Evil gnomes randomly appeared
I'm not sure why but 2 evil gnomes randomly appeared in my Sims house, destroyed the kitchen, another gnome appeared and all 3 joined forces to destroy the computer room. One of my Sims tried to beg ...
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Yes, the neighbors do visit. Baako and Billie Jang are goofballs - so come in and make themselves at home. But, I have not observed them in my sims apt while visually sick. Mostly I see them with visual ailments in the lobby or when complaining about the noise.
None of my Sims have gotten sick. Which seems odd. At least one should have a chance of getting an ailment over the 2 sim weeks I've been playing. Especially because they interact with the sick neighbors. I don't have ailments/luck disabled.
The restaurant was NPC owned. I assume that the gnomes invading the restaurant because of a sick waiter was normal for EBN.
This is the first SM apartment I've played since EBN. I haven't played a r-rental setup yet.
I'm not sure what the range is for ailment effects. Apartment and r-rental work differently from normal lots so maybe the effects are spilling into my sims apt from the one next door. Need to do some more playing in a different apt. and some r-rental.
If it keeps happening in other SM apartments or r-rentals, I'll make a bug report.
Adding: It seems to me that when I was playing my test game right after EBN came out, my Sim got some sort of warning about making the gnomes angry. Do gnomes not like Spellcasters using Magic? Do they keep showing up because my Sims use magic. 🤷♀️
No idea about relationships between gnomes and spellcasters. Maybe ask in the discussion forums ?
You could test a non-spellcaster household in san myshuno to see if it happens there too.
I've created a new vanilla TS4 folder. Going to move a copy of my Spellcaster family into the same SM apt and see what happens. Will move them around to different apts and some multi-family r-rentals, as well. Also testing with a new non-occult family following behind on the same route. Someone who looks through code could probably figure this out faster, but I'm just a field researcher.
I'm kinda leaning towards this being a plague brought on by an NPC. I traveled to my sims retail lot with the infected waitress and - tho it took a while - the evil gnomes did show up. Seems like if an infected sim were lingering near - but not on - a played lot, then only place they have to appear is the played lot. Is that a bug or just to be expected? Not a clue.
I don't know.
Personal opinion:
- If they appear on community lots: Probably intended. I know I had them spawn in the Naturopath career when ill Sims came over.
- If they appear your apartment when the NPCs did not enter you lot: I would report that as bug.
