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I have not had a visit from the burglar in months.  Not since pre-OFB, I think.

I miss that naughty reprobate and especially the excitement of the chase, fights, and screaming, sobbing kids.

Is it just my game?  Are the sentry-bots some sort of hidden deterrent?

Just your game - I'm still getting plenty of burglars and always have.

If you have Pets, just for fun try playing a family without a burglar alarm.  ;D

Does this require having a pet actually in the house? :)

I had a pet and no burglar alarm, burglar came for the first time in a loong while, and the stupid dog slept right through the whole thing! :)

I still get burglars and I have pets ,I justdon't get them all that often mostly I have them show up at SSU in the campus housing instead OF MY MAIN HOOD :P

If you encourage agressiveness in your pet, it will act as a deterrant to would be burglars

Thanks, Dizzy.  Will do that - and will stash the sentry bot in my inventory as well.  It's been months since I've had any nocturnal visits.  Except for the skunk, of course.

I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but wouldn't it make more sense just to drop the $250 for the alarm and teach a dog to be nice? I assume having an aggressive dog on the sims could backfire just as it could IRL. \

Maybe some players just want to see their dog tear a hole in the burglar's ass, I don't know.

I haven't had a burglar in a long while either. I really want to see a sentry bot zap a burglar or a pet attack, but it has been so long I am tempted to go back and start the Caliente house over from the beginning just so I can see one again.

Last I heard, all sims on the lot have to be asleep for the burglar to come.
That never happens in my game (especially since the introduction of servos), and I never see the burglar.

I don't think it's all sims asleep, but there's a hefty penalty applied to people awake and about. Also, werewolves have a special effect and can attack the burglar.

A cool. I am removing my burglar alarums...

Hmmm, I wonder if an aggressive dog will bite Santa in the butt....

Does the burgular alarm actually affect the odds of a burgular showing up?  I suppose that makes some sense. 

I've never seen a burgular, ever.  I also put burgular alarms at every entrance, though.  Might try taking them out, just to see.

What kind of penalty?

Sadly, there are no apparently known dog-to-human attack actions. Dogs cannot maul sims. This would lean against the idea that dogs can attack burglars.

I like my grouchy sims to train their dogs to be aggressive.  I think the "chase sim" command that is then opened up is great! All of my nice normal families discourage this behavior in their dogs though.  I have had quite a few burgulars in all of my hoods and always have, I don't have many sentry bots though, so maybe that does have an effect.  I'd love to see a werewolf take down a burgular though.  I heard that when they do they get all of the items in the burgulars inventory.  I haven't had a chance to try it out to see if it is true.

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You can force a burglar visit you by enabling the boolprop hack. Click on the letterbox by pressing shift and choose the "Force burglar" option.

I trained a dog to be agressive as a protector for a female sim living alone... and she wanted to be a werewolf. The dog fought and chased off every wolf that came on the lot, and when she adopted a couple while he was at work, he made them run away! about 3 times per wolf! I tried retraining him but it was very difficult. I should have gone with the alarm >.>