"Stormkeep;d-996642" wrote:
I have had a ton of issues with fires with my current Sim household.
When they had a toddler...she constantly was putting her wabbit tablet down too close to the fireplace. I think we went through 8 or 9 tablets, lost to fires, to that little tyke.
I also knitted a rug and put it down under the rocking chair...the chair itself never having caught on fire made me feel it was not too close to the fire.
Boy was I wrong.
Twice now Kim Goldbloom has decided to brew a potion while visiting this household. Both times, the kitchen stove caught on fire while she was cooking it...
Now I took the same Household on their first vacation to Granite Falls, and no sooner did I take one Sim away from the campgrounds and the campfire caused a massive fire. By the time I got my attention over to it the blaze was huge, we're talking 3x3 grid and everything in it on fire.
I can't remember the last time I had a Sim household with so many different instances of fires. It's freaking insane.
So interesting, I've wondered the same thing sometimes when I had a Sim who just seemed unlucky in everything. It would make the game more interesting if it were the case.
About rugs and fires though, it drives me bonkers that something that should prevent fires, in the game causes them. Woollen hearth rugs are naturally fire resistant and may smolder if a cinder lands on them, but won't just burst into flame as if they were cotton.
Having
no hearth rug (unless it's stone or masonry in front of the fireplace) is what should be the fire risk.
