Restaurant Update : April 27 2016

[twospoons]

well, i'm glad at least one waitperson is for coins! i think twin waiters and 1 waitress can probably cover a restaurant my size. they may have to hustle a bit though. although, i guess since all of the people who enter my restaurant turn out to be quintuplets, maybe it's not unreasonable that my waiters are triplets. once there's word on their size, of course.

i like that the waitress looks a little more dynamic than many of the characters.

[AliSweet876]

i like that the waitress looks a little more dynamic than many of the characters.

Yeah, she has a bit of pep in her step!

[kooky panda]

Update on fancy waitpersons:

To be consistent with the sizing for avatars, the team has decided to make sure the avatar matches the same size as the host/hostess. This will be the size for all avatars going forward.

[butterngarlic]

Not sure where you found that photo of the salad bar, but yes that's what it looks like. After seeing that photo I decided to roll the dice one more time & got it!

Not sure why the mushroom candy garden would be the #1 prize.

Does anyone know what the "Indoor Garden" or the "Spring Cake Display" looks like?

[pixiegamer]

Update on fancy waitpersons:

To be consistent with the sizing for avatars, the team has decided to make sure the avatar matches the same size as the host/hostess. This will be the size for all avatars going forward.

Thanks for the update, Kooky, but that doesn't solve the problem at all The problem was never with the size of the avatars; it was with the size of the new items.

Additionally, making the avatars bigger to match the new waitpersons will only make the older floor-decoration people, as well as the automated customers who eat at the restaurant, seem smaller in comparison. Unless S8 has plans to go back and enlarge all the other floor decorations featuring people (and there are years' worth of these!), and the customer sprites, it just makes no sense to selectively enlarge the avatars.

Is there any way the waitstaff can be made smaller? It seems like it would just be a matter of scaling them down just a bit. And, by extension, can the avatars be restored to their former size?

[deekathleen]

Update on fancy waitpersons:

To be consistent with the sizing for avatars, the team has decided to make sure the avatar matches the same size as the host/hostess. This will be the size for all avatars going forward.

So are the waiter people in proportion to the dinning corner in this update or are they way bigger than it? Making the people suddenly bigger than all the decor isn't really a great fix. Guess going forward I will not spend gems on out of proportion people.

This makes me think I really should spend my money on tangible goods instead of pixelated dissapointment

[deekathleen]

Not sure where you found that photo of the salad bar, but yes that's what it looks like. After seeing that photo I decided to roll the dice one more time & got it!

Not sure why the mushroom candy garden would be the #1 prize.

Does anyone know what the "Indoor Garden" or the "Spring Cake Display" looks like?

The indoor garden is also very small and plain. It's a two by two.

[twospoons]

Have to agree with pixiegamer & deekathleen. I applaud almost every effort to standardize the size of the characters, whether avatar, bot, or decor, but not this one. It's much more reasonable to make the current bot/avatar size the standard, since a good portion of the decor matches it, and make all future characters that size (excepting intentionally small children or elves or whatever).

This makes me think I really should spend my money on tangible goods instead of pixelated disappointment

You are obviously a much better shopper than I am if you've never found tangible goods disappointing.

[Natasha_07]

Not sure where you found that photo of the salad bar, but yes that's what it looks like. After seeing that photo I decided to roll the dice one more time & got it!

Not sure why the mushroom candy garden would be the #1 prize.

Does anyone know what the "Indoor Garden" or the "Spring Cake Display" looks like?

Indoor garden is next to the potted sunflower.

[AliSweet876]

Spring Basket 2011(Removed)*

Common (4th prize, 54%)
Fruit Basket
Potted Sunflower
Ice Bunny Sculpture

Uncommon (3rd prize, 35%)
Salad Bar
Indoor Garden

Rare (2nd prize, 10%)
Spring Windmill
Spring Cake Display

Exceptional (1st prize, 1%)
Confection Garden

The "Spring Windmill" is a 3rd place prize not 2nd...