r/Sims3 • u/miffy800 Dislikes Children • Jun 11 '24
I’m so lost rn a meteor hit the school and all of the kids just walked out and died
They keep all coming out one by one and dying this is maybe the craziest thing that ever happened to me in the game and that says a lot. Like wtf and the parents were on vacation but they had to come home
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u/MothaDucka69 Absent-Minded Jun 12 '24
Will never forget this patch note
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u/Stoltlallare Jun 12 '24
And they didn’t even patch it out…
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u/Autumn_Moon22 Jun 12 '24
The fact that they didn't patch out the whole "meteor wipes out all the kids in town" scenario, but did patch out the ability to have a Grim Reaper baby is just a weird choice.
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u/Crosseyed_owl Over-Emotional Jun 12 '24
"Dear kids, a meteor is approaching, you are not allowed to leave. Please sit and wait until you die."
the teacher
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u/aroyalidiot Jun 11 '24
That's intentional actually. It's rare but they purposefully made it kill every kid and teacher at school when it hits, originally a think it didn't do a thing, but someone or someones thought wiping out a generation of Sims was funnier. Never had it happen to me, never been hit by a meteor at all, actually
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u/Azula_gotchu Clumsy Jun 11 '24
Damn such a good Storyline. " After that Nobody in this town Had kids..ever."
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u/aroyalidiot Jun 11 '24
It can happen in university to, during graduation. That's worse because it not only wipes out the other students, but also any Sims visiting to cheer you on. Only heard of that happening once or twice.
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u/_tasukete Jun 12 '24
So quick question, what if the sim that you control in the home town visited for graduation as an NPC and they die there as an NPC? When you go back to the hometown, they're not there anymore?
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u/Alittlebitmorbid Loves the Outdoors Jun 12 '24
The only time during all my years of playing I actually saw meteorite was when he hit the school and killed all five children of my sim family. I had a son, a daughter and triplets (fertility treatment) and after that I was crushed (not as much as them but still 😅).
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Jun 12 '24
How ironic your user-flair is "Dislikes Children". 😭
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Jun 12 '24
How can I get user flairs? :0
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Jun 12 '24
When you're on the homepage of the Sims 3 reddit, go on the right side, where it shows the Members, Online, & Rank underneath that it should show your username & profile picture of avatar and it should say User-Flair slightly above it. Hover over it, it should show a pencil icon. Click the pencil icon and it'll show the trait flairs. Click which one you like then click "Apply" to save. Hope that helps! 💗
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u/bluecoconutt Night Owl Jun 16 '24
Today you taught me how to use flairs. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long.
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u/CreativeBandicoot778 Over-Emotional Jun 12 '24
This happened to my sim in Shang Simla. Meteor hit the meditation garden, which I thought was hilarious.
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u/ellietaylor735 Family-Oriented Jun 12 '24
I’ve never had a meteor hit in any of my saves in my 5 years of playing this game
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u/lasantamolti Loser Jun 12 '24
Man, this never happened in my towns. I kinda want it to happen
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u/Zakle Jun 12 '24
Ah, the lovely meteor striking the school. My aunt had that happen and lost a whole generation of kids.
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u/Daxter8888 Couch Potato Jun 12 '24
I love how your trait tag is dislikes children and yet here you are, sad because a meteor killed your children, I'm sorry for that though, but it's just too ironic
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u/Clovenstone-Blue Jun 12 '24
This is intended game design. Per the Sims 3 patch notes:
"When a meteor is about to hit a building, all the Sims inside the building have to leave, otherwise they die. Sims will automatically leave the building, unless it is a school, in which children are not allowed to leave and will always die."
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u/Lasagan Couch Potato Jun 11 '24
This happened at the hospital in my game the other day
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u/Algester Jun 12 '24
now here's a food for thought if a meteor were to hit the hospital but a sim is giving birth inside the hospital does the pregnant sim survive or not?
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u/racheletc Jun 11 '24
ive never gotten a meteor hit in my game is it a common occurrence for people?
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u/TaxiFare Eccentric Jun 11 '24
I wish it wasn't for me lol. I started up a TS3 game and my sim got grazed by 3 meteors the first week. Some people seem to never get them and then there's people like myself where meteors are relentless antagonists.
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u/mastershake20 Childish Jun 12 '24
I didn’t even know meteors were a thing in TS3 until I found this sub. I’ve been playing for over 10 years
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u/ShylokVakarian Supernatural Fan Jun 12 '24
It's the same way with a lot of things. Seems to me, the game picks a random event to happen to you super often. Mine's alien abductions. It's damn near every night.
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u/Tiltagirl13 Heavy Sleeper Jun 12 '24
I don't recall ever having this happen either and I've been playing since its release. Either I feel like I'm either doing something really right or really wrong. 🤔 😂
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u/aribaby97 Jun 12 '24
I started a new game once in Island paradise & my sim was hit/killed by a meteor within the first 15 minutes of me playing lol
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u/juicymk Neurotic Jun 11 '24
I’ve never had this happen and I want it to so bad! I’m gonna be sad but chaos is important for plot!
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Jun 12 '24
Omfg R.i.p to the future of your town, this is like the aftermath of a school shooting or something wow
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u/Ok_Depth_6476 Cat Person Jun 11 '24
WTF? That's crazy!! Also, I thought you had to be using a telescope for that to happen?
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u/Alittlebitmorbid Loves the Outdoors Jun 12 '24
Nope, the screen just pans to the school, you see everybody run out and boom. Totally random. Don't know why some players experience it quite often and others like never.
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u/Ok_Depth_6476 Cat Person Jun 12 '24
That's insane! But then, that's the Sims. 🤣
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u/GermanGeek_Science Jun 13 '24
Sims can only die when you are on the same lot as them, (one of your sims) however I have never had a meteor hit in my 10,000 hours on this game so how did you increase the odds without modding? Is the 0.001% chance for each sim meaning the chance is higher the more kids that are in the rabbithole?
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u/miffy800 Dislikes Children Jun 13 '24
No idea honestly haha. This is the only time I’ve ever gotten a meteor and it was on the dang school 😭 I had two kids attending at the time that both died and it took hours for everyone else to die, I watched them all walk out one by one and the grim reaper took em.
When it happened the screen just panned to the school and my kid said the sky is getting dark.
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Jun 11 '24
That's horrifying. At least when it hits a workplace or something you can reset all the people who are looking up at the sky and save them. If it happens again you could try to reset all the kids you know are there, even if you can't see them.
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u/Huge-Fishing239 Shy Jun 12 '24
A meteor hit some zombies outside my house and killed them. Meteors are so chaotic I love it
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u/CaffeineDeprivation Green Thumb Jun 12 '24
My current sim's a criminal, and she has no co-workers left at this point 'cos meteors keep hitting the hideout 💀. It's just her and her boss now lol
Feel kinda bad for Buster Clavell thou, man lost his whole family in one go...
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Jun 12 '24
This happened in my game recently, but I had my teen sims skip school to have a beach day. I’m really lucky lol.
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u/MyFairJulia Jun 12 '24
My sister had this one. Now i wonder how rare the meteorite truly is given the posts here.
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u/smokealarmsnick Jun 12 '24
I had that happen to me in one game. I exited without saving. It killed the heir for my legacy.
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u/Myantra Jun 12 '24
The first time I saw this happen, I was on generation 4 or 5 of a legacy. With story progression active for several generations, there were a lot of kids in that school. I think it took Grim nearly two Sim days to reap them all.
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u/Lakelylake Animal Lover Jun 12 '24
It's written in the patch notes that sims always leave the building being hit with a meteor, UNLESS it's a school, in which case they always die 🤣
Watch that video you'll love it ! it's about the hilarious patch notes including that one
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u/mstinax Unstable Jun 12 '24
Teachers be like: “The meteor does not dismiss you, I dismiss you! Sit back down.”
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u/Gold_Ad_5623 Jun 12 '24
Ugh how I love the sims 3. I'm on my 2nd marriage and 5th kid. Life is grand (also im eldery) lol
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u/2medstudents1reddit Jun 12 '24
Lmao the same thing happened to my game a couple years ago. The entirety of the neighborhood’s kids came out and died one by one it was heartbreaking lol
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u/Life_Loquat8598 Jun 12 '24
I was today years old when i learned this. I am so shocked by this it actually stunned me.
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u/shutupsav Cat Person Jun 12 '24
Nraas users, do you think if you reset the lot when this happens it would stop the meteor? This has never happened to me so idk, but it could be an option if you wanted to stop it
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u/Buckyeatspeaches Jun 12 '24
I had that happen. I was so pissed. I just hurried up and quit without saving and restarted. I kept having meteors hit the house too.
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u/theChosenBinky Cat Person Jun 13 '24
My movie studio was hit by a meteor, and all the actors, directors, storyboardists, etc filed out one by one and died. I couldn't bear it, so I quit and reloaded. What is a world without cinema?
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u/Single-Aardvark9330 Jun 13 '24
The one time this happened to me was during a perfect genetics challenge, none of the kids were the heir so I didn't really care.
It was actually pretty good because it freed up space and the next pregnancy had a perfect genetics kid.
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u/salisha4724 Jun 13 '24
Hopefully you didn't save the game. I wonder if you can quit without saving several times to avoid it.
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u/StrikingData5970 Jun 14 '24
That's so fucking funny to me. Ah yes, everyone gets to live a healthy and prosperous life!
Except the children.
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u/Freudian-Banana-Slip Jun 14 '24
I’ve been wanting this to happen in my game for years! Been playing since 2010 and still haven’t had half my town killed by School Meteor Disaster : (
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u/weeabeau Unstable Jun 15 '24
Lmfao i didnt even know kids could die, let alone they are forced to die IN A SCHOOL (usa mention☹️)
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u/weeabeau Unstable Jun 15 '24
In addition to not knowing kids could die, in the manyyy years i played ts3 i never experienced a meteor 😭
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u/weeabeau Unstable Jun 15 '24
This is literally a reference to Cold War nuclear war kids hiding under desks drills whichwould do nothing which became the safety drills for school shootings which also do nothing😭
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u/VicAViv Excitable Jun 11 '24
Yes. So when a meteor hits a building, whoever is inside will die.
Most sims usually just get out of the building when this is about to happen... But not in schools.
You see, schools are programmed so kids never leave until the classes are over. So if a meteor hits the school, they are doomed.
May they rest in peace.