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New Features in Dine Out: Reloaded v4

New Features Breakdown:

$5 Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v4 Here!

At Last! Three Course Meals

Dine Out features three courses, but Sims will only ever order random things on their meal and dessert only comes up if you as the owner give the table a free dessert. In Dine Out Reloaded v4, Sims can order an appetizer, main course, and dessert course. You can choose which courses your guests will order in the options menu for the restaurant. This also works on NPC restaurants.

Here for the FUN - Bar & Entertainment Venue Patrons

Another major feature of this update are the new bar and entertainment venue patrons. These Sims want to have a good time on your lot, and will rate your restaurant purely on drink quality, value, and whether they had a good time or not. They also still care about decor, but maybe not as much as regular diners.

Hire a bartender and these Sims will order drinks that earn profit for your establishment. Of course, you can also play as bartender if you like! As the bartender gains levels, new recipes will unlock for them just as they do any other Sim, allowing your guests to purchase more expensive drinks. If you do NOT hire a bartender but have the Is Entertainment/Bar Venue setting turned on for this lot, these Sims will still spawn but will be primarily focused on entertainment.

This option will basically let you turn any kind of entertainment lot into a thriving business. Sims will come and use all fun object on the lot, and since these guys don't care about dining, you can basically do what you want. Make a cabana next to the beach or a bar with a bowling alley and turn off standard diners in the settings.

You also have the option of using Entry Fees with these types of guests. Set an entry fee in the restaurant options and they'll pay when visiting. Having a high entry fee requires Sims to have more fun to give you the max rating, so don't go too nuts with it!

Bigger Restaurants

Dine Out Reloaded v4 has some new features that will help you to greatly expand how many Sims you can serve at once. Up to 25 guests can be in the restaurant at a time, and you're now able to hire an additional chef or up to two extra waiters without spending any perk points. It doesn't make sense that you can't do this, as you're free to make as many poor business choices as you like! Honestly, whether these will help a restaurant depends heavily on its star rating, advertising level, and the table count. The extra waiters and chefs are very helpful if you choose to serve three course meals as the place will be booming most of the day.

MUCH Better Restaurant Settings

One of the most heavily requested features since Dine Out Reloaded got a settings menu is the ability to set them up on a per-restaurant basis. A burger joint, fast casual, and fine dining experience should all differ. Sims can now be seated by the host at the fine place, where they also eat politely, or walk themselves to their seat in a faster locale. It's all down to player preference and the feel of each restaurant. This works MUCH better than having a single options menu for all restaurants, which is what the mod has now.

Meal Base Value Option

Want to serve burgers? The mod now has an option to add a small amount of money to every sale in order to make things like burgers, sandwiches, and appetizers more profitable. I chose not to apply any kind of penalty for doing this, because right now dine out gameplay benefits heavily from players picking only the highest value recipes and I want you to be able to succeed with a burger joint if you so choose. 

New Interaction: Take Order

Click your own Sim and you will now see a 'Take Order' interaction. This is a smart feature that scans all the dining groups and finds a group ready to have their order taken. This will help a lot in crowded restaurants. It will help players who lose track of who has had their order taken and who has not.

New Setting: Customer Count Multiplier

With the new Customer Count Multiplier setting you can take a restaurant from 50% to 250% more customers. Use this on low end machines to reduce max customers, or push the limits and go for 2.5x more customers. Offers 50%, 75%, 100% (default), 150%, 200%, and 250% settings.

Bugfixes and Improvements

$5 Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v4 Here! 

Comments

Hey! love your mods but im so annoyed with EA's new July updates Hosts and chefs have not been spawning in owned and non owned restaurants. I have downloaded your most recent version of the mods which seems to be working just fine with no issues- but there are still no restaurant chefs and hosts!

Precious

It's been that way all along, but I keep the 2 branches in their own posts so that the links always stay the same for people to be able to find them. When I create an update with new features, they go into early access but go back to the public within a few weeks.

Carl's Sim Guides

Didn't EA change their Terms & Conditions, making it illegal to charge for mods, like, 2 years ago? "After a reasonable early access period, all users must be able to access the mods in full for free regardless of whether they donate" Copied and pasted

FLINTENSTEIN

will this mod remain behind a paywall?

Nat

having trouble, new to adding mods and still not having my host or chef show up for dine out

Tayla Somers

After installing this mod, my fame increases when I sell paintings, even though it's turned off. After the reload, this didn't happen, so everything's fine :)

0conitum

For anyone who has this error, it's just when the game terminates a situation early or the phase changes due to some bug. It shouldn't happen frequently. if it does, my support link is in the sticky post on the front page of my patreon

Carl's Sim Guides

https://discord.com/invite/T42gU4bNBM I need you or someone else with this error to join the discord and share a LastException with me so I can get to the bottom of it. On my end, it's not presently broken.

Carl's Sim Guides

will this be updated I get the relaunch game error with the mod in

Charteia

Hello! Love your mods, they never disappoint! One semi-related question - I have everything completely automated without any workers except 1 waiter to clean dishes. would it be possible to have an option for either of the following? 1. Customers clean up their own dishes at a designated spot or the closest sink. 2. Empty dishes auto-delete Thanks!

kadin shepherd

Hello I keep on having exception report about this mod. Is it possible to update this? Possible cause 100% for Dine out Reloaded - Invalid Tuning. Exception raised while trying to run a test event in test_events.py: (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'background_situation')

Ericka Pabilona

They are supposed to be about 40% entertainment/60% restaurant if you use it in a functioning restaurant. It could be just a bad roll of the dice or the restaurant needs to be bigger. At 5 stars with advertising it should be a very hopping place. I'm not sure if the customer count multiplier or adding more tables might help your situation. Thanks for the kind words!

Carl's Sim Guides

You're the best <3 Your content has truly improved a broken pack and I love the restaurant system. I had one question regarding the restaurant options versus entertainment/bar. When you turn on the entertainment/bar option, at least in my game, I ended up having no regular diners enter the restaurant. Instead, sims exclusively went to the bar area. Is this option a one or the other choice? Can restaurants not benefit from bars/entertainment areas?

Ashley A.

my employees pay say $0. how do i change this

Mai Shellei

Hey, big fan of your work Carl. I am so sorry but I'm having problems with the latest version that of this mod (v4) I cant even seem to get it started in the first place. I have deleted all other mods and cc. restarted the game and even PC. and even deleted and redownloaded the mod again, but i still cant get to the mod settings...maybe i am doing something wrong? if anyone knows how to deal with it, SOS TT___TT

Mo

Its safe to assume it isn't, Carl has never exactly been the forerunner of keeping things updated, he is known for leaving vital fixes for mods behind permanent paywalls and not maintaining communication with paying members.

Dillan Dreyer

Staff are not showing up for me on version 4

Jonfun 7

Is the $5 link to a updated version besides V4.0982? I would like know before I sub. V4.0982 is not working properly for me.

Tiffany

I was able to download it for free. I had to search for it on google but it took me to another page on his patreon where you can download it

Heather Dasher

Hey, so are you no longer releasing this for free to the public?

Chinobella

yeah, i dont see the download link, only "5 Patreons can download Dine Out Reloadad v4 Here" sentence

Atarin

that's what i'm thinking? it's been out wayy past the early access time...

apples

so to download this, i have to pay? it is not for free?

Atarin

hello! I just downloaded this mod, and it doesn't appear on the game. is this because of the life and death expansion? could you help me, please?

Hedo Júnior

Hello

dominic collins

def having L.E

ThatBihD

Es excelente, pero hoy de la nada comenzó a dar error 😩☹️😢

Adaixa Torres Torres

Ihave chosen to have customers order with the beacon. It works well. But many of them, once they have eaten, do not leave their table.

Francine Bérubé

To answer for others seeing in the future, it does not. Most patches will not break it and if they do I'll be on it.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hi there. I do not see any errors when I play, it might be a mod compatibility issue. I can't say much more without seeing it myself, and some of them are really wild given how some mods are outdated and break all scripts.

Carl's Sim Guides

Tuning errors are generally non-serious. Sorry I missed this comment. While I don't like them, them appearing is just something to fix so that the game doesn't have to auto-correct the tuning error. I went through and cleaned up a bunch in the last update but these should be notifications to modders, not players unless trying to find a broken mod.

Carl's Sim Guides

Mine still work. I have had players have some outdated mods that interfere with scripts, and this causes various employees to not show. I don't know what all mods can cause it.. i can just say that in my version, it does work, and they show reliably.

Carl's Sim Guides

the bartenders stopped showing up months ago

Darrius

hey um Patreon version giving me a L.E

ThatBihD

Yes, you have to have Dine Out. Have fun!

Fayray54

i didn't understand if i need the dine out expantion pack for this mode

Silviu Savin

so, does this need an update???

Stam

I am also getting a tuning error for this..

Chelsea Clark

I am getting an invalid tuning error for this mod. I am assuming it is because of yesterday's update.

nicole squire

I'm having the same issue with my chef even using the base restaurants that come with Dine Out. My chef will show up for 1-2 shifts and then never again, as soon as they enter the lot they leave. I've tried the 50/50 method on my mods folder and use the Better Exceptions mod to try and weed out any broken or out of date mods I missed. I love this mod but it sucks that I basically have to run my restaurant from home instead of being on the lot.

Laine Berry

I am downloading 4. I had 3.3. The problem I have been having is that when I visit an eating establishment, I no longer can order, it is ordered for me. I do not know know I have a setting wrong, but I am looking for the gameplay where I am shown to my table, order my food from the menu and then it is delivered.

Deanna Harrison

Do you use a lot of other mods? Some of them can interfere. Players can also use things like the moveobjects cheat that can make Sims have failures using tables/chef stations and other vital functions. I cannot know what is going wrong to cause this because there are too many variables, but my mod is not "very buggy" on its own. *Something* is going on to cause issues you have here, but I can't be sure without having a look at your restaurant and/or what other mods you may have installed that could be interrupting functionality. If you like, you can join our server to seek help. I just ask that you be patient with us. https://discord.gg/eFhFbfHJ

Carl's Sim Guides

ugh this mod is not WORKING at all!!! from my chef not being able to cook, to the customers not eating, i am not getting anymore than 4 customers who paid for their food. This mod is very buggy and im getting upset

Michelle

i don't understand how to find the resturant menu, can someone please help

Anita Eir Ingvarsdottir

No problem for late answer! Yeah I got it solved now, I tried the customer count multiplier and it worked! Also when my restaurant went up for 4 stars, more customers came in! Thanks ♥️ now there is one problem: only me as a chef get dishes done, my two other chefs just cook but never finishes a dish. I what can I do?

Victoria Von D

Sorry for the delayed response here. I am not sure if this could be related to star rating at all? Early on there is not much buzz. Using advertising + star rating and the hours as you noticed will all boost customers. You can also use the customer count multiplier setting.

Carl's Sim Guides

I've had a couple of people report this. Could you help me out and visit here in the #mod-help-compatibility channel? We can look at your log to see what might be going on. I can do so tomorrow. https://discord.gg/Rcbux9hE

Carl's Sim Guides

Hi! I have just bought your mod today and I love it but I hwve the problem of ALL my chefs acting like theyre cooking but no orders or food goes out, only if im the one making them. I redid my kitchen and made it with no moveobjects cheat to see if it would fix it but it does not :( would u happen to know the problem?

Elise Arrozal

Hi! So I tried the mod again in different hours (8 a.m. - 4 pm) and (6 p.m.- 3 a.m.) still only like 3-4 customers showed up. This isn't normal. Without the mod, all is fine, there is much more customers. There must be something going on. Otherwise the mod is working fine and in other restaurants there is customers, but not in your own restaurant. I read someone else had this problem too?

Victoria Von D

Okay thank you for answering! I will investigate this and keep the restaurant open for different times to test, and let you know, you're awesome! ♥️

Victoria Von D

Hey! So, bar customers don't care about hours very much but normal diners totally do. If you have it open outside peak hours (noon to 9pm or so) then you are going to see very few diners. Sims are just like IRL and are scheduled to come during peak dining hours. I am not 100% sure this is the reason, but most of the time it is.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hi! Love the mod, but I´m having a little issue with it. There are not many customers coming to my restaurant, only three or four. And if more sims come, they only go to the bar to order a drink (I have the bar is entertaintment on) and don´t order food. I kept my restaurant open for 12 h and only 3-6 sim come to the restaurant. Am I doing something wrong?

Victoria Von D

Okay thank you for taking the time to reply. I will try downloading the updated version.

RueUchiha

I keep getting a problem when serving food - it just resets with empty plates on the tables.

Stephanie Earle

This is an EA bug that I fixed in the last update. It is related to fame system and Sims not being able to be created in NPC restaurants. There can be other things that could cause it, but for most players it's EA's "fix" to fame that causes employees of various venues to not show up for work.

Carl's Sim Guides

ive had the same issue for a while now, so I removed the mod from my game.

Renata Gustafsson

Not sure if I’m missing something on my end but waiters no longer show up for me. They only seem to show up to restaurants that I own. Am I doing something wrong ?

RueUchiha

carl:ownableRestaurant_Immediate_HireEmployee_Bartender | employee_type has an invalid value for : BusinessEmployeeType> specified: 255. Setting to default value BusinessEmployeeType.INVALID

ShaeTee

for some reason, my sims cant eat or drink, is there a mod that conflicts with your mod?

BaddiestB

constant error - TODO: Exception thrown during Sim reset, possibly we should be kicking the Sim out of the game. (AttributeError: 'object_Campfire' object has no attribute 'part_owner')

Lois Ouellette

Possible some kind of backup software/error has caused an older version of the config file or mod to appear in your mods folder? Delete the dine out reloaded settings file and it will regenerate.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hey any idea why all of the new options disappeared? I had the bar option and different new meal options. But for some reason today they arent showing up.

EmEm

same here

Letícia Bulhões Pilan

Hi I’m trying to have my sim play as the chef but the option to “be the chef” does not appear when I click on the stove

Mika Taylor

Is there a way to have a buyable bar without a restaurant?

Quedote lancine

The 2 types of guests are separate. So you should have bar and restaurant guests with the option on. I want to separate them.

Carl's Sim Guides

Something's going on to interfere. Do you have any badly tagged CC or mods that might not mesh with DO Reloaded?

Carl's Sim Guides

Dine out keeps showing up as a BE error for me with the new update and my sims won't eat.

Infinity Beat-Tay

I love this mod !! Idk if im doing something wrong but when I enable the entertainment option all of the sims go over the bar for drinks, I tought we could have both, some that drink at the bar and the rest will sit to eat but in a 8h shift I had maybe 3 sims sitting down to eat and looots of sim over at the bar. Is there a way to balance the feature ? Maybe limit the ppl at the bar to like 4 ? (since we can only have 4 stools) or could you point me where I can find that in the options or what should I disable/enable ? Thank you in advance !

Jeanna-simplysimmer

do you have to have the pack to get this?

Nicole Benedetto

Ah yeah, that could be done. I'll add it into my notes for the next update.

Carl's Sim Guides

Yep!

Carl's Sim Guides

is this the lates since the last update

Deirdre McCormick

Hey love this mod so much and the new update. However I was wondering if you can add the option to have Sims choose random meals like the original dine out. Love the idea of three course meals but some people may just want them to choose one meal from either of the three categories and leave.

Lorael Kirton

Sorry Jasmine, missed your reply back. here's a new link! https://discord.gg/7Jsyg6wX

Carl's Sim Guides

There is a free version of this mod. You would have to download Version 3, if you want Version 4, you would have to become a member or wait until it becomes a free version.

COCOIVY

Hey! I just saw a review of this mod and i really loved it and want to try it. But I can't understand the way to download it. Is it only available for patreon members under 5$ per month? It's an honest question because i'm not familiar wit the way mods work.

Eva! !

Hey Carl! How you're doing? I'm just begging you to bring back my wedding stories fixes, please! This pack is still broken for me and for so many other people that i've seen

Vanessa Cristina Lopes Barbosa

Haven't played this version yet, but I am looking forward to it. Before your mod dine out was unplayable. So I wanted to say thanks cause I can really enjoy it now.

TG Carlyle

When you get the chance can you reinvade me to the discord. I had work over the weekend so just got back on the Internet. the invite you sent expire my apologies

Jasmine Parker

I appreciate you responding to my message even out of my frustration with the mod for clarity not with you. I removed all other mods and its just yours installed in my game. I'll check what you're telling me to do right now and see again. Thanks for your patience with me.

Jasmine Parker

While I do understand your frustration, my mod works. Something is either conflicting, or there is an installation issue. If you look into your Sims 4 mods folder, and my mod didn't create a log file and settings file (so 2 files becomes 4) then it was never even able to start up and something is wrong with the install. We can more easily chat here: https://discord.gg/eTDySddj

Carl's Sim Guides

I also tried everything you told Zach to do... It has to be your mod...Honestly I paid just for this and its not working

Jasmine Parker

Im having issues getting the restaurant options.... its upsetting

Jasmine Parker

Are testingcheats on? Try normal-clicking a host station. If neither of those work, it's an install / mod options not being on issue. Can't know for sure on this end :)

Carl's Sim Guides

I'm having issues even bringing up the restraunt options , I shift click the ground but Im not getting the option to bring it up..

Zach Vi

I'm having the issue where only a few customers dine in. Usually the amount was 20 sims a day now it's roughly around 9. It started happening after installing the latest version :(

Erik Rodriguez

Heyy, I'm having and issue where the chefs cook but no food ever shows up. The servers take the order and deliver it to the chefs but the meals are never finished. I had this issue before the updates and I just bought a new computer and started over with my mods?cc so I don't have much in game. Any suggestions?

English orange

Gotcha. Thanks, Carl! :)

Leonor C.

Could you join me in the mod-help-compatibility channel here? https://discord.gg/tt7ZMDJt Also are you certain the guests can route to a host station and that all lot requirements are fulfilled for it to count as a restaurant? We can talk it out I am sure.

Carl's Sim Guides

I tried removing every mods I had and it still doesn't work

veronica

Delete both the ts4script/package files in your mods folder and replace them with the new ones in the update zip file :)

Carl's Sim Guides

This is likely to be a compatibility issue with another mod. I have full control over the customer situations in my script, but if something else overrides sim spawning or customer stuff, it could conflict and stop dine out reloaded from spawning them. I can't be sure what mod it could be.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hello, I don't have costumers showing up anymore after installing the mod

veronica

What do I need to do to upload the recent patches, anything at all? I'm pretty new to CC...

Leonor C.

Thank you so much! The new update is super awesome!

Mkaila

The restaurant may need re-placed. The game is buggy in some area when loading up lots and creates bad data. I don't fully understand it, but it will confuse if the restaurant is owned or not. It's something in the backend I haven't been able to figure out just yet.

Carl's Sim Guides

This is likely what was fixed in the v4.05 update I did yesterday :)

Carl's Sim Guides

hi there! your mod has made restaurants way more enjoyable so thanks so much for that! however, recently i'm having an issue where when my sims go to a restaurant to eat as customers, the hosts and waiters stay around for maybe 20 seconds before running off the lot, then new one's spawn but they do the same thing. i'm unsure if this is an issue with the mod or just a general game mod but, i figured i'd ask to see if anyone else is having this problem!

alexis

there is a bug in v4 preventing Starlight Accolade host to announce rewards, rolled back to v3 - everything is OK.

Rasmus Massie

According to the sims policy they could not sell mod or cc.

Rachelz Rachel

When will this be available to the public?

DarkFoxGirl13

The game crashes after I try to change the restaurant menu, what could it be? Do I need to buy the restaurant in the base game or is it mandatory to use Karl's mod?

Cirilla

Fixed a bug some players had reported around multiple courses based on some input from players experiencing it. It should make guests as reliable as they were in v3 in terms of how well they complete the multiple courses before moving on :)

Carl's Sim Guides

Thank you for making this mod! It sounds great, but I can't afford the $5/mo. subscription to download & use it. So, to the comment above, I say, "Yes, please! When? Can we please have a release date or ETA?" I hope it will, at some point, be free to download! Thank you.

Rebecca Ripple

Thank you so much

RoshySims

Hey, thanks for taking the time to do that!

Carl's Sim Guides

https://www.patreon.com/RoshySims

RoshySims

Hello Carl's! My name on Patreon is RoshySims and I am a Translator for the Mod creators and I like to contact the creators to let them know that I have their Mod translated into Spanish, greetings... sincerely RoshySims

RoshySims

when this version become free accses???

Maria Dewi

Hi, I bought the expansion pack and unsubscribed. But now I can't access the entire read through anymore. I thought there would be a txt file with the pack. Can someone help me? Tnx so much.

Melissa

Yes I do! LittleMsSam But it is mostly better nannies or butler...Nothing related to restaurants. I bet it is some social mod...We have to thoroughly investigate lol

Bakir Bogucanin

They are probably claiming it. I would turn on the sous chef system, and set your own chef station as player chef station. This will make you claim all the orders and sous chef will knock required steps off the recipes. So they will help continuously.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hello again, so I went to Discord and the suggestion I got there definitely helped! Thank you! One quick question though, I am wondering how does the game spawn guests, is the amount of guest everyday fully set based on star rating and advertising? dose it mean that if I have the extra standard diners set to 6, while getting larger groups, I'm also getting less number of groups everyday? not sure if I worded it right, like the total amout of 5-star is 20 guests, witch means either 5 groups of 4 sims or 10 groups of 2 sims? Sorry to bother you again, I am on a mission to make my very big restaurant as packed as possible XD

cathy

Thank you so much. These enhancements add so much to the gameplay. You did a great job on this.

Jennifer Giresi

No worries dude! Hope you're having a great one. Good luck with any fixes you have to deal with, can't imagine what it's like to programme XD

Plumpkin Pumpkin

Carl, great mod. Thanks! Anyone have a tip for cooking alongside a hired chef. When I try to cook in the kitchen I will make one of the ordered dishes and from then on out every dish will come from the cook I hired and I will never plate another dish.

Blake Bienemann

Oh and for discord, I have never used it before, maybe I will try it later, thanks again for all your help.

cathy

OK, so after a lot of testing with every way I can think of, I think the problem is with the three courses, customer have a lot of glitch with the second order, they could ignore the food they already got and continue to complain about waiting, or the waiter sometimes ignore their request to the second order, or they could finish all their food and still sit there all day long. I switched it off and only serve the main course, then everything works fine. I will play this way now, which is totally fine by me since the main reason I'm using v4.0 is the additional staff, but if somehow this get fixed in the future, then I will definitely enjoy playing with the three courses, oh by the way, the customer count multiplier works like a charm, you are wonderful for doing it, and done it so quickly, I am truly grateful for all your wonderful work! Your mod is the reason I can have the restaurant that I wanted.

cathy

Thank you! I watched the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it. Appreciate getting to see it used in other people's restaurants :)

Carl's Sim Guides

Hi Carl. I just finished my review for your mod. I love this mod! I did experience the glitch where too many people showed up but you fixed it. I hope you enjoy this https://youtu.be/ojCmbe7Iupo?si=5aq63zh_65dsiZMn I had too much fun playing with this mod.

Jennifer Giresi

Well, grab the new version as it has a customer count multiplier so you can go back to double customers as in v3.x

Carl's Sim Guides

I’ll factor that in and see what changes. Thank you so much for all you do!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Amaris Wilson

Thank you so much for the update!!! For now I am planning on testing it with other mods using the half/half method, I will let you know if I found the cause.

cathy

Sure! thank you :)

Carl's Sim Guides

Thanks! I was just looking to make sure I took care of everyone and also to point out sometimes it's not the mod, but something weird causing issues heh

Carl's Sim Guides

Hey! This is amazing, thanks for all the hard work you put into this mod-literally a game changer!

Rosie

Just now added a new update with a customer count multiplier setting which will help with that problem (grab that download v4.02). I'm not sure what might be interfering here, but something most definitely is. Sims order and go into eat, then they have a literal timer to leave.. so something's breaking it. You want to meet us on discord to talk it out? https://discord.gg/9AAhTZK6

Carl's Sim Guides

After another try, the guest not leaving issue is happening to everyone, and also they don't do anything else except eating. I have a 5-star restaurant and with the diamond advertising plan, still I don't get enough costumers. Everything else seems fine, I really enjoyed it, you completely improved my dine out play experience, thank you.

cathy

I have the same issue with the guest just sits there and eat, and they do not leave after eating. I also have other mods, the ones that related to restaurants are mainly Littlesims' mods, do you have the same mods?

cathy

Thank you for the quick response, I am going to look into it, I definitely used the MOO cheat every time I bulit something. And since you are here, a couple of things I noticed with my first try with the V4.0, first, I noticed the same issue with Paige Smith above, guest sometimes just sits there with the main dish (I have the three course all turned on), and they sometimes don't leave after eating, so they just sit there all day long. I also notice a decrease in customer number than the V3.3, but after reading your response above, I know it was intended as a bug fix, but I do like the big custom number since I have a big restaurant, so you definitely get my vote on bringing it back : ). Other than those couple things, everything else runs smoothly, thank you for your wonderful work!

cathy

With the espresso machine by Harrie? That's me XD

Plumpkin Pumpkin

This might be purely how the game is tuned based upon hours. Overnight hours, the customer count multiple gets cut to only 15% of your star rating. It peaks at 11am and from 5-7pm. Is it possible you are seeing a lot less customers during the hours when people would not be slamming a restaurant IRL? Just checking this, as it's very much a thing. The tuning is set such that at: 1-star : 5 2-star: 7 3-star: 10 4-star: 14 5-star: 20 and this is all multiplied by up to double with the diamond advertising package. It's intended that higher star restaurants don't have to use as expensive advertising as having 40 sims with double is beyond most pc's capabilities.

Carl's Sim Guides

Is moveobjects on possibly used on anything they might dump the dishes into? Or on any tables they might be trying to clean? Sometimes players want them closer to the wall than the game intends them to be when picking things up. I know a looot of players use MOO so it's the first thing that comes to mind.

Carl's Sim Guides

Are you the person we found had a badly tagged cc causing the issues with host station?

Carl's Sim Guides

I'm looking into this. I fixed a bug in the previous version that was spawning double the intended customers. Turns out people liked it, so I think I am going to offer you all a multiplier that goes beyond advertising and increases the max available diners. For people with pcs that can handle it, of course.

Carl's Sim Guides

Hello, newcomer here, really grateful for your work, been using it since I started playing dine out. One little thing, is it possible for you to make a cheat that make the empty dishes simply disappear, so the staff don't have to clean it? My staff sometimes get stuck when cleaning, and I don't know why. Of course, this is just a tiny suggestion, your mod would forever be one of my favorite sims mod with or without it, thanks for your working, you are truly wonderful

cathy

This wasn't the case with previous versions btw! and I play with mods - but not sure what the issue might be - if it is another mod... Thanks for your help❤️

Bakir Bogucanin

Hey man! Love your mod and everything you do. I specifically subscribed to download this mod but a weird thing happens... all the npc sims just eat and do not interact with each other. Also elder sims keep standing up from the chair... Any leads?

Bakir Bogucanin

Hi! I love your mod, but I'm having an issue with the amount of customers. For some reason, my restaurant is only spawning 1-2 dining groups. I increased the maximum sims in a zone using MCCC, but I'm still having the same issue. Is there a setting in the mod for maximum customers at a time?

Amaris Wilson

YAY!! i love this mod, downloading immediately cant wait to try out the new features!!!

DWBL00

I did replace the host station but that still did nothing :( I'll pop onto discord a little later, thank you so much for helping me out x

Plumpkin Pumpkin

Not sure what might have broken your host! they normally immediately target the host station and walk straight to it. It's possible you could try deleting and replacing it as the game does assign relationships to some objects though I'm unsure atm if the host does this. Waiters is very odd. It makes me worried the guests are not really going into the order state. You might want to get with me on the discord so I can have a look at your save to see what might be the trouble: https://discord.gg/KAP4WyB5

Carl's Sim Guides

So happy to try this out! I'm having issues though. The waiters mostly stand idle and don't tend the guests much. They mostly clean dishes while I have to take orders, but they do deliver the orders so that's good! The biggest issue I have is that the host does nothing. They spawn but they stand idle outside, my host spent the entire 8 hour shift doing this. Is there something in the settings that I might have missed? I've gone over it a few times but no luck.

Plumpkin Pumpkin

Okay! Headed there now.

daluved1

Thank you. :-)

Joe Sokolsky

Mid-March I've heard

dominik3bb

When does this go public, i.e. no cost? Thanks....

Joe Sokolsky

One thing we can do, is i can try your save myself as it will help me to determine if it's save or a mod, since i have none of your mods. I can also take a look at a log and / or make a custom one so I can have a look and see how many the restaurant is expecting to make.

Carl's Sim Guides

I'm investigating both of those. They don't happen in every restaurant but it's some type of autonomy issue. They are explicitly told not to stand while waiting for or eating food. I don't have the issues myself, but I'm working with a couple testers to try to iron out why it happens and how it can be fully eliminated.

Carl's Sim Guides

It does eliminate bad behaviors and bugs that can occur in any restaurant. Player orders can still disappear under the right conditions, so yep.

Carl's Sim Guides

Join me over here eh? It's a lot easier to work out something like this on discord : https://discord.gg/qYrYuEbX

Carl's Sim Guides

daluved1

Does this Mod make visiting restaurants better too? I haven't played running a restaurant in years. Just visit them for a night out or dating.

Michelle Hamilton

Tried this new download today. I have main dish and dessert enabled. I noticed that some customers will just sit there with the main dish on the table and not eat at all and/or just continue looking at the menu. Also some customers will just stand up for no reason at the table.

Paige Smith

Amazing!

daluved1

Thank you!! ❤️

Chels

Yeah, my DMs are open. I am not sure what it looks like on your end, however (what you click, etc). I will watch for any messages and get back with you tomorrow. Edit: sorry I just realized if you don't see it, it might be Patreon stopping messages from people who are not subscribed to you. You can email carl@carlsguides.com if you like with subject Dine Out.

Carl's Sim Guides

@Carl's Guides Is there a way to PM you here on Patreon?

KaraMoon

thank you!!

Nicole

There are no dumb questions! Yes, you will extract the files from inside the zip to your mods folder and make sure both enable custom content/mods and script mods are turned on in game options > other :)

Carl's Sim Guides

Sorry if my question is dumb, I'm very new to using mods!

Nicole

First time using one of your mods, do I need to unzip/extract the files on yours?

Nicole

Happy to have ya! Appreciate the support.

Carl's Sim Guides

Thanks! Join the discord if you have any issues!

Carl's Sim Guides

By mid-March :)

Carl's Sim Guides

Time to rejoin~

Jasmine 🩷💜💙

When will it be free?

Tamyra Baggett

Love it!!! Signing back up today

Jennifer Giresi


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