It all started with a meteor which took out the teen population . . .

[Katastrophe1112]

. . .Not every teen, just the teens I'd created.

I've a meteor active game. Always have. Meteors have wiped out entire families, but, holy shit, this thing took out the school and wasted all *my* teens. The 'emergency' was endless as all manner of being clustered at the door to the school. Just stuck there. Horses whiny-ing, dogs barking, parents mourning. Cruiser and cop . . . everything just stuck in place making such noise. Ugh.

Some teens were dispensed with immediately by the Grim Reaper, most were left hanging in the ether. For a few days I tried to clean up the mess. I went to each household with a 'dead' teen and tried to get through the insanity. I reset each player within each household. In some cases I reset the house/lot itself. Every night at curfew the cop was back at the school, on the other end was the parent in 'wait' mode. Ridiculous.

Today, after three days of this clusterfocking around, I can no longer zoom into active Sims homes. :faceslap:

[simsample]

We want pictures! :O

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Intriguing. Didn't know meteors could strike community lots. I just thought they just target households. This is the first massive calamity I heard in the game. What neighborhood are you playing?

And yeah, Pictures please!

[Katastrophe1112]

I was playing Equestrian Island. No idea where I got the download . . . here or elsewhere.

So sorry, I didn't take any pics!

The chaos was astonishing and for some inexplicable reason, I was able to 'resurrect' two of the dead teens. They appeared on their home lots, frozen. I got all worked up when I saw the first 'undead' teen just standing in the courtyard of her home lot. I hit reset , et voila!

[Howabominable]

Happened to me a few months ago. I was playing a family who was trying to have a child for every letter of the alphabet. I had six children/teens in school, along with five of their cousins and a ton of classmates. A meteor hit. All of my kids died, three of their cousins. I think overall 20 teens/children died from that meteor. An entire generation completely wiped out. It sucked. One by one, the grim reaper would take their souls as they begged for their lives. So many died that the next morning, when the remaining couple of kids went to school, he was still there, processing the dead. It was harsh.

[BubbelsDarling]

City hall got hit by a meteor while my sim was working there and it killed off a bunch of her co-workers :S

[kewpie]

I've had 3 meteor attacks in my game since installing showtime

1. My sim was in a car and got the "suddenly dark message" and I freaked out and just made my sim drive like crazy all over town. When it finally hit she was nowhere near it. It hit near the school but didn't do any damage. So I don't really count it. That was a few weeks ago.

2. Happened 2 nights ago. I got no warning at all and by coincidence or design one of my sims rejected a simport opportunity while he was gardening. A meteor hit him square on the head. The house caught on fire and mom and the kids burned up. I didn't save.

3. Last night I got the "suddenly dark" message and a meteor was scheduled to hit the house. Everyone escaped that time and the only drama was the damned coward dad.


It seems lots of us are having meteor problems. I am starting to wonder if there is a new mod conflict that cropped up with showtime's newest patch.

[calisims]

One by one, the grim reaper would take their souls as they begged for their lives. So many died that the next morning, when the remaining couple of kids went to school, he was still there, processing the dead. It was harsh.

I hope Grim gets paid overtime, at least.

I've only ever had one meteor strike. My Journalist Sim was on the way to her job at the business building when I got the 'suddenly dark' message. So I sent her away from the building, which got hit, but no damage was done and no one died. She went to work as normal, and then, being a Journalist, wrote an article about it later. While she was at work, I sent her elderly father to collect all the rocks, which we arranged in the front yard as garden decor.

[babele44]

I had my first meteor on the very first day after installing Ambitions. I had moved a new Sim into Twinbrook and the first thing I did was sending him to the neighbours in search for baby-making material. He lived opposite Amy Bull, whom I liked instantly, so he crossed the street, ready to greet her and then the sky got dark. My Sim got singed and Amy Bull was no more. Nice way to introduce a new feature of an EP, I thought.

[AngelicScot]

I had one meteor. My singer sim was performing a gig, all of a sudden it got all dark and the sound system went funky. Everyone got singed, but no one died. There are sims in the 'hood to this day, three generations later, walking around town singed.

[Snookumboo]

I've never had a meteor :( I kind of want one just for the experience

[kattenijin]

The only meteor "experience" I've had was a message that one of my sims had seen a meteor while looking through the telescope and that he should use map view to see where it had landed. There was no map tag, and one RT week of playing about 2 hours a day, I still haven't found it.

[edejan]

I've never had a meteor :( I kind of want one just for the experience

I've never had one either!!!! I'm looking for massive calamities. Is there any way to "force" a meteor strike?

[chreai]

Is there any way to "force" a meteor strike?

There is if you have the proper mod to do so. One (or more) of Twallan's mods, I believe, give you the option to summon a meteor. It's either Master Controller or Debug Enabler (or both). There may also be an option to do so with "testingcheatsenabled" active. But I'll get back to you on that, as I'll have to check my answer next time I'm in-game.

[NAJ P. Jackson]

My first experience with a meteor strike was when I first played in Riverview. My sim just moved in his new house and a bunch of sim came to welcome him to the neighborhood. A message popped up saying about the sky turning dark and a few moments later 4 of my neighbors got flattened. :lol:

[haricots]

I've never had one either!!!! I'm looking for massive calamities. Is there any way to "force" a meteor strike?
There's one here, in MTS. The link : http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=407315. But it's said to be unsupported, so.. ._.

[Kestie Freehawk]

I just had a teen killed , I was playing with a home I made that was populated with Daniel and Mary-Sue Pleasant and the twins, Lillith was killed. Angela rushed over and picked up the peices and they are displayed on the lawn, the bad part of the issue was Lillith was coming out of the Science Center. It seemed that the game conspired to kill Lillith, as she had rolled the deliver a fish to the Science Center and was coming out from that delivery when she was killed. The Science Center seems unscathed. I have had house hit but not community lots, and am at a loss as what to do. *Shrug* Daniel and MarySue are expecting, so perhasp Lillith is just a write off.

[Zokugai]

2. Happened 2 nights ago. I got no warning at all and by coincidence or design one of my sims rejected a simport opportunity while he was gardening. A meteor hit him square on the head. The house caught on fire and mom and the kids burned up. I didn't save.

EA says "Thou shalt not refuse SimPort, lest ye be smited!"

[yilesse]

I've had a few meteors, some lethal, some not. They seem to have it in for my transport, the first one I had hit my sim firewoman as she was maintaining her truck at home, she was killed (and reset to save her) and the truck got stuck on top of the massive space rock which caused a few problems as I think it might have actually been on fire as well? There were fires all over her garden anyway, I had to use cheats to pick it up and move it in the end. And just yesterday I had one hit the road outside my family's lot, it destroyed all of their expensive cars (six in all) which I couldn't afford to replace and left piles of scrap everywhere. Serves me right for letting them have nice things. :lol:

[psivampyr]

I was trying to have a meteor hit, I had all 5 of my sims looking through telescopes for a sim week. I kept them happy by testingcheatsenabled and then I walked away from my game to give my daughter a shower. I came back 20 minutes later to see a giant rock in my lawn a few feet from my sims, and a few of them were singed. I reloaded my last save which was right before I walked away, and never seen another one since. I told my husband it figures when I am not watching my game, one will happen. I really wish I would get one though so I can watch it.

[cynamar]

I've had two and they both hit a sim who was gardening. The first one (legacy heir, of course) was killed. I teleported the second one away quickly. The biggest pain of it is the ruin in the gardens--plants just frozen and can't be harvested, craters in the ground. I have to cheat to fix it.

[anaidavid]

How do you do to have meteors?
I have the game since it was released and all its expansions and stuff packs to. I have no mods, but I have a lot of custom content, and NEVER, EVER had a meteor. and I really want it because I have never seen one! =(

Greetings from Mexico

[Kestie Freehawk]

I didnt get the Simpport thing and have gotten it on house lots before.

[LadyGreenEyes649]

Meteors can hit people and lots?!?!? Wow....news to me! I placed a "meteor shower" in a world I built, but never see anything strike. I just get meteors there that they can pick up. So is this a new Showtime thing? if so, AWESOME!!!! I have sometimes wished for mass disasters (especially if we could call them down...bwahahaha!)

[kithri]

I had a meteor hit the town center in Shang Simla during a holiday there. Never seen one before or since.

[StardustX]

I've only seen one meteor so far. I had just created a family (two adults, a child, a teen and two dogs). I played them for literally 5 minutes before the meteor appeared. It landed literally RIGHT on top of a dog, and the dog survived. No sims were killed either. This was over a year ago, I still haven't seen another. >w<

I had a video of it but it was on my old computer. :c

[Personcalledjoy]

Ive played this game for a long time and it was indeed after installing Showtime that I got the "suddenly dark" message. I had no idea WTF was going on. In fact, I didn't really think you could get hit by a meteor unless you were looking through telescope a la sims 2. And suddenly thud, right on my head!

Grim had already sorted out the poor girl next to me, when I thought hmm... why am I dying, Ive got a death flower in my pocket. Then I realised, oh bloody hell I actually have to give the guy it, so my ghost gave Grim the flower and back to life I came :-)

I survived a meteor. A direct hit. It was about 3 sim metres long and it landed literally on my head. And my sim is still going :-D

[gemly_teddie]

ive never had one either :/ i had a satellite hit once on ts2. id just spent aaaages making a family, played 1 day, one of the children did her homework outside, and was killed. i had to save because i hadnt saved since spending hours making the family and wasnt sure if my efforts would be saved :/

[Seether1990]

the only meteor in my game that actually hit something, it was after i installed showtime, my sim was searching galaxy in 3 AM,in then i got suddenly dark message like the others :wtf: , whoa i freaked out at first then i thought it was one of the tons meteor that falls in my world, and then i saw a dark shadow on the roof of my house, it keept getting bigger and bigger till BAM :alarm: , a huge rock in the roof of the house and everything went on fire looool, the only sim that died it was the father searching galaxy :( ,the others got sighned, the meteor stayed on the roof and i couldnt collect it, now after seasons i have aliens in my house almost every night because of that :heyhey: , i guess its not that bad after all :lol: .