Zapped while robotting

Happens far too often. Try and build the robot arm, supposedly it lowers chances of being zapped.

Ahh that is a good idea. Thank you ?

might depend on what one is making too?
so far I always had the least zappings when building curcuites or mechanisms, could make quite a few without being zapped once, but I always get zapped when building anything else.

I was getting zapped the most when making mechanisms which I found strange. I figured I would be getting zapped when making a bot more than making a part.

My sim is at level 10 now so I don't deal with zaps as much anymore. I found it pretty funny that one of the bot savants got killed by a zap during our robot building meeting in commons..LOL It seems like this is more dangerous than a house fire and I am ok with that...LOL

Handiness skill might help with this. I don't think my Sim with level 10 Handiness has been shocked at all while doing Robotics. Handiness level 5 reduces the chance of shock from electrical equipment, that might apply to Robotics as well as Handiness.

Servos when zapped also don't get dazed but energized.

"darkchadmeister;c-17368466" wrote:
Servos when zapped also don't get dazed but energized.

Those tiny details are gold to me. Love it

"Sketch793;c-17363726" wrote:
Handiness skill might help with this. I don't think my Sim with level 10 Handiness has been shocked at all while doing Robotics. Handiness level 5 reduces the chance of shock from electrical equipment, that might apply to Robotics as well as Handiness.

It doesn't. Level 10 handiness, my sim got shocked 15 times making a servo.

It's SEVERELY excessive. The robot arm helps a LITTLE. My sim only got shocked 12 times with the arm.

Yeah, I haven't done much with robotics before, but my current sim joined the bot savants at foxbury. They have +6 in both robotics and handiness, but have yet to accomplish making a single chatter bot (after 4 attempts) because they've gotten shocked every time. Usually while fully focused and at one of the bot savants meetings. It's almost enough to discourage me from ever engaging with the robotics skill again (i mean, it doesn't even have an aspiration attached to it, so there's not much incentive to begin with lol)

My big gripe about robotics is just how many mechanisims you have to make for some of the bots and toys. I was trying to make something relatively simple but needed 10 mechanisims for it. I'm almost scared to see what the robot arm or other, more complex items take!