Confused. Why do some of my Aliens have SimRays and others do not?

Are they in any club. Being in club gathering give sims abilities that they usually cannot do, like stealing.

I recently made a club for Aliens thinking that perhaps the Aliens without SimRays needed to use their Alien powers more - like: Analyze Personality - but this has not given them SimRays. They had Alien powers as children and teens, so being in a club has not "given" them any powers they did not originally have.

The Alien Sims with SimRays have been in my game longer and I have seen them around the game using their powers autonomously. I don't think I ever payed much attention to this until I realized some of my Aliens did not have SimRays. Maybe they need more Mischief skills.

Confusing.

Ah, I can't answer your question but you have reminded me that I found a sim ray in my part alien female's inventory. I wondered how it got there. It didn't seem to work though and was all black instead of being black and white like a normal sim ray.

I have seen her visiting the lab when I have been playing my scientist. She arrives there with other aliens when there is an alien visitor day. I just assumed she had picked the sim ray up there.

@Figwit Yes. They're all black. I just checked to see if mine worked. They do. I had my Sim run amok at the romance festival.

Lol, I mustn't have tried hard enough then. I will try again next time I play her house.

I discovered some simrays on my aliens after they had visited the lab. I wasn't sure if I imagined them "stealing" the rays, but seems I'm not the only one who has had this happen!

I'll have to wait until I get back to my Scientist and see if that's the connection.

I thought you only got the simray through the scientist career? Its the first thing you invent I believe

"surraaaaaa;15380778" wrote:
I thought you only got the simray through the scientist career? Its the first thing you invent I believe

No. Aliens have SimRays. Tho - Not all of them, it seems.

"dizzydee_k;15381401" wrote:

"surraaaaaa;15380778" wrote:
I thought you only got the simray through the scientist career? Its the first thing you invent I believe

No. Aliens have SimRays. Tho - Not all of them, it seems.

Wait they do because the scientist career is the only way to get them.