How can I get abducted by aliens? I've tried having a male sim look through the telescope at day with 4 space rocks in the garden for ages! Are there any other ways to get abducted?

You have to to it at night I think around 12:00-3:00 A.M.

Space rocks in the garden??? The way to increase your chances significantly is to go collect space rocks. I'm not entirely sure it has to be off your home lot... but it must be 'new finds' meaning not collecting the same one again and again. Get your collection helper out and set it to highlight gems and rocks... then go space rock collecting at any time EXCEPT night (the counter for chance rolls over at night and you need to be at home.). Find about four rocks or so... and you should be finding yourself being abducted. Another way if you're looking to have an Alien in your household is to meet one wherever they may show which is random (Look for their multicolored sparkle on the game map) and to use the Science Skill ability to ask for a DNA Sample... then just go clone yourself an Alien.

http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/seasons/aliens.php <--for all information you're asking about.

Why the disagree? Quoting directly from the guide Darkcloudwalker linked to:



Alternatively: http://modthesims.info/d/493379

"You have to to it at night I think around 12:00-3:00 A.M." is incorrect.

Ah, I see. I think I got it mixed up with this part:



Visiting =/= abducting.

Do you have the Seasons EP? You have to have Seasons to get aliens.

And get one more space rock. Five is the maximum IIRC.

Abductions use the same time-frame of visits.

Rocks count - to raise chances - only if collected in the last 24 hours.
The same kind of rock is counted only once and it doesn't matter if you keep
or delete/sell them after acquiring them (there are a few ways to do that).
The chances are increased by : TunableRockBonus * numberOfRocks (there's also a cap).

Same for using the telescope (last 24 hours).

And it doesn't matter who does those actions, as long as they are user directed (you can even change household).
Note: using the telescope must be explicitly user directed, if there is a way to do rock collecting interactions
autonomously that would count too (I haven't checked all possible ways but at least for directly gathering them).

Note: rock count and having used the telescope are reset only if there is a valid candidate to abduction in the active household
(I think I wrote somewhere else what are the main conditions for that to happen), so it can be more than 24 hours
(that's the duration of the timer for checking if an abduction has to be triggered).

Most of these settings are tunable with AlienUtils_blahblahblah. I think you can also set the number of members
of the alien household to 0 and then kill all existing aliens to get rid of them (unless created otherwise).
Probably there is also another way to get rid of the alien household, but I guess that's not what OP want. Just saying.

I would just follow the Carl's Guide:
http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/seasons/aliens.php

Aliens are fun. You can do things with their spaceship and stuff.

Also, alien's grown from babies are fun too... easier at the start because of the meteor thing, but harder because they have a glitch with the motive mobile and moodlet manager - use those on an alien will make them have to sleep, even with full brain power! And then you can't do magic, and all that other stuff.

There are suggestions for tuning On This Page . The path is in the "How Do I Prevent Abductions" There is a link there for the tuning. To make aliens more likely, y set the values to higher values, rather than setting them to "0".

I, for one, consider it a blessing when my Sim gets knocked up by an alien. Kewl. Aliens never have to worry about money, and you can actually kill other sims by dropping meteors on them. "Excuse me, could you relax her a minute while I summon this meteor?

BTW, I think the Apples = boys, Watermelons = girls gimmick works for an alien pregnancy too.

I finally got abducted! :D