Firefighters, then where are BURGLARS?!

the repomen are the burglars. sorry couldn't resist. :)

They probably have to figure out how it's going to work with Get To Work. I'm sure they'll come eventually.

I don't see why not. Outfits and animations for the police officers already exist, so that part's done. Burglars can use the prison jumpsuits they use in GTW; but to an extent, could use some animations that already exist.

But given we have firefighters, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sims team is working on it.

There's a possibility Robbers and Police may come back too there's some hints cockroaches are coming back because of Eco Lifestyle since they'll be adding bugs into that apparently, Cockroaches not absolutely necessary but that was funny i admit even after the sims got a cold i was chuckling and they cried and i couldn't help myself haha! :D the fact in Eco Lifestyle everyone can steal each others stuff especially Cleptomaniacs it makes sense to add Robbers back too.

"BohoFlower;c-17515353" wrote:
There's a possibility Robbers and Police may come back too there's some hints cockroaches are coming back because of Eco Lifestyle since they'll be adding bugs into that apparently, Cockroaches not absolutely necessary but that was funny i admit even after the sims got a cold i was chuckling and they cried and i couldn't help myself haha! :D the fact in Eco Lifestyle everyone can steal each others stuff especially Cleptomaniacs it makes sense to add Robbers back too.

Technically cockroaches were added in city living. With the needs TLC lot trait you can get rats, roaches and a series of other issues. I do hope they expand that and make it so roaches are released from that lot trait. I mean you can have rats without it I believe in Cats and Dogs they give you the option to out a mouse hole anywhere and it actually has mice spawn. So they should be able to do the same with roaches

"Noree_Doree;c-17515533" wrote:

"BohoFlower;c-17515353" wrote:
There's a possibility Robbers and Police may come back too there's some hints cockroaches are coming back because of Eco Lifestyle since they'll be adding bugs into that apparently, Cockroaches not absolutely necessary but that was funny i admit even after the sims got a cold i was chuckling and they cried and i couldn't help myself haha! :D the fact in Eco Lifestyle everyone can steal each others stuff especially Cleptomaniacs it makes sense to add Robbers back too.

Technically cockroaches were added in city living. With the needs TLC lot trait you can get rats, roaches and a series of other issues. I do hope they expand that and make it so roaches are released from that lot trait. I mean you can have rats without it I believe in Cats and Dogs they give you the option to out a mouse hole anywhere and it actually has mice spawn. So they should be able to do the same with roaches

Yeh it doesn't make sense to just be in City Living when there's a whole entire world in this game with garbage and greenery where rats and cockroaches could realistically be, in their attempt to Theme everything i think they have to pay more attention to those smaller those if it's just better in just the Base Game or just in a Pack. I guess maybe keep rats in Cats and Dogs cos Who will catch the rats if there's never an Exterminator?.

Well, repomen act like burgulars.
It would be fun if the sims could fight the repomen.

The fact that they've added firefighters and repomen to the base game brings me hope that we'll be seeing burglars and cops as NPC's sometime soon. They just need to make an NPC that combines elements of a vampire break-in and a repoman event, program a working burglar alarm (likely borrowing elements from the fire alarm code and reworking it to respond to this new event), then borrow the firefighter alarm and phone call response code and modify it to respond to a burglar by fighting the crook, cuffing them, and carting them away. That could take a while, but maybe they're already on it. If they actually are working on it right now, it may be just 12-18 months away at minimum (being generous here, because of testing and bug squashing and the possibility of weird and unforseen interactions between different bits of code).

What confuses me is the fact we have a trait that enables stealing, we have vampires with the ability to break into our homes (Shoutout to my homie, Vlad), as mentioned above, we have fire alarms! We have phones, we have EVERYTHING (INCLUDING A CRIME CAREER) Burglars need to be added/created, it's not even as if there's an argument to have between effort/time/money/lack of ability, we have all the pieces but nobody wants to put the puzzle together! and it's so annoying because now we have Firefighters, police (Technically, if you have the active detective career) and the option to nick stuff, why aren't burglars here yet?


It isn't as if Guru's can defend it with the "Not wanting to upset simmers", because again, VLAD! Stealing, violence, death, poisoning (Technical murder), assault, really, I cannot see the issue with having another negative element to the sims 4, especially when I doubt they'd bring back the creepy music from older series or the stereotypical outfit of our beloved burglars.


It just feels a bit ridiculous, it's been several YEARS and still no burglars, nowhere near as many NPC's as we used to have in the sims 2/3, and as much as I understand they need to switch things up to keep the game series fresh, there's nothing fresh about giving us half plum content that has nothing to do with what we've actually asked for.


It shouldn't take YEARS to make something simmers can basically create themselves in-game, just because it doesn't suit their agenda/content plan.

One twitter handle that I was reading said that one of the Neighborhood Action Plans, Sharing is Caring, will allow your neighbors to show up to your sims house uninvited, let themselves in, and take some of your Sim's stuff. If this is how it indeed works, I will take it as a very cautiously optimistic sign that burglars will be coming back "soon™".