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Offline templesmom

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Firefighter thoughts and stories.
« on: June 04, 2010, 01:47:38 PM »
I hope it is OK to post this here.
Firefighter is the first of the new professions that I have tried. I like it alot and feel that my sim, Adam, moves up in rank pretty fast. Adam fought many small house fires and a angry gnome invasion all with an A rating. Then came the large house fire. It was at Jamie Jolina's residence. It said in my list of things to do was to put out all fires and save 2 sims. Well I saw Jamie so I knew that was one but I could not find the other sim. Turns out it was an infant on the ground in the back yard! By the time I found her and saved her I had a D rating. LOL
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Re: Firefighter thoughts and stories.
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2010, 01:53:50 PM »
I have to agree with you on that the large house fires are sometimes weird I guess... simply because often you can put the fires out before saving the sims... so they don't really need saving anymore, yet they keep screaming in panic even if the fire is long gone.



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Offline jmz95

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Re: Firefighter thoughts and stories.
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2010, 02:11:27 PM »
Well can you pause the game and look around?
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2010, 02:21:21 PM »
Yeah it is possible... I always used to do that when arriving on site. To see in which order to attend to thimgs, although I have since then given up on firefighter because of other reasons.

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« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2010, 02:32:58 PM »
Yea I could have paused. And I think I did but I guess I was just trying to figure out if there was a glitch that said there were two sims when there was only one. :o) Crise could you tell me what the other reasons were?

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« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2010, 03:25:25 PM »
This answers that, ie. in my case I have most skills maxed (my sim exercises a healthy diet consisting timely dose of ambrosia) so my promotions slowed to crawl at level five... I started cheating but that took all the fun out of it.

Right now I am in process of molding a new sim to take on the new professions from ambitions, from an unplanned offspring I got from the past.


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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2010, 11:37:46 PM »
For those of you looking for more info on the Firefighter LTW be sure to check out the Firefighter Super Hero article!



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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2010, 12:08:08 PM »
After playing fire fighter to level 10 I honestly think it is the best career to start a legacy challenge out with.  The founder can basically live at the firehouse until they have enough money to build a real house.   I haven't really tested this theory out but I am thinking about starting a new legacy and it seems like the easy way out!  :)

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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2010, 02:06:58 PM »
Living at the fire station is entirely possible... I used to live weeks at the station and weekends at home.

Which brings up an interesting point, it is funny how scheduled the emergencies start to feel like when you are at the fire station around the clock -> not a single alarm outside work hours.

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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2010, 02:24:04 PM »
Also only one emergency a day? Seems a but un-realistic to me. If your sim is at work as a fire-fighter, and his house catches fire, will he go to put it out with his truck?
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2010, 03:26:44 PM »
On my firefighter sim, he is on lvl 7 and I think has been to 3 fires, all small ones and I didn't know he still gets a ride to work, I think this is the only one that does and probably the education one.
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2010, 05:09:24 AM »
Also only one emergency a day? Seems a but un-realistic to me. If your sim is at work as a fire-fighter, and his house catches fire, will he go to put it out with his truck?

You can get more than one emergency a day, if you get lucky... but 1-2 seems to be the max you can fit in to one work day but in theory you could get more than that even I guess.

As for the own house on fire scenario I have to test that, but somehow I doubt it is going to work like that, as these emergencies you get on the job seem highly scripted (ie. I never had single oven fire, just fires on the floor and then from there sometimes other objects catch fire... but I never went above lvl5).

So it is unlikely that if you deliberately cause fire in your home it will trigger an emergency at the fire station, but I guess it could be possible for one of the scripted emergencies to happen at your home.

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« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2010, 06:54:15 AM »
I have played a firefighter these last few days and found a few things that were bugging me about that profession.

First off, I had my sim move into a house that had been struck by a meteor. A fireman stopped by to help (they always do with that scenario), but he is not listed as a co-worker even though when asked he answers that firefighter is his job. I found it pretty disappointing that npc firemen do not count as co-workers.

The second problem was one I created myself: I put down two firestations, a copy of the ea station that automatically is in the bin, and another one that is a copy of the station in the new town (I played my firefighter in Sunset Valley). Only the firestation where i applied for the job is shown as my workplace, but the building is empty 24/7, there is not a single firefighter in there (except for my own sim of course). There are three people at the other firestation who count as co-workers, and I can maintain and upgrade alarms and fire engines at both stations (results seem to be kept separately for both lots, too). The most annoying is that every time I have responded to an emergency the automatic return action brings my sim driving to the wrong station. The game does count her as being at work even if she is at the other station, but the fire engine and fire alarm at her real workplace fall into disrepair quickly and i have gotten several warnings because i forgot to go back to the other place to maintain the engine and alarm there.

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« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2010, 08:29:01 AM »
Also only one emergency a day? Seems a but un-realistic to me. If your sim is at work as a fire-fighter, and his house catches fire, will he go to put it out with his truck?

I had a fire on my home lot while I was out (left the waffles in the oven) and the usual NPC came to put it out.

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« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2010, 12:41:46 PM »
Funny, you have all of these coworkers and your sim is the only one putting out the fire. lol
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