Meteors

[alex51299]

The strikes have always occurred after looking through a telescope.  My sims have not been allowed to own one in a long time, and I haven't had any strikes since.

Hmm I'll keep that in mind for one of the children in my legacy who is learning the logic skill. I definately don't want her to trig a meteor.

[Seabody]

Hmm I'll keep that in mind for one of the children in my legacy who is learning the logic skill. I definately don't want her to trig a meteor.

To be honest, the chance is still there. I think it was brought up on page 1, and the chance is 0.01% if you're not looking through a telescope, and 1% if you are. The game will check once an hour if it should spawn a meteor.
The chances are remote, which I can vouch for, having never had a meteor in 2 years, but they're still there.

[Coocoo girl]

To be honest, the chance is still there. I think it was brought up on page 1, and the chance is 0.01% if you're not looking through a telescope, and 1% if you are. The game will check once an hour if it should spawn a meteor.
The chances are remote, which I can vouch for, having never had a meteor in 2 years, but they're still there.

Does that mean that if your sim looked through a telescope all day(for meteor death related reasons) there would be a 24% chance that a meteor would fall on you sim?  Does that also mean that, if you have more than one sim, there is a bigger chance of a meteor falling on one of them?  Also does it matter whether they're outside or not?  Also, If you had 8 sims looking through telescopes all day, every day, for about 2 sim days, what would the chances of a meteor falling on at least one of them be?  In case you haven't already guessed, I really want to see a sim die from a meteor.

[Seabody]

Okay, I'm not 100% sure on the coding, so here's my belief from reading the code.

Does that mean that if your sim looked through a telescope all day(for meteor death related reasons) there would be a 24% chance that a meteor would fall on you sim?

No, at any hour in the day, there is a 1% chance it will fall on your Sim. So there's a 1% chance at 1AM, a 1% chance at 2AM, and so on. It's not stackable.

Does that also mean that, if you have more than one sim, there is a bigger chance of a meteor falling on one of them?

I don't know.

Also does it matter whether they're outside or not?

Again, I don't know.

Also, If you had 8 sims looking through telescopes all day, every day, for about 2 sim days, what would the chances of a meteor falling on at least one of them be?

1% per Sim per hour. So on Day 2, 6AM, there'd be a 1% chance it'd fall on Sim C, for example.

In case you haven't already guessed, I really want to see a sim die from a meteor.

So do I. I can make a Mod so that a Meteor falls every hour if you want.

[thesweetestpea]

So do I. I can make a Mod so that a Meteor falls every hour if you want.

I think Mod The Sims has one. I've had a bug where meteors spawned once a day from a borked mod, but I really want to have a meteor strike autonomously in my game because I want a meteor ghost.

[lvrugger]

If you have awesomemod or debug enabler, you can shift-click on the ground and select "spawn meteor" - if you want to kill off a sim...

[cathyknits]

Does that mean that if your sim looked through a telescope all day(for meteor death related reasons) there would be a 24% chance that a meteor would fall on you sim?  Does that also mean that, if you have more than one sim, there is a bigger chance of a meteor falling on one of them?  Also does it matter whether they're outside or not?  Also, If you had 8 sims looking through telescopes all day, every day, for about 2 sim days, what would the chances of a meteor falling on at least one of them be?  In case you haven't already guessed, I really want to see a sim die from a meteor.

1) Every hour there is a 99% chance that there will not be a meteor. At the end of 24 hours straight, there is a 22% chance that there will have been at least one meteor (1 - (99%^24)).
2) With two sims, it's like flipping two coins. You've got four outcomes: no meteor (78%*78% = 60%), meteor on Sim A (22% * 78% = 17%), meteor on Sim B (22% * 78% = 17%), or meteors on both (22% * 22% = 6%). The more sims you have, the more chance you have to get at least one meteor, but it's not linear - the chance of zero meteors is 78% ^ (number of sims).
3) Outside? That's in the game code.
4) The chance of no meteor for 1 sim watching for 48 hours straight is 39%. For 8 sims the chance of no meteor is 39%^8 = 2% - so a 98% chance of a meteor. It will never be an absolute sure thing, but it will eventually get really darn close.

In case you haven't already guessed, I really got an A in statistics.

[Katie123urgreat]

I was awed when I was reading your post Cathyknits. I congratulate you for the A, it was very well deserved! 

I've just got Ambitions, so no meteors for me!
Silly question, is it possible to change the coding so meteors don't occur?

[Seabody]

Silly question, is it possible to change the coding so meteors don't occur?

Yes, you just set the chance to 0. There's a Mod at ModTheSims (the one that the sweetest pea mentioned) that does that. It comes in several flavors, one is to remove the chance altogether.

[Katie123urgreat]

Yes, you just set the chance to 0. There's a Mod at ModTheSims (the one that the sweetest pea mentioned) that does that. It comes in several flavors, one is to remove the chance altogether.

Okay, thank you Seabody.

[Coocoo girl]

1) Every hour there is a 99% chance that there will not be a meteor. At the end of 24 hours straight, there is a 22% chance that there will have been at least one meteor (1 - (99%^24)).
2) With two sims, it's like flipping two coins. You've got four outcomes: no meteor (78%*78% = 60%), meteor on Sim A (22% * 78% = 17%), meteor on Sim B (22% * 78% = 17%), or meteors on both (22% * 22% = 6%). The more sims you have, the more chance you have to get at least one meteor, but it's not linear - the chance of zero meteors is 78% ^ (number of sims).
3) Outside? That's in the game code.
4) The chance of no meteor for 1 sim watching for 48 hours straight is 39%. For 8 sims the chance of no meteor is 39%^8 = 2% - so a 98% chance of a meteor. It will never be an absolute sure thing, but it will eventually get really darn close.

In case you haven't already guessed, I really got an A in statistics.

Thanks!  Now, um, I'm just going to go make 8 sims and have them all look through a telescope for 2 days straight, or 3 days, or however long until I get a meteor!   Yeah, I know, this post is kind of off topic.  But, in other words, wow!  I barely even understood half of what you said!  But I understood enough to know how to technically force a meteor.

[SassySimmer]

After having Ambitions since it came out I had my first meteor shower ever whilst I was playing the last challenge of the year!  So I thought that I would share some pictures because it was epic!









Yes it did kill one of my Sims, but thankfully I had a Genie lamp and was able to wish my Sim back to life, otherwise I would of ended up as a did not complete!

I have also learned my lesson to run away when the meteor thing pops up and not to stand and watch it come in

[ilovethesims]

One of my Sims has experienced the "....wonders why it's suddenly dark" message and then I remembered that I read somewhere in the forum that when the message appears, a meteor will strike the Sim. I ran away from the spot immediately.

[Flower1552]

So today my Young Adult Sim, Cathrine Newman, was at University taking a class in the Science building. It was raining pretty hard, then a lightning strike hit and a notice I'd never seen before popped up... "Cathrine wonders why it got so dark." I thought it was a power-outage from the rain, so I used cheats and turned off the rain. Then she quit in mid-class and had an action. "React to Meteor" Immediately, I paused the game and zoomed out. There it was, seconds away from slamming into the ground. (I got a ton of sweet pics, but don't know how to post them!)  I didn't know how to react. I remembered I saved not to long ago, and there was nothing I could do about the meteor towering over the frightened faces of all the Sims. So, I un-paused, taking the risk. The slammed straight on top of a guy, and with a bright flash, it was next to a tree, and Grim was already there, standing before a like of 5 people who died. Everyone else was singed badly, including my Sim. I grabbed the meteor and some other space rocks and ran as far away as possible from the crash site, hoping he didn't beckon my Sim as well. Luckily, the mascot was there singing and dancing to cheer people up. The rock was about 2,500, but a lot of people had died and things destroyed.

I'd like to hear anyone else's experiences with Meteors, if any. She is 3rd gen, and I've had all the Expansions since my first, and never had this happen. Thanks for reading, and happy Simming!

~Flower

[Ricalynn]

Meteors actually came with Ambitions and there is already a thread about this so as soon as I find it I'm going to merge them together.