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OMG! It's like Christmas in May! Thank you!

I just realized myself recently about the footprint going back to normal on reload. Very annoying! Someone reported it over on Answers HQ in the routing issues thread, but good luck seeing if it gets fixed. In their case, it was the leash rack from Cats and Dogs blocking a door.

I'll be very sad if you retire as well! It's a shame what EAxis has done to the community since the My First Pet Stuff debacle. That's all I will say about that. I hope you don't decide to leave, but I will understand if you do. At the end of the day, if the Sims no longer brings you enjoyment, then you can't force yourself to keep on making and updating mods.

The vampire I made over spawned as a Grand Master Vampire (I though the game only generated low-level vampires, but it appears otherwise) that's a vegetarian, a snob, and a music lover and has the withered stomach weakness. I forget her other powers and weaknesses now. I haven't hardly played at all lately, because I've been too irritated over Maxis and their patch that's not a patch because it breaks more than it fixes.

I'm pretty sure Lilith Vatore has the withered stomach weakness, but that she also has the aspiration that pushes vampires not to drink from humans. It seems like I've seen players complaining about Lilith drinking from humans, when her personality and aspiration is supposed to lend her to do otherwise.

I hate conflicts like that. Something about that just annoys me.

I guess I'm not overly fond of all this powers and weaknesses business, but then I'm not one play to with occults outside of witches, so this is a bit of a novelty for me playing with this vampire.

That would be great if you could do that for the vegetarian vampires! Maxis just kills me sometimes with their piss-poor by design excuses. Would it be possible to also edit it for good vampires that are doing the aspiration that encourages them not to drink from humans?

My vegetarian vampire is actually a Townie vampire I fell in love with and gave a makeover. I normally don't play vampires, but I really liked this one and I hate how Maxis and their poor decision-making skills conflicts with trying to tell a story.

I didn't play with vampires really either in Sims 3, but I don't seem to remember there being a problem when they ate something like plasmafruit pancakes. I'm guessing this is all tied into the powers and weaknesses added in Sims 4 (a very cool idea, but not so greatly executed).

Thank you! Especially for the ban on humans eating it (I mean, why Maxis? Just why would you let human Sims eat this stuff?).

One question though, do you think it's possible to edit the plasmafruit salad somehow though so vampires with the Withered Stomach weakness can still eat it? Maxis says it's by design that they can't without getting sick, but I have a vegetarian vampire in my game who's also a good vampire. I guess Maxis didn't take into account allowing vampires being vegetarians.

Thank you!

Thank you for the updates! Playing without these has been very painful!

Thank you! Now my Sims can watch television and use the computer without their dog or cat freaking out constantly. That has recently had me to the point of getting rid of all the pets in my households.

Thank you for the update!

@Chaleara If you're referring to the patch from this Thursday, I believe Coolspear hasn't had a chance to update his game and check things out. Playtesting mods is not a good idea and you should really wait until they've either been verified as compatible or updated by the creator.

Holy cow! This is amazing! I will be using this so much! Thank you!

I don't know if you've ever heard of the modder Bienchen, but she had a restaurant sit tweak mod I was using, but it's not working right for me any more.

This is my first time really playing with restaurants since the patch meltdown in November, and at least on the management side, Sims were just sitting and staring and not eating their food with her mod in. I took her mod out and now they're eating and doing other things, but unfortunately they're doing too many other things besides enjoying their meal. I don't mind if they play games or darts, because that's a good bit of realism, but they need to sit where they're supposed to when they eat their meals.

I put a stop to the dancing and jogging nonsense by turning autonomy off with MC, so at least I can say my employees do work, and my customers aren't running off or dancing all the time.  I know Bienchen updated her mod in November, but something must have broken it since then. Unfortunately, right now she's on an indefinite hiatus from the game for real life reasons.

Anyway. I can imagine if you made a restaurant mod of some sort, I have no doubt at all it would be awesome.

As for the dance parties, I have only sent a Sim once right after getting GT, and I was so underwhelmed by the experience, I never sent a Sim again. Your mods sound great! I love the island of Windenburg the best of all when it comes to that world, because I'm not much on Tudor architecture. But the island is great. I love the look of it and the ruins. It's so well done. It's one of my favorite places to play in Sims 4. All the time dance parties would be so neat.

I thought maybe that was the case (GT foods not treated separately).

It was just so nice to see people eating and sitting while they were doing it 99% of the time and not wolfing their scones and coffee down to run off and do something else. The other one percent of the time when Sims weren't sitting while eating was the hugging someone who comes up to talk to them and so on, which I'm getting used to. I think that's a new thing since Cats and Dogs not related to eating, because couples have a special greeting and sometimes I see people doing the Euro cheek kiss thing. I hated it at first and got a mod to get rid of it, but I didn't like that either, so I'm getting used to it. It does add personality to things.

Anyway. I'm thrilled. No complaints from me! I'm very much all about balance. I can't stand extremes, period, and we have too many of them in Sims 4. It's nice to see things have a good flow for a change.

It's funny when you think how much of Sims 4 is geared around socializing and the group aspect, but Maxis couldn't get those two things to mesh well with eating and you could. I understand the studio has deadlines and so on, but they really dropped the ball on this from the start.

Now if they could fix restaurant seating once and for all, I'll be happy. That's the one really glaring issue that bugs me, since it's been almost a year since they broke it with the Parenthood patch.

Thank you again!

I did some testing with a single Sim and her boyfriend. It works great! I had my Sim have her boyfriend stay over for the night and their breakfast together went flawlessly. This never happens! I was like ready to get up and do a happy dance around my desk!

Even when I had her eat alone at home later that night, it wasn't too fast and wasn't too slow. Just right.

I was wondering though if you tweaked the foods from the espresso bar from Get Together or just the drinks? I had my Sim visit a cafe with her mother for a girl's day out and it seemed like people were not wolfing their food down like hungry hyenas like they usually do (even on vanilla, it seems like they eat cafe foods too quickly). I actually had an enjoyable visit to a cafe for a change.

So, I've tested with a single Sim now, with her non-live in boyfriend, and just hanging out at a cafe with her mom. And it's all working so well. I can't say enough how impressed I am.

I have to say that just in using the new drink mods last night that I'm very impressed with what you've done. I compared vanilla, the mod from MTS that I was using, and your new drinking mods. I can't speak for vanilla time speed, but on speed 50, that you've hit the perfect balance between speed and the flow of drinking.

Vanilla drinking is too much staring off into space, the mod from MTS is too fast (helpful, but no one drinks coffee that fast in the morning), and then there is your mod - perfect. I love it. I can't wait to try the eating mods tonight with the drinks mods.

Bravo, sir - you've done an amazing job!

This is awesome! Thank you!

Thank you so much! I really missed this mod!

I'm playing with this mod and I haven't had any Last Exception errors. I said this elsewhere, but I'm so sorry you're having to go through this @coolspear. I think some time away from the insanity of modding will do you a world of good. It's no fun having a hobby that makes you want to tear your hair out and defeats the purpose entirely.

Thank you!

Thank you for the update!

Thank you for the update!

Thank you!

Thank you!

These should transfer when placed. I've saved some walls and floors that I've unlocked and I've had no problem with those or other hidden objects transferring since the last patch. Thanks for adding this effect to the other fireplaces and not requiring the lot trait though. It's such a nuisance being locked to only three lot traits!

I do play a slower game (speed 50) and this sounds great, but too bad about the sofa eating. Count on Maxis to make things more complicated than they should. Why do they have to do that?! So frustrating. I'd almost take the wacky sofa eating as a tradeoff to get a nice experience with everyone gathered around the table.