Punishment: Difference between revisions

''' Punishment''' is the authoritative imposition of something unpleasant or negative on a Sim in response to crimes or poor behavior. [[Fine]]s have always been the most common form of punishment in ''The Sims'' series, but more recent games have featured other forms of punishment. For example:

In ''[[The Sims]]'', if a child's school grades droppedremains toat an F (failing) and stayed there for a number of days, the child wouldwill be taken to [[military school]]. Subsequently, they were no longer playable, could not be retrieved or even viewed by the player, and the character was permanently lost. Other children in the household whose grades were at a D- or above wereare allowed to remain.

If a Sim does not pay their bills on time, the government will repossess items with a value equivalent to the outstanding debt. A [[repo-man|repossession agent]] is sent to recover the items from a SimsSim's house. Build and Buybuy mode are disabled during this time in order to prevent youthe player from thwarting the repo managent's attempts to take your itemsefforts. Sims react to repossessions in the same way they react to having items stolen by a burglar.

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The [[social worker]] appears in all three main installments of the ''The Sims'' series. One of her main responsibilities is to remove babies, toddlers and children from households where they are being neglected, e.g.such as if they are left at home alone{{vgversion|TS2}} or allowed to starve{{vgversion|TS2}}{{vgversion|TS3}}. Once alerted by a young Sim's distress, she will remove all babies, toddlers and children from a household, even if only one was being neglected; the only exception being ''The Sims'', where only babies can be taken away due to neglect. In ''[[The Sims 2]]'' she also replaces the military school function from ''The Sims'', as she removes any children from the household whose grades drop to an F (the equivalent teen punishment for poor grades is the loss of a part-time job and/or being unable to go to college). In ''The Sims'', babies taken away due to neglect are then permanently lost to the player. In ''The Sims 2'' and ''[[The Sims 3]]'', young Sims who are removed are not permanently lost, but are available for adoption by other families. However, families who have already had one or more children taken away by the social worker are unable to adopt from that time onwards, meaning that they cannot simply re-adopt their own children once they have been taken away; however, any children naturally conceived after the social worker's intervention will be allowed to remain, provided their parents do not neglect them. The social worker will never intervene on behalf of a teen or older Sim. In ''[[The Sims 3: Pets]]'', the social worker will intervene if pets are neglected of needs;, noand matterwill ifremove oneall orpets moreeven wereif neglected,only theone Socialwas Workerbeing willneglected. takePets allremoved the pets inby the household.social Thereworker isare nopermanently way of getting them backlost.

In ''The Sims 2'', [[Childrenchild]]ren and [[Teenteen]]s who do a deviant behavior such as breaking a [[computer]] or [[sneak out|sneaking out]] will be lectured by their parents. The only penalty of this punishment is a drop in their relationships. Neighbors who are caught smashing the [[Will Lloyd Wright Dollhouse]] will also be lectured, regardless of age. Oddly, sometimes when a [[Babybaby]] or [[Toddlertoddler]] peessuffers themselvesa [[bladder]] failure in the crib, they willmay be lectured too.<ref group="n">A [http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-2752.html mod] by BoilingOil removes this behavior.</ref>

Sims who are in the Criminal career track in ''The Sims 3'' run the risk of being sent to jail every time they go to work. If a criminal is sent to jail, they cannot be promoted on that day and job performance may suffer. While in prison, Sims can choose to work out to improve Athleticism, befriend other inmates, play dominosdominoes, or simply serve their time peacefully.

Although they will not be sent to jailimprisoned, teen Sims in ''The Sims 2'' who are caught sneaking out with friends after dark without receiving parental permission, and their equivalents in ''The Sims 3'' who break the town's 11pm11PM curfew, run the risk of being caught by the police and escorted home in a squad car, resulting in a stern lecture from their parents and a negative memory/moodlet of being arrested.

If ''[[The Sims 3: Generations]]'' is installed, children and teenagers can be punished by their parents. If a parent sees their child doing something wrong such as playing a prank, being mean, or skipping school they will automatically walk over and punish their child; (youthis interaction cannot stopbe themcancelled fromby doingthe this)player. Mild mischief will only result in a scolding that gives the child a bad moodlet, but serious or repeated rule breaking will result in harsher forms of punishment. The child can have their punishment ended early by earning their parentparents's forgiveness. To earn their parent's forgiveness, the child must do their chores, such as cleaning or doing their homework.

Grounding is the harshest form of parental punishment in ''The Sims 3: Generations''. Groundings are reserved for very serious infractions such as vandalizing the school, breaking curfew, or open defiance. The grounded child will receive the very negative "Grounded" moodlet and will not be allowed to leave the house for the next two days. Grounded children and teens can attempt to sneak out when their parents are asleep or not around, but will have their grounding extended if they are caught. There is a bug, however, that makes teens unable to go to school while grounded, which can lead to further punishments from parents for "skipping school". or ifIf they ''do'' tryattempt to go to school, they will be deemed to have snuck out. Both outcomes ultimately lead to an increase in the grounding period. This can be overcome, however, by getting a parent to tell the child/teen to "go to school!" (friendly social action). However, when they come home they will be scolded and the grounding will startrepeat all over againitself. Sometimes the teen will sneak around even if they are in the house, theyand willthey sometimesmay continue to sneak indefinitely after the grounding has ended.

In ''The Sims Medieval, '', major crimes are punished by execution in the form of being fed to the pit beast. Sims who are high level heroes may be able to survive a trip to the pit beast, but most Sims will not.

== Cutting off Utilitiesutilities ==

In ''The Sims 4'', if Sims don'tthat fail to pay their bills insteadwill of having their items repossessed like in the previous games,have their electricity will be cut off. If they still don't pay their bills, the water will be cut off as well.