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New Rule For My Restaurant: NO ELDERS!!! (Update: They aren't allowed in my vet clinic either now)
Tentacrocacles
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So I have a funny story to share.
I've got to the point in my sims game where I have opened up a business, it's actually doing quite well. (3 star rating and going on up. I had to expand the dining room just recently to fit all the guests that keep coming in)
But in my most recent sim day of service we had a bit of a... hiccup.
So it's the middle of the rush, customers are happily eating, my sim is running about the floor welcoming guests and checking up on tables, All is going well. Until suddenly some tragic music starts to play. Then one of the older sims gets up and just DIES, right there in the middle of my restaurant.
Naturally not wanting an urn to worry about I plead for her life and she gets brought back, everyone is happy business can go back to normal.
But then good old Victor Feng not wanting anyone to steal his thunder decides that he too, shall have a go at dying. meanwhile it's causing service at my restaurant to suffer because ALL the waitstaff and the customers have gathered around in a big circle of pity party around this guys dead body.
I try to plead for him also but death decides he's not having it and leaves me with a lovely urn. At this point my staff is tired, customers are unhappy, and I've had enough of this dying nonsense. So I send everyone home for the day and pack up shop.
I've got to the point in my sims game where I have opened up a business, it's actually doing quite well. (3 star rating and going on up. I had to expand the dining room just recently to fit all the guests that keep coming in)
But in my most recent sim day of service we had a bit of a... hiccup.
So it's the middle of the rush, customers are happily eating, my sim is running about the floor welcoming guests and checking up on tables, All is going well. Until suddenly some tragic music starts to play. Then one of the older sims gets up and just DIES, right there in the middle of my restaurant.
Naturally not wanting an urn to worry about I plead for her life and she gets brought back, everyone is happy business can go back to normal.
But then good old Victor Feng not wanting anyone to steal his thunder decides that he too, shall have a go at dying. meanwhile it's causing service at my restaurant to suffer because ALL the waitstaff and the customers have gathered around in a big circle of pity party around this guys dead body.
I try to plead for him also but death decides he's not having it and leaves me with a lovely urn. At this point my staff is tired, customers are unhappy, and I've had enough of this dying nonsense. So I send everyone home for the day and pack up shop.
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Say "YES" to mandatory retirement for NPC sims!
It happened again but this time it was my head chef that died on the job.
My sim was having an awesome girls day out with 2 of her nearest and dearest friends. After a workout at the gym, a relaxing swim and soothing sauna they decided to grab the obligatory coffee and cake at a diner.
Their whole day was ruined when, after the waiter brought out the cake, he promptly carked it in the middle of restaurant. How rude! So now about 98% of restaurant staff are now young adults. Sounds ageist but.....IDC!
I only like them when I play legacies, but that will never happen in this game till they fix the game's family tree.
Whats wrong with the family tree? I stopped playing for a while & recently started back up with the release of toddlers and am currently playing my first legacy family. I know at launch there wasn't a family tree, but it was later patched in. Was it patched with problems?
Unless they fixed it, the trees has issues like ... well culling and that the game doesn't recognize any other family members besides grandparents, siblings, parents, children.
If I'm wrong please somebody correct me , but I think this game has a hard time recognizing cousins, great grandparents, step family members and in laws and well you get the point.
I think it's an ode to Elders dying at parties from TS3.
I've had this happen as well, poor old Walter Connelly kicked the bucket.
Im sorry but lol
The game does recognize some of those roles, actually!
Half-siblings are shown:
As do step-children and step-siblings:
(Yeah, this family is whack, I swear I didn't do this. MCC is a wild thing, LOL)
But step-parents only show up under the circumstance when the other spouse is listed.
In game, however, those relations don't show up in the panel, and half-siblings are listed as full siblings.
I like to think that the family tree doesn't show in-laws probably to conserve and prevent cluttering/overlapping of the tree in case of weirder relationships... But it doesn't recognize them in game when you hover over them when they are spoken to, which I find unfortunate.
Cousins would be listed if it showed an aunt/uncle's family as well, but it doesn't, so...
The cousins they do not show are those past first degree (which also includes the 'once removed' parts, so first cousins once removed are also not listed as cousins) within the tree and in general when spoken to.
I too also wish family trees had more depth.
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Anyway, a while ago, I had a family go out for burgers at Hogan's Burger Bar which I put into Newcrest. They got to their table but during dinner, four different random elder Sims died. Everyone in the restaurant was crying. I figured that the place must be cursed which is funny because there's a guitar song about it too. It was a bit ridiculous. Did four people get food poisoning and die?
I was annoyed by the 4 urns that stayed in the restaurant until I eventually went into build mode and removed them. I did make a town cemetary on a small lot in Newcrest and I put them there until I feel like releasing them and getting rid of them. They are now extra random graves so that the cemetary isn't just full of my own Sims.
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Me too.
i know lol. it's so ridiculous i cant help but laugh
Even when dining 90% of the staff were Elders! So I just went in and aged them all down. I used MC Center to turn the percentage that Elders spawn down, which oddly it was only something like 25-30%, but it felt like 100%!
No more huddled up groups of Sims nearly dead from hunger or peeing themselves because they are perma-crying! xD
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At least Grimmy seemed to enjoy my Sim's music:
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