Alien abductions out of control

"TayoChan;d-941129" wrote:
I think alien abductions are out of control in my current game. My current household is a couple of collectors with the goal to complete all collections in the game. One sim was briefly part of the science career but left and now the couple has a rocket to explore space.

I know all of this heighten abduction chances, however, this sim has but abducted more times than any other sim I've had before and resulting in 4 pregnancies. Whats worse is that he and his wife just got home from the hospital after giving birth to the 4th alien baby only to be abducted almost immediately. He had just enough time to go upstairs and send the baby back to its homeworld only to go back downstairs to be abducted again.

I cheat bought a satellite after the abduction the resulted in the 4th pregnancy then used the "prevent abduction" option however that clearly doesn't last that long as I had to have my sims wife reactivate it once they go home from the hospital, unfortunately, the abduction was already in progress.

Is this common? What are the abduction rates? And how significantly are they increased by space travel and what not? I getting pretty annoyed with it all.

https://i.imgur.com/dTHMwuU.png

I'll share my solution with you and other simmers. When I spot a sim heading towards a door to "investigate the weird light", I immediately pause the game (one needs to be quick) and go into the build mode (via the current play mode). I then build a room outside of that doorway (with no door, of course). (One can do this with all the doors if one is not sure which one your sim is headed to.) Returning to the play mode, the sim will exit that door and not be able to continue outside as he/she is now in a little room. Voila, no abduction! I return that sim to whatever they were doing before the interruption and remove the provisional room some time later. Happy gaming!