New Meteorite Death

"mightysprite;c-18129839" wrote:

"Brd709;c-18129477" wrote:
Do the neighbours still come in and tell you off like they did in the sims 2? Every now and again i'd have an angry Mortimer Goth yell at my sim for looking "in the telescope"

Yes @Brd709 it took me the longest time to figure out that when my sims were looking in the telescope in the daylight they were actually spying on the neighbors and that's why they were coming in and beating up my poor sims in their own home :*

@mightysprite I never would have guessed either! My dad has a sun filter on his telescope and used to check the sun daily and record sunspots (not sure if he still does this) all the time when I was growing up. So I would have assumed that's what daytime use of the telescope was. :lol:

Is there a toggle cheat code to turn off Meteorite Death?

"DaWaterRat;c-18129213" wrote:
I know it's supposed to be rare, but I lost a sim within the first day. Two other sims (I was running a household with 5 sims - the 4 occults you can make from CAS and 1 human) used the telescope autonomously and were fine. I direct my human to use it and BOOM! Even in the middle of the afternoon.

Fortunately, he was created to be sacrificed in just such a way (and then added back into the household as the ghost.)

My sim got smooshed within an hour of me starting to play. I missed the notification to get inside, but probably would’ve ignored it in any case.

"GlacierSnow;c-18129920" wrote:

@mrs_starkey I'm with you. Most players seem to love new deaths, but I always groan when they're added. Because it means another part of gameplay that I will avoid all together.

I was super excited when they announced the small telescopes, because I have been wanting those for years. But the new death means I will no longer use telescopes at all until someone makes a mod to get rid of the death. :lol: I'm a weird player though, I guess. I don't like watching sims die. Doesn't matter that they can be brought back to life. I just don't enjoy it happening. For some reason that isn't fun for me.

Well, I think it is weird that many people enjoy watching their Sims die. :blush: lol

Luckily there already is a mod from Zero! :smiley:
You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/51864125
It is called "Zero_Tweaks_BG_NoMeteoriteDeath"

And bienchen already made a mod, where you can use the new Telescope inside and on roofed balkonies, it's called "usesmalltelescopeinside" and you can find it here: https://bienchen.sems-own-world.de/de/misc-mods/

But I don't know if those two mods work together.

I'm excited for the pack to come out later!! :smiley:

"SERVERFRA;c-18129969" wrote:
Is there a toggle cheat code to turn off Meteorite Death?

The only thing I can think of is this...

death.toggle off

"mrs_starkey;c-18130280" wrote:

"GlacierSnow;c-18129920" wrote:

@mrs_starkey I'm with you. Most players seem to love new deaths, but I always groan when they're added. Because it means another part of gameplay that I will avoid all together.

I was super excited when they announced the small telescopes, because I have been wanting those for years. But the new death means I will no longer use telescopes at all until someone makes a mod to get rid of the death. :lol: I'm a weird player though, I guess. I don't like watching sims die. Doesn't matter that they can be brought back to life. I just don't enjoy it happening. For some reason that isn't fun for me.

Well, I think it is weird that many people enjoy watching their Sims die. :blush: lol

Luckily there already is a mod from Zero! :smiley:
You can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/51864125
It is called "Zero_Tweaks_BG_NoMeteoriteDeath"

And bienchen already made a mod, where you can use the new Telescope inside and on roofed balkonies, it's called "usesmalltelescopeinside" and you can find it here: https://bienchen.sems-own-world.de/de/misc-mods/

But I don't know if those two mods work together.

I'm excited for the pack to come out later!! :smiley:

Yay! Zero to the rescue! Thanks @mrs_starkey for sharing the mod link. I will definitely be adding that right away.

> @simgirl1010 said:
> Re frequency of death by meteorite.
>
> https://twitter.com/SimGuruNova/status/1536763822400098304?t=ELulc6LnKu6M9rLDG0QONA&s=19

This is total bs ? LOL I literally got the notification 3 times for this death in like 1 sim day of playing

"mightysprite;c-18129839" wrote:

"Brd709;c-18129477" wrote:
Do the neighbours still come in and tell you off like they did in the sims 2? Every now and again i'd have an angry Mortimer Goth yell at my sim for looking "in the telescope"

Yes @Brd709 it took me the longest time to figure out that when my sims were looking in the telescope in the daylight they were actually spying on the neighbors and that's why they were coming in and beating up my poor sims in their own home :*

That's been around since TS2. Sooner or later the peeping sim gets a horrified expression, with the angry sim showing up not long afterwards. Not the best way to meet neighbors. Sim is safe if you can cancel it quickly enough.

I'm wondering if the Cursed lot trait ups the chances of dying this way? It certainly helps increase fire and electrocutions.

maybe it was a glitch but Wolfgang almost got this during the day spying on the neighborhood but I let him hide out inside for a bit, just a heads up unless this was found already.