Meteorite shower not happening?

[Frey]

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I'm trying to get the meteor shower with the social group project machine but nothing happens. I am trying with just one sim, like the guide says:

Fourth Outcome - All Three Activated - Nessa wrote to tell me about this one. You can do it with a single Sim, or three who have achieved level 10 Science. When all 3 are lit, you'll get a white beam instead. This calls down a positive meteor shower of collectibles and loot. No one will be harmed by the experiment. She says that you can do it with a single Sim if you use each of the 3 nodes, watching the bars on the side. Use one, let the meter fill to 33%, use the other to 66% and finally to 99%. Using any of the three colors, you'll then get a white beam that calls down the Meteor Shower.

My sim is level 10 in science but it doesn't work so I'm obviously doing it wrong. Is there a specific order to do it, like red-green-blue or whatever? Or maybe any other tricks? I've tried like a billion times but I never get the white beam thing

[Frey]

Alright, so I finally got the "meteorite shower" moodlet.... and nothing happened!  I'm playing in Isla Paradiso. I had my sim buy an extra residential lot and placed the machine there, on an empty island and surrounded by fence to keep the entire town from showing up.

Any tips? Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?

[Frey]

Sorry to insist on this, but I'm still having the same problem. I've managed to get the "Meteor shower!" moodlet several times but no actual meteor shower happens.

Stranger still, my sim's child has the school opportunity to collect gems and metals, so when I control her, I can go to world view and see gems and metals spawners. Well... the lot I have the Group Science Project machine is plagued with spawners, but if I close up, the gems and metals aren't there. I went into buy mode and they aren't there either, not even with buydebug enabled. Reseting the world didn't fix it and I have no idea what to do or why this is happening.

I have placed the machine on a residential lot (an extra one, not where my sims live), on an empty island and surrounded by fence to keep curiuos sims away from it. Could this have something to do with it? I tried turning the lot to Community but the whole neighborhood decided to check it out and I couldn't get my sim to trigger the meteor shower with all the other sims messing up with the machine.

Please, help!

[Dellena]

My only suggestion is to try it on the mainland on a fenced in lot.  Maybe something weird is going on with the island.

[Frey]

In the end it was the fence, I think. I removed it yesterday and nothing happened, but when I loaded the game today the loot was there. I hadn't thought about that because the original lot in Campus also has a fence around it  but anyway, I'm glad it's fixed. This game has a life of its own sometimes!

Thanks for the help Dellena!