Fireplaces suck.
Gus Smedstad:
Oh, sure, the bonus warmth moodlet is nice enough. But I've completely given up on using them until you can upgrade them to Fireproof, because they seem to have a Mean Time Between Failures of about 6 hours. Light a cozy little fire to cheer up your party guests and there's a virtually 100% chance the fireplace will disrupt the party with a house fire.
This is worse than those damned cleaning robots in Open For Business.
- Gus
Lorelei:
Your fireplaces are too cheap. Upgrade, and they hardly ever catch fire.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2009 July 26, 02:39:05
Oh, sure, the bonus warmth moodlet is nice enough. But I've completely given up on using them until you can upgrade them to Fireproof, because they seem to have a Mean Time Between Failures of about 6 hours.
That's fairly normal and has always been the case in the Sims. Remember, any recurring event with a nonzero probability for occurrence and negative expected value has a probability of 1 for occurring. We know this particular rule as "Murphy's Law": Anything that can go wrong, will.
Motoki:
I don't know Pescado, I am with Gus the amount of fires from fireplaces is way too overzealous and over the top. On the other hand, other things in the game, like being burglarized, is way too underrepresentated.
I have played this game a lot for over a month on a number of lots and family types. I have not had a single burglary yet I have had TONS of fires. It seems to be a common as breathing or going to the bathroom in sims land.
While you may enjoy fire and think it's a good thing because of your own personal just wanting to set the world on fire biases :P it really is annoying.
I like the warmth bonus but I won't touch a fireplace with a 10 foot pole, put any furniture near it or even have my sims go near it until I upgrade to fireproof and even doing that I need to get a sim who has mastered tinkering and has all the bonuses or guess what? They start a fire upgrading it. ::)
I have just been, pardon the pun, burned too many times.
I'd actually like to do the changing colors fireplace upgrade but I don't dare because while the fire may be pretty and ooh ahh colors, my sims will be singing Burning Down the House every day.
Faizah:
I've had half a dozen burglaries. They actually seem to be more common with a burglar alarm, although that may just be my imagination, or the fact that 90% of my sims have burglar alarms.
I'll admit that fireplaces are annoying, but a simple fireproof upgrade solves that. I've done a few of these, and only once did the sim start a fire, and catch fire herself, both of which were actually disappointingly easily put out.
Also, if you do the 'change colours' upgrade and change the colour, the colour stays changed when you replace the upgrade with something else. One sim had a fireproof fireplace with a purple flame.
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