Deadly expensive hot tubs
jsalemi:
Quote from: Venusy on 2007 April 22, 21:00:22
Does putting the hot tub indoors stop lightning from striking it, or is EAian coding so borked that lightning can strike it anywhere at any time?
Yea, indoors is fine -- lightning only strikes outdoors. They got that part right, at least (for now, anyway).
KatEnigma:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 April 23, 01:06:13
Quote from: Venusy on 2007 April 22, 21:00:22
Does putting the hot tub indoors stop lightning from striking it, or is EAian coding so borked that lightning can strike it anywhere at any time?
Yea, indoors is fine -- lightning only strikes outdoors. They got that part right, at least (for now, anyway).
Well.... that's not 100% true, but close enough. Just don't fly a kite inside a greenhouse. I had a kid get struck by lightning that way, which pissed me off because I'd placed it into the greenhouse just to avoid that. But all my Sims now have hottubs either inside or in greenhouses. Because trancejeremy is right, it only takes a second for the weather to change. I had a new CAS Sim just moved into a house, and he was in the hot tub with the welcoming committee when it started to rain. I tried to get him out immediately (I was honestly in a panicked "OMG, RAIN!!!!" mode), but you know how slow Sims are about getting out of the hottub when you cancel the action, so the lightning got him as he was crawling out. It then systematically struck all 3 visitors. It killed him and 1 visitor, the other 2 managed to live. Luckily, his wife was there to plead for his life. That was the very first time I've ever had a truly accidental death on my lot.
Later on another lot, the Nanny spontaneously combusted after being in the hot tub, but I just let her die- she'd pissed me off enough by being in there with a baby screaming in its crib because it needed a diaper change. One of the teens had gotten home by then (and was changing the diaper), so I just let the witch burn, and good riddance! ;D
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: trancejeremy on 2007 April 22, 20:48:08
My point was, just reducing access to a sims hot tub isn't good enough, you also have to watch them like a hawk when they are in a hot tub because a storm can spring up suddenly, and zap, they are dead.
How would you "reduce" access without cutting it off? Access is a binary thing: Either you have it or you don't.
Quote from: trancejeremy on 2007 April 22, 20:48:08
Unless you completely cut off their using the hot tub entirely, at which point why did you even buy one?
Not for them to decide when to use it, that's for sure.
Hook:
I did some tests during a thunderstorm.
You'd expect from all the info we're given that a lightning rod will keep Sims from being struck during a thunderstorm. If this is true, it doesn't work for hot tubs.
They don't help if they're on the roof. They don't help if they're on ground level. They don't help if they're on ground level away from the hot tub, or if you have multiple lightning rods around the tub. It didn't help to put one on a table on ground level. No matter what I did, I had a Sim struck by lightning in the hot tub. While I have seen lightning strike a lightning rod at ground level once, it doesn't seem to happen often, and certainly didn't protect my Sims who were in the hot tub.
A couple of amusing things. One, a very outgoing Sim who got in the hot tub naked had burned pants on when he got out. Lightning does strange things, but putting clothes on someone I've never heard about before.
Two, a stray dog on the lot at the time got a memory of the Sim dying, along with the Sims who lived there. Well, the ones who *still* lived there, anyway.
One test, two Sims were stuck by lighting at the same time. They both got out of the tub, and one was struck again.
If you have a playable Sim struck by lightning, they'll get out of the hot tub. But if they have the little feet icon like they get when they're going to walk somewhere, they'll get hit a second time immediately. If they don't have that icon, they don't get hit.
The final test I ran had 5 lightning rods. One on the second story roof of the house, the highest structure on the lot. A second on the roof of the greenhouse. Two at opposite corners of the hot tub, and one on an end table near the hot tub. Nothing helped.
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More testing. And more fun stuff! :D
A gazebo roof seems to protect the hot tub. An awning will protect it as well. The first awning in the catalog looks like a flat glass roof, not unlike the greenhouse walls, and looks pretty good over a hot tub. It does cast a shadow, so it's not as attractive as it might be.
I took the lightning rod off the lot for a couple of the tests, and discovered that lightning will strike other objects, like trees, when you don't have a lightning rod. With the lightning rod (on ground level) I don't think I've ever seen a tree struck.
One funny thing, there was a grave on the lot (Poor Joe Carr, pissed off one too many Sim in my neighborhood, and he's a MEAN ghost, too). It was about 4:45 PM when his tombstone was struck by lightning. He came out of the grave, complained as usual, wandered back and forth for a few minutes, then went back into the gravestone.
I ran a test with a swimming pool, and it wasn't the lightning magnet the hot tub was. The cheap hot tub was just as dangerous as the expensive one. I had a couple of my Sims play Marco Polo and saw a bunch of new swimming pool animations. For example, they'll jump off the side of the pool. Never saw that before. But they didn't get struck while in the pool.
I did see The Cheat get struck once. It didn't complain. :D
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