More Awesome Than You!

A while back there was an intense fire mod....somewhere. I searched MTS2 to no avail. Does anyone know who the creator is or if someone has a copy and would kindly send it to me, I'd be most appreciative. I have Sir Ignitus Blowtorch's Buyable Fire, but the one I need is different. It causes a blazing inferno.

I don't have it, but I suspect it may be Carrigon...

which means the sims 2 workshop, which at the moment utterly refuses to load, so I can't check!

I thought it may be her. No luck with getting her site to load here, either. Grrrrrr.

Edit: I can get the main page to load, but can't seem to log in. SLOOOWWWWWW.

Well, I ran a search and got a very odd page saying the site had a critical error, then I tried to get back here and got to the front page, which eventually loaded and immediately attempted to load another page.  Absolutely wierd, what was happening, so I would think they might have a lot of repairs to make!

Yeah, it is definitely at Carrigon's. It is called "Objects-bad-ass-fire.package".

That is the only place to get it.

Yea, Sims2workshop is seriously farkled lately -- I finally got in and filled out the registration form (took forever) and submitted it two days ago.  Still haven't gotten the activation email.

I've been trying to load the page since Friday, I think.  ::)

Well, I think they're on the same server as VS.  So that explains why they're so slow.  I did sign up a long time ago, but I forgot which password I used (I cycle between 2 or 3 or so), and the pages take so long to load that I give up even trying to log in.

Well, I tried an hour or so back, and the site was unable to load yet again.  I don't think they will be sending out account activation e-mails until the site is up and running again.

I got it from VS. It was probably one of Carrigon's, so maybe you can check the new site.

I don't think either site is loading.  Wait, though, VS loaded after an initial failure, but Sims2Workshop still isn't loading.

VS is loading...  and now the other one is too...

My patience wore out and I wound up using Buyable Fire instead. Thanks for the help, though!

I would like to see their site back up and running. I've always liked Carrigon's stuff.

Variousimmers is loading great for me, but I didn't see the fire hack there. :-\

It's at SimWorkshop which is loading and accepting new registrations, but doesn't seem to be able to ccept log ins - I got a critical error twice.

I got the critical error once, then managed to get things accepted the second time, only to be told that my account was inactive...  kinda stuck here!

Well, you'd have thought Carrigon would have been able to sort it!  (If she knows....)

Tried again just now, and got an Error 404, tried again, and got an Error 403 - my wrist was well and truly slapped!  What the hell is going on there?

It is borked. Utterly.

VS and SW have been loading terribly slow for so long that I haven't been going there at all. It is sad really, because I can remember the "old days" when everyone hung out at MTS2 and Carrigon was my favourite modder. Now I'm stuck with Pescado as my favourite almighty-maker-of-hacks-I-can't-live-without. What is this world comming to?

I do like the "puppy killer" too though... >.>

What really bugs me about this Error 403 is when you get it and try to g back to the previous page, you just keep getting the error again!  And this attitude that you know you can't get through and shouldn't have tried is so insulting!  If you know a site is closed, you don't go there, so if you are trying to get there it means you don't know!

Try this...

ETA: File removed as Sims2workshop.com is up and running again. Carrigon is the creator of bad-ass fire.
PM me if you have problems finding the file.

I just "saw" Carrigon over at news:alt.games.the-sims .. she said in a post "but we were hacked by my supposedly number one fan, someone I took into our site and featured, who then hacked us and took off "

So it might be a while until they are back up..

I had a bad feeling they had been hacked - as I said, I'd never seen that totally nasty Error 403 before, so maybe it was put there by the hacker, or maybe it was put up to keep him/her out? 

We had a similar problem at SimFreaks forum a while back, and it took Heather ages to get everything up again, and now she's had to up security, which is a shame, but what can you do?

well personally i think a bullet in the brain of some people would improve the gene pool.     

We need something to improve the gene pool!  (Lowering the standards for exams doesn't really fool anyone into thinking kids aren't getting thicker!)

how about the insanity of 'no child left behind'.    if you are behind in one grade,  moving you up only makes sure you'll never catch on.   when i went to UCI in 74 they couldnt find enough kids to pass the entrance exams so they had to fill up by offering remedial  math and reading.

Well, when I was at school in the 50's, we worked in base 4 (farthings in a penny) base 2 (halfpennies in a penny), base 12 (pennies in a shilling, base 20, base 14 base 16 and goodness knows how many more, plus all the metric measure at every level, not just one or two - by the time we left primary school - and now kids can't tell you how much 17p + 14P is without a calculator!

Just to let everyone know,  Sims2workshop.com is back up and running ok now.

Tried it and loved it...One sim family never saw it coming, nor did I. I forgot to install a fire alarm and a phone after a family just moved into a house. They brought a broken dishwasher with them from another house and needless to say...Both adult sims survived the crisis, but not by very much! I never saw fire move so fast!!

Not for the fainthearted or those with a weak heart, then!  It was bad enough when Angela Pleasant nearly incinerated her entire family as well as a couple of visitors when whe had an "accident" with the crepes suzettes!  (Needless to say, she didn't survive!)

lol...I was so upset because the family I was playing with was one of my favorites, but I am a just "god" and do not give second chances. Luckily when the second adult caught fire the actual fire was going out and for some reason she went out too. Then she was able to plead to grimmy!

Ooh..thanks, witch! That's the one. :)

I don't think you needed the fire alarm alone, you needed the extinguisher!

No, that's how they caught fire! I tried to make them extinguish it while it was dying down and poof!, they both went up in flames. I would have had them call the fire department, but I forgot to give them a phone. The only thing I could do is wait for the fire to burn out. And let me tell you, OPEN FLOOR PLAN + BAD ASS FIRE + NO ALARM OR PHONE = TOTAL DESTRUCTION

That poor family had just come into some inheritance, but now they can't even afford a fridge. I have yet to move them back into a starter home. I think I'll do that now.

Sorry, I meant the Uni extinguisher that you put over the stove.

Hmmm...Interesting. What is this and where do I find it?  ???

It's somewhere in the miscellaneous/miscellaneous, I think.

I think it should be under small appliances ? if you have uni installed. Or you may try plumbing or misc. Okay, I'm useless. I never use it, myself. I'm happy with the smoke alarm.

The interesting thing is, if you have both, the fire-engine still arrives, but the fireman doesn't usually rush in, but you don't get fined like you do if you adjust/visitors on the burglar and he's gone before the cop arrives!

It's an overhead sprinkler, and it's under Misc/Misc, I think about $200. I never use both the sprinkler and the alarm, just use one or the other depending on what I want to happen in that house if there's a fire.

This sounds like alot of fun, I shall have to try it  ;D I have never used the sprinklers either so I'll have to try them. I just love Dr Pixels fern recolor of the fire alarm (at TSR) and have it in every house. I could use more variety in the fire alarms, there used to be some nice paintings in TS1 that you could have over the fireplace. You really don't want that ugly alarm in your nice living room.

Glad to see the 403 error wasn't just happening to me, I thought I must have done something very wrong! And as I'm not registered at that site I was at a loss to imagine what it was  :D

Thanks to all here - I'd forgotten about the hack - had to dig it up from the archives, so I'll be putting it back in the game too. :)

I'm going to remove the file from my post here, if Sims2workshop.com is up and working, then I don't think it's right to leave it here. (Yep, the link works for me.) You can hopefully get the bad-ass fire from Carrigon at her site, haven't looked through the hacks lately, must do.

cheers
witch

Thanks, Witch :)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Needless to say, I have never used it...well, with this hack installed I might just have to start in order to give my little simmies a fighting chance. I'm worried that the fireman will get consumed too.

Yes, I think the hack is there among all her others.

Tolli has a nice fire alarm clock in the first of his kitchens at Sim Gedoehns, but I'm not sure if it's in the free or the donation part.  I don't actually mind the fire alarms so much, with Moveobjects on you can put alight pretty close to it so it gets hidden a bit.  It's the burglar alarms that are so really ugly!

Yea, I usually try to hide the burglar alarms behind a bookcase or tall plant or something.

I usually just put them close to the door, where I'm unlikely to ever see them anyway. The fire alarm, burglar alarm, and sprinkler all look exactly the way I expect the real things to look, so I don't see what Maxis should have done to make them "prettier". It's only a problem for decor where a modern version would be anachronistic.

One thing I'd like to see with the fire alarms is to make them ceiling-mountable.  I can't recall the last time I was in a RL house where they had the thing on the wall.

There are several decorative fire alarms around that go well in a period setting, but mostly I just use recolours which blend a little better with the wall.  Since my burglars are unable to burgle, I only put burglar alarms in to keep my sims happy!

I think what are on the ceiling are smoke detectors, which don't connect to a fire station, just sound an alarm to wake the inhabitants up so they can call the fire brigade and get out in time!

Which is probably all that 90% of the folks here in the US who have any kind of fire alarm actually have.  But even so; my parents got a house-wide fire/burglar alarm system back in the 60's when we were kids, and the fire detectors were little silver rectangular boxes that were ceiling mounted.  Our neighbors also have a whole house fire/burglar alarm that they had installed about 5-6 years ago, and all their fire detectors are on the ceiling too.  Wall mounts are only for anyone too lazy to get out the step stool to reach the ceiling. :)

Well, I suppose it makes sense for sims to have them on the wall, otherwise they'd be hard to spot - as it is I always forget most of the Maxis houses don't have them!

Unless they keep them visible like they do ceiling lamps...

But if you use Inge's thingy for hiding ceiling lights, it might hide them too!

I always put the fire alarm above the fridge...I never notice the burglar alarm being ugly, its usually right inside the front door (and any other door). You can always use move objects and place a picture over it I suppose.

Moveobjects doesn't always work, I think you need snap ObjectstoGrid false as well.

I quite often put my fire alarm over the cooker, but have a window there too, so it sort of sits in the window frame.  (If it's not over the cooker, I'd forget where I put it and keep putting new ones in!

I wouldn't care if you couldn't see the fire alarm. I either install one or don't. If I forget, I won't realize it until there is an actual fire. It would be nice to make that hideaous thing hideable.

Well, I don't mind when Angela gets burninated, but I'd hate to see it happen to one of my sims, so I always put one in when I build a house.  Most of the Maxis empty houses seem to have them it's the ones with sims actually living in them that don't happen - it's as though they intended fatal fires to happen when newbies to the game start to play!  (And it's a game about life, not death!  Tell that to the tooth fairy!)

The firefighter is immune to fires while on the job. Maybe I should add a barrel of gasoline to the game, that will cause aforementioned super-fire if it should catch fire. Or the ever-popular exploding barrel of green goo.

Gasoline please! :D

My RL smoke alarm goes off every time I cook - wonder what that says?

It says you burned your food.

Nah, it's just an oversensitive wussy sort of smoke alarm.

Can't you tune it down a bit?

Yeah, she can stop BURNING THE FOOD. I bet it comes out all black and brown, like charcoal. Probably doesn't even bleed anymore.

No, it's either on or off.  :D


SACRILEGE! Steak should be seared almost black on the outside and purple red raw inside. YUM!

I prefer my steaks to be still entirely purple, warm, and dripping with blood. Preferrably with the dead cow still present.

attached?

Targa made one, it's on MTS2: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=95682

I use it all the time - works perfectly, and much more true to life.  :)

Wonderful!  Don't know how I missed that one -- thanks!

After another fire was started in the new house I moved them into, this time with a fire alarm, the fire only got the stove and counter next to it. The fireman did a good job. I am beginning to think that this family is fated to die, but we'll see how long I can help them cheat death. Another thing, I recall my sims used to carry the children to safety, but these must be bad parents because they didn't think twice about the kid!

Thanks for the link fairestrachel.

I've noticed this too, and I think it may have been left out with OFB.  At one time (Base Game only) I used to click on my sims and send them to Watch Clouds when there was a fire, but not any more!  (Stopped them all rushing for the bathroom at once, too!)

I had just the extinguisher installed in one of my houses and they had a fire which ended when the kitchen flooded from the sprinkler - the sim's wants re-rolled and he asked for an alarm to be fitted!
Those sprinklers are ceiling mounted and tend to disappear like light fittings



sort of related topic - I think my new neighbours (irl) are sims  :-\  because they had a bonfire going continuously for 3 days and nights (invited the whole family over to stand around throwing dubious items onto the pyre) and they have set fire to the kitchen twice in a week!  The first time I called the fire brigade because it looked like it could easily spread quickly - the chav guy had burned his hand trying to put out the flames by waving a cloth over them and had to go to hospital.  The next time I asked if I should call the FB and the chav said no he had it under control and used a half kettle of water to try and put it out.  Whe I saw the flames die down and flare back higher behind him I just hit the *send* button on the phone lol
btw they were *decorating* the kitchen so there were turps, paint and all sorts in there  ::)

Oh lord, talk about ASININE!

One of our members at SimFreaks had similar neighbours at their army base - maybe you live the other side?

not on an army base lol - and they are chavs so I suppose they don't even know what a barracks is  :-\

Enlighten me!  What exactly are chavs?

Sorry ZZ I thought anyone from the UK would know.


Chavs are (usually) young, loud-mouthed, ignorami who wear a lot of *bling* and burberry - they are the Colleen and Wayne Rooney version of Victoria and David Beckham - ie no class.  They generally live in/come from Essex but have now spread all over England  >:(

Just shows I'm getting old - we called them Yuppies!  Or simply Essex Girl and Essex Boy!

Oh no they are nowt like yuppies  :o  yuppies at least had some ambition and education.  Chavs come from council estates and wear fake designer gear.  Think Wayne and Waynetta Slob in fake burberry rather than shell-suits.   They emulate the people in OK and Hello mags - Jordan and Peter Andre/Kenzi and Jodie Marsh/Chantelle and whatever-his-name-is from the Ordinary Boys are their particular role models

A few years ago they would have been boy-racers and probably had their first offence of t&d when they could barely see over the steering wheel!

The chavettes spend all weekend downing as much liquor as they can before throwing up and passing out.  The propensity of the *hen night* is in direct proportion to the rise of the chav and chavette   ::)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav)

Oh, well, I guess I just am not up in the lingo these days!  Don't know that we even had a name for them!

You are not saying that Victoria & David have class, surely to God!

Don't think they come from Essex, though!

Compared to Colleen - Victoria has a lot of class  (and no ZZ she comes from Herts although I think David is an Essex boy)  her dad was a millionaire (although loadsamoney doesn't = good taste)


ZZ - my daughter thinks that the chav hasn't infiltrated your neck of the woods yet  ;)

She's probably right, although I think they may drive through at breakneck speed!

Do you ever watch *Grumpy Old Men* ZZ?  On the last series' opening credits, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Smith, Tim Rice and I forget the other one (blame it on my age lol) cross the road a la Beatles Abbey Road album cover and are knocked down by a chav in the ubiquitous burberry baseball cap, driving a vauxhall astra at 90mph

I never watch TV these days!

I don't believe I've ever seen a ceiling-mounted smoke alarm in my life.  I've lived up north (Indiana) and down south (Alabama, North Carolina), and all the smoke alarms in the houses I've lived in were mounted near the ceiling but on the wall.  And it wasn't because someone was too lazy to get the stepladder because I always had to get the stepladder out to change the batteries.  Before my ex-husband left, he could do it without a step stool, but the batteries have to be changed every six months.  If it starts chirping, you have to change it or you won't get any rest.  You will be driven to change it!  So putting it in a place that is easy to reach is just common sense, not laziness.  :P

My grandma has a smoke alarm in her kitchen over the door that goes off whenever we make toast.  The toast isn't even close to being burnt, but it almost always goes off.  I can only surmise that it's because of the way the heat rises that causes the detector to think it's smoke and triggers the alarm.  I don't know if there is any way to adjust it.

I've never seen one on the wall before.  :o

My smoke alarm is on the wall, right next to my bedroom.  Most of the alarms I've had have been ceiling-mounted up until now, though.

This reminds me of a guy on MTS2, I think it was, who said he couldn't understand why in the Sims 2, they had their post box on a pole in front of their house.  He had never seen that before and he said whoever puts their post box on a pole in front of their house?  You're supposed to have a slot in the front door for letters.  Well, it turned out that he wasn't from the US, and I kind of wondered since he called it a post box and not a mail box.  After several people pointed out that having a mail box on a post in front of the house near the street was common in rural areas of the US, he said he was from the UK, where they usually have mail slots in the front door.  It just shows that people are often quick to criticize things they aren't familiar with and forget that people do things differently in different parts of the world or even different parts of the same country.  Doesn't mean one way is right and the others are wrong.

I HAD a ceiling-mounted smoke alarm in my room. I say "had" because it was impossible to replace the battery because of a combination of its location and the fact that the battery cover was soldered to the case, and it kept beeping at me. I tore it down with main force because I couldn't get a screwdriver in the right position because of how high it was, and couldn't get a ladder under it because it was over my bed. Now there is a hole in my ceiling, but I can sleep at night and my cat doesn't meow at me about the horrible beeping. The people who lived here before us were do-it-yourselfers, and they put in a lot of annoying things like that, none of which was up to code. I have a nice, normal wall-mounted smoke detector now. Wall-mounted ones are definitely the norm everywhere I've lived.

I've had to disable smoke alarms in every kitchen I've ever had because they freak out over the tiniest amount of smoke or even heat. Stir-frying with those things on is masochistic. A friend of mine was able to stop hers from flipping out at the slightest provocation by covering it with saran wrap.

Speaking of, I too never seen a mailbox in the middle of the street. I'm from Chicago and the mailbox is connected to the house. The mailman actually has to walk up everyone's stairs to deliver the mail...and they all have very sexy legs because of it!  ::) Whenever I build a house, I MUST move the box as close to the house as I can get it. It just seems more natural to me...

I've lived in houses too that had a letter box on the house, so I've seen it both ways.  Here though, I've never seen a home with a slot in the door for mail, but I've seen some businesses like that.  It's still awfully silly that sims have to pull the mail out of the box and trek through the house until they find an empty surface to dump it on.  I first learned in Sims 1 that you could cancel the Get mail action and they'd dump it where they stood, and you could click on the bills to have them pay them right there.  It's too bad they didn't fix this in Sims 2.  I loved JM's Pay at box hack, but it's too bad NL broke it.  :(  I wish Maxis would get a clue and fix little things like that.  You'd think they never actually played the game.

Here in Oz (and it could be elsewhere too) we call that a 'blue' steak and ordering such an item at a restaurant usually goes something like this:

Waiter: "How would you like your steak cooked Sir?"

Customer: "Oh, just lop off its horns, wipe its arse and whack it on the plate thank you"  :D

Well it's standard in NZ to have smoke alarms on the ceiling - I always thought that was logical because smoke rises - that's why we're supposed to crawl to get out of a smoke filled house, because there's clearer air down below.

Aussieone, you crack me up mate! Blunt as!
BTW, check out the Romanov threads on laverwinklesims, simyou has a new love.

Ah...sim me has a new love?

* I must flee and check it out*

ETA: No wonder sim sheila aussieone (and you crack me up with that name witch) has three bolts with her new love....she's definitely sheila's type  ;D

 ;D

Actually blame Simmiecal for that name - I pinched it off her sim in MATYville.