How "Lucky" is a lucky sim, really?

@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 @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.

"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

"mw1525;c-16689612" wrote:
@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.

Also sims who inherit the "Immune to Fire" hidden trait from their firefighter parents :)

Funny thing is lucky means when you die the reaper has no sympathy for you.But unlucky sims get a pass and get revived by grimmy.

So being lucky sure sounds unlucky huh?? Would rather know if I was on a plane that crashed I got to walk away from it ,wayyy better then buying a lotto ticket and getting some money.

@CravenLestat - The unlucky trait is truly unlucky. Think about it, living a life of misery from which you can't escape even through death! Sure you may survive the plane crash and live, but 'unlucky' odds almost guarantee you won't be in the same condition as before the accident; otherwise that would be lucky. ;)

@mw1525 Just say you won a bunch of money,can't spend it in the afterlife.Worldy possesions mean nothing.Just say you struggled through life and have a junky house 4 beautiful kids you love and a wife who loved you even though you are poor then an fool texting in a 70,000 car slams into your bicycle you are riding to work killing both of you.So what ,you just walk home and get to see your family again.

You actually can "Live" a better life without fear of death.You would try more things you normally were afraid of like bungee jumping,hand gliding,base jumping super high roller coasters etc.Dying of old age would not seem so bad since you fullfilled a ton of things in life that most would not attempt once.