As I was working on a little bit on an overhaul for the Maxis foods affecting the hunger satisfaction and how long they take to eat and some other things, I’ll release it eventually, I had also been editing all the custom foods I use to match this system. This guide on Mod the Sims has been very helpful in finding out what each of the tuning values mean, and the food tweaking I’ve been working on wouldn’t have been possible without it. However, I have discovered that there is a teeny bit of false information in there that I’d like to correct.
I came to the realization that custom foods were making it even harder to run a profitable OFB restaurant or bakery business because the prices of custom foods were often too low due to being cloned from cheap meals like cereal and mac and cheese.
The guide states that tuning line 0x12 is for calories and is unused. I did some digging and noticed that the prices on the menus at my OFB restaurant were about the same as the tuning value in line 0x12. I tested it and can confirm, that this line is in fact not an unused calorie setting but is instead how you set the price of the meals. So, this value will reflect how much the plate of food costs at a restaurant podium or when set for sale in a business like a bakery.
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Here’s a screenshot of where to find and change the tuning value of line 0x12 in SimPe and therefore change what the price of the food will be at restaurant podiums or when set for sale:
So, I highly recommend you edit your custom foods to make sure their prices at least match the price of a Maxis meal at a similar cooking level in order to run a more profitable business!
Hope that helps!