After I got the "Life and Death"-pack in december, alien abductions went through the roof. My adult sims are abducted at least once a week each, even if no one has even talked to an alien, and none are scientists.
I frequent reddit and I have seen several others comment on the same issue at the Sims 4 subreddit, making it clear that this isn't only affecting my gameplay.
Playing with/without mods does not seem to affect frequency at all.
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I haven't even gotten the Lifeand Death pack, and I still have this same experience.
My household has two sims, one female gardener, and one male ghost. The female has been abducted once, but the male ghost has been abducted four times now. None of them are scientists, and I've only been playing with them for two weeks.
Is the impregnation thing still a thing, or can anything actually happen with them, besides getting the "Dazed and confused" mood affect?
If I managed to catch it early I could cancel the interaction but boom the VERY NEXT NIGHT when I tabbed out they got my Sim lol these aliens are relentless 😭
I've also two other households of non-scientists who got abducted NEAR DAILY and it's happening to just a particular Sim. Excessive is an understatement.
My scientists were abducted 9 days in a row and I just let it happen! Both in the same household, and only 1 of them each day. Neither of them have been abducted since. I also know that if you put the space rocks and geodes in your yard, this will encourage or increase the likelyhood of an abduction? If you have a scientist and they have the satalite dish, they can stop abduction completely with it. Don't know if that's just for the day or if it's permanent. I have not tested that. I wish that females could get pregnant from alien abduction like men supposedly can. None of my guys have been impregnated but someone said if I go into cas and make it so they can get pregnant, their likelhood increases? Wonder if I give a female a males body if they will get impregnated or male with female body? Neither of these have I tested. I also just now noticed that Chelsie "reached the top of Career" but Zoey did not??? ummmm, Yes she did!!! (another mundane bug? ha! ) Same day as Chelsie!!! Both were in Scientist career, but not anymore!
Peeking at tuning I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this.
Eating alien pizza, eating alien candy, being affectionate with an alien, talking to an alien, marrying an alien, renewing vows with an alien, and specifically Searching for Truth with the telescope increase the alien abduction tracker. One of the tarot cards reduces it. Contacting aliens with the satellite dish guarantees a very high chances buff (permanent 10% chance per night, until an abduction happens), and being a scientist boosts that buff to 20%, and having space rocks and aliens on your lot bumps it up to 40%.
Otherwise it appears to be a random chance with a default 98% chance of not happening, but 2% chance of happening, that becomes a higher base chance the higher the hidden tracker (from the above listed interactions) gets, and then the chance further multiplies if they're a scientist or have space rocks or aliens in their inventory or on the lot.
Nothing I could find would make this happen more often. My guess is that something with the Tarot system busted it- since there's a Tarot card that affects abduction chances- but I can't find any relevant tuning.
(Note that using the telescope itself does not actually increase abduction chance, which is odd. I think it used to.)
Perhaps sims who had previously gotten the hidden abduction tracker to a certain level are now locked into that level for some reason.
If you are on PC, download Lumpinou's Sim Info Toolbox. Click a Sim who keeps getting abducted. Choose to View their data and find their Commodities. Check for the "commodity_AlienAbduction_tracker" and note its value. Once your Sim is abducted, check it again. Tell me what the values were. That would be my best guess, and it would explain why it isn't happening to every sim- it may be sims who already had a higher chance are stuck with that chance?
How do I get the satellite dish? Because of a technical problem with One Drive (which I have now uninstalled). I used a backup file to restore my games, but it also made the game think I was starting the games for the first time. After that alien abductions have become frequent. One of my male sims got pregnant twice in a row, even though his settings specified he couldn't get pregnant. An alien baby doesn't fit in with the storyline I'm telling at all. Two other households also an abductee. There should be some sort of birth control that can be applied to protect my male sims. Before the reset alien abductions were rare and usually only happened to lora that had telescopes. Removing the telescopes haven't stopped the abductions.
Is this some sort of bug or glitch????
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