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How "Lucky" is a lucky sim, really?

What does this lucky trait even do besides giving the "feeling lucky" moodlet? I ask because the sim i just started playing has the Lucky trait and so far, he has burnt every meal he's ever cooked, including one fire, he clogged the neighbor's toilet and got yelled at, and he just broke the shower.

This is the unluckiest lucky guy I've ever seen.
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  • GabbyGirlJGabbyGirlJ Posts: 6,858 Member
    They are supposed to be less likely to burn food and break items. Also, they're less likely to get robbed, more likely to get raises, and a few other things.

    I have a few lucky sims that I play and bad things do still happen to them. But it seems to be less frequent. It's hard to tell, though.
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  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    @MKSizzle - One way to look at this is, imagine how many more "interesting" things would have happened to your sim if he didn't have the trait. :)
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  • MKSizzleMKSizzle Posts: 557 Member
    @igazo That notion is actually pretty disturbing when I think about it.
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but, if I remember correctly their luck is supposed to really kick in on the days when they wake up with the 24 hour 'Feeling Lucky' moodlet. During that time most things are supposed to go well for them. I use those days to build relationships that are usually slow building, send them out to find rocks and other gems or just skill build. Oh, the Lucky trait is supposed to really come in handy in the casino.
  • yoshi_dragur2012yoshi_dragur2012 Posts: 1,670 Member
    edited August 2018
    Pretty certain that until your sim has 1 cooking skill, they're 100% likely to keep burning their food....

    My lucky sims appear more likely to win the lottery, get inheritances from long lost relatives, survive being electrocuted/burned, possibly less burglarized? If they're kleptos, they seem better at snatching higher valuable things in their area. They also seem more likely to find precious rocks/gems around the hood and other valuable stuff when dumpster diving etc

    The "feeling lucky" moodlet appears to amplify this as well

    All speculation on my part btw
  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    @yoshi_dragur2012 - Yeah, using the stove without any cooking skill does carry a higher chance of burning food or catching the house on fire, especially if it's on one of those cheap stoves. Solution: read up to chapter 1 of the cooking skill book or Autumn Salad & Micro Mac and Cheese your way there :)!

    On 'Feeling Lucky' days my Sim seems to find more valuable metals and space rocks but for some reason the really super high value ones still elude me.
  • MKSizzleMKSizzle Posts: 557 Member
    @yoshi_dragur2012 @mw1525 I don't think so about the cooking thing. I have never had it happen so many times for a sim during his first couple days like this. And the reason I was asking about the lucky trait was to point out the irony.
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    @MKSizzle - The cooking thing is not absolute, it's a random event which is chanced higher on the cheaper stove. I have had Sims torch not just their food but themselves on the cheapest six-eyed stove in the game, lesser on the cow poke stove or above. The only Sims who are immune to this is one with the 'Natural Cook' trait. For every other unskilled or low skilled Sim there is a chance it could happen; lucky changes those odds a bit higher in favor that it won't happen to your Sim; it still could.

    Okay, I'm missing the 'irony' part (just me), because the trait is basically a 'chance' trait with the chances for good things to happen being slightly higher for the Sim with this trait in comparison to a non-lucky Sim. Unless you meant irony of your Sim's life and not the trait itself, in which case I'd have to agree. :)
  • yoshi_dragur2012yoshi_dragur2012 Posts: 1,670 Member
    mw1525 wrote: »
    @yoshi_dragur2012 - Yeah, using the stove without any cooking skill does carry a higher chance of burning food or catching the house on fire, especially if it's on one of those cheap stoves. Solution: read up to chapter 1 of the cooking skill book or Autumn Salad & Micro Mac and Cheese your way there :)!
    Yeah. Who the hell needs the Cow Plant to kill Paps? Just whip up a hot 0 lvl batch of toxic Mac n cheese and keep that ready for those unsolicited welcome wagon house calls :D

  • yoshi_dragur2012yoshi_dragur2012 Posts: 1,670 Member
    mw1525 wrote: »
    @MKSizzle - The cooking thing is not absolute, it's a random event which is chanced higher on the cheaper stove. I have had Sims torch not just their food but themselves on the cheapest six-eyed stove in the game, lesser on the cow poke stove or above. The only Sims who are immune to this is one with the 'Natural Cook' trait. For every other unskilled or low skilled Sim there is a chance it could happen; lucky changes those odds a bit higher in favor that it won't happen to your Sim; it still could.

    Also sims who inherit the "Immune to Fire" hidden trait from their firefighter parents :)
  • CravenLestatCravenLestat Posts: 13,735 Member
    Funny thing is lucky means when you die the reaper has no sympathy for you.But unlucky sims get a pass and get revived by grimmy.

    So being lucky sure sounds unlucky huh?? Would rather know if I was on a plane that crashed I got to walk away from it ,wayyy better then buying a lotto ticket and getting some money.
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    @CravenLestat - The unlucky trait is truly unlucky. Think about it, living a life of misery from which you can't escape even through death! Sure you may survive the plane crash and live, but 'unlucky' odds almost guarantee you won't be in the same condition as before the accident; otherwise that would be lucky. ;)
  • CravenLestatCravenLestat Posts: 13,735 Member
    edited August 2018
    @mw1525 Just say you won a bunch of money,can't spend it in the afterlife.Worldy possesions mean nothing.Just say you struggled through life and have a junky house 4 beautiful kids you love and a wife who loved you even though you are poor then an fool texting in a 70,000 car slams into your bicycle you are riding to work killing both of you.So what ,you just walk home and get to see your family again.

    You actually can "Live" a better life without fear of death.You would try more things you normally were afraid of like bungee jumping,hand gliding,base jumping super high roller coasters etc.Dying of old age would not seem so bad since you fullfilled a ton of things in life that most would not attempt once.
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    edited August 2018
    @CravenLestat - The thing is, the unlucky Sim doesn't escape death, they actually die and get sent back! They aren't having near-death experiences. Where's the peace of mind in that? In everything these Sims do the threat of death, failure or both looms above them. If there is any pain associated with that death, they get the luxury of remembering it when they are resurrected. So, for them, it's literally 'Live to Die' another day over-and-over again.

    And what happens when their loved ones pass on? They get to 'live' with the memory of all they have lost (for a while at least). The curse of long life or immortality is just that...a curse. I guess eventually old Grimmy will take them but look at all they would've had to live/die through before that happens.
  • CravenLestatCravenLestat Posts: 13,735 Member
    We are deep @mw1525 :p You know why


    Cause we love sims 3 :love: we invest thought into our little fake people and they almost become real.


    But that does not mean you can be mayor of SV :rage: it is mine,pick another town
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    @CravenLestat - I will gladly relinquish my SV to your control 'cause as of right this moment, it is in crisis with an overpopulation of Vampires and I'm all out of aspirin! :p>:)
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    Vampires don't like aspirin? Or is that for the player? ;)
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  • mw1525mw1525 Posts: 1,214 Member
    @igazor - Don't know if they like aspirin, since I've chewed them all up Max Payne style (shakes bottle, who needs water). I've got my chemists (alchemists) working hard injecting potent sleeping elixir into plasma fruits (extra strong variety), which I'm going to leave in little pretty gift baskets on those Vamp's front porches. That should buy me enough time to get out of town while @CravenLestat takes over! ;):D
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