Zapped while robotting

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!

I thought I was the only one who complained about how often it happened.

Being as someone who, in real life, tinkers with electrical and mechanical stuff a lot, it should be directly tied to skill. If you don't know what you're doing, it should happen a lot (low skill), but if you do know what you're doing, it should be a very rare occurrence.

For anyone interested, there's a mod by LittleMsSam that lowers the chances.
https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/619989464091082752/random-small-mods-sometimes-mods-are-sooo-small

It's like every "fail" interaction with TS4, it happens way too frequently. Like I get that they don't want the players to just breeze through the gameplay like there's no tomorrow, but there needs to be a balance. Especially when it's being done by sims who are highly skilled in both handiness and robotic skills. :neutral: