[FIXED] Sims obsessively making coffee/tea, autonomy issue

by PinkParanoiac
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i cant believe they haven’t fixed this yet, i’ve been having this issue for at most 2 years 😀 i always keep my autonomy off because sims tend to obsessively drink water when they’re left alone for 5 in game minutes, so when they started getting tea from the magic personal brewer on their own when their needs were fully met with autonomy off i was like ?!?!?!!!

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@xospncr For me it's very easy to believe they haven't fixed this yet, because right now in my current save I'm seeing not only this annoyance but plenty of other issues that have been around for far too long. Hold on, I need some tea...

 

I experimented with the tea brewer a few days ago, and I ended up getting rid of the dumb thing. My sims will cancel out interactions just for tea. I've seen situations where a sim could be on the brink of starvation start to go grab leftovers from the fridge, cancel that for tea, then grab the leftovers, then set them down and ignore them, grab more tea, then repeat. At one point I had nearly a full table of leftovers because my sim would keep stopping to go get tea.

 

The coffee pots and tea maker are almost always broken because apparently those are the most important things in life for a sim. Just out of curiosity I think it would be funny to intentionally kill a sim, just to see if they will cancel out the death process to go grab some freaking tea or coffee... then again the grim reaper might be too busy grabbing some to even start the death process.

 

Grim: Oh you'd like to die now? Give me a sec, I could really go for some tea right about now... you know... to get me in the proper mood.

Dying sim: Could I get some of...

Grim: NO! You've had enough already!

 

I'd suggest having a way to adjust autonomous interactions (without mods), some sort of interactions menu or something where you can toggle things on or off, but I'm not sure I trust that EA would make it work properly lol.

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I'm having the same issue. I had a coffee pot in my home and got sick of my Sims CONSTANTLY drinking coffee, and I decided to instead give them a tea pot because I have get to work and they were constantly getting sick, but now they drink tea obsessively when I leave them unattended. I tell them to make food because they're starving and they'll grab the ingredients for food, set it on the table, and proceed to make and drink the tea instead. It's really frustrating when they need to be at work/school in an hour and they ditch their food in favor of tea and go to school starving and leave piles of ingredients around the house for me to clean up.

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A while ago (but after this bug started) I even had a sim manage to die from overheating due to him constantly making tea in the summer.

 

Death by tea Party hat

 

I turned off weather effects causing deaths via a mod after this Thinking

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@PinkParanoiac My Sims do this all the time with tea. I'm about to take their machine away it's driving me crazy. I'm playing on the PS4.
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i already have lol

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I'm having this issue as well. I have a programmer sim so I like to have tea around to get the focused mood let. However the roommates will queue "grab a cup" even while on their way to eat or use bathroom or other necessary actions. If I cancel the "grab a cup" action, it immediately returns to queue. My only solution is to constantly move the tea pot into inventory so it doesn't distract my sims from other actions or progressing in skills. I had a coffee pot before and noticed the same obsessive behavior. 

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Having the same problem, and additionally, they will abandon the tea/coffee they just got out before drinking it to get MORE cups of tea/coffee. Usually they will have 4-5 tea/coffee actions in a row in their queue. And beyond this just being an autonomy issue, they are also abandoning other tasks (That I have queued for them) to get more cups out. They are cups littered all over my sim houses/apartments.

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@linsbee I didn't read the whole thread but when the queue gets bogged down like that, I will try to reset my Sim and sometimes it helps. I believe it's shift + click, but if that doesn't bring it up, it might be Ctrl or right click or some combo.
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Oh yes, I have done this. I reset the sims and the tea maker and the queue will immediately restack with drink actions.

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