The Plague: A Detailed Study
dizzy:
I've played sims with static motives that are constantly maxed (and therefore do nothing except go to work) get sick from work, so it is definitely possible.
Would a workout machine be considered sitting? I could see a sick sim maybe getting worse from working out (especially the radio workout).
seelindarun:
But the Quote from: dizzy on 2006 August 21, 00:09:18
Would a workout machine be considered sitting? I could see a sick sim maybe getting worse from working out (especially the radio workout).
The problem with that is that you have to keep comfort in the red for days in order for the sim to die of disease, and in that state they won't do anything but complain. They absolutely won't obey your commands to work out or anything else for that matter. Further, even if you deprive them of chairs, they will gain a marginal degree of comfort from autonomously gazing out of windows!
I've managed to kill 3 or 4 sims from disease to get the green ghosts, and none of mine died in less than 3 days, even when I had them confined in a window-less, door-less, quarantine room with nothing to sit on but the cheapest toilet. I've never had them recover either though, so if you're determined you can definitely kill them this way.
Throwing up seems to send comfort down a good bit. Not coincidentally, my fastest sim death (by disease) was a low-logic sim who contracted the biotech virus, and then was fed a steady diet of spoiled food, all while confined to quarantine. During normal game play though, I can't see how any of my sims would die by disease.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2006 August 22, 20:45:28
I've managed to kill 3 or 4 sims from disease to get the green ghosts, and none of mine died in less than 3 days, even when I had them confined in a window-less, door-less, quarantine room with nothing to sit on but the cheapest toilet. I've never had them recover either though, so if you're determined you can definitely kill them this way.
Sitting on the terlet is still sitting, which is +6 recovery, giving a net of +2 even with the -4 for bad comfort.
Quote from: seelindarun on 2006 August 22, 20:45:28
Throwing up seems to send comfort down a good bit. Not coincidentally, my fastest sim death (by disease) was a low-logic sim who contracted the biotech virus, and then was fed a steady diet of spoiled food, all while confined to quarantine. During normal game play though, I can't see how any of my sims would die by disease.
I don't really see it happening either, unless you had -energy and -comfort symptoms, and thus managed to net -8 recovery from comfort and energy, for a rather slow -2 while sitting. Unless the gap between initial severity and lethal severity is small, the fact that you will go to +8 when the sim finally runs out of power and passes out or goes to sleep will offset the -2 drain...which won't persist long, if he runs out of energy. Probably the only way you're going to achieve a kill is if you meditate with < 50% comfort/energy, which I think still qualifies as sitting, thus allowing you to keep the -2 drain going indefinitely...maybe.
rohina:
So, it would seem that emailers confined by a fence rather than a wall, with a bush rather than a toilet, would have a quicker mortality rate.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, fences and walls make no difference to the plague.
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