Almost entire family burned to death, including child - why?
snapdragon:
I have been playing Free Time for about 3 weeks, and today played a family I haven't played for a long time. Something seemed funny with the lot back when I played them with BV. Their sleep needs seemed never to decay, so they never went to sleep. I got tired of waiting for the next day to come so I stopped playing them.
Today I played them for about an hour, and by the end of that time, four of them, including a child, had burned to death. The first death came when the father went of his own volition outside to play an electric guitar in the rain. I don't think there was any lightning. Suddenly the guitar amp caught fire and the Sim burned to death before I could get someone out there to extinguish the fire.
Then while they (grandfather, grandmother, wife and son) were mourning him at the site where he died, the grandfather caught fire and died. I deleted the guitar, thinking that would be the end, but then the son, about 8 years old, caught fire and died. The fire just appeared, and consumed him. Then the same thing happened with the wife. Most likely the grandmother would have been next, but I quit the game so she didn't have a chance to catch fire.
I thought that no children would die in the game. Does anyone have any idea how this could happen? Also, why would fire just spontaneously appear, with no object catching fire? It was night, and no one was overheated when this all started. I was wondering if it's possible this lot is corrupted.
I posted this on BBS but no one had any worthwhile suggestions. One person said there was a tree in BV that was catching fire, but the trees on this family's lawn were just the trees that had always been in the game, so I don't think the fires were caused by the BV tree.
If anyone has any thoughts about this, I'd appreciate hearing them.
toad in the hole:
There already is a thread about random fires right here.
Maybe some of the suggestions made there can help you.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11676.0.html
Zazazu:
Emma:
The family seemed borked anyway-I'd let them go. ;) Mass-suicide by fire!
snapdragon:
Quote from: toad in the hole on 2008 May 11, 01:30:22
There already is a thread about random fires right here.
Maybe some of the suggestions made there can help you.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11676.0.html
Thanks for the link. From what I read on that thread, it sounds like the lot is corrupted. I don't have any non-awesome hacks, so that can't be the explanation. I don't know how to use the lot debugger, so that's ruled out. I'll just have to let the lot go.
Quote from: Emma on 2008 May 11, 05:58:33
The family seemed borked anyway-I'd let them go. ;) Mass-suicide by fire!
Agree. When I quit I saved the game because I was half glad they were gone. I had lost interest in the family anyway so now I am rid of them. I will spare grandma a horrible death and move her into my Home for Unwanted Sims, then bulldoze the lot.
I'm going to assume that this is somehow connected with Free Time, because of what I read in the link above, and because I've never had this problem before. Maybe the combination of something in Free Time and a buggy lot causes random fires.
No comment about the child dying? If the lot is borked, would that override anything Maxis put in the game to keep children from dying?
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