Does Kissing Create The Plague
SimsHost:
Speaking of The Plague (which folks were, in the topic about death), does the game generate it from family kisses?
Twice now I've staged a family reunion where the sims spent a lot of time smooching each other, and both times, the flu spread like wildfire throughout the family. These are the families I play the most so I'm sure that 100% of them were healthy before the reunion, and no outsiders were invited.
I'm developing a hunch that if your sim does family kisses with more than X other sims within time Y, that sim will develop the flu.
On the other hand, I've never seen the flu happen when the kisses really count, no matter how many partners the sim lip-locks in the same day.
J. M. Pescado:
IIRC, the way The Plague spreads is that periodically, a sim will drop an invisible "The Plague" tile. When another sim happens to touch the Plague Tile, contracts the Plague. This means that no specific social interaction promotes the spread of The Plague, it's simply a proximity effect. According to cursory examination, the firing rate of the plague tile spawner appears to be once per hour, at the same time you would receive the initial "So-and-so has The Plague" warnings.
Oddysey:
That's roughly what Prima has to say on the subject. The reason that romantic interactions tend to spread Plagues is that (at least for me) an average smooching session lasts several interactions, and if it involves woohoo it almost certainly takes an hour. Anything that causes sims to spend a few hours in close proximity will spread the plague. So parties are a BAD idea with sick sims.
And I've had sims be sick without getting the little pop up for them, or otherwise knowing that they were plaguified. Parties tend to amplify this effect, since a large number of sims can get infected without your knowledge, if even one visitor is sick.
SimsHost:
Thanks! I get it. It was the density of folks in close proximity for several sim hours, not necessarily their chosen method of showing affection for each other. All it took was one healthy sim to drop the plague tile and then all flu broke loose.
Speaking of osculatory affection, would it be possible to create a hack so that guys don't kiss guys who are family members? My real-life family is, indeed, a rather smoochie lot; but theres NoWayInHell that I'm going to kiss my brother. Or father. Or grandfather. Or son. Or male cousins. Or uncles.
I play with Free Will turned on because I enjoy seeing what they'll do, but that's not Free Will; that's Free Weird.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 08, 21:16:18
Speaking of osculatory affection, would it be possible to create a hack so that guys don't kiss guys who are family members? My real-life family is, indeed, a rather smoochie lot; but theres NoWayInHell that I'm going to kiss my brother. Or father. Or grandfather. Or son. Or male cousins. Or uncles.
Yes, well, the sims apparently imitate Europeans in this regard. It's not really weird, it's just differently cultured. Hell, you want weird, the entire GAME is weird to me, but I was hardened against it from TS1. My family, my friends, we do *NONE* of those things that sims do. There's no appreciating, hand-slapping, kickybagging, hugging, or kissing. Instead, a proper greeting is to punch somebody in the stomach or kick him in the shins, then headbutt him. A good headbutting should create a resonant *CRACK* that scares the puny mortals, and when they look over concerned, we POINT AND LAUGH at them. That punch-you game is the closest thing that sims have to how we interact, and that one always ends with somebody hauling off and swinging and people getting all mad about it. Not in my family! We haul off and slug someone in the gut full force from the outset. The greeter is male, the greetee generally responds by kicking them in the nads. Otherwise you punch them in the face.
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