Do You Want Burglary Back?

If there's going to be burglars. They should have it to where your household could be burglarized by someone else living with your Sims or maybe that thieving person your Sim is dating currently. Like a roommate pretending to go off to work but comes back to burglarized the place masked. Maybe the Sim could be more shock or disappointed being robbed by someone they know.
Maybe there could be a group of burglars to visit your lot. Should be robbed any hour of the day.

Just to add this... :D

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:smile: When I first started playing Sims 4, it took me forever to get out of the habit of making sure there was nothing outside that could be stolen, even though I knew there were no burglars. (Now, with Seasons, I've had to bring stuff back indoors to protect it from lightning.)

One thing I really did not like with burglars in previous iterations was the screaming alarm - I'm very sensitive to noise. I wouldn't mind having to outsmart burglars again (putting in alarms and so forth) to add a bit of challenge, however.

Also, it would be nice if the burglar wouldn't steal things like wall lights. Evidently, there was a huge black market in 'refurbished' wall lights. Sims 3 burglars couldn't get enough of them. (Of course, I wouldn't be happy if he or she stole my Sims' fully upgraded and modded computer, either.)

Having to replace items is needlessly annoying, especially if the burglars should target hard to procure stuff from collections. That's also why I prefer the utilities cut over the former repoman.

I wouldn't mind burglars as much if they took money. Maybe sneak up to a kitchen cupboard and take it out of the cookie jar with a grin? Or from under the matress, while the sim is sleeping.

I just want things to be able to go wrong in this game, in general. TS4 is sorely missing the aspect of random events that gave the previous games charm. Everything is too sugar-coated, for the sake of people who just want a happy-go-lucky game that they have complete control over - thus ignoring those of us who like unexpected things to happen to our sims.

I hope the next Sims game has an Easy, Medium, and Hard mode. I think that would be the simplest compromise, so those that don't want danger/consequences can avoid it, and those who do, can actually have it in their game without it being incredibly hard to have it happen at random.

TS4 seems like some sort of utopia in which everyone is happy as long as the room is pretty. I'd love a bit more drama to create some new stories! They can add some funny elements to the burglar event so that it won't be that scary.

+ if they can create a lamp to keep the monster away from the kids bed, they can create something to put in your sims home which prevents the thief from showing up. That way simmers who don't want to be confronted with such a thing can prevent is from happening.

Also, I'm pretty sure a GP containing "bad things" would sell quite well. You know a GP which contains things like burglars, pickpocketing, more random fires (and firemen!!), the debt collector, more ways to die (allergy for peanuts, bee stings, influenza from TS2 and stuff like that), ...

"LiesSim;c-16327159" wrote:
I always loved the burglars and I've been playing since I was 8... I bet the vampires we now have would've scared me more than burglars. Actually, not even those would've scared me. As long as they keep it light and breezy there's nothing scary about it. Maybe add an option to turn them off? Or add them to a stuff pack which includes other things that are "scary" so sensitive people know it might not be the right pack for them. They could do some funny things with them too. Maybe with a radio playing, instead of running away when the alarm goes off, the burglar can do the roger rabbit or the running man move or something (so (s)he can start crying when the police arrives). They don't even need to fight, just have the officer show the handcuffs and point the finger. Honestly just add them already, they aren't scary enough to make someone lose sleep. Make them trip over carpets and steal ridiculous things like the toilet and no one will be frightened.

"DoloresGrey;c-16772002" wrote:
I used to say I want burglars. But yesterday my husband's bike was stolen. It was locked and inside of our house. It was just a bike but I don't feel safe anymore. Since that happened I am not sure whether I want burglars or not...

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Sorry to hear about the bike.

Burglars were fun when my Sim would have the Brave trait and fight the burglar himself/herself (especially combined with high Athletic skill). Maybe there could be a lot trait for those players that really don't want the burglars stealing their Sims' stuff; you could put that lot trait on your poor to middle class Sims' lots, and take it off for the wealthy Sims.

I'm meh on burglars TBH -- I want to see firefighters return first.

I don't want burglars because I don't like unexpected things happening in my game. I play the sims to escape from life and for me that means being able to control everything that happens to my sims.

Yes because it will bring back how Sims used to be and also add more story to it like your house gets robbed you call the police the police come take them to jail. If you play as a police officer you go to the police station and guess who sitting in the cell your burglar that would be awesome. Also I would like to get calls as a police officer of someone stealing from a house and we catch them instead of looking for them.

I have a question so should Sims especially kleptos. Have the option of going to jail? And you can't play them for a couple of Sim days because their in jail then they get like a sad moodlet just a thought.