I know how disease works, basically. An infected sim will express symptoms like coughing, vomiting or motive drops. Everytime that happens, they generate "disease tiles" in their vicinity. These tiles remain for some time and other sims that step on them catch the disease. So far, so good.Now my question is:Does this "sheding" of disease tiles also happen on community lots and while the infected sim is over as a visitor at another played household?Or put differently, can sims catch a disease by meeting an infected on a community lot and/or by inviting a disease carrier to their home?I think the answer is yes in both cases, but I'm not entirely sure. (The most recent illness I remember is a teen catching food poisoning from gone bad sandwiches while I had him over as a visitor. But now I have a Mystery Disease outbreak - my first ever since launch - and would like to know the nitty-gritty details of contagion exactly).

Thanks everyone, that's wonderful news! Um, terrible, I mean, really terrible.A little background for those interested: The breakout happened in a fresh megahood consisting of Strangetown/Desiderata/Pleasantview. No household was played longer than a week so I'm not overly attached to the sims yet and there's only easily restartable premades present anyway. That's why I want to let the plague run it's cause and see how many sims (or if any at all) I can save. Definitely switching to one-day rotations now to keep track of the flow of the event.The disease carrier is Circe Beaker, who managed to contract the Mystery Disease at the Biotech station with a combination of low fun (tanking overall mood), 4 measly logic points and a low nice score - pretty much everything that upps virus chance, lol. Her aspiration was gold, though it may have dropped back to green while she was working, not sure.According to my retconned backstory Circe is the head of the alien genome project, the major employer in the region. Almost every playable sim works in the project one way or another. So chances are high she'll infect everyone working with and under her. Sure, the game just told me flat out "Circe has a mysterious disease", but I'm going to treat her as unaware until reality proves otherwise. It's something new, never heard of before, so you do not get up from your seat in the full awareness of what just hit you. It's more like "Whoa, I overworked myself today, body takes it's toll, let's go to bed early and sleep it off". Mystery Disease conveniently gives two randoms symptoms and Circe may believe to have whater other illness those symptoms match at first. My plan is to summon (or invite, if relationship allows for that) Circe to every household after their workshift ends and have every member do one interaction with her to simulate the chance of the employees contracting the disease from her during work. But for that to work she needs to distribute disease tiles while being summoned which you all reassured me she will do :)

Stage 1 is tame so far, likely the calm before the storm, where everyone is still thinking "Oh, it's nothing and will pass."Circe refused to distribute any germs to the Smiths. Next up were the Specters. Recentlly both Caliente sisters have made a move on Nervous, Dina because he stands to inherit a mansion and Nina because her bios claims she feels close to her roots. Her alien roots, to be specific and I declared Nervous just another half-alien in this save. Nervous threw a party to get to know both women better and why not invite your best friends (Pascal and Johnny), too? And, oh, I don't know, how about your disease ridden boss >:) Within two hours I had my (almost) neighborhood-wide infection :) Around 8 pm Nervous's symptoms couldn't be overlooked anymore. Olive taught Ophelia how to make the Comfort soup and two doses of that cured Nervous. But I'm positive I still have plenty of disease tiles lying around in the east wing.Next was the Long/Curious family consisting of "Julia Long" (amnesic Bella Goth), Pascal and their two half-alien daughters. Too bad I had given both parents the family secondary aspiration and Pascal, seeing that he needed to skill cooking for his job anyway, had learned that darn soup recipe before the outbreak already. I even invited Circe over for a chat to perhaps re-infect him, but she left quickly on account of not feeling well. So, by then Pascal should have made the connection between Circe and the disease, therefore he used his many paid time off days to evade her in the near future. I cannot play the sims too dumb, especially not when they are research scientists. But just you wait, I'm getting you still!With the disease came an increase in crime to Strangetown. While playing Olive Specter I witnessed the charlatan do his conman routine on the cashier in Strangetown's cinema. It looked real bad with the poor kid's head going right through the counter during the animation. So that little incident became "an outragous increase in crime coupled with violence of proportions unheard of in our town" in the story album.

@EnkiSchmidt :D :joy: That is awesome! Glad your disease is spreading well. That sounds like a really fun story, and everyone knows crime and violence increases with a deadly disease on the loose!

Interesting thread. :D I've never had anyone spread that deadly disease before. It's always been those townies from Bluewater that I wasn't playing who were going all over the community (seen everywhere) spreading their germs then flu would spread through out my hoods.

"earthgirl;c-16381685" wrote:I honestly forgot there were diseases in TS2. I played a family but had no health issues with them. Not a flu or anything...I should probably get a sim into the Science career and see what happens.Or just leave trash lying around, preferably outside! That will attract roaches and these will make your sims ill reliably. Update on the Strangetown Mystery Disease under spoiler:Spoiler (Highlight to read) The Caliente got off the hook as neither Circe nor Johnny were in the mood to be contagious despite Nina and Johnny exchanging touches and kisses applenty.At a party at the observatory (Curious household) Circe once again failed to infect her team. But she was fevering badly and suddenly flirted with her teenagehood crush Vidcund! She also agreed to go to a date with him the next day. Afterwards a woman named Meredith called Vidcund (one of Circe's two best townie friends and judging by her attire a cafeteria worker in the project). I think Circe asked Merry to occupy Vidcund for her in an attempt to save her marriage. So far it seems to work.Not strictly epidemic-related, but touching :)At the Bells' apartment Hannah brought Circe from work, she infected their downstairs neighbor Julia and Julia in turn infected Ivan. Now we are talking!Hannah Bell also knows the blasted mircale soup recipe, but I won't let it fly this time. No way a hick from Desiderata knows such a potent medicine! So it was bedrest for Ivan and much to my joy he escaped to work twice. As Strangetown's deputy he felt honor bound to do so, I suppose. So that were two workshifts with the mystery disease. After the second shift Ivan he got the "Cured" message. Police work in Strangetown obviously counts as bedrest, lol. While Ivan was ill the Bells had John Mole over as a guest, but that prime chance to spread the disease to Desiderata Valley passed.By now I'm questioning whether what Circe caught is really the Mystery Disease. Translation mistake, maybe? The Caliente got off the hook as neither Circe nor Johnny were in the mood to be contagious despite Nina and Johnny exchanging touches and kisses applenty.At a party at the observatory (Curious household) Circe once again failed to infect her team. But she was fevering badly and suddenly flirted with her teenagehood crush Vidcund! She also agreed to go to a date with him the next day. Afterwards a woman named Meredith called Vidcund (one of Circe's two best townie friends and judging by her attire a cafeteria worker in the project). I think Circe asked Merry to occupy Vidcund for her in an attempt to save her marriage. So far it seems to work.Not strictly epidemic-related, but touching :)At the Bells' apartment Hannah brought Circe from work, she infected their downstairs neighbor Julia and Julia in turn infected Ivan. Now we are talking!Hannah Bell also knows the blasted mircale soup recipe, but I won't let it fly this time. No way a hick from Desiderata knows such a potent medicine! So it was bedrest for Ivan and much to my joy he escaped to work twice. As Strangetown's deputy he felt honor bound to do so, I suppose. So that were two workshifts with the mystery disease. After the second shift Ivan he got the "Cured" message. Police work in Strangetown obviously counts as bedrest, lol. While Ivan was ill the Bells had John Mole over as a guest, but that prime chance to spread the disease to Desiderata Valley passed.By now I'm questioning whether what Circe caught is really the Mystery Disease. Translation mistake, maybe?

Disease/Contagion technicalities

oxanapihlajamaa
7 years ago
Whoa guys, I didn't know there was this Mysterious disease! Well, that changes plans for that new neighborhood I started making :D My sims usually only get the regular flu, but I've never seen this one!

@EnkiSchmidt I love this story, good job! This should be made into a challenge of some sort, it's a unique concept. :)
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
7 years ago
That was helpful! I don't remember where I got my info about tiles and recovery intervals from (Cyjon, I think), but anyway my source didn't state what parameters exactly were checked. So basically no sleeping, no sitting down and keeping energy below 50% should do the trick.
JULES1593
7 years ago
I believe it does happen on community lots, but not 100% sure. Mystery Disease is the most contagious and most deadly of them all. You usually get that if you play with the science career reward with low logic. That one can wipe out your entire household, I hear it can spread through the neighborhood as well. Best to completely isolate that sim! Food poisoning is not contagious, but can be fatal.
riennatelemnar
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
There are diseases? That can wipe out a neighborhood???
MidnightAura86
New Spectator
7 years ago
Yes your sim should be able to catch contagious diseases from visitors or on community lots. Make sure you have Grandmas comfort soup handy!
JULES1593
7 years ago
"Rhiannon58;c-16377862" wrote:
There are diseases? That can wipe out a neighborhood???

Only the mystery disease can wipe out a whole hood. The others are contagious, but not anywhere near as deadly, unless of course you ignore them and let them run wild I guess.

@EnkiSchmidt LOL!! :D That is some story line you got worked out. That is awesome. You will have to let us know how it turns out!
icey_shadow
7 years ago
I honestly forgot there were diseases in TS2. I played a family but had no health issues with them. Not a flu or anything...
I should probably get a sim into the Science career and see what happens.
JULES1593
7 years ago
@EnkiSchmidt Yay for the disease spreading to Desiderata now! Nice back story as well. :)
JULES1593
7 years ago
@EnkiSchmidt Nice! Glad everything is progressing the way you would like. Those poor simmies though! :D All disoriented. Nice about the genie lamp, that thing can certainly be handy.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
7 years ago
"OxanaPihlajamaa;c-16393603" wrote:
Whoa guys, I didn't know there was this Mysterious disease! Well, that changes plans for that new neighborhood I started making :D My sims usually only get the regular flu, but I've never seen this one!

@EnkiSchmidt I love this story, good job! This should be made into a challenge of some sort, it's a unique concept. :)

I'd love to see that! My own simming (actually any gaming) is on hold for the time being due to a bad case of muscle tension.