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JustMeAlb's avatar
JustMeAlb
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago

When townies attack

Since getting Get Together I've seen townies randomly fighting each other and my sim. I've seen it happen once, maybe twice, during a night of game play but last night my sim was attacked four times. I only have the base game with Get Together and Jungle Adventure and was playing only one sim in the household which I almost always do. I play with autonomy off otherwise my sims would drive me freakin insane. I've googled this and read the old posts and didn't see any solution to this.

Been in a real loner mood so till last night my sim had done the Rags to Riches thing then been pretty much staying at home cranking out aspirations and skills and using the reward points to lock down his needs and pick up other improvements. Last night I got bored enough to venture out but opted to observe the townies from afar.


  • First time he was attacked my attention was elsewhere when I noticed a confident moodlet pop up that essentially said, "Kicked her butt". Wait, what?! Looked in his relationship list and saw a towny I had not seen before with their relationship midway in the red. Decided to make it final and drove it all the way red.
  • Second time I saw Nancy Landgraab walk up to my sim and attack him. I had read that with enough mean interactions you can make them die from extreme anger and decided to try this on Nancy. Worked at it for a while and had her extremely uncomfortable with an obvious need for a shower but she managed to slip off the edge of the area and disappear.
  • Third time it was an old woman trying to attack my sim. Already had testingcheats on so I reset her then moved my sim away, she stood there for a while then went after my sim again. Being just a few hours till his work time I just sent my sim home.
  • Fourth time a new guy attacked and I used the testingcheats to pull him into my household then edited the household and deleted him. Noticed he had the Evil trait but don't recall the others.


This is equal parts annoying and amusing. If anyone knows how to stop this autonomous fighting I welcome the solution, but I'm also curious about other's experiences with this.
  • My Sim got attacked/chased around by a dog (the lot I was playing was a dog hangout so that strays just come in whenever they like).

    It was hysterical.
  • Isharell's avatar
    Isharell
    New Spectator
    Whaaaat? This is the second post I've read this week that is moving this pack from don't want to almost gotta have. Now I'm wondering which of my sims could become a Master Brawler ;)
  • Hm, I did not know this, although I love WB and play there a lot. I thought OP was referring to the fighting ECO hood trait first :)
  • "JustMeAlb;c-17878682" wrote:
    "Pamtastic72;c-17878662" wrote:
    "Simmerville;c-17878536" wrote:
    Hm, I did not know this, although I love WB and play there a lot. I thought OP was referring to the fighting ECO hood trait first :)


    I think it only happens in Windenburg in , Old Town at night. I personally find it hilarious because I love the fight animations.


    I've experienced it both parts of town, been in Old Town more so of course I've experienced it more there. Guess I should try having him sit in other areas of the world since he's proven to be such a fight magnet.

    The fight animation was indeed funny especially at 3x speed and when I had the queue filled with the action, and I'll never forget the expressions of the bystanders.


    Oh yeah, the bystander reactions are indeed priceless.
  • "logion;c-17877919" wrote:
    Sims in Windenburg will attack each other randomly. I think it's supposed to be like bar fights or something.


    Thanks for that tip, I ahve only seen it once and Windenburg may be one of my absolute favourite world, that was when a child attacked my hero for no reason at all.
  • OEII1001's avatar
    OEII1001
    New Spectator
    Is it neighborhood brawl day? That's a holiday that randomly spawns on the calendar. I think it's awesome, but if you don't you can just delete it like you would any other holiday.

    EDIT: Never mind, there's the answer:

    "EmmaVane;c-17878993" wrote:
    Windenburg has a random NPC role called "Brawler" - They start fights with active sims. It's one of the neighbourhood quirks, like the unique greetings (cheek kissing etc). I think it uses similar code to the fighting sims you see when on patrol as a police office in Detective career, except they attack your sims instead of other sims in the neighbourhood.

    IL has unique things too, like neighbours bringing you food or putting out fires. StrangerVille has the infected sims and SIBs (Sims in Black).

    I like these details because it adds a little uniqueness to the sims in the world, in addition as to the uniqueness of architecture, terrain and weather.

    EL has special roles added to premades which you can add to any sim via cheats (or get added to randoms if that sim dies). Bess's investment scams opportunities, Knox's green crusade etc.


  • "EmmaVane;c-17878993" wrote:
    Bess's investment scams opportunities...


    Bess was found face down in a pool fully surrounded by a high fence in my sim world. A police spokesman said the case went cold when they couldn't narrow the pool of suspects down any further than "literally everybody in the solar system."
  • "EmmaVane;c-17878993" wrote:
    Windenburg has a random NPC role called "Brawler" - They start fights with active sims. It's one of the neighbourhood quirks, like the unique greetings (cheek kissing etc). I think it uses similar code to the fighting sims you see when on patrol as a police office in Detective career, except they attack your sims instead of other sims in the neighbourhood.

    IL has unique things too, like neighbours bringing you food or putting out fires. StrangerVille has the infected sims and SIBs (Sims in Black).

    I like these details because it adds a little uniqueness to the sims in the world, in addition as to the uniqueness of architecture, terrain and weather.

    EL has special roles added to premades which you can add to any sim via cheats (or get added to randoms if that sim dies). Bess's investment scams opportunities, Knox's green crusade etc.


    In my case it was one of my own Sims (a kid) who attacked my hero in a viscious way, so the kid was not a brawler. But is was in connection to the life sized chessgame with livwe pieces near the library

  • SheriSim's avatar
    SheriSim
    Seasoned Hotshot
    I’ve had the pack since the beginning too, and never noticed fighting. Maybe I have too many packs, and too many of my own people in the game.