Making drinks

[_Annika_]

When I queue up a few interactions for my sim, she regularly doesn't finish making the drinks that she starts, costing simoleans, but not achieving anything. Why is this happening? Is it happening to anyone else?

[Stormi71]

This happens a bit when my Sim cooks, she just leaves it half done. At least with meals you can click continue cooking. Can you not do that with drinks? I don't use mixology much.

[_Annika_]

Nope. Sadly no half made drinks in shakers there. They just give up and walk away with nothing to show for it.

[lindsaysoderberg]

@_Annika_, like Stormi71 said, I have also only seen this with meals, but it is happening quite often when my sims make meals. I would say that about 50% of the time, they stop cooking halfway through.

Like you said, there's no such thing as a "half-made" drink, so I don't think I would really notice if the same were happening with drink making. Usually I queue up a bunch of drinks for one sim to make and then go focus on another sim.

There is one drink-making achievement that is always hard for me to achieve during parties: "Make 10 drinks during a single social event." It is part of achieving the Mixologist Aspiration,. I queue up about 7 drinks, as allowed, but when I go back to check on that sim, they are often far behind on their progress. So, it would be reasonable to assume that the same thing could be happening in my game as in yours, but I can't say for sure. 

[imayu94]

I haven't had a sim focus on mixology yet, but here are some things I noticed:

1) Like books, they don't finish what they started if you don't pay attention. This happens I suspect because I have a high free will enabled for my sims. It might be something to look into.

2) Same with all other activities like cooking, talking while doing stuff actually slows down the process of the activity. I included this because the bar is a very social place. Everyone can talk to your mixologist and there's nothing wrong with that, but it does get in the way of making drinks faster.

3) Practice makes perfect? I think like cooking, higher levels are equivalent to faster drinks making.

Let me know if there are some anomalies.

[stitching_JA]

My sims often get about 1/2 to 1/3 of the way through making a drink, then queue themselves another activity and drop the drink.  If they are my active sim and I'm quick, I can cancel the auto-queued action before the drink is cancelled and they'll finish making the drink.  I find stacking a few instructions to mix drinks in the queue is helping my sim to finish more often, but even some of those drinks are getting dropped before completing. 

The activity they almost always go to over finishing to make food or drinks is mourning another sim; before I had a grave on my lot, they usually finished their tasks.

I found getting 10 excellent drinks for the mixology aspiration very frustrating.  My sim finished 7 drinks, with only dropping one or two in the queue but without wasting money.  Then next two each took a couple of attempts.  The tenth took most of the sim's morning and several attempts which were dropped to mourn a long dead parent with a relationship that had decayed to almost nothing, and one dropped in order to laugh at a sister who had died as an enemy.