How "Lucky" is a lucky sim, really?

Oops, wrong thread. Apologies.

They are supposed to be less likely to burn food and break items. Also, they're less likely to get robbed, more likely to get raises, and a few other things.

I have a few lucky sims that I play and bad things do still happen to them. But it seems to be less frequent. It's hard to tell, though.

@MKSizzle - One way to look at this is, imagine how many more "interesting" things would have happened to your sim if he didn't have the trait. :)

@igazo That notion is actually pretty disturbing when I think about it.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but, if I remember correctly their luck is supposed to really kick in on the days when they wake up with the 24 hour 'Feeling Lucky' moodlet. During that time most things are supposed to go well for them. I use those days to build relationships that are usually slow building, send them out to find rocks and other gems or just skill build. Oh, the Lucky trait is supposed to really come in handy in the casino.

Pretty certain that until your sim has 1 cooking skill, they're 100% likely to keep burning their food....

My lucky sims appear more likely to win the lottery, get inheritances from long lost relatives, survive being electrocuted/burned, possibly less burglarized? If they're kleptos, they seem better at snatching higher valuable things in their area. They also seem more likely to find precious rocks/gems around the hood and other valuable stuff when dumpster diving etc

The "feeling lucky" moodlet appears to amplify this as well

All speculation on my part btw

@yoshi_dragur2012 - Yeah, using the stove without any cooking skill does carry a higher chance of burning food or catching the house on fire, especially if it's on one of those cheap stoves. Solution: read up to chapter 1 of the cooking skill book or Autumn Salad & Micro Mac and Cheese your way there :)!

On 'Feeling Lucky' days my Sim seems to find more valuable metals and space rocks but for some reason the really super high value ones still elude me.

@yoshi_dragur2012 @mw1525 I don't think so about the cooking thing. I have never had it happen so many times for a sim during his first couple days like this. And the reason I was asking about the lucky trait was to point out the irony.

@MKSizzle - The cooking thing is not absolute, it's a random event which is chanced higher on the cheaper stove. I have had Sims torch not just their food but themselves on the cheapest six-eyed stove in the game, lesser on the cow poke stove or above. The only Sims who are immune to this is one with the 'Natural Cook' trait. For every other unskilled or low skilled Sim there is a chance it could happen; lucky changes those odds a bit higher in favor that it won't happen to your Sim; it still could.

Okay, I'm missing the 'irony' part (just me), because the trait is basically a 'chance' trait with the chances for good things to happen being slightly higher for the Sim with this trait in comparison to a non-lucky Sim. Unless you meant irony of your Sim's life and not the trait itself, in which case I'd have to agree. :)

"mw1525;c-16689514" wrote:
@yoshi_dragur2012 - Yeah, using the stove without any cooking skill does carry a higher chance of burning food or catching the house on fire, especially if it's on one of those cheap stoves. Solution: read up to chapter 1 of the cooking skill book or Autumn Salad & Micro Mac and Cheese your way there :)!

Yeah. Who the hell needs the Cow Plant to kill Paps? Just whip up a hot 0 lvl batch of toxic Mac n cheese and keep that ready for those unsolicited welcome wagon house calls :D