Why So Many In Game House Fires

"Oldeseadogge;c-17178593" wrote:
Since the June patch. Until then I did not have a single fire in 5 years. Since the patch fires have been plentiful, almost constant, regardless of stove type or cooking skill level.

I certainly wasn't having this much 'fun' with fire before then, that's for sure. ;)

I decided to try something new tonight. I picked another gallery house and plopped it down over the old one. My theory is that the other gallery house was secretly cursed. *Queue dramatic and creepy music* So the family had to exorcise the curse of the bacon fire. Someone made a grilled cheese sandwich and the new house didn't catch fire. Hooray! Knock on wood/holding thumbs.

Stay tuned for the further misadventures of Playing With Fire In Simsville!

*It is most likely a tweak in the last update causing all the ruckus but one has to indulge in one's inner melodrama once in a while.

"So_Money;c-17178277" wrote:

"ElDimentio;c-17177915" wrote:
I've actually only ever had one fire in 250 hours of Sims 4. It was a teenage Sim with no cooking skill who decided he wanted to cook something even though the fridge was full of leftovers cooked by more competent people...

This is truly unbelievable! One fire in 250 hours? Do you play in starter home scenarios? Do your sims already have high cooking skills?

I think the odds of spotting Bigfoot on my drive to work are better than having one fire occur in 250 hours of play.

idk also usually have very few fires
(like i always have to trigger one if im tryna have it and there aint accident about it)

but thats probably because i usually have that one sim that does the cooking and choose good oven from start even if that means i cant afford some other things because the cheap ones just don't look realistic to me

Just the other day I had the same sim start 2 fires within minutes of each other. Once, trying to put out the fire place. And again trying to grill something! I just sent her to bed for the rest of the day.

I had to turn off emotional deaths via MCCC because the game seemed to be targeting my same Sim. He died twice and was hysterical a third time after rolling back the game save! Had it been a different Sim I would have rolled with it. But not Erik. As for house fires, not so much, here.

"InuMiroLover;c-17180151" wrote:
Just the other day I had the same sim start 2 fires within minutes of each other. Once, trying to put out the fire place. And again trying to grill something! I just sent her to bed for the rest of the day.

See! It isn't just me! I don't blame you for sending her to bed, she was having a really bad day (not to mention being a complete disaster). ;)

"GalacticGal;c-17180176" wrote:
I had to turn off emotional deaths via MCCC because the game seemed to be targeting my same Sim. He died twice and was hysterical a third time after rolling back the game save! Had it been a different Sim I would have rolled with it. But not Erik. As for house fires, not so much, here.

I think I read that post the other day, poor Erik. The house fires thing was feeling a lot like your emotional death targeting, weird.

I was able to paly a little while yesterday and the new house seems to not have the hidden Schleprock trait going on, no fires at all. So far, so good!