Like the title says when did kitchen fires get nerfed? Devs you've taken away meteor and falling satellites, we have to wall up pools to get a drowning. When I set my Sim to repair an electronic item they just develop the handiness skill. If my Sims get sick it's no longer serious. No guinea pig bites and no deaths by scary ghosts.Yesterday my Sim started to cook and then, as usual was distracted by something. This time a lump of clay. She walked away from the stove to fiddle with the clay and I thought uh-oh, better get her back here. Then my deviant nature kicked in and I thought....no...let's get some kitchen fire drama going. I watched and waited.....and waited....and waited. No smoking food, no fire...nothing. A suspicion touched my mind and I thought no....it can't be. I brought my Sim back to the stove to finish the meal....and I watched......yes......plum, plum, plum, plum!!!!!! She lit the burner and finished cooking!!!She, or something, had turned off the stove when she walked away!Aw come on devs! I keep trying to like this game and you keep making it harder for me to do that. ETA I did go back today and test. Yes my kitchen fires are gone. I tested with every Sim in the house and the burner was turned off each time.

These sims have gotten too smart lol first they learn to get out of the pool without a ladder and now they turn off the stove before walking away. All these fire prevention books in the sims 3 must have worked lol Now on a serious note, I do miss random deaths and challenges. It's like the have baby proofed the game....kitchen fires do occur but they are random and there is nothing you can do to start them. Also the chances of it happening are very slim...

I agree. They've made the game too safe for the Sims. It wasn't like a meteor or satellite killed them every few seconds. It really makes it pointless to have alarms at all. I miss the occasional burglar, too. Instead we get neighborhoods flooded with ghosts and clowns. I'm not liking that trade off.

"QDog;14798200" wrote:These sims have gotten too smart lol first the learn to get out of the pool without a ladder and now they turn off the stove before walking away. All these fire prevention books in the sims 3 must have worked lol Now on a serious note, I do miss random deaths and challenges. It's like the have baby proofed the game....kitchen fires do occur but they are random and there is nothing you can do to start them. Also the chances of it happening are very slim...Yes on another serious note I keep trying to like this game and then I discover something else like this and I don't open the game for months.

"KatsKats;14798204" wrote:I agree. They've made the game too safe for the Sims. It wasn't like a meteor or satellite killed them every few seconds. It really makes it pointless to have alarms at all. I miss the occasional burglar, too. Instead we get neighborhoods flooded with ghosts and clowns. I'm not liking that trade off.And they aren't even haunting, scary ghosts. If we had a cowardly trait....that actually worked.....and had scary ghosts we might see some fainting and scared to death.

"PHOEBESMOM601;14798213" wrote:"QDog;14798200" wrote:These sims have gotten too smart lol first the learn to get out of the pool without a ladder and now they turn off the stove before walking away. All these fire prevention books in the sims 3 must have worked lol Now on a serious note, I do miss random deaths and challenges. It's like the have baby proofed the game....kitchen fires do occur but they are random and there is nothing you can do to start them. Also the chances of it happening are very slim...Yes on another serious note I keep trying to like this game and then I discover something else like this and I don't open the game for months.If you want to spice up your game I suggest CC and mods. There is a mod for more frequent fires and another mod for deadlier fires (they spread faster and they also kill faster). I believe they are available at Mod The Sims.

Who nerfed kitchen fires and when did this happen?

MasonGamerBoi
9 years ago
"Scobre;14799002" wrote:
It got nerfed with a patch last year. Gurus didn't want the whole house catch on fire which stinks but makes sense since they never programmed a NPC for it as a safety net. I miss the house fires, so I have to mod back in the pre-patched fire chances.

Ugh bring on the magic, So I can just fireball the house, and poof away.
even fire ball the Goth's house from across the street and be on my merry way.

I just want my mansion to have that scorched burnt, abandoned look.
runamoksims
9 years ago
"MasonGamer;14799051" wrote:
"Scobre;14799002" wrote:
It got nerfed with a patch last year. Gurus didn't want the whole house catch on fire which stinks but makes sense since they never programmed a NPC for it as a safety net. I miss the house fires, so I have to mod back in the pre-patched fire chances.

Ugh bring on the magic, So I can just fireball the house, and poof away.
even fire ball the Goth's house from across the street and be on my merry way.

I just want my mansion to have that scorched burnt, abandoned look.

Lots of luck with that one.
Scobren
9 years ago
"HIFreeBirdIH;14799032" wrote:
"Scobre;14799002" wrote:
It got nerfed with a patch last year. Gurus didn't want the whole house catch on fire which stinks but makes sense since they never programmed a NPC for it as a safety net. I miss the house fires, so I have to mod back in the pre-patched fire chances.

If/when they do add a firefighter NPC, I can imagine that they'd be willing to turn up the chance a lot more since there's an NPC to save the Sims before they die. It would be very cruel, yet very funny, if they turned up the chance to 30%-40%, just to check how people respond, but they'd probably just turn it back up to about 5%-15%.

I hope to at least 20% and yeah I'm thinking lack of NPC could be why. That would be funny. XD I tried flavor 2 with this mod and the settings were too high to put the fire out. I'm liking flavor 1 so far. http://modthesims.info/d/569221 So you can view the default settings with that link.

Fire spread chance is 75%, Time to extinguish is 100%, 100% time needed to burn a Sim, and takes 30 Sim minutes to start a fire.
EmmaVane
Seasoned Veteran
9 years ago
I rarely start fires on stoves with zero cooking skill. Grills on the other hand... They always seem to start a fire first time, if it's a new sim.

Personally it makes sense that an open flame (grill) is more likely to cause a fire than a hot stove top (cheap one has direct heat rather than open flames)
babysquare
9 years ago
I undestand there being no cops you can cal,l because there are no burglars, but why no fire dept, when there can be fires?
MasonGamerBoi
9 years ago
"PHOEBESMOM601;14799057" wrote:
"MasonGamer;14799051" wrote:
"Scobre;14799002" wrote:
It got nerfed with a patch last year. Gurus didn't want the whole house catch on fire which stinks but makes sense since they never programmed a NPC for it as a safety net. I miss the house fires, so I have to mod back in the pre-patched fire chances.

Ugh bring on the magic, So I can just fireball the house, and poof away.
even fire ball the Goth's house from across the street and be on my merry way.

I just want my mansion to have that scorched burnt, abandoned look.

Lots of luck with that one.

if that gets nerfed... then they've done plum'd me off, that's right I made "Plum" a new bad word. If you think you've seen a mad toddler fan.
you've created something much worse.
Scobren
9 years ago
"MasonGamer;14799051" wrote:
"Scobre;14799002" wrote:
It got nerfed with a patch last year. Gurus didn't want the whole house catch on fire which stinks but makes sense since they never programmed a NPC for it as a safety net. I miss the house fires, so I have to mod back in the pre-patched fire chances.

Ugh bring on the magic, So I can just fireball the house, and poof away.
even fire ball the Goth's house from across the street and be on my merry way.

I just want my mansion to have that scorched burnt, abandoned look.

The Goth's graveyard got culled though. No place to put people that got fire balled. :( Yeah I'd love to see more worn out looks for houses and magic.
LatteCrab
9 years ago
"BabySquare;14799064" wrote:
I undestand there being no cops you can cal,l because there are no burglars, but why no fire dept, when there can be fires?

Yes, the logic of this kills me!
The only thing I can think of, for excuse of no firefighters, is that we "have the water sprinklers", so it's not "deemed necessary". :/
But to me, not the same.

Just like when I first heard we would have hospitals in GT (long while ago).
I had foolishly hoped we'd be able to visit them for things like injuries, burns, sickness, etc. :s
But nope, it's only for career, and giving birth...
(and aesthetically, to me, just as bad as the rabbit holes in Sims 3, because we don't get to see the place & go.
Nope, we just teleport there... :'(
Scobren
9 years ago
"SimplySimazing;14799188" wrote:
"BabySquare;14799064" wrote:
I undestand there being no cops you can cal,l because there are no burglars, but why no fire dept, when there can be fires?

Yes, the logic of this kills me!
The only thing I can think of, for excuse of no firefighters, is that we "have the water sprinklers", so it's not "deemed necessary". :/
But to me, not the same.

Just like when I first heard we would have hospitals in GT (long while ago).
I had foolishly hoped we'd be able to visit them for things like injuries, burns, sickness, etc. :s
But nope, it's only for career, and giving birth...
(and aesthetically, to me, just as bad as the rabbit holes in Sims 3, because we don't get to see the place & go.
Nope, we just teleport there... :'(

Yeah I find the GTW lots just as bad as rabbit holes too. Why I was glad when GT didn't bring any hidden lots. I can't stand hidden lots in the Sims 4. They are just as annoying as rabbit holes.
HIFreeBirdIH
9 years ago
"Scobre;14799209" wrote:
"SimplySimazing;14799188" wrote:
"BabySquare;14799064" wrote:
I undestand there being no cops you can cal,l because there are no burglars, but why no fire dept, when there can be fires?

Yes, the logic of this kills me!
The only thing I can think of, for excuse of no firefighters, is that we "have the water sprinklers", so it's not "deemed necessary". :/
But to me, not the same.

Just like when I first heard we would have hospitals in GT (long while ago).
I had foolishly hoped we'd be able to visit them for things like injuries, burns, sickness, etc. :s
But nope, it's only for career, and giving birth...
(and aesthetically, to me, just as bad as the rabbit holes in Sims 3, because we don't get to see the place & go.
Nope, we just teleport there... :'(

Yeah I find the GTW lots just as bad as rabbit holes too. Why I was glad when GT didn't bring any hidden lots. I can't stand hidden lots in the Sims 4. They are just as annoying as rabbit holes.

I honestly wished that they would at least make new mini worlds for them like Magnolia Promenade. That would have saved a whole lot of grief and allow them to build on those lots without funky work-arounds. Plus, since they have the special lot tags, they could probably just do that and patch in a map for those two neighborhoods.