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9 years ago
"TriX0099;14800795" wrote:
4714 hours played, and I've only had 2 fires ever. Once very early on, when a child was using the science table. Second time was recently while cooking (in a good mood with medium to high cooking skill). At one point, I wondered if simply placing the smoke alarm was preventing fires, so I stopped buying them, but that made no difference.
In the same time frame, I have had 0 electrocutions, approx 5 crash landings (not bad, since only 3 households have rockets so far) and 3 alien abductions resulting in 0 pregnancies (suits me fine, as I don't want them, but that must be annoyingly rare for those who do). 33 of my 35 households have the cheapest stove (they all start out poor, and there has been no point in upgrading), and they all have grills, but rarely the cheapest one. They frequently burn themselves when starting a campfire, but haven't caused a fire with one of those either.
The funny thing to me is, that I am one of those players, who wants all my sims to be happy and have great lives and blah blah, but as annoying as accidents are to me, I still want them to happen! I want to have to work to keep my sims happy, I want to be challenged, and I do want the game to mess with my plans as long as it makes sense. And cooking/repairing with low skill resulting in accidents makes perfect sense to me! I want to be in control of my game, but accidents also used to be avoidable (don't cook hot meals with no cooking skill, don't repair electrical items with no skill, don't use the giant telescope during the night etc).
Without challenges, there is no sense of achievement. The "annoyances" can cause some of the most hilarious and memorable moments, and those are way too rare in TS4 :(
I can understand completely. I never go out of my way, unless my story is something like a black widow, to kill off Sims. One of the biggest things that bothers me is that there are few, if any, consequences and little challenge.
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