Do you think burglars may be coming soon with the new "sneak out" mechanic being added to HS Days?

bruceleroy98 · July 2022

With the ladder escape and window function, could burglary be added sometime soon? Thoughts. I hope so.

ThirteenCatz · July 2022

theres no reason to not add them now, as people come in and steal from you all the time, and the night ghost curse from ROM is far mroe scary than any burglar

Simmingal · July 2022

I wish so
would also be nice if we could assign sim to the role and not have yet another feature taken over by randomized sims

akuheikomatsu · July 2022

I hope so too! I miss burglars so much. I’m glad Carl’s Burglar mod exists, but it would be nice to have them back in game. I love me a little chaos. >:D

manicobsessive · August 2022

I can't even explain how much I hope not. I HATED burglary in the old days, lol. SO annoying! I know there are so many who would like it back though, so if they add it, just give us the option to turn it off, and it's all good.

FreezerBunnyCowplant · August 2022

I love burglars they shake up your gameplay and add something unexpected to the game.

They also had a preference to steal toilets, which was quite funny.

Also the gameplay that comes with burglars is fun! You could fight them and if your Sim had high Fitness skill they would win the fight against the burglar and get back the stolen items. Or you could call the police and get them arrested if you acted quick. Sometimes the police arrived when the burglar was gone and you would get Simoleons to buy a new toilet

Chicklet453681 · August 2022

My first thought is nope!

You know that EA tries to avoid putting anything at all in the game that might "trigger" someone, such as people who have had a RL home invasion and robbery.

TS4 is nothing like the previous games, now they only want happy, good, pleasant things to occur and nothing that could remotely be considered traumatic.

I personally liked them and I'm not against them being added.

But I also feel that if they were ever added to TS4 they'd be just as lame as the firefighters are.

Police wouldn't really arrive in a car in front of your house to take the burglar away (if they even implemented some type of police interaction at all, they'd be on foot)

Also considering the "police" is tied to GTW, I highly doubt they would add that type of interaction in because:

You know how simmers are, they'd be screaming about how another gameplay function was taken from a pack they bought and put into the base game
Because the devs don't know what "pack integration" means and always forget there are other gameplay systems that would work well with something

Briana2425 · August 2022

For me I have a feeling it might because not only is the sneak out a sneak walk but I have a glitch that the camera moves quickly to focus on a certain sim that's when im at home or out in a community lot but I remember back in the day the game used to move quickly and focus on Burglars robbing your lot, I mean it might be something or it might be nothing. It has been doing it a lot since HS came out.

AngeliqueAdelaide · August 2022

As long as my occults would be allowed to interract with the intruder and, ahem, deal with them.

EnkiSchmidt · August 2022

I hope not. Having to re-buy stuff is annoying as heck. I only had two encounters with the repoman so far, and both were irritating, even though the devs gave us the option to re-direct the thieving magpie to a different object via pleading. A burglar would be even worse, because they have no reason to negotiate with their victims.

Details:

The first time it happened when I had the money to pay the bills (even more than I needed), but was in a challenge where the sims were on a wagon train and could only sell things during trade station breaks. So I ruled that the "repowoman" was in fact a bandit. I killed her, but before that she killed one of my sims, who in turn rose as a vampire.

The second time it happened in a poverty challenge where I was forbidden to sell things at all, the only income had to come from a part-time job that my sim could only work again by Saturday. Repoman came on a wednesday, so I had to perform damage control. There were several collectables repo could have grabbed, but, no, he went for basic neccessities in the pitiful shack: the bench my toddlers needed to sleep on and our bathroom facilities. It took seven or so tries of "plead to take another object" to persuade him to take the bees.

It would have went much smoother had the game just forced me into buymode and only resumed after I had sold enough stuff to cover the bills.

crocobaura · August 2022

EnkiSchmidt wrote: »

I hope not. Having to re-buy stuff is annoying as heck. I only had two encounters with the repoman so far, and both were irritating, even though the devs gave us the option to re-direct the thieving magpie to a different object via pleading. A burglar would be even worse, because they have no reason to negotiate with their victims.

Details:
The first time it happened when I had the money to pay the bills (even more than I needed), but was in a challenge where the sims were on a wagon train and could only sell things during trade station breaks. So I ruled that the "repowoman" was in fact a bandit. I killed her, but before that she killed one of my sims, who in turn rose as a vampire.

The second time it happened in a poverty challenge where I was forbidden to sell things at all, the only income had to come from a part-time job that my sim could only work again by Saturday. Repoman came on a wednesday, so I had to perform damage control. There were several collectables repo could have grabbed, but, no, he went for basic neccessities in the pitiful shack: the bench my toddlers needed to sleep on and our bathroom facilities. It took seven or so tries of "plead to take another object" to persuade him to take the bees.

It would have went much smoother had the game just forced me into buymode and only resumed after I had sold enough stuff to cover the bills.

If you lock the door the repoman won't be able to enter your sim's house to repossess stuff. The only downside is that he will wait outside your sims house untill you let him in. Or maybe you could drop something for him to take and go away.

bruceleroy98 · August 2022

Anyone else noticing sims just randomly walk up in your house when you're not home if you have befriended them? I had two kleptos storm in while I was at work. One stole my jukebox and I had to leave work early to kick him out before he stole another prized possession.

I started to lock the door for only household members, but I've NEVER had to do that before.

Maybe locking doors is a prerequisite for incoming burglars.

Hmmmm....

alexandrea · October 2022

Oh yes, I sure hope so!

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friendlysimmers · October 2022

i hope not unless they include toggles to turn off buglars in game its the only way i would not mind those ingame

Whitedove52355 · October 2022

I also hope not. Like others have said unless they give a toggle to turn burglars off. I never liked it when they showed up in past games.

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