out-a-half-plate-of-fish dance.

I was ready to kill one of my sims who decided to have a tasty one-plate serving of Golden Trout when I turned my back for a moment!

[J. M. Pescado]

Sure they do. Both single and group meals of fish. In fact, I have to watch my fishing houses closer than others to make sure that they don't make fish when I don't want to...sometimes I'm not in the mood to play the no-don't-throw-out-a-half-plate-of-fish dance.

FOOD EATS YOU! + Latest Macrotastics = No Wasted Fish!

[Zazazu]

I'll trust you on that...did you notice what I said about the juice issue?

[J. M. Pescado]

I'll trust you on that...did you notice what I said about the juice issue?

Was this with the sign installed? Note that it only pulses once every half-a-sim-minute, so you should be taking measures to keep them from approaching the fridge too closely to begin with. Anti-autonomy blocking is good for this, so they'd otherwise collide with the door.

[rufio]

I haven't installed this, because I've also installed some other hacks recently so if something unexpected happens I won't know which hack is the problem.  Can you clarify something for me, though - will FEY let sims autonomously put away/get leftovers?  Because that *would* be awesome.

[Zazazu]

I'll trust you on that...did you notice what I said about the juice issue?

Was this with the sign installed? Note that it only pulses once every half-a-sim-minute, so you should be taking measures to keep them from approaching the fridge too closely to begin with. Anti-autonomy blocking is good for this, so they'd otherwise collide with the door.

No. I'm a dumbass. I thought it was an invisible plug-in, not a placeable like BRY.

[Inge]

No. I'm a dumbass. I thought it was an invisible plug-in, not a placeable like BRY.

What is?  Foodeatsyou?  I still haven't got my head round what it's meant to do or how to use it, let alone where to find it in the catalogue (if indeed I need to)   I know I am pretty lazy about documenting my hacks, specially while they are still in testing, but Pescado takes the biscuit   I suppose if I was in #grah 24/7 I might have gleaned a few snippets.

[J. M. Pescado]

Can you clarify something for me, though - will FEY let sims autonomously put away/get leftovers?  Because that *would* be awesome.

Leftovers do not exist in the Awesome game. If your game is Awesome, they simply never exist because a preexisting system that predates their invention is superior. If you are using a properly installed Food Eats You, leftovers never occur.

[Roux]

I'll trust you on that...did you notice what I said about the juice issue?

Was this with the sign installed? Note that it only pulses once every half-a-sim-minute, so you should be taking measures to keep them from approaching the fridge too closely to begin with. Anti-autonomy blocking is good for this, so they'd otherwise collide with the door.

No. I'm a dumbass. I thought it was an invisible plug-in, not a placeable like BRY.

Got a dunce cap for me, too? I'll join you in the corner.

[sloppyhousewife]

New OFB-equipped algorithm fully integrates the Make Many feature, so that rather than being a tacked-on adjunct, it will ALWAYS create 6-platters at the 6:4 rate, and then automatically withdraw them from inventory. Be sure you are using the LATEST version, not an oldversion.

LOL - I'm an idiot. I thought I needed a newer version of Food Eats You. Okay, I've got the latest Macrotastics version now, and in combination with it, FEY is truely awesome. I've tested it in my greek house and my "legacy" household (no real legacy, because obviously, I'm using hacks), and it works as advertised. The only thing left to be tested is a family with children, but for that, I have to wait for the next generation.

[talysman]

Hmmm. Something's wrong.

I thought FEY was an invisible, too, because after I installed it, I looked through misc. objects and the various food prep sorts to see if there was a new object, and couldn't find anything. But then the comments about a "sign" forced me to go back and check the misc decorations and wall decorations sorts, and I can't find it there.

What's it look like, and which sort is it in?

[witch]

JM usually does misc/misc - but you could try with fridges or stoves maybe?

[Roux]

It's in decorative, under wall hangings (also 'all'). Look for one of the white triangular signs with a red border. It was a few pages in; I almost went right past it.

[BastDawn]

I'm going to edit the Object Data fields in my copy to make it show up in Appliances / Miscellaneous instead.