Really sorry if this has been done before. I searched and didn't see exactly what I was looking for in the last year and I'm curious about your answers, so...here goes nothing!
How did your very first Sim die?
Was it your fault? What was your reaction?
Which Sims game was it?
For me, my first Sim died by fire in Sims 1. My sister and I were playing and we were young at the time and totally not expecting it. We panicked and didn't know what to do once the Sim caught fire, so we ended up turning the monitor on and off to try and stop it. Obviously that didn't work, so we unplugged the desktop in our hurry to save our Sim, haha. The Sim was fine after that but I think I was a bit traumatized, because I never played another family long enough (with aging on) to witness another Sim death until Sims 3.
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My friend swears to this day that that was the only meteor strike he ever had in his game and he did not know that it was even a thing that existed in the game.
This was before a patch was released very early on that removed the ability to change light bulbs and/or for sims to get electrocuted while doing so. Supposedly, in theory, a sim could build up the mechanical trait in doing so, albeit in a negligible way (just as supposedly, the higher up they were in their mechanical skill, the less likely it may have been for them to get electrocuted).
At the time, I had no idea that could even happen and I remember the next time a light bulb burned out, I just deleted the lamp and replaced it rather than risk having it happen it again to another sim.
The reason behind the removal was apparently a mixture of complaints from simmers about it happening (which was supposedly the biggest driving force behind its removal) along with a decision that it seemed unnecessary to really change a light bulb (in a way, it seemed to also fit in unintentionally with the lack of power cords in the game) and that it didn't really seem to add anything to the game.
There is a story behind this as well, it was one of my first Sim families. Odysseus and Olivia, a couple who married and eventually had a kid. After that kid got taken away due to bad grades Olivia cheated on her husband with a townie whose name I have forgotten. When Odysseus caught them he started picking fights every time he saw the other guy, which was admittedly a lot. The simulated dust was flying constantly so I staged a pool accident by removing the ladder. Olivia seemed...strangely relieved if I remember right. It made for an interesting story.
My Sims must suffer in the name of story....its for a good cause.
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Or was it fire? Or that death by no reason glitch?
I think it was fire, because I remember that I saw the Grim Reaper first time in the fire.
That's why I do experiments in the game from time to time and tutorial videos on YouTube.
***Please bring back Sims 2 style storytelling features and make them publishable.***
ETA: I also didn't know to hit the space bar to switch to the other Sim so he could extinquish her, so I was pretty frantic, but all that made me appreciate Will Wright's darker side. "Perseverance*
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I also had some Sims killed in fights (though I think they supposedly “left town” or something like that). Sometimes, when I got bored, I’d create a household of 8 Sims and lock them in a house with nothing but that pantry thing (the thing that worked like a fridge but only gave snacks) and just watch to see who’d survive the longest with no player intervention. (The snacks ensured they wouldn’t starve, and the lack of literally anything else kept them all in terrible moods so they’d fight autonomously.)
Man, I need to start up TS1 again. I’d totally forgotten about the crazy things like this we can’t pull off in the later games.
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