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Who nerfed kitchen fires and when did this happen?
PHOEBESMOM601
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Like the title says when did kitchen fires get nerfed? Devs you've taken away meteor and falling satellites, we have to wall up pools to get a drowning. When I set my Sim to repair an electronic item they just develop the handiness skill. If my Sims get sick it's no longer serious. No guinea pig bites and no deaths by scary ghosts.
Yesterday my Sim started to cook and then, as usual was distracted by something. This time a lump of clay. She walked away from the stove to fiddle with the clay and I thought uh-oh, better get her back here. Then my deviant nature kicked in and I thought....no...let's get some kitchen fire drama going.
I watched and waited.....and waited....and waited. No smoking food, no fire...nothing. A suspicion touched my mind and I thought no....it can't be. I brought my Sim back to the stove to finish the meal....and I watched......yes......plum, plum, plum, plum!!!!!! She lit the burner and finished cooking!!!
She, or something, had turned off the stove when she walked away!
Aw come on devs! I keep trying to like this game and you keep making it harder for me to do that.
ETA I did go back today and test. Yes my kitchen fires are gone. I tested with every Sim in the house and the burner was turned off each time.
Yesterday my Sim started to cook and then, as usual was distracted by something. This time a lump of clay. She walked away from the stove to fiddle with the clay and I thought uh-oh, better get her back here. Then my deviant nature kicked in and I thought....no...let's get some kitchen fire drama going.
I watched and waited.....and waited....and waited. No smoking food, no fire...nothing. A suspicion touched my mind and I thought no....it can't be. I brought my Sim back to the stove to finish the meal....and I watched......yes......plum, plum, plum, plum!!!!!! She lit the burner and finished cooking!!!
She, or something, had turned off the stove when she walked away!
Aw come on devs! I keep trying to like this game and you keep making it harder for me to do that.
ETA I did go back today and test. Yes my kitchen fires are gone. I tested with every Sim in the house and the burner was turned off each time.
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Now on a serious note, I do miss random deaths and challenges. It's like the have baby proofed the game....kitchen fires do occur but they are random and there is nothing you can do to start them. Also the chances of it happening are very slim...
Yes on another serious note I keep trying to like this game and then I discover something else like this and I don't open the game for months.
And they aren't even haunting, scary ghosts. If we had a cowardly trait....that actually worked.....and had scary ghosts we might see some fainting and scared to death.
If you want to spice up your game I suggest CC and mods. There is a mod for more frequent fires and another mod for deadlier fires (they spread faster and they also kill faster). I believe they are available at Mod The Sims.
I'd rather see it where the game actually had consequences instead of living in happy, happy la la land and mods had to be used to prevent fires.
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It seems that TS4 is the PC version of this. I guess this is the age group it's geared towards now.
But I'm talking about just a plain old fashioned kitchen fire. It's unbelievable what's happening to this game.
I see why we don't have firemen. They won't have anything to put out.
Pretty much any and all deaths in TS4 require the player to put in a significant amount of effort and time just to get their sim to die. We know they nerfed emotional deaths, which are now incredibly tedious to execute in game (literally I have never been able to kill a sim by emotion, and I've tried several times). I've never had a sim even be electrocuted, let alone killed by electricity. Starvation takes FOREVER, even once their hunger bar is severely low. Fire? Like you said, if they leave in the middle of cooking the stove magically turns off which means no fire. Ridiculous.
Elder deaths are the worst. If we know they'll die from strenuous activity, why on earth should the options to continue doing those activities be greyed out? Should I not have complete control? Should I not be able to force them into death? Apparently not, the developers claim to love the deviant side to the game but at the same time they made keeping your sims alive so unbelievably easy, and removed challenging aspects to make it even easier.
Death was so unpredictable in previous games, and that was fun. It was also devastating, but it was fun at the same time. Now we don't have these deaths that change the game, you have to pretty much initiate the death yourself which pretty much loses all appeal it previously had.
I agree with you that there are less of them, but I prefer that. I used to make my TS3 sims make salads until higher skilled just to avoid replacing burn kitchen furniture.
I'm not a serial Sim killer either....well not unless I've created a private detective who's trying to track down the Black Widow of Oasis Springs or something.
I'm just so tired of removing all the things that make the game unpredictable and for some of us fun.
I bought GTW for the aliens and the alien abductions....so now I've had one Sim abducted and no alien pregnancies. The game didn't come with a cemetery and I created my own....then came the empty graves. I like the unpredictability of all kind of things happening. I'm not a micro manager, I'm not obsessive about controlling every freaking little thing these Sims do and I just want some consequences!
How can you possibly have to try to keep your Sims alive? They're like the energizer bunny.....they keep going and going and going.
If you have a cow plant it takes two tries to get them eaten. You have to be completely ignoring what they are doing to have that happen without knowing it's going to happen. Same with emotional deaths. You get warnings.
That was the reason I bought GTW as well, I didn't really care about the active careers or stores, I just wanted aliens! The nerf in abductions ruined the expansion for me and the only time I ever see aliens is when it's alien night at the bar.
The game is so carebear it's ridiculous. I understand some people don't want anything negative to happen to their Sims, ever, but couldn't they add toggles instead of destroying what makes these games fun for a lot of their players?
The game already has an option to turn death off. So if you really don't want your Sims to die....there it is.....no problem.
The first time I had my Sim cook, a simple meal at that, this is what happened.
What gets me ticked off, is no firefighters - because unless I tell them to extinguish themselves, they die!
(has happened in the past, more than once)
In the past games I've played, they NEVER start a fire IF they have the trait for cooking (forgot the exact name).
That trait purposely is designed so they never start a fire while cooking, and I used to like it for that (besides the better cooking quality).
This time I wanted to try different traits, so there came the fires....
Agree 100%! I want variation, and The Sims 4 is way too streamlined and predictable. I was very angry with what they did to aliens, as that was one of the reasons I bought GTW. Clearly Maxis is still under the mindset of "if it doesn't work right, let's botch it". This is eerily similar to what they did with SimCity but on a much larger scale, and it absolutely tarnishes this game. If they can't design these new features to work in an acceptable way, then they need new management. There are SO many way they could have changed aliens while still keeping their full functionality, but as usual it was so much easier to just remove their functionality all together.
Turn off death until you want an elder to die or have an "accident" happen.
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> Turn off death until you want an elder to die or have an "accident" happen.
Accidents will happen :)