Myths, urban legends.... and alien abduction
cwykes:
MTS2's wiki is saying stop-starting telescope gazing is reported to increase the odds of abduction. They don't go the whole way and say it's true as they obviously aren't awesome enough to know. Is this lies & propaganda?
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Aliens#Alien_Abduction
Be nice to have some more stuff in the War Room about how things really work. It was a bit sad to see there's been nothing new there for so long.
Kyna:
I vaguely recall seeing that myth debunked back on VS, when TJ released his higher abduction odds hack. Or maybe it was just the way he hacked it? I'm fairly sure that with his hack the more cycles they stargaze the more likely an abduction is - i.e. the longer they look through it in one session, the higher the odds. I'm just not sure if that was vanilla behaviour and all he did was raise the odds, or if he tampered with that behaviour as well as raising the odds.
Gwill:
In my experience alien abductions are governed exclusively by Murphy's law. :-\
jolrei:
As far as I know, abduction odds stay the same in an unmodded game all the time a sim is looking through the telescope. With TJs higher abduction odds mod, odds of abduction start low and increase through the period that the sim is stargazing with the telescope. If the sim stops stargazing (i.e. for BUY reasons) and then resumes, odds reset to low and have to start increasing again. The mod was the only way I have ever had an abduction since I think unmodded odds give you a probability of abduction slightly lower than the IRL probability of increasing your wealth by watching TV preachers.
Now, please place your hands on your BV disks and say with me: "Heeeeyull!"
veilchen:
I always thought that the abduction odds where a bit higher in an unmodded game when playing Strangetown. Is that a myth too?
I don't know fer sure, because I always play with TJ's mod in. Or did. And will again, as soon as my new shiney arrives. My neighborhoods are a bit out of the ordinary, and aliens are essential. That's why I also had a gender equality mod. Both, pixel men and pixel women got pregnant.
I hope that mod is also easy to re-find. I'm hoping it was TJ's. I better go check.
* veilchen is trying to figure out what "heeeeyull" could mean. Hell or Heal? That is the question.
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