Death by Flies, the Biotech station and sickness.
MattyDienhoff:
I've searched for and read existing posts about these topics, and absorbed a bit of information that way, but I'd still like to pick your brains myself, so here goes.
Just recently I've become very interested in the weird side of TS2. Vampires, aliens, crazy old coots with weather controlling devices on the roof... and I decided to try one of the weird, rare deaths out on one of my sims, death by flies. I read that death by flies occurs when the house is insanely messy, so I got to work. The lucky candidate, one Leo Jankowski, has no neat personality points, so it was relatively easy to coerce him to make a complete mess of his house and leave it that way. I figured this would do the trick.
But apparently not, I had him stand around in that room for days and no gruesome death by a thousand insects occured. So I thought: "maybe it only happens outdoors?" ...
NOPE. It seems that no matter what I try, no vicious swarm of flies appears to devour him. So I'm wondering, is it even possible for a sim to die this way without using InSim to do it?
While I'm at it I thought I'd also ask about the SimSanto Biotech Station reward object, I had a sim who has full logic skill use it and I found that despite the fact he had full logic skill, sometimes medicine wouldn't turn out. He'd make it, then stand in front of the station complaining and shrugging. In those instances he could only dispose of the medicine, he could'nt sell it. Then I had him make a virus, and so far every attempt he's made has seemingly ended in failure because the only option that ever appears when he's finished is "dispose". He can't sell it, and he can't use it to infect himself or anyone else. (like I'd hoped :D) So what's the point? Is it bugged, is it meant to (not) work like this?
Finally, I don't know if this is only my imagination or not, but in more recent versions of TS2 (after patches and EPs), sickness seems to have become a real rarity. In the base game I remember Sims would, more often than not, get food poisoning from eating spoiled food and they would also get colds occaisionally while at work or school. Now, I've seen sims eat spoiled food with no apparent effect and I don't even remember the last time a Sim came home from school/work with a cold or a flu. Call me cruel if you like but I'd like to see more sickness as it seems to be very rare.
jsalemi:
I think the sim has to step on one of the plates on the floor or something like that to 'anger the flies'.
The medicine station has been borked since the beginning; you never could sell the virus, in spite of what early Maxis/Prima stuff said. Pescado does have a fix for some of the problems with the medicine station in The Armory (look for the Biostation Fix about 1/2 way down the list).
And there's a fairly well-functioning experimental hack in Peasantry that makes sickness more dangerous, called Realistic Sickness (I think).
Of course, with Seasons you can just put a hot tub outside, wait for a thunderstorm and have your sims sit in the hot tub. Guaranteed at least one of them will probably die, if not from lightning then from spontaneous combustion (if you don't have hacks to stop it, that is).
(Sorry I didn't include links, but my connection got really flaky and I can't seem to reliably pull up other threads right now.
phyllis_p:
I seem to remember once reading an account of death by flies in which it happened when the unfortunate Sim started to clean up a mess such as the one your Sim made. I've never tried this myself, so I don't know wheter it's a true account or not.
Alexx:
Obviously your flies too small or too young to kill somebody. :(
Kyna:
Quote from: MattyDienhoff on 2007 July 25, 13:04:33
Finally, I don't know if this is only my imagination or not, but in more recent versions of TS2 (after patches and EPs), sickness seems to have become a real rarity. In the base game I remember Sims would, more often than not, get food poisoning from eating spoiled food and they would also get colds occaisionally while at work or school. Now, I've seen sims eat spoiled food with no apparent effect and I don't even remember the last time a Sim came home from school/work with a cold or a flu. Call me cruel if you like but I'd like to see more sickness as it seems to be very rare.
The decrease in colds & flu in your game is probably EAxis sado-randomness at work. Since installing Seasons I have seen a big increase in the number of sims coming home from school/work with an illness. Now that I've said that, of course, it won't happen for months in my game :(
As for spoiled food, my sims don't eat it as I have noeatcrap in my downloads.
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