I've been inspired!

[Servbot42]

First of all, read this hilarious article.

After I was through laughing, I realized that I wanted to do something similar to that! I'm going to play The Sims like the guy who wrote this article. (The amazing Seanbaby. Always read an article written by him if you have the opportunity.) I'll have a group of sims live in a special environment with special conditions to see what happens.

I figure it would be even more pathetic to do this just for myself, without at least telling another soul how I wasted my time, so I'm going to post my findings here!

I'll probably post tomorrow on what I'm going to do.

[Servbot42]

Alright. I've decided what I'm going to do. My ultimate goal for the family of sims that I am going to create is for them to die without any action on my part. I will build a home for them where death is a high possibility. Form there, a family of eight sims will be in charge of running there own lives while avoiding several potentially deadly scenarios that I will set up.

There are five ways that a sim can die.

Drowning - Sims can drown in a pool if they stay in it for too long.
Immolation - Various things can start fires that could scorch a sim.
Electrocution - Electronic items in need of repair can kill an unskilled Sim who attempts to repair them.
Disease - If a guinea pig bites a sim, there is a chance that they will become infected and die. Seriously. That's the only way.
Starvation - This should be obvious.

I am hoping that most of the Sims will die from one of the first four, rather than boring starvation. But they will all die eventually. After I create the family and the house, I will (hopefully) be able to post pictures and explain things.

[SIMSteven]

You sick, twisted little people, Servbot 42 and Seanbaby.

[Servbot42]

Alright. Here's the home


Rather than building a whole new house, I decided to use a preexisting house, and modify it for my purposes.

The Dining Room. There is a chance for virus death here. I think I'll place a few lamps or something to add the chance of electrocution.

The Living Room. Electrocution and virus.

Bathroom. Electrocution.

(Pretend it's light blue)Study. Electrocution and immolation.

Kitchen. Immolation. Possibly electrocution.

The Pool. It covers the entire perimeter of the house, and there is only one ladder to allow sims to exit. If they swim too far from the ladder, there is a risk that they could drown trying to get back. (After a Sim's energy is consumed while swimming, they drown.)

The main hallway. Virus. I placed a rocket launcher in the center of this room. When it goes up, if it is used by the sims for entertainment, it will come down somewhere in the house. If it makes contact with an object, it will burst into flames. Though this means that any room of the house has a chance for killing with fire, it is more so for the study. If a rocket makes contact with the carpets in the study, the entire room will burst into flames, and anyone in it will die.


And here is our family, the MLU family.


Each sim is named after a member from MLU, and only a few of them were built around that name. For instance, I wanted a black samurai elf, but I don’t usually think of that when I wonder what Danny looks like. For Snake...Well, that's what I think he wants to look like.

For those of you who don’t play the Sims, there are certain personality traits that you can give to your sim. Rather than giving each person an individual personality, I simply went down the list, gave each sim one main trait, and then distributed the remaining points equally. Here’s the rundown:

(Name – Primary trait)

Sim – Outgoing
Danny – Neatness
Snake – Playfulness (It was the next trait. I didn’t plan it that way. Honestly)
Purifier – Kindness
Red – Neatness
Dia – Active
(Again, light blue.)Misstress Yuna – Outgoing
BRG…I wrote down that BRG is her trait. So. I’ll fix that later.

Oh, and then there are the three Guinea Pigs and the fish (Fish tank in the living room). Call them whatever you want. I’ll make a note of their death as well.

What else...?

Oh, and I'll be giving them an allowance. 3,000+ simoleans. I'm doing this so they can feed themselves for awhile to give them time to kill themselves other ways. Once their money runs out, the clock will be ticking, and they'll eventually starve.

There are only five places to sleep in this house. Four beds, and one sofa. So three sims will probably have erratic sleep patterns. Well, one bed isa double, so if any of them begin to feel adventurous, only two will be left to sleep on the floor.

I think that's it. I'll post anything else I forgot next time. I'll also report my first findings.

[SIMSteven]

You're gonna remove the sidewalk to the front door, right?

[Servbot42]

O...k. This will be interesting. Before I give my report, I'd like to elaborate on something for people who don't know the Sims.

When there is a fire, all nearby sims will flock to it. And they will freak. They will freak until the fire is dealt with. Being that I am not ordering them to do anything, and being that I have no smoke detector(Which would summon a fireman), my sims are just going to lose their **** until the fire goes out.

When a sim dies, the Grim Reaper will appear to collect their soul. This isn't always the end, as another sim could attempt to bargain for the dead sim's life. If they win, the dead sim will be brought back. (By the way...should I stop this from happening? If one sim does try to save another? This could drag on forever if they save each other.) Anyway, if a sim doesn't try to help another, the Grim Reaper will eventually take them. That is what I am considering to be the official time of death.

I was wrong about the rocket launcher. If it lands anywhere in the house, a fire will start.

Here is my report. The entire experience was eye-opening. There will be no pictures because I didn't save.

Day 1 (Days are 6AM to 6AM)

8:00AM - I broke my rule once to move the sims into the house while I the sidewalk leading to it. I added a ladder for the pool. Unpaused, they began exploring the house. Took immediate interest in chairs in the dining room.

8:09 - Dia launches a rocket, starts fire next to guinea pig in hallway.

8:50 - Red launches a rocket, it comes down on him and Snake. They burst into flames. The women flip out and surround them, while SIM is more concerned with watching television in the living room. (They are right next to the living room door.)

9:05 - Red and Snake die.

9:25 - The hallway guinea pig is engulfed by flames.

10:04 - BRG catches fire. At this point, Purifier is watching TV in the next room, and everyone seemed to calm down for a bit when BRG caught fire. They just stood there watching her die.

10:07 - SIM catches fire.

10:54 - Dia goes up in flames.

11:00 Mistress Yuna catches fire. By this point, BRG and the hallway guinea pig are dead.

11:07 Sim is dead.

11:37 - Mistress Yuna dead.

12:03 - Dia dead.

12:16 - Danny and Purifier are trapped in the bathroom. Flames block both exits.

12:40 - Purifier lights up.

1:14 - Purifier dead.

5:15 - Fire goes out.

5:28 - Danny sobs over the remains of his dead friends until 10:22. He then goes to bed. He took one break from sobbing to urinate on himself at 9:19. The toilet is still intact.

Day 2

6:00AM - Danny wakes up, sobs until 9:45PM, when he geos to bed. He hasn't eaten once.

11:52PM - Danny wakes, somehow aware that a raccoon has tampered with his garbage can. He begins sobbing. He sobs until four, though his morning is interrupted several times by the unreasonably vengeful ghosts of his dead friends. Dia and Mistress Yuna go out of their way to terrorize him in his grief.

4:00AM - Danny attempts to sleep, but ghosts and pain from hunger keep him awake until he passes out on the floor of the bedroom at 7:08.

Day 3

11:05AM - The Dining Room GP dies.

12:20 - The Living room GP dies.

5:32- It's at this point that I notice Danny's bladder is still filling up, eveng though he is not eating or drinking.

7:11 - Danny wakes up, takes a bath. His first.

3:14PM - Danny begins cleaning up remains of his friends.

4:49 - Danny eats for the first time. My hopes of him starving himself to death in grief are shattered.

Day 4

10:13PM - The Fish die.

Danny spent this day attempting to rebuild his life. He read books, took baths, slept in beds, ate food, and continued to gradually clean up his friends. He still peed all over the floor, though. I must stress that the toilet did not burn, so I don't understand this.

Day 5

2:20PM - Danny attempts to cook...something, and the stove catches fire.

3:57 - The fire embraces Danny.

4:31 - Danny dies. I should note that the fire destroyed the entire kitchen. Even if Danny had lived, he would have died from starvation in a few more days. His fate was sealed.



Causes of Death

Danny - Day 5, Fire
Purifier - Day 1, Fire
Sim - Day 1, Fire
Snake - Day 1, Fire
Red - Day 1, Fire
Dia - Day 1, Fire
Mistress Yuna - Day 1, Fire
BRG - Day 1, Fire
Hallway GP - Day 1, Fire
Living room GP - DAY 3, Starvation
Dining Room GP - Day 3, Starvation
Fish - Day 4, Starvation

Needless to say, I am doing this experiment again. And I am removing that rocket launcher this time.

I'll do it tomorrow. Any advice or thoughts on how I should go about this the second time?

[Red]

GIVE THEM MORE ROCKET LAUNCHERS--NOT LESS.

also I look the most badass, thanks

[Solid Snake]

No way, I definately look the best!

[SIMSteven]

Jun 20, 2009 10:39:54 GMT -5 Solid Snake said:

No way, I definately look the best!

You look like a two-bit whore.

[Red]

Yikes! Glad I'm not in that house o.o

[agentx11456]

too bad I am.

[Servbot42]

Wut.

And I haven't forgotten about this! I performed a second experiment, which ended nearly as quickly as the first. But Seanbaby's article also inspired me to get the Sims 3. And I've been a little distracted.

[SuperDanny]

Hell yeah! My Sim survived the longest. My sister played a lot of Sims games a few years ago and she always fooled around getting them killed like this. It's really funny but pretty sick