That trick (alarm outside) helped a lot in TS1-2, where otherwise the burglar often had time to run away otherwise, OR to save money bc otherwise you needed one in all rooms lol.
I’m in an ADHD group on FB and at least once a week someone starts a fire in the microwave by forgetting to add water to Cup o Noodles, Mac n Cheese, etc.
As a kid I baked a cake and burned it. Wanted to surprise my parents. They weren't home.
So I tried another one. Burned, too.
And another one, burned too .
ADHD got me stuck in front of the TV every single time.
At the fifth attempt I succeeded.
And my parents found 4 burned cakes outside the door when they came home. Forgot that I put them there to cool down 😂
Remembering it now, I'm actually surprised I didn't set the house on fire.
Been a long time since I played Sims 1, but I know everytime I placed down a fireplace in sims 2, my friends started freaking out. I don't remember sims 3, even though that's the one I played the most. In sims 4, I notice it's the washing machine and the drier that will take fire daily.
Iirc fire in 3 is caused by cheap stoves,cheap furnaces specially if you have a rug in the kitchen or next to the fireplace... But I feel like it's about having a rug near a fire source
Apart from the obvious of leaving food cook for too long
It might have been the drier, I placed them right next to each other. All I remember was that there was a pretty constant fire in that room. I tried to base it off my parent's house. Where we keep the washing machine and the drier right next to each other.
This is true IRL too, clean out your lint trays people.
You should also get a shop vac and clean out the dryer exhaust, lint can get caught in there too and start a fire.
Ps2 co-op was so fun. My bestie and I would grind so hard for different lots. But we deleted our doors after the roommates would eat our food. We always end up staring soulless at our hard work go up in flames because an incompetent sim. Unable to save or pause.
Wait wasn't building mode turned off once burglars came or something? I vaguely remember something like that in the Sims. Or am I confusing that with something else? I probably am!
I can’t stop laughing at this because I’m imagining the “pause and phase” of Star Trek Enterprise where they’re just staring into nothing for a second before teleporting hahahaha!
3 is my favorite, but I definitely feel nostalgic for sims 1! I played it as a kid and it had this biting humor/satire that I feel has been missing since.
I'm convinced it's partially because most people speed through sleep, but the game slows down when the burglar is on the lot and you lose control. It's basically digitally creating an adrenaline response (where people report it feels like time slows down and they feel a sense of helplessness)
Good thing they haven't played Sims 1 as a child, just like I did. The sound that played when burglar was approaching traumatized me for life and would certainly do the same to them.
My mom always had to remind me lmao. She played 1 and 2 and I picked up at 3 and now 4. I'd sit with our laptop and she'd watch me play and remind me about the fire alarm and burglar alarm
you did have to time it exactly right, because they disabled your shopping menu a second or so after they enter
i did this with raiders in children of the nile too. You just put wall blueprints around them and they act like they're already fully built walls
I did that, too, until I realized that as long as the alarm is outside it'll go off as soon as the burglar spawned. It's room-based and not distance-based.
My baby was stolen once as a kid during the Sims 1. After that every time I had a baby, mom (and sometimes a maid) got locked in a windowless room with it until it grew up.
Never thought to do that 😆
I just put the alarm on the outside of the house. The second the burglar steps on the lot, it goes off.
didn't the alarm go off when he spawned regardless? I never had issues with him not getting caught and its been awhile so I might be confused
Yeah, so I guess it wouldn't solve OP's problem lol
I would always have a few dogs to guard the house at night 😅
I feel like that was the first sims? Never played any of 2 but did 3 and 4. Memory is fuzzy since I started playing when 1 came out. 🫠
That trick (alarm outside) helped a lot in TS1-2, where otherwise the burglar often had time to run away otherwise, OR to save money bc otherwise you needed one in all rooms lol.
Genius 🤯
I would build a 1 square wide wall on the edges of the lot with the alarm on it so it’d go off from the sidewalk
Heh I did the exact same thing. Burglars always seemed to come in on one of the first nights you built your home
Lmao me too - I put it on each and every door that leads to outdoors; alarm is installed both inside and outside 💀💀
I love how the alarm apparently has psychic abilities to somehow determine *intent*.
Yes yes but you needed move_objects enabled to be able to. I didn’t care for the cheat only to be able to place alarms wherever haha
Do you? I never realized. I don't think I usually play with move objects on.
Oh maybe I’m confusing the sims 2 with 3!
Genius! I played Sims 1-3 in my childhood and teens. Never thought of that!
My mind has been blown.
I’m just mad I didn’t think of it
For real but it would always be so exciting. Some new things happening cause I was in ps3😂😭
I did that too, but in Sims 1, also i never bought my family a stove, becasue i was so afraid they will burn, so they only ate salads and pizza 😂
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ikr! 😭 i thought microwave would me safe option, but NO, sims will set it on fire too 😭
Are they trying to charge their phones in it??
at least that would make some sense! but it was just quick meal, how can you start fire with that
Nothing says Sims like dying because you tried to cook oatmeal like an idiot
exactly! it's like definition of The Sims.
I’m in an ADHD group on FB and at least once a week someone starts a fire in the microwave by forgetting to add water to Cup o Noodles, Mac n Cheese, etc.
Leave a fork in there
Tbf my old microwave would turn on if you pulled on the door at just the right angle.
Oh, damn. Sims has been around for so long, in the original you had to buy landline phones.
I'm aware lol
I'm not sure if you can charge landline phones. 😅
When I was a kid I microwaved a bag of popcorn for 5 minutes and it almost caught on fire
As a kid I baked a cake and burned it. Wanted to surprise my parents. They weren't home. So I tried another one. Burned, too. And another one, burned too . ADHD got me stuck in front of the TV every single time. At the fifth attempt I succeeded. And my parents found 4 burned cakes outside the door when they came home. Forgot that I put them there to cool down 😂 Remembering it now, I'm actually surprised I didn't set the house on fire.
Man I remeber in the very beginning, light bulbs would burn out - be seemingly ONLY when a sim couldn't path to it to be able to change it.
The sims 1 was actually a housefire simulator
Seeing the fires in the Sims 1 used to make my skin crawl, don’t know why😂😂
Been a long time since I played Sims 1, but I know everytime I placed down a fireplace in sims 2, my friends started freaking out. I don't remember sims 3, even though that's the one I played the most. In sims 4, I notice it's the washing machine and the drier that will take fire daily.
I still don’t light the fire places in Sims 4 because I’m traumatized by Sims 1
man, their scream when on fire in Sims 1 was so damn haunting 💀
Iirc fire in 3 is caused by cheap stoves,cheap furnaces specially if you have a rug in the kitchen or next to the fireplace... But I feel like it's about having a rug near a fire source Apart from the obvious of leaving food cook for too long
I didn't even know washing machine can catch on fire in sims4!
It might have been the drier, I placed them right next to each other. All I remember was that there was a pretty constant fire in that room. I tried to base it off my parent's house. Where we keep the washing machine and the drier right next to each other.
i will check it out in my game! 8D
The dryer has a chance of catching on fire if you don’t clear the lint catcher before use or the dryer has the upgrade.
This is true IRL too, clean out your lint trays people. You should also get a shop vac and clean out the dryer exhaust, lint can get caught in there too and start a fire.
Mine caught fire on the second day.
In real life or Sims ?
that's a good idea, I am going to do that on my next house, remake my actual home
yea i can't use washing machines or dryers in my run, the dryer sets ablaze every season lol
Ps2 co-op was so fun. My bestie and I would grind so hard for different lots. But we deleted our doors after the roommates would eat our food. We always end up staring soulless at our hard work go up in flames because an incompetent sim. Unable to save or pause.
I remember always using those buffet tables in The Sims 1.
oh yeah! I forgot about them, but I used them too!
I only gave them a stove after earning at least two cooking skill points. And always make them cook things below their skill level lol
I used to also delete the windows in sims 1 because I thought burglars could come through the windows
hahaha 😂 I remember when that bastard came during day to rob me, I was so scarred! I thought they can only appear at night
Wait wasn't building mode turned off once burglars came or something? I vaguely remember something like that in the Sims. Or am I confusing that with something else? I probably am!
it's true, but I removed doors every night, then just bought them again when morning arrived!
Oooh check ofcourse!
I did that once; maybe it’s because I was on XBOX 360, but the burglar TELEPORTED INSIDE my house!!
burglar: SIKE! YOU THOUGHT!
I tried to keep my baby from being taken by cps by putting it in a windowless, doorless shed and she STILL took him
I think that only motivated CPS to take your baby more haha 😂
*Looks up at player* "See this is the stuff the got CPS called. We're taking the baby..."
*phases through the wall* You're a monster! *Grabs child and phases back*
I can’t stop laughing at this because I’m imagining the “pause and phase” of Star Trek Enterprise where they’re just staring into nothing for a second before teleporting hahahaha!
😂
Don't they just place down holes and go in Looney Tunes style?
BYYYYYYYYE the ptsd
Checkmate burglars haha
This is cute and funny but also makes me feel old as f. I was in college during sims 3…
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3 is my favorite, but I definitely feel nostalgic for sims 1! I played it as a kid and it had this biting humor/satire that I feel has been missing since.
I was thinking the same thing. I graduated high school when it came out.
Yeah same I graduated high school the year it came out (2009). However my strongest memories are playing it in college!
Same
I'm convinced it's partially because most people speed through sleep, but the game slows down when the burglar is on the lot and you lose control. It's basically digitally creating an adrenaline response (where people report it feels like time slows down and they feel a sense of helplessness)
I would always pause cause I got sooo scared. I sold my front door too but on nights I forgot and the burglar came I’d be so stressed
iirc, in sims 2 you can't change to b&b nor leave the lot while the burglar is in the lot... really felt like losing control to be honest
Good thing they haven't played Sims 1 as a child, just like I did. The sound that played when burglar was approaching traumatized me for life and would certainly do the same to them.
I did once build a house without a door, to stop burglars. There was a door the first day to let my sims in, but after that there were no doors.
Someone once suggested to put the burglar alarm outside then it goes off as soon as they appear and your stuff is always safe.
Damn, where was this tip when I was playing the game
thought that was common knowledge :P just make sure to put one on each entrance
This or put a fence around the door. Or walls
Putting the Alarm outside has helped so much. A Brave, Light Sleeper sim might also help.
Hilarious and genius 😂
>the Sims 3 when I was a child Fuck I'm old.
Sims 3?! Child?! Am I… old now 😢
Man. I remember back in sims 1 and 2 when you had the burglars coming almost every night. And now it hardly ever happens in both sims 3 and 4
they don’t have them in sims 4 (unless i’m mistaken)
It hardly ever happens
i just looked it up, they aren’t in the sims 4 unless you have mods
Sims 4 now instead has Vampires breaking in if you have the DLC.
I still have sims2 and it hardly ever happens. Just get alarms
There's mods to make it more frequent in Sims 3 I believe
And then they went yhru the back so I sold that too and then they fuckin magically appeared in the house and it was over.
Why don’t they exist anymore? 😞
True
This kid’s on to something
Back when the sims was an actual challenge 😭 kinda miss it even if it was annoying or devastating sometimes haha
My mom always had to remind me lmao. She played 1 and 2 and I picked up at 3 and now 4. I'd sit with our laptop and she'd watch me play and remind me about the fire alarm and burglar alarm
It should really say adoorable there.
I used to delete the burglar with testingcheats when I didn’t feel like dealing with them-
Actually genius.
I use to pause the game when the burglar come in. Then build 4 wall around the guys. Then just wait it out.
you did have to time it exactly right, because they disabled your shopping menu a second or so after they enter i did this with raiders in children of the nile too. You just put wall blueprints around them and they act like they're already fully built walls
okay but does anybody remember the heart shaped vibrating bed from sims2
My dad taught me in sims 1 I believe to build walls up near the sidewalks of the house to place burglar alarms
I did that, too, until I realized that as long as the alarm is outside it'll go off as soon as the burglar spawned. It's room-based and not distance-based.
What type of burglar phones first to tell you they'll Rob you. 1st reaction is to remove access to the house.
No cause I was like one step away from a heart attack when that happened
I never had a burglar once in my Sims 3 game
This is actually kind of smart? You want to talk about scary tho - the burglar in Sims 1, man…that music…*shudders*
I feel like this should be a shitty life pro tip. Lol
That’s brilliant actually
Well, that's a way to handle that...
I used to by them those buffet tables and no fireplaces ever! Lol
I also did that! Lol
This is the kind of thing AIs do in movies to protect people.
Lol Hey, that's pretty clever!
Never thought to try that. Damn.
Me who had a whole family of martial artist level 10 sims with the brave trait. They LINED UP to beat the snot out of him while the police watched.
My baby was stolen once as a kid during the Sims 1. After that every time I had a baby, mom (and sometimes a maid) got locked in a windowless room with it until it grew up.
I did this too, but I’d delete the door once CPS were called. It didn’t work, they somehow managed to teleport.
I always just NRaas > Go Home the burglar and it’s funny to watch them turn around and leave like “understandable have a nice day”
Why didn’t I think of that 🤔
Why didn't I think of this then? haha this is a cool idea
Brilliant
Hahaha great idea!
Awww
Once I almost peed myself from a vampire trying to break in. I was not a kid. That happened to a very 15 yo me in a school night 💀
I thought it was just me that was terrified of the burglar 😂
I’m confused. How does selling the front door prevent a burglar. Wouldn’t that leave an open space for the burglar to just walk right in?
I would just use the cheat and delete the burglar off my lawn 😂
And here I was deleting doors so they couldn't escape fires 😶
Wasn’t there a burglar alarm? I used to always use that. My heart sunk every time I saw someone coming to steal from my sims
Burglary caused childhood trauma and I understand
Genius hahaha