Is there any way to turn off alien abductions?

I'll contact every news outlet I know, and start my own petition if I have to. This is serious, it's about the mental health of players who also happen to be assault victims. I will not be letting it go, if they think they got backlash over the shrines in snowy escape, just wait.

Here's how to stop abductions without mods:

When your sim goes outside to "investigate strange light", pause the game.
Open the cheat console, type testingcheats on, hit enter
Now shift-click on your sim, look for "reset sim" or "reset object", select this option and the abduction will not happen.

"MissSweetViolet;c-17934303" wrote:
I'll contact every news outlet I know, and start my own petition if I have to. This is serious, it's about the mental health of players who also happen to be assault victims. I will not be letting it go, if they think they got backlash over the shrines in snowy escape, just wait.

Given the really important PTSD context, I highly recommend contacting a SimGuru on Twitter to initiate a conversation about this, ask them who best to talk to about it. If you have personal experience, all the better. It's been a game feature since 2015, but later than that they started to take a more serious interest in equity issues and might well be more interested in a toggle addition now than they were. Do point out, if you contact them about this, that adding a mod is not an option for Console players.

@MissSweetViolet My sim, an Elder and a celebrity writer, is not in the science or astronaut career and he was abducted 3 times and impregnated twice. He hates children and enjoyed being abducted. Made a killing off the books he wrote about his experience. So, sometimes the game just randomly abducts folks.

I have another male sim that I was planning to make a hobo that just lives off the land when the game just abducted him and impregnated him. #GoFigure??‍♀️ I just roll with it, but is jarring when it wasn't what you intended.

My first male sim that was abducted was an astronaut. It was when I first started playing TS4 winter 2019. I was shocked and excited. So Malcolm Landgraab (I changed him, made him good & biracial) became the father to an alien daughter.

I've had females abducted too, they are in the science career. When Dahlia Snooboo was abducted she came back started a rocket club and impregnated male sims. Bob Pancakes and Jako's wives just rolled with it and accepted the babies.

Also I would be very upset it they removed abductions from the game, it is one of the reasons why I purchased GTW. If it upsets you that much disable the EP.

> @EnkiSchmidt said:
> Here's how to stop abductions without mods:
>
> When your sim goes outside to "investigate strange light", pause the game.
> Open the cheat console, type testingcheats on, hit enter
> Now shift-click on your sim, look for "reset sim" or "reset object", select this option and the abduction will not happen.

All well and good if your a player who wishes to cheat, but what about those that don't? I don't feel they should be forced to just to avoid something that given the protentional sensitivity of the topic should not be forced in to.

> @luthienrising said:
> Given the really important PTSD context, I highly recommend contacting a SimGuru on Twitter to initiate a conversation about this, ask them who best to talk to about it. If you have personal experience, all the better. It's been a game feature since 2015, but later than that they started to take a more serious interest in equity issues and might well be more interested in a toggle addition now than they were. Do point out, if you contact them about this, that adding a mod is not an option for Console players.

I'll look into that, as I'm really not here to start a war with EA. I love the sims games, I just don't think it's fair that such an important topic is so easily glossed over when the fix is so simple. To just ether add a toggle or a pop up, something like "sims name sees some strange lights, should they investigate?" Making it optional might even allow them to un nurf it (not that I've noticed it being nurfed in my games), so those who do like it can have happen more often.

"troshalom;c-17934331" wrote:


Also I would be very upset it they removed abductions from the game, it is one of the reasons why I purchased GTW.

Same. A toggle is the best solution for everyone's enjoyment of the game.

> @troshalom said:
> @MissSweetViolet My sim, an Elder and a celebrity writer, is not in the science or astronaut career and he was abducted 3 times and impregnated twice. He hates children and enjoyed being abducted. Made a killing off the books he wrote about his experience. So, sometimes the game just randomly abducts folks.
>
> I have another male sim that I was planning to make a hobo that just lives off the land when the game just abducted him and impregnated him. #GoFigure??‍♀️ I just roll with it, but is jarring when it wasn't what you intended.
>
> My first male sim that was abducted was an astronaut. It was when I first started playing TS4 winter 2019. I was shocked and excited. So Malcolm Landgraab (I changed him, made him good & biracial) became the father to an alien daughter.
>
> I've had females abducted too, they are in the science career. When Dahlia Snooboo was abducted she came back started a rocket club and impregnated male sims. Bob Pancakes and Jako's wives just rolled with it and accepted the babies.
>
> Also I would be very upset it they removed abductions from the game, it is one of the reasons why I purchased GTW. If it upsets you that much disable the EP.

I'm not in the slightest suggesting they remove anything, only that they come up with a way to disable it for those who don't want it/are sensitive to it.

> @CaprianaB said:
> Same. A toggle is the best solution for everyone's enjoyment of the game.

Agreed, or something like it. I've thought of three solutions so far. 1: Toggle. 2: A pop of of some kind. 3: ether redoing the existing item, so you don't have to unlock it, or reactivate every 24 hours, or more ideally, they could just make a new item who's sole job is repealing alien abductions. (So the unlockable could stay an unlockable) Something like a speaker like item maybe, that would be easy to hide in designs, and not needing to be unlocked, then a player would only need to grab it and place it. Maybe it could be something that you select/deselect "prevent abductions" or something like that, it would be on till you turn it off, and the sims couldn't just change it. (Kind of like locking/unlocking doors). Then if you wanted abductions, you just would not get the item, or disable it if you had.

I like my aliens and there abduction the way they are this thread shouldn't haven't been bought up at all
because its from 2019 and its against the rules and also you saying you want to go to the media instead of just leaving feed back makes me think your just attention seeking

> @comicsforlife said:
> I like my aliens and there abduction the way they are this thread shouldn't haven't been bought up at all
> because its from 2019 and its against the rules and also you saying you want to go to the media instead of just leaving feed back makes me think your just attention seeking

Easy for you to say if you have never been an assault survivor or known one. These kinds of things can be real triggers and bring up painful memories, you want to support leaving it as it is now with no why to control it so a player who has been victims can have those memories just brought back to the surface?

Also, I didn't know the thread was from 2019 when I first started posting, I was searching the topic and it took me to one of the last pages, where the posting was more recent, I noticed after, but since people were discussing, I wanted to give my opinion. Your also now doing to by posting just now, so what's your excuse?

Third it's not attention seeking, it's called being appalled by something that quite honestly EA should have be more compassionate over. As someone who knew someone who was assaulted, I know very well what this kind of thing can do. I'm also not asking them to remove anything, but simply just asking for a way to disable it for those who might be affected by it.

"MissSweetViolet;c-17934453" wrote:
> @comicsforlife said:
> I like my aliens and there abduction the way they are this thread shouldn't haven't been bought up at all
> because its from 2019 and its against the rules and also you saying you want to go to the media instead of just leaving feed back makes me think your just attention seeking

Easy for you to say if you have never been an assault survivor or known one. These kinds of things can be real triggers and bring up painful memories, you want to support leaving it as it is now with no why to control it so a player who has been victims can have those memories just brought back to the surface?

Also, I didn't know the thread was from 2019 when I first started posting, I was searching the topic and it took me to one of the last pages, where the posting was more recent, I noticed after, but since people were discussing, I wanted to give my opinion. Your also now doing to by posting just now, so what's your excuse?

Third it's not attention seeking, it's called being appalled by something that quite honestly EA should have be more compassionate over. As someone who knew someone who was assaulted, I know very well what this kind of thing can do. I'm also not asking them to remove anything, but simply just asking for a way to disable it for those who might be affected by it.

according to you your not an assault survivor and you don't know who I know or what I've been though
I've always said I'm okay with toggles and I mean that and I'm not going to say anything more on this thread
I shouldn't have given you any attention at all