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Random fact explained: Ocean Safety level
This feature is for swimmable waters in the neighborhood, be it oceans, rivers, lakes etc. Essentially, it determines two things: can sharks be encountered and can your sim be pulled underwater.
There are three safety levels:
- Safe - No shark encounters
- Mild - Shark encounters, but no (or very rare) chance of being pulled underwater
- Dangerous - Shark encounters with a chance of being pulled underwater
The setting apples to the neighborhood. Here are some examples:
- Safe
- Ohan'ali Town (Sulani)
- Gibbs Hill (Britechester)
- Every other ocean not mentioned in further lists
- Mild
- Lani St. Taz (Sulani)
- University of Britechester (Britechester)
- Gilbert Gardens (San Sequoia) (debated for now)
- Dangerous
- Mua Pel'am (Sulani)
- Foxbury Institute (Britechester)
- Koh Sahpa (Tomarang)
When your sim is swimming in a mild or dangerous ocean, they have a chance of encountering a shark, giving them a Scared moodlet (or Happy one if they have Child of the ocean trait).
In dangerous oceans, sims have a chance of being pulled underwater. One of these two things must have happened before that:
- They've encountered a shark.
- They've got Island Curse after banishing an Island Spirit.
After being pulled underwater, they may either survive and be scared (and have a higher chance of being pulled underwater again) or they may drown.
While mermaids can call the ocean threat to pull sims underwater (even in pools), it'll never kill sims in that case.
So yeah, next time your sim encounters a shark, be mindful of the neighborhood they're in. If it's one listed under Dangerous, get out of the water.
It is great helpful information to read about the various safe ocean levels and how they apply to the various neighbourhoods @EgonVM It is good to know which are safe, mild and dangerous and the risk of being pulled underwater.
I hope that my sims don’t encounter any sharks! 🙂
Was reading some obscure sections of Carl’s Guide and found a reference to something I’d never really thought about. Sims actually have preferences in movies. Apparently, it’s a base game feature that has never been expanded or added to with additional packs. You can pick movies for your sims based on their traits eg Bros and active sims love action movies, while evil sims hate family movies and love horror movies. Might be time to bring out the popcorn maker and do some experimenting…
That is great to know @OzSimsFamily 🙂 It would help them to enjoy the movies more if it suited their traits, or could cause them to get angry if there was a conflict. It helps to know this when choosing movies for sims to watch.
Forgot to add some sims get scared while watching horror movie and will spill their popcorn. I’ve also seen some of my sims seem to develop a favourite popcorn to make - one of my sims makes only buttered popcorn autonomously while another only ever makes caramel corn autonomously. Not sure if this is actually coincidence or if Sims actually do develop favourites for types of popcorn.
I haven't heard about favorite TV channels... I'll have to check it out.
However, Movie Night stuff does bring favorite movie feature. It isn't from traits, but something sims can declare after enjoying a movie. After that, they enjoy that genre of movies more. There are 5 specific hidden traits for these.
Fun fact on the snooping feature (For Rent expansion pack).
There are two special traits sims can get from the feature: Public Menace from blackmailing too much (more social fulfillment from Mean and Mischief interactions and easier break in I guess) and Safe Keeper for keeping many secrets (easier to obtain secrets and faster relationship gain).
Sims can have these two traits active at the same time.
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