I Just Want Burglar, Fireman, and Police NPCs.

"Nikoa;c-17251847" wrote:

"floridameerkat;c-17251830" wrote:
They're really not necessary. I always hated the burglar. It made me so anxious to hear the music, especially since if I didn't already have something in place to deal with it, there was nothing I could do. I'm glad they left them out this time. Since we don't have burglars, we don't really need police, and sims can put fires out themselves and we have the sprinkler system now, so we don't really need firefighters this time around.

I mean, that's great, but I want them. Some of my best memories from the game involve funny things the burglar took or getting jump scared by the music in TS1. I miss the random events from the game. The only similar thing we have is Vlad
breaking in and feeding on sims and they've seemed to tone that down because it doesn't happen often anymore (at least not in my game). They also added a police/detective career with no real reason to protect sims because there's no crime.

I'd personally prefer seeing a fireman NPC come into my sim's home an put out the fire rather than an automated sprinkler. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has an automatic sprinkler system in their home.

I recall back in Sims2, that my Vulcan (Spock) totally broke down and wept like a human when his car was stolen. Ah, now there's a memory. If memory serves, our Sims could fight off the burglar. It was only in Sims3 they didn't have that capacity. I'm not a fighter, myself. Older, frail and not as strong as I once was since my catastrophic illness hit, but I'd take my guitar and whack an intruder with it, just the same.

Yes, I too, miss the police and firefighters. I even miss the Repo man, truth be told, even though I never managed to be visited by such. Once the maid came before my Sim got back from work, so the account was a bit lean. She took the toilet in payment. That was a hoot.