Sims 3 - How do you stop burglers?

Maccy · 12 Jan 2011 at 12:18

My girlfriend is addicted to the Sims, she's had all the expansion packs for all 3 main games (including all of them for the Sims 3!).

davewhite04 · 12 Jan 2011 at 12:26

dmcg said:
make a house with no windows or doors

lol

chris_uk333 · 12 Jan 2011 at 12:54

The Sims is brilliant. One of the best franchises ever.

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 13:22

The Sims is the modern equivalent of a doll's house. :confused:

Shame on all you men playing it! Did you used to play with your sister's Barbies too?

ThomasTheTankEngine · 12 Jan 2011 at 14:36

PianoBasher said:
The Sims is the modern equivalent of a doll's house.

Shame on all you men playing it! Did you used to play with your sister's Barbies too?

<insert "Son, I am disappoint" pic here>

Action man had to get his action from somewhere. Don't tell me all of yours were virgins?

The sims is the most popular pc game of all time. Shame on you for not playing it!

Mr Krugga · 12 Jan 2011 at 14:56

I always install it, play it a few hours, uninstall it, not play for months.

Good house planner and fun at times but amazingly boring and repetitive with the control over Sims.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:11

^^^ Yeah, that sounds about right. I only played sims 3 for a couple of sessions before getting bored: It doesn't have much content compared to a fully expanded sims 2. I'm waiting for more stuff to come out before I play it again.

jas72 · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:16

can you rp a burgler in Sim 3

Might get this game didn't know you could play as a criminal.

Mr Krugga · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:18

jas72 said:
can you rp a burgler in Sim 3

Might get this game didn't know you could play as a criminal.

I don't think you can rape in Sims 3.

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:24

jimbob27 said:
Action man had to get his action from somewhere. Don't tell me all of yours were virgins?

The sims is the most popular pc game of all time. Shame on you for not playing it!

I think my Transformers were the ones buggering Barbie actually...

I was only being semi-serious, BTW... I tried playing it once and got bored quickly, although getting one of them to have an affair with the neighbours leading to a fight was amusing for 10 minutes.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:00

PianoBasher said:
I think my Transformers were the ones buggering Barbie actually...

I was only being semi-serious, BTW... I tried playing it once and got bored quickly, although getting one of them to have an affair with the neighbours leading to a fight was amusing for 10 minutes.

I was only semi serious in defending it.

Really I wish that Mr Wright would make us another sim city game.

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:09

jimbob27 said:
I was only semi serious in defending it. Really I wish that Mr Wright would make us another sim city game.

Cities XL 2011 isn't half bad, I'm playing it at the moment. Fun enough but doesn't really blow you away.

Mr Krugga · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:11

PianoBasher said:
Cities XL 2011 isn't half bad, I'm playing it at the moment. Fun enough but doesn't really blow you away.

It's good as long as you don't have Sim City 3000/4 on your mind.

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:17

Mr Krugga said:
It's good as long as you don't have Sim City 3000/4 on your mind.

I got bored with Simcity 4 - performance was awful, and it seemed extremely difficult to get your city to build up and to get skyscrapers in your commercial districts. :confused:

I'm not sure if some of the weightings/settings were very harsh or not.

I might have just been useless though, although my cashflow and growth suggested I was doing fine?

Mr Krugga · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:21

PianoBasher said:
I got bored with Simcity 4 - performance was awful, and it seemed extremely difficult to get your city to build up and to get skyscrapers in your commercial districts. I'm not sure if some of the weightings/settings were very harsh or not.

I might have just been useless though, although my cashflow and growth suggested I was doing fine?

You were doing it wrong.

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:24

Mr Krugga said:
You were doing it wrong.

Care to enlighten me? Links to guides? I got some quite dense, nice looking districts with high-rises (things boomed with adjoining cities, airport, train freight) but never managed the huge skyscrapers and have no clue why I never managed it...

ThomasTheTankEngine · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:25

PianoBasher said:
I got bored with Simcity 4 - performance was awful, and it seemed extremely difficult to get your city to build up and to get skyscrapers in your commercial districts. I'm not sure if some of the weightings/settings were very harsh or not.

I might have just been useless though, although my cashflow and growth suggested I was doing fine?

There were quite a few caps and limits. I think you need a certain regional population before the started building the biggest building.

Mr Krugga · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:26

PianoBasher said:
Care to enlighten me? Links to guides? I got some quite dense, nice looking districts with high-rises (things boomed with adjoining cities, airport, train freight) but never managed the huge skyscrapers and have no clue why I never managed it...

I'd love to enlighten you but I'm afraid I was doing worse than that :rolleyes:

Narj · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:30

Mr Krugga said:
I'd love to enlighten you but I'm afraid I was doing worse than that

LOL... There was me thinking I was the only one that couldn't manage it... Fair enough...

It'd be nice if you had the option in these games of employing people to manage parts of your infrastructure to save on the micromanagement. IE: someone to automatically manage the repair/replacement of power stations, someone to manage the funding for police/fire etc...

Once you have a large city going it turns into a bit of a stressful nightmare keeping everything under control!

mistercrabb · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:41

PianoBasher said:
LOL... There was me thinking I was the only one that couldn't manage it... Fair enough...

It'd be nice if you had the option in these games of employing people to manage parts of your infrastructure to save on the micromanagement. IE: someone to automatically manage the repair/replacement of power stations, someone to manage the funding for police/fire etc...

Once you have a large city going it turns into a bit of a stressful nightmare keeping everything under control!

I never managed it either

I think the only way to play is aggressively expand. I actually followed an online guide thing, which helped to some extent, but it never quite worked out.

I'd like to play it again actually, I'm sure I can do better this time around...