The Plague: A Detailed Study
rohina:
I was following up on the suggestion that looking out the window raises comfort. Fences tend not to have windows.
seelindarun:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 August 22, 20:49:44
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.
The biotech viruses must be very lethal for a low-logic sim, because as I posted _every_ sim I have quarantined without a chair nor a bed, died from it.
Some take longer than others, but once their comfort is in the red, sitting on the toilet once a day isn't enough for them to recover. Further, passing out doesn't even get their energy into the yellow. Unlike pregnant sims who occasionally pass out while eating, these sims wake sooner, essentially when energy gets slightly less urgent than comfort. Keeping both energy and comfort well below 10%, after the first day is trivial.
I haven't timed how much time they spend awake and complaining vs. passed out, but possibly putting speakers (or something else which can't be turned off) in the death cell could speed their demise by keeping their sleep intervals as short as possible.
The difficult issue is having these sims in the household to spread the virus around. There are so many actions which can increase comfort, that they require more micromanagement than I can tolerate to keep them sick.
Ellatrue:
I think they also get comfort from watching the clouds...
Avalikia:
It's a wonder that anyone can get a sim to die of disease at all.
jsalemi:
Quote from: Ellatrue on 2006 August 25, 04:50:36
I think they also get comfort from watching the clouds...
Yea, but they can also get squished that way, too :)
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