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Does the volcanic activity lot trait actually DO anything?
alan650111
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Just like the title says: Is there even a point to this trait?? Nothing has happened on the lot I gave this volcanic trait! I don't get the developers wasting their time adding watered down and useless traits that barely do anything.
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there are multiple sizes of eruptions, though i've only seen two so far (a grand total of four eruptions in 3 sim-weeks of playing. i have a feeling changing lots resets a timer, but can't prove anything)
with the eruptions, the island shakes (even if you're not 'on' the home lot, but say...down at the water, fishing, which is where my sim spends much of his time) and, unless the sim has something to block tense moodlets, they get tense. steam vents also open at random places on the lot, with...well... steam rising from them and an annoyingly loud noise that sounds similar enough to a broken plumbing object to make me go hunting for one sometimes...
they also rain lava boulders, anywhere from one to four (i've only seen 2 and 4, personally) of two different sizes. those boulders can be cracked open once they cool off, netting you random crystals or metals
Hasn’t hit my house yet, but it hits pretty close.
From what I have read they don’t cause damage and pose no risk to your sims unless you choose to touch one before it’s cooled down.
I had a much different idea of what this would be when the developers explained it, of course they don’t know what the heck happens in their own game because they were way off base.
This is just another gimmicky feature that when all is said and done has no real effect on the game.
This is the lot I plan on using. I'm going to put it on the lot by the volcano. Sorry I have no screenshots of the lot, otherwise I'd use them to show the lot.
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery/22B2A37997A811E9869414AEEA156117?category=all&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=downloads&time=all&searchquery=INDYANNA2&max=50&maxis=false
"Rarely works"? It works, it's just not very common. Like the earthquake trait. It's RNG based.
I have it on that island lot and it's working. I have a large house there and it's quite difficult to notice if it's just the lava vents but you'll definitely notice when the rocks land.
It's not nearly as bad as the awful gremlins and that trait that makes bugs, rats and odd smells. Just a few random fires and large rocks xD I need somewhere to store all the collectables though!
i've also been using the 'sulani mana' reward trait (for making the island elementals like your sim's efforts for the islands enough) for this, since it lets a sim summon a lava boulder to smash on the lot they're on. but that has a long cooldown, just one boulder, and they're always the same size from what i've seen. trying to use both sizes for my decor purposes
also, @Tiarella i made the mistake of putting those two traits together on one of my vampires and it drives me crazy. it doesn't help that he's also a master fisherman (he's the fishing mogul/scientist that founded san myshuno according to the plaques in the park. i thought he'd be a fun sim to make) so he constantly gets squicked out every time he catches a fish (even though he happily slurps them once they're turned into plasma packs) and gets grossed out by the aquarium full of amazon fish in his study. on top of grossing himself out whenever he goes into one of his cleaning frenzies. i still love him to death and refuse to change the traits just because of the challenge but it's so frustrating sometimes