Hi All, This isnt really a question, but since the relevant threads were in this part of the forum I posted this here.

I saw catherine's earlier comment and I wanted to add something that I discovered ages ago when I was breeding turtles.... Many times when something is really weird, like a full food dish is suddenly an empty one - can happen when a sim is in trouble; specifically if it is crashing. I once filled every food dish on the ranch (about 50 usd worth of food *lost*) and had a sim crash, that resulted in the sim rolling back 15 mins or so to the state of very empty food dishes. I was on the sim when it crashed, and had moved things around, so it was immediately evident to me when i finally got back in that things had reverted. (the story ended well since I had a good relationship with the turtle folks and they got me all sorted - anyhooo...)

It is important to realize that when sims are restarted or crash, they CAN and DO sometimes roll back up to half an hour or so. If you put out a full food dish and the sim restarts, and suddenly the food dish is empty, it may *not* mean your roos were binge eating, it could be an old dish (if you happened to have replaced it during the lost time between when your sim crashed and the last backup). It could also be that they all reverted to a few mins before they ate last, so they dont know they ate (since they are reverted to their state at the last backup of the sim), and eat again.

LL has been upgrading the server software and heaven only knows what they are tinkering behind the scenes, so it is entirely possible/plausible and likely that some nibbles are lost here or there. There is nothing catherine or levio can do about the platform we all play on, and unless it is something extraordinary like the story I mentioned above, I just gotta say, it's the price of doing business.... sometimes in business you have breakage and you just have to take that into account.

And one last thing, remember that if your roos are hungry when you set out new food, they will eat any missed meals from the dish, and that can give the appearance of overeating. If they are starving, say, and have missed eight meals, they WILL eat eight nibbles as soon as you set a plate out for them.