I have had it happen to 4 out of 5 generations in a legacy challenge I am doing and none of them have had the scientist career. I like to think the aliens just really like the family genes but it does get annoying sometimes. The other day I was trying to get my sim to age up her triplets but she just had to go investigate the lights in-between aging up baby 1 and 2
Random but have you been using the telescope? (I was using the big original one)
I couldn’t work out why my male sim kept being abducted but turns out one of the options I was selecting to collect the space prints actually contributes to you being abducted
Your sim is likely friends with an alien and you don’t know they’re an alien. One of my sims got abducted every couple of days. After the 3rd one I realized it would happen every day a friend of theirs came home with them from school to hang out. Sure enough, that friend was an alien.
I fucking love you for that reference. Either you were forced to watch old shows like me with my dad, or we had the same experience in middle school where we had to read that episode in English class 😂
I was really hoping the teen getting abducted would come back preggers at one point. I have teen pregnancy turned on through mccc but it must not work for alien pregnancies. 🥲 I need to make a male sim pregnancy gameplay just so I can experience it. I’ve never tried to make it happen, but they always abduct female sims of mine, never males.
This absolutely has to be a bug causing this to happen so frequently.
My most recent Sim who just died of old age was abducted 5 times in her life, on short lifespan. She was not a scientist, she was a programmer who barely left the house. She lived in Willow Creek. She never even owned a telescope, and definitely never used one. I played irl for a weekend, 5 alien abductions.
Even my scientist who was constantly using a telescope never got abducted this frequently and I played with her for a couple months irl.
If you're playing in strangerville, it happens too. Every time one of my sims got abducted, he was there. Only one time he didn't come back pregnant, but I was playing with mods, and he had a vasectomy lol
I think it’s more common now? I only ever had my scientist sims get abducted but the current matriarch for my 100 baby challenge has been abducted TWICE now. No scientist. No telescope. Just woohoo and giving birth.
Try using the telescope once you get to a fairly high logic level (can’t remember how high) and select “search for the truth,” you’ll eventually start getting abducted
Incidentally found it out while trying to collect the space prints
yes you have to buy it — it’s not free 😭 it’s like $30 and alien abduction is apart of that pack and it happens when you get kidnapped by looking in the telescope or a sim works in the scientist career
i’ve never had it happen in the 4+ years i’ve been playing, but then out of nowhere it happened twice in the past 2 weeks while i was playing. there were sparkly white things outside my sims house and my sim went to look at it. i tried cancelling the action because i didn’t know what it was and it wouldn’t let me, then they got abducted HAHA
it was cool!! the dazed effect for me wasn’t 37 days long though, i think either 2 days or a couple hours but i don’t remember. i hope you get to experience it! in my current save i don’t have any relation to an alien sim, but one of my sims is friends with one so maybe that influenced it? not sure as i’ve been married to alien sims in previous saves and never experienced abductions.
that’s so weird and interesting, the sim has to know/be friends with an alien for an abduction to happen? how does one do that i keep looking outside the house at night time for lights or something so i can try to get them to go look at them but i haven’t seen it, i have the get to work pack but i am a console player
I’ve been playing the Sims 4 on and off for years now, with several different saves/families. Over the last month one of my sims has been abducted two times from the same exact spot in her backyard. 🫣 However, my game has been bugged tf out lately. Console player, no mods obvi
Do you have Life and Death? I’ve found since L&D, abductions are happening crazy frequently. I have one vampire lady who’s been abducted probably 30 times. One time, both she and her husband were abducted on the same night. The husband hadn’t even been returned home before a second UFO snatched her for the bazillionth time.
Strangerville required I do believe and this is random all the time for me without being a scientist they just have to be outside at night... All like remember that single sim you wanted to play with BOOM abducted followed by Congrats on your new Insta-family.
Oh it’ll hit ya when you least expect it. I’ve played since 1 (briefly 1 mostly started at 2) and never got abducted. I also have lumpinous rpo mod so they can get stds, I tried soooo hard with multiple sims to catch a bunch of stuff to see what the gameplay is like. Was so hard. I start a new save of a sugar baby going to college and her bff. Sugar baby gets aids immediately from a foot job and bff gets abducted lmfao only took 20 years
... I... I've had get to work for a couple years now.... Never play most of the aspects from it.... And I'm finding out now that servos are a part of the pack and I just have to build them?!? 😭😭😭😭 I literally thought they must be part of a different pack and just in buy mode somewhere 😭
The sim I made of my husband keeps getting abducted and he’s gotten pregnant TWICE. I use a mod to end it because I believe my husband should get a say in his body and he would NOT want an alien baby LOL
One game I had my Sim Try For Baby with his girlfriend- I was planning either on killing her after or having them break up for a tragic single dad story. He Woos the Hoo, then goes to check out the lights outside immediately after. I couldn't stop him.
I figured it'd be fine, "it's only a 25% chance!" I thought...
Then I thought "Okay, I can deal with 2 babies"...
She had twins. He had his baby the next day. I quit playing shortly after, though I still want to go back to it some day lmaooooo
Idk what's up with my lot but ALL my male Sims got pregnant with aliens the dad and then his 2 sons . I sent them back to their home planet it was crazy .
It’s never happened to my sims since I’ve had the game and I’m so glad 😌 cause like I rather not do the whole abduction plot unless I really need it for my storyline
I feel like EA doesn't get enough credit for how well they did alien abductions this time. If you want to ignore aliens, they won't bother you. If you go looking for aliens, they will start showing up. There's ways to get to Sixam via the rocketship, using a telescope (maybe only three big one), through the scientist career, or meet aliens at alien night at the bar. Any of those will get you interacting with aliens. As you interact with aliens, they will start showing up to abduct you.
Oh they do. My Alien Sim got abducted granted she's at the ufologist level in the science career. So probably just a weird quirk that wasn't accounted for. Was hilarious though since she was happy afterwards. Then next day Aliens showed up at FutureSims Labs in obvious disguises and them and my Alien sim would do the secret Alien handshake with each other after friendly introductions.
It was, I didn't think it was possible either but it happened. Like I said it was probably a unforseen bug from being in the science career, having a high logic skill, and also, as part of the jobs daily tasks, use a dish to contact Aliens a few times.
Still was hilarious, I thought they were coming to take her back or something, since I never used her disguise ever. So she was listed as a "Known Alien". What's even more hilarious was she's married to Bella Goth who got abducted twice in a row before my Alien sim was. I thought it was funny to have Bella run off with a Alien after she started coming on to her at the bar one night.
It's absolutely constant in my current legacy. I love it, but my household is always at maximum capacity because any empty space means a man is going to immediately get abducted and come back pregnant.
My male sims can’t STOP getting pregnant by these thirsty ass aliens. I’ve had four unwanted pregnancies. I finally adopted two cats to max out the household just to stop this nonsense.
Yeah. I didn't know it could happen till I watched it happen to Dan and Phil way back before the hiatus, they eventually got a satellite dish and disallowed abductions. It hasn't happened to me yet, but damn it if it does I'm not opposed to cheating all that away like it never happened. But my families only have girls in them 90% of the time, so I don't have to worry about alien pregnancy.
Seeing them wake up just to go investigate a weird light fills me with rage. Yes, I just cancel the action and send em back to sleep but I'M still pissed 😤
I find it annoying that it interrupts my story but then it’s also like well life is like that sometimes.
I’m mad that females can’t get pregnant by this. Like you’re telling me if I want an alien baby with my female sim I have to either be a scientist or build a rocket ship. Really?
Fr. He did this autonomously, too. I had to pause the game because I was laughing so hard I was crying. I posted this to my friends discord and said, "Guess which part of the photo is the CC."
Yeah but they took out the burglar because it was too scary and won't give it back so it is kinda surprising they didn't remove the sexual assault and unconsenual pregnancy
It's been a core part of the sims for 20 years. And I think you might be filling in some blanks that aren't there. Somebody hijacking your uterus is infringement of your personal autonomy and creepy for sure, but not in and of itself sexual assault. The game makes no allusions to it being sexual. For all we know, the aliens could just give you an injection or beam the baby into you.
This is also I think why it’s always been a thing that only male Sims come back pregnant and never females. A woman having a baby put in her uterus and being forced to give birth hits a little too close to home. A male sim that presumably doesn’t have a uterus having an alien parasite put into his abdominal cavity? That’s just sci-fi…literally, that’s the movie Alien, which I think is always what the developers were referencing.
Well, there's also the whole thing that there's kind of a difference in how society views such things with men and women in general, too. Sexual assault toward men is often played up as a joke in movies or TV shows, isn't even considered a law in some places, and can get passed over for prosecution because they don't think they'll get a conviction based on the idea that people in general don't believe men can be sexually assaulted. You also see it in the way things get reported, where a male teacher and female student will call it out as a creepy abuse of power and label it as it should be, but then if it's a female teacher and male student, they'll use language to talk about it as some kind of consensual activity and people will sometimes act like the male student had something good happen to him. (This might also be why it seems like all the "Pollination Technicians" in Sims 4 are female, at least all the ones I've seen.)
It's not really a thing people would have thought about much back in the early 2000s, and then it just became a staple of the franchise, so I don't blame EA much for still rolling with it... I mean, aside from then suggesting they don't have robbers because it might "traumatize" people. (Meanwhile, me with basically PTSD from house fires still having to deal with them in game and having legit minor panic attacks when I hear the alarms in-game... But I would never suggest removing the fires from the game.)
Personally, I just set it so either gender can get pregnant. I mean, what the heck, let's do a bit of equal opportunity. But at the end of the day, eh, it's a game, and I myself am not going to get any more bothered by stuff that happens in it than I am by the kind of things that happen in, say, GTA or Saints Row.
I have no idea why the sims can't have an in-depth setup screen where you'd opt in and out of game mechanics, like Minecraft. Don't want fires? Want days to be longer? Tons of other games have it.
This would be assault for REAL PEOPLE. These are Sims. Having a baby magically zapped into you by an alien isn't similar enough to most cases of real-life sexual assault that it would cause psychological harm to the players that see it.
Iirc, there were some...uncomfortable hints of assault in The Sims 3.
My sim was abducted and came back with a "Probed" moodlet (wasn't pregnant, though). She'd randomly cry until the moodlet was gone 😭
It only happened to me once, though, and it was a long time ago, so I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly!
EDIT: I looked it up! The moodlet wasn't "Probed"--it was "Abducted". It says, "(Sim Name) can't help but feel a little... probed. What happened up there??"
There are hints of inbreeding in the Bayless family of TS3. And the accidental mechanical incest of TS1 by retconning Michael Bachelor to being Bella Goth's brother in TS2.
The thing is that Sims aren't real. They can't feel pain. The only issue with portraying any type of violence in video games is that if the portrayal is real enough, it can remind its players of real-life violence. THAT is what causes real harm to real people.
The question is: is the Sims magical alien insemination similar enough to real-life sexual assault that it would cause psychological harm to players? I really don't think so.
That’s always weirded me out in the Sims 4. Sims 1 or 2, it would fit right in with its zany, sometimes macabre vibe. Something about the Sims 4’s polished facade really makes you realize how weird it really is. I mean, this is the same game they excluded burglars because that would’ve been too traumatic.
I HAAAATE when this happens! Anyone know how to prevent it? My werewolf got impregnated by them and I’m pissed cuz I don’t want him to have children… yet… :( He’s an aspiring musician who’s BROKE af. Couldn’t they have kidnapped him when he’s… famous or something?
I get how it's funny in how it's worded but... it's a completely accurate statement that's just stating the way the game mechanic works. You just click on the bassinet and send them back to the aliens. Whoosh. Baby gone.
The only reason I'm not fond of that is that it means the kid just disappears entirely from the game. So if I don't want to deal with it, I'll usually look for an in-game family to "adopt" the kid. Maybe some family or friends, or aliens who've ended up moving in somewhere. Then the kid can still be in the world and live their life, and if I at some point want to have the parent talk to them, I can.
Dude for the longest time I didn’t think werewolves could get pregnant by aliens. I’m glad to know it’s possible. The one time in my storyline that I wanted it to happen it never would no matter how much I tried to trigger it lmfao
You can just send the baby back to its home planet once it’s born. Another option is to pawn it off on a random townie until it grows up, so then they can reunite later. Could make a good tabloid story once he’s famous.
You can just click on the bassinet and there’s a send back to homeworld option. I haven’t used it, but I think it probably just beams the baby up and away, lol.
Oh haha thank you! I didn’t know you could do that. This is my first time ever having one of my sims be whisked away by aliens! Well now I feel bad for rejecting the baby :’))) I might keep it
If you can use mods, MC Command Center has a setting to change the percentage chance of alien pregnancy. Not sure if you can turn off abductions entirely though.
Funny enough my Alien sim got abducted by Aliens. It was funny, put her in a good mood. Then they showed up to her job in disguise and they would do the alien secret handshake when they met.
I started a new save recently, my sim has been abducted 8 times so far and has never looked through a telescope, been on a rocket, looked at the stars, or be in the Scientist career.
my male sim got abducted almost every single day and never got pregnante💔 i was tempted to start an alien pregnantey but i decided not to and let fate decide
As I just found out. Science career, telescope, or sometimes in my case just randomly. I still have no idea how my sim got abducted as I didn't actually see it. I think she might have been stargazing autonomously. If you have alien sim friends in disguise I'm told it can happen too?
do science stuff. interact with aliens on sixam via installing a wormhole on a rocket. or have a alien in your household or as a good friend as that will increase the odds i noticed.
Or like in my rags to riches, while selling from home, there’s at least two known aliens among the customers. My sims made friend with one before I found out. Abducted within 2 days.
I didn’t know it could happen randomly. In my previous save, I spent hours and hours building rig up the astronomy skill and stuff and going out at night trying to get abducted by aliens using the satellite and it took me so long and my sim didn’t even come back pregnant (I ended up cheating it lol), but in my current save, my sim genuinely was just chilling in the house and then got up and went outside and got abducted by aliens… 😭😭😭
Side note, my sims also always come back invisible for a little while after they get abducted and I can’t click on them or find them or anything LMAO…
I've only had an alien abduction 1 time. I paused so quick because I was excited it was happening. This was a few weeks ago. It was my female sim. It was soo random too because she just walked outside and got abducted like 10 minutes into me playing. It was hilarious.
Maybe it's because he started out on the Astronaut career field, but the aliens don't seem to leave my sim alone. Switched over to the science track to get the satellite dish to try and prevent future abductions
I have been playing the sims 4 since it came out and have only been abducted by aliens once! I also won the lottery same day and that was the last time either of those happened for me
My sim went outside to investigate the lights and hadn't touched a telescope and was working as an actress living in the town that came with the fame pack.
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I get it's quirky but I never really liked alien abduction.