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[talysman]

I recently had a burglary and exploited it mercilessly. Everyone in the household automatically met the burglar, as usual, and were made furious. I had one of the children call him with Autoyak and made him a friend. The other family member still hate them, so that should produce some interesting interactions...

[Emma]

I always get my popularity sims to meet the burglar by freeing him from the police car. about 3-4 sim-days later they are best friends! You also get to 'meet' the cop although he is pissed at the sim who freed the burglar. Easy friendship. I don't have 'enemies accumalate' though. I used to, but was sick of trash can kickers, newspaper stealers and suchlike.

[Zazazu]

Oh, and I put my burglar alarm on the outside of the house, usually on the garage wall. You used to be able to place the burglar alarms on an outside wall in Sims 1, so I figure it ain't cheating.

I do that too, when I remember. I've been meaning to recolor the burglar alarm to some sort of ADT sign. Having the keypad showing on the unit outside is a little unreal.

My burglar and cop show up at community lots. So far, never at the same time. I'm looking forward to when that happens.

[Liz]

...and then proceeds to fume about it until their dying day. Get over it already! Everyone in Teardrop Isle gets robbed! You are not special.

Gah! I know, right? I had a household that was burgled when the twins were toddlers. On his fricking wedding day, Twin2 had to take time out before cutting the cake to get all stampy and pissy about that thing that happened when he was a baby. Loser.

It's always seemed stupid to me that the red icon/bad memory appears to be triggered when the cop thanks the family for their help and rewards them with cash monies. Nothing lost, perp caught immediately, cash reward. Yeah, a break-in sucks and is scary. Yeah, it's exactly the kind of thing that would stay with you in RL, even if the stranger in your house didn't actually take anything. But all the lifelong stamping and snarling about some childhood trauma is just tedious.

"Embrace the pain, spank your inner moppet, whatever. But get over it." -Cordelia Chase, BtVS

[witch]

I always get my popularity sims to meet the burglar by freeing him from the police car.

You are my muse tonight mate, I have tried clicking on those damn police cars for ever and finally decided it was L & P. So it's popularity sims that do it eh? What are the chances of me never using a popularity sim to try?

[Emma]

I think all aspirations can click on the car-not just popularity. I wait until the cop comes back in the house after the burglar has been put in the car, (I just get my sim to walk up and down the hallway. If they are doing stuff they can't stop doing it soon enough to get to the car) then as soon as the pop-up window appears and build and buy are enabled I click on the rear door of the cop car and they run to open it. It is all a matter of timing, you have to get it just right because as soon as the cop starts going back to the car the chance is lost.

[Process Denied]

I have only had one burglary since I installed OFB when it first came out.  I keep forgetting to put alarms up.

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't have 'enemies accumalate' though. I used to, but was sick of trash can kickers, newspaper stealers and suchlike.

Trashcan kickers and newspaper steals are not caused by enemies accumulate. What IS prevented is sims becoming BFFs immediately after being furious with them, and also, the amount of senseless maintenance overhead in friend-maintenance is reduced as well, so that sims will statistically only require about 10-12 calls per day instead of 40 or 50.

[Emma]

Oh. I thought it made them mad and do stuff like that I'll put it back in then.

[J. M. Pescado]

Death to Emma.