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). 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. One of her main responsibilities is to remove babies, toddlers and children from households where they are being neglected, such as if they are left at home alone or allowed to starve. The social worker appears in the first three main installments of The Sims series. In The Sims 4: Discover University expansion pack, failure to pay the student loans for a period of time will be visited by the repo-man to repossess an item and will keep visiting until Sims pay of all their debt.Īs of The Sims 4 patch 95 update, not paying bills after a water cut will have their stuff be taken away to cover the bills. In The Sims 4: City Living expansion pack, failure to pay bills will also mean that the landlord may refuse to check out problems in the apartments. In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, Sims react to repossessions in the same way they react to having items stolen by a burglar. Build and buy mode are disabled during this time in order to prevent the player from thwarting the agent's efforts. A repo-man is sent to remove items from a Sim's house or power and water will be cut if bills remain unpaid for an extended period of time. Not paying bills on time will result in negative consequences a Sim households. A warning message will be displayed when grades fall to D or lower. Other children in the household whose grades are at a D- or above are allowed to remain. Children sent to military school are no longer playable, cannot be retrieved or even viewed by the player, are permanently lost.
In The Sims, if a child's school grades remain at F (failing) for several consecutive days, the child will be taken to military school, and will be removed from the game.