Later games in the series prevented this from occuring by requiring at least one adult in the household. This can be prevented by using the move_objects on cheat and deleting the mail woman before she puts the bills into the mailbox. When finished, he will simply leave.Īs The Sims had the ability to create a family that only contains children, such families are at risk of a repo-man visit, since only adults can pay bills. Sims cannot interact with him, and they are otherwise powerless to stop him. In The Sims, there is only one repo-man named ' Bud', who will arrive on foot when summoned. The gun's special effects may vary from game to game, but the result is that the item vanishes.īud the Repo-man in The Sims repossessing a stove. He will come onto the lot and use a gun-like device on whatever he is going to repossess.

In most of The Sims games, he wears dark attire.

The Sims of the household get a negative memory for each of the items taken, and may periodically cry about the lost item(s). The item(s) he takes approximately add up to the amount the Sim owes. The repo-man usually takes one or two items, but if the Sim is in a large amount of debt, he may take several. When summoned, the repo-man will arrive and begin to confiscate household items as payment for the unpaid bills. It is impossible to enter build mode or buy mode after a repo-man enters the lot without cheats. The player has until 6:00pm the next night to pay otherwise, the red bills will explode and summon the repo-man. Once bills stay red for more than two days, the player will be warned at 7:00am that they must be paid immediately. As they progress through the colors, the need to pay them becomes more and more urgent. Over time, after bills have been delivered to a house, they change color, going from white, to yellow, to orange, and finally to red it takes approximately two days for the color to change. The repo-man is an NPC that visits a Sim's residential lot when their bills have been unpaid for too long.

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