Should there be power outages in the Sims?

Yes, I think that would be awesome! There aren’t enough unexpected challenges in our games. This is supposed to be a life simulation and life is full of unexpected happenings that you have to figure your way around or that result in injury, illness, and death and I would love to have more in game in the classic Sims humorous style instead of always having to force it.

Yes, I would like that, I think there's a mod that has that option.

Wouldve been great in Seasons! A small chance of a power outage during a thunderstorm, and say it lasts between 1 hour and 6 hours ingame.

"InuMiroLover;c-17729956" wrote:
Wouldve been great in Seasons! A small chance of a power outage during a thunderstorm, and say it lasts between 1 hour and 6 hours ingame.

For more extreme events, such as a blizzard, ice storm, hurricane, or other extreme weather, it could last between one day and several weeks, depending on how many sims lose power.

Sims 2 was going to have a power outage scenario, and you can have a powerless day in Sims 4 with the Eco Living NAPs.

If and only if they can be prevented if that's not how you like to play.

@LeanneStrong57 - all I can say is if they put that in Sims; better make sure you have a firepit handy. :D I love the idea of power-outages...especially in blizzards. We would also need methods for the sims to stay warm, like piling more blankets on the bed and maybe lighting the fireplace and lighting candles...in turn increasing the risk of burning their house down.

> @KatAnubis said:
> If and only if they can be prevented if that's not how you like to play.

Like a checkbox in the game options, like how you can turn off weather in Seasons and Snowy Escape, and can choose whether the temperature will effect you Sim or not in Seasons.

"Sallycutecat;c-17739900" wrote:
> @KatAnubis said:
> If and only if they can be prevented if that's not how you like to play.

Like a checkbox in the game options, like how you can turn off weather in Seasons and Snowy Escape, and can choose whether the temperature will effect you Sim or not in Seasons.

Exactly.

I like it that they've been having ways of turning things off.

I found that you can turn lifestyles off (which is nice until they can fix it so that when you use the lifestyle coach or the potion to get rid of a lifestyle like workaholic, they don't continue to act like they still have it. I don't like miserable Sims!)

I would love this. It would add so much more realism and a bit more of a challenge to the game. :)