Preventing alien abductions?

[commasplice]

Is there any way to stop my sims from being abducted? It's wreaking havoc in my apocalypse challenge. I even had a non-heir get pregnant. I figured out how to return the baby, but I had someone with nighttime hours and it's delayed their promotion. Any suggestions--even cheats are welcome.

[oshizu]

@commasplice

You can use the "showhiddenobjects" cheat to purchase the satellite dish (it's a career reward for the Scientist career), then set it to prevent abductions. It needs to be set every 24 hours.

Ctrl+Shift+C
testingcheats on
bb.showhiddenobjects true

To disable showhiddenobjects, you'll need to save and exit your game, I believe.
Good luck with your Apocalypse Challenge!

[commasplice]

Awesome. Thank you. I have never had any alien abductions ever, but it's my first time playing the Oasis neighborhood. Maybe that's the reason?

[Playalot]

You don't need to save and exit your game to use this cheat, just enabling bb.showhiddenobjects once in build mode should work and then in the filters under 'content' you can choose debug or even easier just use the search feature on the left of the UI.

You do need to save and exit your game to unequip this cheat. *edited thanks to @oshizu pointing out my derp. 

By the way, completely jealous that you are having abductions.

[oshizu]

@Playalot and @commasplice

Sorry for the misinformation. Does bb.showhiddenobjects automatically disable after leaving Build mode? (I've rarely used it so I'm not sure).

And about the abductions, what Playalot said. Not only abductions but also male pregnancy!

[Playalot]

@Playalot and @commasplice

Sorry for the misinformation. Does bb.showhiddenobjects automatically disable after leaving Build mode? (I've rarely used it so I'm not sure).

And about the abductions, what Playalot said. Not only abductions but also male pregnancy!

Oppsies. Not your misinformation... mine. You do need to leave the game for bb.moveobjects bb.showhiddenobjects to disable. Skim reading gets me into a world of trouble!

[coolsim9999999]

@Playalot and @commasplice

Sorry for the misinformation. Does bb.showhiddenobjects automatically disable after leaving Build mode? (I've rarely used it so I'm not sure).

And about the abductions, what Playalot said. Not only abductions but also male pregnancy!

Oppsies. Not your misinformation... mine. You do need to leave the game for bb.moveobjects to disable. Skim reading gets me into a world of trouble!

To turn off bb.moveobjects, simply type it into the search console again.  You don't need to exit the game . 
However, to disable bb.showhiddenobjects save and exit the game .

[Playalot]

Oh crumbs! My head is totally in the clouds today! I meant bb.showhiddenobjects. *Gives up and turns off PC for the day*!

[coolsim9999999]

Play, you don't have to shut your computer off for the rest of the day .

[Rangervegas]

Yea i've never even SEEN an alien in the game, let alone had an alien abduction yet....are Aliens tied to a particular game pack? I thought not but then again since i've never even seen an alien in my game I wasent sure. LOL

 

[coolsim9999999]

Aliens come with Get to Work.

[commasplice]

In some of my sims socializing, they will periodically learn that so and so is an alien. I'm unclear whether there's a real sim out there also with that name or not.

[coolsim9999999]

In some of my sims socializing, they will periodically learn that so and so is an alien. I'm unclear whether there's a real sim out there also with that name or not.

If your Sims become aware that another Sim is an alien, then, the Sim to whom they are speaking is the alien. 

Sims will get the moodlet that just they discovered an alien, and they could feel angry or be alright about finding out.  That status will also be noted in your Sims' relationship panel for that alien Sim.

[commasplice]

In some of my sims socializing, they will periodically learn that so and so is an alien. I'm unclear whether there's a real sim out there also with that name or not.

If your Sims become aware that another Sim is an alien, then, the Sim to whom they are speaking is the alien. 

Sims will get the moodlet that just they discovered an alien, and they could feel angry or be alright about finding out.  That status will also be noted in your Sims' relationship panel for that alien Sim.

I guess what I'm asking is this: your sim realizes that Johnny Zest is an alien. Does that mean that there's a real Johnny Zest too?

[coolsim9999999]

In some of my sims socializing, they will periodically learn that so and so is an alien. I'm unclear whether there's a real sim out there also with that name or not.

If your Sims become aware that another Sim is an alien, then, the Sim to whom they are speaking is the alien. 

Sims will get the moodlet that just they discovered an alien, and they could feel angry or be alright about finding out.  That status will also be noted in your Sims' relationship panel for that alien Sim.

I guess what I'm asking is this: your sim realizes that Johnny Zest is an alien. Does that mean that there's a real Johnny Zest too?

No, it means that Johnny Zest is the alien.  He would be the only one. 

There can only be two different versions of a Sim, if they get cloned.