Meteor Strikes School!

[nichosar]

So, I was playing The Sims this evening, just minding my own business, when the game decided to throw me for a loop. I was having a large thunder storm when a messaged popped up from one of my three teens at school saying that he "wondered why it got so dark." Then a giant meteor struck the school! "Awesome!" I thought, "My first meteor!" Then all three of my teenagers had the icon to "expire" when they were done at school. Sure enough, that pesky grim reaper showed up and took them all! Argh!

Has anyone else had this happen? Or happen to any other building?

[JudesSims]

I've had that happen to me in Riverview. I had a child in the school that died

[cndneh]

I had it happen to me as well and it killed off my kids, and about every other kid in the town (took out the school, same as you) in the end there was almost an entire generation gone ( I think one kids survived).  I was so mad (I think I was doing a baby boomer challenge last year, or the year before) that I exited without saving, swore a lot, had a temper tantrum, and then went and did something else, ignoring my sims until I calmed down.  I don't think I ever did enter that baby boomer challenge.   

[thesweetestpea]

Meteor strikes in the game are a feature of Ambitions, so I've moved your post to the Ambitions board.

[MoMoll]

When you get that notice of "everything's dark"; move your sims out of danger fast! I've lost too many sims in the past. Now, I don't ignore that message!

[Seabody]

While I've never had it happen to me, I've seen pictures where, after the Meteor struck, Grimmy took each child one by one as they came out. It was heartbreaking.

[Wai]

This has to be the most horrible, and unchild player friendly, thing I have ever heard of happening in the sims.  I'll restrict my grandchildren to sims 2 from now on.  It's never happened to me, I have six children in school right now for the BB challenge which I have just started.  I am going to be worrying now until this challenge is over!  I hate any games where killing is involved, killing children, that's just awful.

[Axiom]

This has to be the most horrible, and unchild player friendly, thing I have ever heard of happening in the sims.  I'll restrict my grandchildren to sims 2 from now on.  It's never happened to me, I have six children in school right now for the BB challenge which I have just started.  I am going to be worrying now until this challenge is over!  I hate any games where killing is involved, killing children, that's just awful.

There are mods that remove Meteors completely, or change the chance of them striking.

[cndneh]

There are mods that remove Meteors completely, or change the chance of them striking.

Unfortunately mods of any sort aren't allowed during challenges. 

[Toni]

I've never had a meteor let alone a meteor hit the school but it sounds horrible! There should be a meteor slider in the options menu.

[lvrugger]

I just had one heading to the rabbit hole my Sim is employed at. Thankfully, you can send a Sim home from work, but I don't think you can send a Sim home from school.

If it's not a challenge file, you can always resetsim * to reset all the Sims to their homes and save the kids.

[Magz from Oz]

I had a meteor strike the library once, while my Sim's wife and children were inside.  Lost all of them and just about every bookworm in town.  Serves me right for just clicking off the pop ups because he was fishing and I was tired of each pop up extolling the new record weight of each fish he caught!  It teaches you the hard way to pay attention to those pop ups.

[cathyknits]

I'd think they would have exempted the school somehow. The idea of killing every child and teen in the town... unthinkable. But, yes, watch the pop-ups. And I think you can leave school early just by canceling the "at school" action...

[Magz from Oz]

I'd think they would have exempted the school somehow. The idea of killing every child and teen in the town... unthinkable.

I agree.  Now if I get that pop up for someone on a public lot, I resetsim everybody because wherever my Sim goes, half the town seems to follow.  If my Sims are all at home I move them out of the house pronto!

[Beezy]

Wow, that's terrible.

I had my sim go to a game at the stadium once, and I got the notification, She managed to escape in time, but everyone else was killed. It was very cool, one second the crowd was cheering, and the next second BOOM!