How to prevent burglars?

If you get NRAAS MasterController mod you can totally annihilate sims without worrying about leaving stuff behind. Shift Click Delete just removes their body, the sim is still in the game you just can't see them and you can't make them visible by adding clothes.

NRAAS Story Progression may allow you to get rid of burglars.

You'll find useful info here

http://nraas.wikispaces.com/search/view/burglars

You can place the alarm on an exterior wall.
The further from the bedrooms the better ... Even on the exterior wall of an unconnected garage can work.
If you build a gatehouse at the entrance of your property ... You can put it on a wall there.

When the alarm goes off ... It's not inside the house.

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It does require a mod to suppress the burglar scenario entirely, but sorry StoryProgression has nothing to do with it and the NRaas search page isn't really going to help in this case. Deleting the burglar sim no matter how it's done won't help either because the game will just keep creating new ones to replace them in the service pool for next time.

If not averse to using mods though, NRaas Retuner can be used to set the Chance of Burglar down to 0 which should prevent the scenario from ever firing.

OP need the Retuner path to turn it off. I can try to find it if someone doesn't already know what it might be under.. I still have a hard time finding certain things with Retuner. I know I've tuned the burglar setting in my game game through Retuner but I don't remember the path off the top of my head.

Thank you, thank you, thank you @igazor! I only recently installed Retuner at your suggestion and, thanks to your answers to people on the forum, am learning new tricks with it every day (well, almost every day ;) ).

@SimplyJen I will keep my eye on this thread in case you do find the path as I do find Retuner to be very confusing. Thank you :)

This isn't going to be exactly right, I'm too far away from my game right now to get the actual path. Will leave this here as a placeholder and fix it when I get a chance later on unless someone beats me to it.

NRaas > Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.Services > Burglar > kChanceOfBurglar > 0 (default is 0.025)

"igazor;c-16285681" wrote:
This isn't going to be exactly right, I'm too far away from my game right now to get the actual path. Will leave this here as a placeholder and fix it when I get a chance later on unless someone beats me to it.

NRaas > Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.Services > Burglar > kChanceOfBurglar > 0 (default is 0.025)

Got it. Just set it to 0 in my game. Not particularly because I want it that way but it was interesting to see if this path works and it is perfection - as expected.

"Mikezumi;c-16285688" wrote:
@igazor I will be loading my game in a few minutes so will start looking in this direction. I suspect you remember better than you think :) Thanks :)

Oh, you guys think I do this all from memory? Ha! :p

I carry a copy of the game's ITUN file, that is, things that can be reached by tuning that way, around wherever I go (okay, not really that either but I just happened to have it handy right then) for reference. It's just a huge XML file that can be searched for interesting words like "burglar." This isn't a deep, dark secret either, the file is available near the bottom of this page: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Retuner+FAQ
(the 1.63 version is still valid, there weren't any changes here in the later patches)

Thank you so much! I'm so happy to be able to play the game again :)

If anyone doesn't want to use mods, or has enough already, the burglar can just be reset with the command console. As soon as he or she appears on the lot, you can see the name, and resetsim works just fine. The burglar doesn't get deleted, just sent back to the purgatory where NPCs hibernate whenever the game doesn't need them. (I also do this with cops that try to catch my teens out after curfew.)

In big families, I never seem to get burglars no matter how long I play. I wondered why for a long time, but then I realized that they only come when everyone's asleep. So if I have a sim with a late work shift (chef, musician, athlete, etc.) who stays up most of the night, the burglar can't show up. Even babies who are awake in their crib seem to prevent a robbery, and since they only sleep a few hours at a time, their sleep schedules rarely synch with the rest of the household. I guess they make better witnesses in TS3 than in real life.