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Dine Out Reloaded - Future Plans & Tips for Performance
🕑 Added 2022-11-19 06:13:56 +0000 UTCAs you may know, I have several awesome ideas for making Restaurants in Dine Out one of the deepest gameplay systems for a Sims 4 pack. I've had a few problems that slowed development recently, but I want to share what is coming in 3.2 and some issues I'm aware of and how you can prevent them.
Farm to Table
Farm to Table? Or, should I say Farm and Pond to table. You will soon be able to use your own gardening ingredients to offset costs on cooked meals. High quality foods will actually BOOST The profit of a restaurant. This is one of the main ways I want to tackle the low profitability of restaurants. By giving you an incentive to work for more.
Transfer all ingredients is a thing I want to use to help make this easier, and I've just finished work on it. I'm not the first modder to do this, but I want you to be able to mark a refrigerator using Set as Produce Inventory. Then, when your Sims cook they will make use of these ingredients over time and boost the sale value of meals (with a markup).
The system will encourage you to have a large variety of harvestables and some fish on hand in order to benefit fully. If you only have 1 type of high value item like a dragonfruit in your fridge, you will be penalized. More items to use = more used items. Simple.
Known Issues with Loading
I want you to be aware that Dine Out in general is buggy with loading restaurants that are open, and even entering build mode when a restaurant is open. I very much suggest you avoid this at all costs. Only modify your restaurant while it's closed. Expect problems if you come to your restaurant while it's open and you're off lot. This is meant to be a feature, but I will work on making this more stable in the future. There are issues with dining spots that happen when you visit a loaded lot and it will require further investigation on my part.
Sous Chef System
Right now the game is buggy when you are playing as chef and using a 2nd chef that is an NPC. This because the NPC is so on the ball they will steal all the meals you are trying to cook. For this reason, I am creating a Sous Chef System that you can optionally use. This will allow other hired chefs to do nothing except aid you, cutting down the cooking times for your main chef who will finish and plate meals.
And MUCH more.
By supporting my projects you are letting me focus hard and make this deeper and more stable than ever. Thank you for all your help and the kind words. You've been trying my mod and giving me feedback and even helping me to fix bugs. With the time you are giving me, I am sure that this mod can be made ever better and turn Dine Out into a much more interesting management sim.
My Other Ideas:
Take Out, Side of the Road Joints with Fast Cooking & Buffets. More on this later!
Comments
Simlanii
Will the farm to table also include meat from cows and chickens?
Evelyn Foster
You need to have a program like winzip to unzip it.
Peipei
This is my favorite Sims 4 mod right now. Ever thought of adding Korean BBQ style restaurants? Can't wait for future development!
Angcar
Any plans to make the kotastu tables from Snowy Escape to be compatible for seating?
Angcar
Fabulous! Thank you so much!
Debbie Temple
I Am so Excited for the future plans for this mod I've been enjoying it so much so far but I seriously can't wait !!
Nevik Solskar
Very excited for this mod, the idea of farm-to-table is so exciting I play every lot with simple living so I cant wait to bring that aspect into my Restaurant. Thank you so much for your dedication to this project have been wanting to play as a chef since DIne Out came out!!!
Tris04
Will always support you! Having fun with the mod as it is but knowing this I am more excited!
Simdrew1993
Happy to support you, thanks for putting in the work EA sadly should have. It's an excellent mod!
SpiritSim
Super excited about this!!! I created a Farm-To-Table restaurant a couple years back and was never able to make it functional!
Kassidy Polk
hey! im still waiting for a response concerning the issue that i cannot un zip your dine out mod if it is somethig that im missing or doing wrong could someone please help me im using a macbook
Jessica Bunce
I’ve never been so excited about the game as you’ve made me now! Thanks, Carl! I can’t believe it took me this long to discover you
Jen Giresi
I love the ideas of these features. Will be excited to see the future update of this mod. It makes gameplay so much more fun.
MessedUpEssy
Heya you are truly doing some amazing work and I so can't wait to try out this mod properly when I finally get around to play again! :D and these future plans and ideas sounds so good! But I got a question, Is it possible to set up npc's to own and run a restaurant? As I really would like, for example, set up a proper japanese restaurant in mt.komorebi and have it be run by a family there without playing as that family, just moving them in, buy the restaurant, set things up then move them out to live outside the world, is that something you can do with this mod? As it gets a bit tiring when suddenly one of the npc's from example sulani is suddenly a waiter in the snowy mountains of mt.komorebi xD asking because I have read through as much as I can about this mod but haven't been able to find a answer, so if it has already been answered somewhere I apologize!
Thayna
I honestly am very excited to be a part of this and be able to help a little. I have always loved your videos and I love the mod so much, I have always wanted to play like this. Very very excited for the sous chef, my restaurant got super busy and my customers had to wait a lot. Modders like u are the reason why this game is playable 🥰🥰🥰
Ysharros
Modders are honestly the only reason I'm still playing the game these days. The creativity and skill poured into them by people like you, TMexi, Lumpinou, Bienchen, LilMsSam, Zero and so many others (not even counting the CC) are off the scale. Bugs are just part of that process. I'm sure the Sims dev team still cares about the game, but what comes out to consumers is pretty much unmitigated pap when it comes to gameplay. -- TL;DR: thank you. You rock.
Puking king
Having a Sous Chef is a beautiful idea. I am very excited about this, and yes, your take-out idea. I would love to have a take-out corner or window.
