Fire Prevention System Utility Panel is crap.
As the title says, that particular system is crap. By the time the sprinklers drop from the ceiling and activate at least 2 things in the room (usually the kitchen cause Sims apparently can't cook without starting a fire) catch fire. Naturally the item catching fire is the stove and the fire spreads; to the floor, counters, other appliances, possibly to other rooms, and the SIMS THEMSELVES! When I build homes I try to have a fire alarm as close to the stove as possible. If I could attach it to the stoves you better believe I would.
In the attached picture (that I hope shows up) it's possible to see how close the system panel is to the fire alarm. I thought if it was as close as possible to the source of the fire, the system would trigger faster, and thus maybe only need to replace one item. However, I forgot one very important rule: this is the Sims and NOTHING can go according to plan! Things like this really put a God complex in check.
I have a suggestion or two to go with the feedback. The first suggestion is to let us upgrade the panel, most items have upgrade options but this doesn't. It's upgrade option could be activate faster - dropping down more than one sprinkler to put the fire out sooner; the ability to move the panel up higher on the wall (in real life smoke moves up and if the panel is higher maybe it can be activated sooner if just doing that is easier than coding it for an upgrade option); and give insurance payouts that make sense - in the picture that stove and fridge new in build mode cost S1100 together but the payout was S440 a good way to do it would be to make the payout half of the total of all damaged items together, in this case the payout would have been S550 instead.
