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Dine Out Reloaded 2.5/3.0 Features Summary!
🕑 Added 2022-10-12 15:49:10 +0000 UTC
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Features in Dine Out Reloaded 3.0
New Owner Abilities
In normal Dine Out, owners really do not have enough to do. It's mostly clicking to encourage employees, managing their pay rates, and clicking a couple of socials on the Diners. This needed fixing, and I achieved it.
Restaurant Owners and their family members have four new abilities:
- Show to Table - Click Sims standing about the host station, and you can seat them. No host required.
- Take Order - Click Sims who have been checked in, and you can take their orders.
- Cook Orders - Click Cook Orders on the Chef Station and your Sim will cook the orders until they run out.
- Deliver Food - You can also click the food platter to Deliver Food. My script knows which guests' table it belongs to.
All of these interactions rely on your Sim's skills, just like the Host, Waiter, and Chef. Waiters do well with Charisma, as do Hosts. Chefs benefit from both Gourmet Cooking and Mixology. You only get a little XP from creating a meal, so practice outside work hours to unlock high quality food that will surely please your guests!
These were hard to accomplish, and represent the bulk of the work the last few weeks of Dine Out Reloaded development.
New Restaurant Options
Shift-click the ground with testingcheats on to access restaurant options.
I wanted players to be able to customize the feel for their restaurant. How formal is it? You may not want Hosts Seat Guests. This will stop Hosts walking Sim to their seats, and instead tell them a table to go to on their own. You might even skip the host and use the new Guests Seat Themselves option, which will skip the arrival stage completely. Sims will come in and walk right up to an available table.
Running a restaurant all by yourself can be tough, so I wanted to give options that will help Sims 4 players to customize the experience a bit further. You can decide if waiters are responsible for delivering meals and taking orders. Disabling either of these will put it on your Sim or their family members to do these actions. This can give you more time to cook or seat guests, or schmooze with customers to get those 5 star reviews.
If you want to hire a chef later, but do not want the first to come in you can use Player Counts as Chef. This will let your Sim be one of the two chefs. Helpful for a very busy restaurant!
Sims eat way, way too fast. EA took changes to this too far and made Sims eat faster in all instances, killing family meals where Sims are done in two bites. With the Sims Eat Politely option, Diners will stick around twice as long as normal to finish their meals. This can help Sims have time to converse and drink in between killing their entrees.
What's New in v2.5:
If I I fixed a major bug in 3.0 that was not related to its new features, I also put it into 2.5 for the public. So here is what is in the new, free version of DO Reloaded v2.5.
Why Sims Don't Show Up to Work
You may be surprised to learn this, but Dine Out will let you hire waiters who do not qualify to actually be waiters. Same applies to hosts and chefs. The fix for this was to make sure all the criteria that are required for a Sim to show up at work are included in the hiring menu. It's literally why some players never saw the Sims they hired show up, and a point of frustration for many. I fixed it with the help of testers.
Meal Delivery
Despite my best efforts, there were still cases in Dine Out Reloaded 2 that caused meals to sometimes fail delivery. It turns out this is by design. Bad design, not some obscure bug. The reasons took time to find but were spelled out plainly. Waiters failing an interaction for any reason could disappear a meal, forever dooming it to be stuck. Worse, Sims could not order again.
I've cleaned up about 5 major causes of Sims meals failing delivery and it feels much, much more reliable. Near or at 100% reliability.
Before this fix and in normal Dine Out, players could end up behind several NPC meals when they first visit a restaurant, so I made a change. The player is prioritized by Waiters when it comes to having their order taken. This is to simulate that the other Sims already had their order taken.
Bribe The Host
What is more, Sims can choose to bribe the Host for $100 (by clicking the host or table) and the Chef will then cook their meal first. You can be doubly prioritized, and make the most of a restaurant visit without it taking 8-10 hours.
Bad Behaviors
While DO Reloaded 2 did a decent job of stopping bad behaviors, more potentially strange interactions have come out since I made it. Sims had a very out-of-place habit of sitting on the floor cross-legged while waiting for a table and sometimes after being seated would still obsess over celebrities. Both of these activities are prohibited in restaurants along with several others.
Waiter Logic
This is my best take on waiters in Sims 4. They operate smoothly and will rescue tables that have food or drink on them, going into cleaning mode if a table is blocked.
For now Waiters will no longer drop platters. It's a very bug-prone feature that honestly feels repetitive and frustrating for players, particularly when visiting a restaurant. I've eliminated it until I can stabilize it. Even then, I will only be re-enabling it on lots owned by the player so as to add a reason to train waiters.
Menu Shenanigans
You may be surprised to learn this, but the game is actually kind of smart in how it chooses foods for Sims. But to a fault. It is entirely possible a player can make a menu for their business which offers Sims 0 valid choices. EA has seemingly forgotten to put tags on newer foods that came with various packs, and no Sims can ever choose them. This could result in a Waiter bringing out the order only it was completely invisible. What happened? No food was chosen. I fixed this so that SOMETHING will always be chosen.
Download Dine Out Reloaded v3.0 Here!
Download Dine Out Reloaded v2.5 Here!
Future Plans
3.0 as it stands will become available to the public at or around November 5th. Patrons will see new versions in the meantime that add even more new options and ways to play with Dine Out.
Comments
Jennifer Giresi
Thanks for getting back to me. It does have a lot trait of Island Paradise but that is the only one.
Carl's Sim Guides
Is there any bad lot trait like Grody on it, the one that makes environment negative? That is the only thing we know of that makes Sims lower the score all the way to 1 and it is due to environment scores. My mod does not conflict with UI Extensions. I use it msyelf.
Jennifer Giresi
Hi Carl. I love your mod. I think it's great but there is one flaw I've noticed. While at the restaurant patron Sims will drop their ratings to a "1." I am also running UI Extensions. Could this be conflicting with the Dine Out Mod?
angela apperley
is this the newest version carls xxx
Hannah
Are these features available to only sim-owned restaurants? Because I’d love to be able to add things like customers collect their own meals to restaurants my sims only visit too.
Kai
This mod is great and I've really enjoyed how easy it makes playing with dine out now however I don't have the option in the pie menu to play as the chef when clicking the chef station after selecting it in the option list, any idea how to remedy this?
Malena
how do i become the host?? i want my teen to be the host but i cant figure out how it works
Burns
So amazing! Is it possible to make it allowed for your household’s toddlers to be present while the restaurant is open? I understand why it doesn’t allow toddlers as patrons, but my household is living above the restaurant and every time we open their toddler gets sent away to daycare
Meshing Squad
Hi carl, I recommonded for dine out 3.01. My friend are your patrons and using version 3.01 But she said hope you add automatic clean dishes, because she saying tired cleaning dish but some sim always reset when clean dirty dishes causing by game bugs. Just like sim eat at cafe venue they automatic remove dish after eat from table.
BloodPlasmaKing
This is so cool I can't wait to play with this mod!!
Simdrew1993
Hi there Carl, I'm a new follower and joined to support you for the time being. Anyway just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work you are putting into these mods! I wish EA cared as much as you do for a functioning game.
AbbyCakes
This sounds amazing!!!! I can't wait to try this@
Luciana Keil
Amazing. I can't wait to try this.
KyAch Sims
Amazing! Thank you for your efforts and excited to get back to it
Perfect Cyan
Thank you for making Dine Out actually playable. I’m definitely going to be downloading this! It’s really shameful that EA won’t do anything about the pack and it’s issues.
Fiona
Amazing!
dionne douglas
Wow this is awesome thank you very much.
NantenKnight
Oooh I can't wait to play with this! Thanks so much!!
