Should sims experience extreme weather events, or other natural disasters?

"LeanneStrong57;d-984023" wrote:
Hurricanes/typhoons/tropical cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes, derechos, dust storms, blizzards, ice storms, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc.

If *and only if* they make it so that those of us who *don't* want them can turn them off if we're not interested! (Thank goodness we can turn things like storms and blizzards off in TS4!)

I'll go for that extreme weather, as long as a) there is a toggle for the "safe-space'rs" to turn things off and not have to deal with a "slice of reality" and b) there are careers or activities involved around them...like storm chasing, weather prediction and disaster rescue.

We actually already have earthquakes, blizzards, thunderstorms and volcanos (in TS4, depending on packs owned and lot traits). I think it could be fun if they added more though and integrated it more into the settings themselves rather than lot traits. It would need a toggle for the people that don't want it affecting their game at all.

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17730443" wrote:
I'll go for that extreme weather, as long as a) there is a toggle for the "safe-space'rs" to turn things off and not have to deal with a "slice of reality" and b) there are careers or activities involved around them...like storm chasing, weather prediction and disaster rescue.

Love this idea too and I'd definitely want something like that included.

Interesting idea, but do we really want folks that can't get snow right to implement this?

"Oldeseadogge;c-17730979" wrote:
Interesting idea, but do we really want folks that can't get snow right to implement this?

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~thumbs up~.
EA might need some ice...

for that BURN! :D

It's the rain I can't handle at the moment. I've turned it off for a while as it's too frequent in some areas and I'm getting tired of it. Less of that and and occasional disaster might shake the game up a bit though. If those who don't want disasters can turn them off.

Back in my day, Sims used to have random meteor events. Old days were better.

I'm all for this kind of stuff happening in the game as long as it's done properly. There absolutely should be an option to disable it for those that don't want it. Major disasters should also have a HUGE knock-on effect on the neighbourhoods and it's residents.

They should also be coded in a way so they don't happen all that often. I know things aren't always as realistic as they could be in The Sims but I'd hate to have to encounter an earthquake one day, a tornado the next then a few days late another earthquake or something. One or two disasters within a Sim's lifetime would be plenty.

They could of course make districts or entire neighbourhoods that are prone zones for various disasters are something. Sulani would be good for volcanic rumbles or eruptions because there is an active volcano. Another neighbourhood could be prone to tornados and so on.

"TARDISgrade;c-17804506" wrote:
I would love it. To me it adds realism and a sense of adventure (I loved earthquakes and meteorites in TS3, my best-loved Sim was a firefighter) but as others said, only if there were a toggle, so that you can choose whether to activate these events or not.
There could also be a trait (similar to the storm-chaser one) so that Sims having it are actually excited by extreme natural events, while regular sims are scared by them.

I tend to think of storm chaser as more of a career path option than a personality trait.

For me, the number of days of rain in my game is nothing. In fact, the rains within the Sims games soothes me because it reminds me of home. :D Where I live, we get 165.1 days of rain in a year. It's pretty much nearly one in every 2.2 days it's a rainy one. Our unofficial provincial flower is the "umbrella" which blossoms when it's wet outside.