I just had my first meteor experience and it was a doozy! My Sim was gardening and I had just clicked for him to go to town to complete a mission when I got the message box that said my Sim wondered why things looked so dark. I had no idea what was happening as I had not read beforehand about the meteor events in the game. The next thing I knew there was this really loud noise and there was this huge explosion that lasted for 10 to 20 seconds. There were bursts of flames, smoke and exploding sound effects, and it was very dramatic. It was much like the explosion you can create in the junkyard when you "detonate" the large scrap pile and it all goes up in one great big explosion. My kids were in the other room watching a movie and it got their attention too. They stopped their movie to ask me what the heck just happened..lol, they thought my computer blew up - lol. I ended up with a huge meteor that was worth over $8,000.00. There was major damage. I had a very large hole sunk into the ground and I had to replace all surrounding windows, lights, large statue, time machine, inventor station, 3 teleportation pads, 2 body sculpting devices, and my Margaret Vaguester vehicle which was parked in the garage where the meteor just happened to fall. After replacing all of that I found 1 scrap pile and a few small meteor rocks on my lot.
I gotta say, it was rather fun and so cool to have had that experience, but I would not want it to happen often in my game. It's a good thing I had the money to replace everything and that my Sim was spared.
The game never fails to amuse me, that's for sure! (Well, except for the maddening experiences of the game glitches, bugs, error codes and of course the dreaded black screen of death crashes!)
