There seems to be an epidemic of sick NPCs, townies, dormies, etc.* in my game. They are infecting everyone they come in contact with. It does not help at all that everyone in the Sims universe loves hanging out with complete strangers. I am planning to spawn them in a "hospital" and isolate each of them in a room. Since there are a lot of them, I am going to place them in small pig pens with bare necessities (TV, sofa, the snapdragon flower from OFB) until they cure. Does this work?

*edit: townies, dormies, etc. not the NPC maid, gardener, etc,

Let a family sim invite them and serve them grandma's comfort soup. Heals much faster.

Interesting. I've never had a sick npc. *knocks on wood*
Just sick playables.

With or without cheating?

I was thinking of that but I would need enough soup to fill this pool.

So I think herding them into a concentration camp and force feeding them the soup somehow might save some time... if it is possible to do such a thing.

Yeah, just serve them comfort soup. You could make them selectable and have them eat it or just invite them to a household, serve and "call guests to meal". It cures sickness instantly.

NPCs as the term is commonly used around here - non-playable service sims like the maid or gardener - will not normally get sick, unless a game is modded to allow it (or corrupted in some way, I guess). Townies, however, do get sick, and they can spread it.

Isolating them and then making them eat the soup might be better. I know Peni says it's possible to get reinfected at the table by the other sick ones, and it sounds like you have a lot of Sims so you want this wiped properly.

I'd build little 2x2 rooms with a table and a chair, without doors, and place each sim in one of those. Then I'd use another Sim to cook soup. Make sure you have lots of table space that it can serve on so that you get separate dishes, and then use moveobjects on to move the bowls into the isolated rooms.

Or, put them all together on a lot until they die. Then they won't spread it. That'll teach em!

Personally, since I still use the Simblender, I would just use it to cure everybody, but that is just me.

That, or the mask from Insim, though the Blender is more recent, and Insim has been long-unsupported.

But that's why I asked if we're talking about cheating or not cheating. I confess I make my Sims healthy every chance I get, because that's not a feature I'm crazy about. But sometimes I've tried to keep everyone hale and hearty without cheats.

Well, if you have mad scientists or doctors, they can make medicine and give it to the townies as well, I guess? I certainly don't have a family sim in each household, so my poor family sims will not be able to feed all the sick townies. Haven't done that for a while, but I think they can give medicine they have made to friends - they can also sell it.

If my Sims are sick, they simply have to relax and read or sleep until they are healthy again. Normally takes about a day. I also let them take bubble baths and watch TV. It does not bother me too much, but if you don't stay at the lot until the sims are cured, they will infect the whole hood.

Cyjon also has a mod that adds extra genie wishes, including one to cure the plague.

Just teleport them in, make selectable and use a mod like the sim manipulator to cure them.

That pool is just ... OMG.

I think, if a 'flu outbreak got to the stage that it was endemic in the townie population and that it was spoiling my game, I'd use the Sim Manipulator to cure them, but try to have a story to explain it. I'd summon them all in batches (using a teleporter) to the house of the most senior Sim in the medical career in my 'hood (which isn't very senior in Veronaville) and cure them all with the Sim Manipulator. I'd say it was a new treatment that had been developed. I'd give them all hearty meal when they were there too. (If I had comfort soup, I'd probably use that.)

I think the batbox has an option to cure disease too.

I'm horrified at the suggestion of killing them all , but that's how the British government deals with foot and mouth disease in livestock.

I use Grandma's comfort soup or the Sim Manipulator if i'm lazy!
The last rotation i played was horrible! Nearly everybody had the flu, many sims already had died!
I used the Sim Manipulator on my witches lot and pretend that she healed everyone. :D

Sorry Andrew. I wouldn't actually do that in my game, but it seemed like an option!

The medicine produced by the science career reward doesn't actually cure sickness, IIRC. It's broken.

Cyjon has a couple of mods which affect how disease progresses, (frequent processing and faster processing) which can be helpful if you have large households, all sick, and nobody getting better. Just don't put them both in at once if you have a household like that, because the result of a built up level of sickness plus both mods equals lots of immediate deaths. Put faster in first, that solves the issue of them not being able to recover. Once your sickness reaches acceptable levels, you can put frequent in if you like.

However, neither of those mods helps townies, because townies are unplayable and as such time does not pass for them. So once they are infected, they don't recover unless you force them to.

Do you have a "realistic sickness" mod? With normal Maxis behaviour your Sims should recover if they take things easy. Don't let them go to work or school, and keep them lying or sitting as much as possible. If they're tired enough to sleep, send them to bed. Of course they do have to attend to their other needs! Especially hunger! Don't let them starve to death in bed!

In the modern developed world, I think the Maxis behaviour is more realistic than the "realistic" mods.

I wasn't surprised that the suggestion was made, but I was a little surprised that it was you that made it!

When something like that happens I just cheat them healthy with insimminator. Stuff like herding them into a impromptu quarantine area just takes me out of the game too much.

Yes, i have the "realistic sickness" mod. Not the worst version but it's definitely deadly!
I do care for the needs but sometimes it seems that it's not enough.
It's sad but Maxis version of illness is a little bit... lame for me.

A lot of us who use realistic sickness use it in an historical game, or if we want to simulate something like the Spanish Flu epidemic to thin down the number of sims we have without actively choosing who lives and who dies.

I've never had townies get sick, but I really don't use them much. They're good for challenges, like Apocalypse, where I'm playing only one household (in which case they don't get sick because they aren't invited over if someone is sick). Otherwise, I make my sims befriend other playables by preference. Townies who become friends need to become playables so they live their lives.

I'm surprised that no one has suggested this plague-busting idea yet:

1) Get any sort of Good Witch (Nice, Good or Infallibly Good) up to Magic Skill 3 or higher; this is the level at which they can cast the Remedis Simae spell, which cures any targeted Sim of any disease.

2) Playing as the witch, fly to the Palace of Neverending Light. Remedis Simae costs 1 Crystallized Moonbeam, 1 Essence of Light and 1 Mystic Dust to cast, so claim one of the spare cauldrons, spend a few Simmy days at the Palace and make about a million-billion of each reagent, pausing only to rest up in the High Witch's Throne of Light whenever your motives get low.

3) Once you have a heaping handful of moonbeams, essence and dust, fly back to town and start blasting sickly Sims with Remedis Simae all willy-nilly. Fly back to the palace and take catnaps in the throne as needed, then come back. Repeat until you run out of pestilent townies.

4) Book your witchy healer a seven-day vacation at Three Lakes, because you've earned it.

I took this as an opportunity to have some fun with my game, instead of a problem that just needed to be fixed. (Don't worry, I still fix it). I set up a household of 3 Sims whose sole role in life is to protect the community from strange and unexpected calamities of any sort... kind of like Kingsman or S.H.I.E.L.D. would do. This elite task force has an infallibly good Warlock (whose "official" job is a wildly successful businessman, allowing him to get the reward to call anyone in the neighborhood, so he can know them and then summon them to the lot for treatment), whose real job it is to make cure potions to relieve Sims who find themselves stricken by vampirism, lycanthropy, or plantsimism, a Mad Scientist who spends her time cooking up Grandma's Comfort Soup by the barrel-full, as well as whipping up medicine from the Science reward centrifuge, and a "Head of the SCIA," just for the hell of it... I needed a Nick Fury type to run things!

I'm far too lazy for all of that. I'd rather call on the good Dr Sim manipulator and click heal.