A meteor just ruined my day

"bekkasan;c-17475367" wrote:

"igazor;c-17475343" wrote:

"bekkasan;c-17475319" wrote:

I've never had a meteor hit a building in the 8 years I've played. I don't have seasons installed right now so I expect I still won't have one.
The closest I came was when a sim was looking through the telescope and saw a meteor land. He was challenged by the game to find it so he did. It had landed in someone's driveway. It was one of the huge ones. I love how they pick it up and put it in their pockets! :lol:

I'm pretty sure meteors were introduced with Ambitions, not Seasons. :)

Well, I do have ambitions installed and still have never had a meteor hit a building or kill sims. Wonder what it takes to do that?

The reason I had to introduce an alien to the household in 'Oscar's Childhood' was so I could get a meteor to hit their house.

Later on in that series of videos another meteor hit the boarding school and did a lot of damage but no one was killed. That was totally generated by the game to scare me. It was a success for the game because there was nothing I could do about it but wonder how I'd have to change my story line to explain Oscar being a little ghost. Fortunately he survived - even though he did run into a burning building in spite of me telling him to stay away from it and not go indoors. I think only one of the little boarding school residents got singed. The building and furniture on a couple of levels was a wreck though.

If someone wants a meteor to hit, sending a sim outside to use a telescope for hours on end will do it, eventually. I had a sim I was trying to raise from a toddler but she got corrupted every time, once she aged up to teen or young adult. I had made her by aging down a sim that I had saved to the CAS bin as a young adult. Anyway, I decided to re-create her as a teen and get her caught up on skills, skill challenges, and collecting in a throwaway save. I made all her needs static and had her doing what she needed to do day and night without stopping. While she was searching the galaxy non-stop for days on end to catch up on discoveries, her lot was hit by meteors multiple times. But I was watching for them and as soon as the notification came, I teleported her to another location on the lot, and moved her telescope in buy mode. So no harm was done to her or the telescope, because meteors always aim directly for your active sim, and will hit wherever they were when the meteor spawned. But parts of her house and furnishings got burnt each time.

"IreneSwift;c-17476705" wrote:
I someone wants a meteor to hit, sending a sim outside to use a telescope for hours on end will do it, eventually. So no harm was done to her or the telescope, because meteors always aim directly for your active sim, and will hit wherever they were when the meteor spawned. But parts of her house and furnishings got burnt each time.

So nice of EA to include that little feature. :D

> @MKSizzle said:
> I am really upset. My sim was in the middle of graduating high school at the city hall, and a meteor hit it. Every person there started dying and I couldn't stop any of it. I exited the game without saving because there is no way I want this to be happening. Problem is that I literally saved the game right when the meteor was coming without realizing, so no matter what, it will hit. Do you think there is ANY way I can not have this happen? Help! Im freaking out

That sounds absolutely horrible- I did start laughing while reading this though- it's just so bizarre but very sims-like...

That is awful! I am going to be honest, I did not realize meteors were a thing until the other day. I had never encountered one before, and then all of a sudden it crashed into my home and completely destroyed it, along with my neighbors home as well. I was shocked, to say the least lol. I'm just glad you were able to at least somewhat fix it, though!

This seems like a lesson learned: Always use save as multiple times, so if you llse a sim to a meteor, u can get them back!

Also don't search tne galaxy on a telescope for too long!

Question though, someone said having an alien can cause meteors. If my sim family had an alien would it cause meteors not on command or do I have to do it?

"rubyskywalker;c-17483483" wrote:
This seems like a lesson learned: Always use save as multiple times, so if you llse a sim to a meteor, u can get them back!

Also don't search tne galaxy on a telescope for too long!

Question though, someone said having an alien can cause meteors. If my sim family had an alien would it cause meteors not on command or do I have to do it?

I've only had one household with an alien living in it and I didn't play them for a very long and never saw a meteor in the game until I got the alien to call them.

I do get lots of alien abductions without having aliens or telescopes or space rocks though. They hardly ever happened once and it took me years of playing the game before I finally got my first alien pregnancy and now I seem to get lots of alien pregnancies. In my Perfect Genetics Challenge, the founder's husband has so far had 3 alien pregnancies.

It seems meteors and alien abductions and pregnancies are somewhat random. You get them or you don't. Previously I've tried using the telescope and having multiple telescopes and lots of space rocks and the aliens have persistently ignored my games.

@Karritz I only had a telescope and maybe one or two space rocks in the inventory when the abduction occured.

Thanks for answering the question though... I was just worried if a alien was in a household if there'd be greater chance of a meteor or the alien doing it autonomously.

Meteor are ok, but guided missiles (what TheSims' meteors are essentially) in an otherwise casual and peaceful - if zany- game are a bit over the top IMO.

"4xel;c-17491379" wrote:
Meteor are ok, but guided missiles (what TheSims' meteors are essentially) in an otherwise casual and peaceful - if zany- game are a bit over the top IMO.

Actually, I agree with this. They remind me of the Disasters we could have switched on or off by option in various versions of SimCity. Because there's nothing like spending hours/days on end setting up a city just the way we want it only to have Godzilla stop by and stomp all over it. I've never seen this happen in real life and, more important statistically, have never heard from nor read about anyone else who has. :/