I’ve got a character I want to kill off, and I’d like to do it by having the sim die in a fire.
My problem is this: The character has 8 cooking points. So I tried putting a chair next to a fireplace and lighting up. I did this 10 times, and the chair never caught fire.
What am I doing wrong?
P.S.–Don’t recommend a pool ladder accident instead; there have been a lot of those in the neighborhood recently, and the cops are starting to get suspicious. 
Ooh… this is even more on topic than the last time.
I’m afraid that I can’t help you with your problem, though. The only fires I ever ran into were cooking-related.
I know in the original game - or one of the expansion packs - (I don’t have Sims 2), you could buy the firework thing and put it in a room carpeted with the reed mat things. Set off the fireworks inside, and you get a massive blaze, fast.
Alternatively, you could build a walls all around him and let him slowly starve to death in his own filth.
Could you have her cook a tv dinner, then make her walk away before she can take it out of the oven? My sim has started a fire this way.
Yeah, no matter how many cooking points a Sim has, the stove will always catch fire if you ignore the food in it. Just make her walk away, then come back when the stove is blazing.
Ok, I’ve never played any version of any Sim game. Hearing you folks discuss how best to immolate your Sim is cracking me, but I have a sick sense of humor when it comes to offing pixels. 
Is killing off a Sim a frequently-desired thing to do? Are there cliffs you can make them jump off? Do they ever come back to haunt you?
Okay, you put the doomed sim in a small room off apart from the rest of the house. You have another sim start food in the oven, then stop them before they pull it out. Pause the game, use the move objects cheat, and put the oven in with the doomed sim. Make sure the room is small enough that the sim has to stand right next to the oven, and that there are no doors. You can put curtains, chairs and such in there as well to turn it into a conflagration if you wish.
Enjoy 
In Sims 2, there are plenty of ghosts if people die, and the Grim Reaper himself shows up.
And for some (sadistic, twisted, absolutely evil) people, killing them is fun. 
Excellent! Thank you!
I’m still very puzzled about why nothing will catch fire near a fireplace, though. 
Unfortunately, I went ahead and killed her by starvation. I’ll save this knowledge for next time (which surely won’t be too far in the future).
I can’t speak for other players, Turek, but I play my neighborhood like it was Llanview or Port Charles (soap opera towns). I also have little patience with characters who are boring or run out of story possibilities. So the death rate in Jonestown is pretty high.
Is there Kool-Aid involved?
I wish The Sims 2 was that sick a game.
I’ve already found my next victim. Had to create him for purposes of creating a link on a family tree only. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I lost one of my sims to a fire the other day.
I had a grill outside, and no smoke alarms nearby. I had something blocking the phone (a toy) which I didnt realize, so they just went nuts. You could have someone with no cooking experience play with the grill, then have them run upstairs to call the fire department. The other (high cooking level sim) is still attracted to their screams anyway and comes and freaks out as well and eventually is too stupid to move. Lost the man of the household!
Opps.
/S
Well, I sent my target (an old man named Jacques) into the kitchen to have him start a fire by leaving a toaster pastry in the oven.
It worked–a fire started, and Jacques even caught on fire! But somehow, he got the fire stamped out and he didn’t die.
Then, some neighbor ladies came running into the kitchen and started screaming when they saw the fire. So I had Jacques put it out, because I like those characters and I didn’t want them to burn to death.
Then the Social Bunny showed up, since Jacques was so miserable, and Jacques and the Social Bunny got into a fistfight.
I try again this evening, this time with a TV dinner.
Also, each ghost is colour-coded according to how they died. Some people like to collect the whole set!
The only two I’ve had are:
Old age = white ghost
Electrocuted = yellow ghost (with sparks!)
I looked up the others:
Drowned = blue ghost (drips water)
Burned to death = red ghost
Starved = transparent (and raids the fridge)
Disease = green ghost
Scared to death (by a ghost) = pink
Death by Satellite = orange
Death by flies = purple
The secret is no smoke alarm.
You people are sick, twisted, demented, and quite possibly in need of professional help.
<sniffs back a tear> I think I love you!
(Damn, if there was only a mac version of this game.)