Deadly expensive hot tubs
jsalemi:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 April 17, 08:31:42
Hmmm, perhaps I'm using the wrong term, though I could swear I've heard it used in this context, meaning a stupid person.
Nope, Nimrod is slang meaning a silly or foolish person. That use of it originated with Bugs Bunny, as maxon mentioned, and probably did have a biblical source, since Bugs used it to refer to Elmer Fudd while he was hunting. :)
kuronue:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 April 17, 08:11:10
Quote from: kuronue on 2007 April 17, 02:16:53
Quote from: ScoobyDoo on 2007 April 17, 01:52:09
Ugh, I think I'll definetely wait to get Seasons until lighting can be disabled. I play with the sims and make sure they dont die.. last thing I need is uncontrollable lighting. :-\
Or you could, you know, keep them inside when it rains? Or at the very least, out of bodies of water? It's no worse than trying to fix the computer on, say, 5-6 mechanical points: not very smart, but you have to be in a crappy mood for it to kill you, and you have to be stupid to do it in the first place
I think the point is more that crappy programming is causing lightning strikes to be way too common. People shouldn't have to alter their normal gameplay just because some nimrods at Eaxis have their heads up their asses.
yes, but...
do YOU sit in a body of water during a thunderstorm? I mean, it seems like a no-brainer.
People shouldn't have to alter their normal gameplay? Because, you know, nothing about having weather alters gameplay in the slightest ::) We have to adapt to sims having temperatures now, we might as well adapt to the possibility of getting killed by lightning.
Shivani:
It's sad, but there you go.
Sims are too stupid to:
1. Check for a pool ladder before diving/sliding into a watery death,
2. Unable to simply get out like a normal person by hoisting themself up onto the surround. (I guess their arms are strong enough to paddle and swim, but not leverage.)
So, it's not a shock when a sim continues to bubble away happily in the hot tub (though perhaps with a quick jump out to say "Wow, it's raining") without ever once displaying a shred of intelligence, and running like a frightened gazelle to "indoors" to avoid lightning strikes.
In the short time I had a hot tub outside at a dorm, two dormies died, and several more got fried. Granted, I found it all quite funny (especially when my sim avoided getting hit), but eventually I placed corner greenhouse walls and a matching roof just to keep the pain and suffering down.
People can say all they like the phrase "shouldn't have to" but we all know it doesn't work that way with Sims 2. It's the modders who make sense of the tortured illogic of Eaxis.
So, what... maybe Dizzy includes this sort of thinking into the autonomous behavior whatsihoozit? Or is it too much...
prattle:
Quote from: kuronue on 2007 April 17, 16:22:45
yes, but...
do YOU sit in a body of water during a thunderstorm? I mean, it seems like a no-brainer.
People shouldn't have to alter their normal gameplay? Because, you know, nothing about having weather alters gameplay in the slightest ::) We have to adapt to sims having temperatures now, we might as well adapt to the possibility of getting killed by lightning.
I can adapt how I play my sims to accommodate weather and the risk of getting struck by lightning, but without a hack or cheat I can't do much about sims that are not currently under my control that haven't learned that sitting in a hot tub in a thunderstorm is now dangerous, short of moving all hot tubs indoors.
MissDoh:
The problem is right now that storm are so sudden sometimes sims do not even have time to get out of hot tub before they get hit. I did put all my hot tubs inside on community lots until something can be done about this but I have no place on residential lot to do so. I do not have to move thins around all the time because EA miss on a bug as obvious as this one.
And silly townies keeps wanting to go in hot tub on home and community lots without us being able to do anything about it without mods in. Gee even after they got stike by lighting, they insist in going back in!! And the storm is not over! Talk about silly sims that are asking to die. ::) My townies and downtownies are all selfsims so i do care about them.
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