Bugs not Hair.

Bluebeard45

So again a young couple moves into town and doesn't know a soul. So they took a break from unpacking and took a 3 day vacation.
Not even on the second day the "Death" call. Some stranger died and we wanted to ruin your vacation. Enough with barbie stuff and please start fixing the game. Somebody owes my Sims a refund for a ruined vacation.

Pamtastic72

Sometimes random Sims die, it's a feature not a bug. I just cancel "witness death" in the queue and have my Sims do something else in another area until the reaping is complete to avoid unnecessary sadness over a sim they never met.

simm621

Pamtastic72 wrote: »

Sometimes random Sims die, it's a feature not a bug. I just cancel "witness death" in the queue and have my Sims do something else in another area until the reaping is complete to avoid unnecessary sadness over a sim they never met.

I think they're getting at the phone call you get when a sim dies. They could be anyone from a loved one to a random sim that you may have said hello to one time. Once you get the call you are hit with a mourning moodlet for 2 days.
It's a little excessive especially if you have tons of people on your contact list. Being forever in mourning is no fun.

Jordyn78988

If you haven't already, you can press "me too" on this Answers HQ thread:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-gets-quot-phone-call-quot-amp-notice-about-another-sims/m-p/6891985#M65892

stilljustme2

The free assets and the bug squashing are done by two different teams. There's room for both new content and taking care of bugs. It takes a while to track down bugs and solve them.

In the case of the death calls, it's a feature that's maybe working a bit too well. People were complaining that they were never notified when a friend or a relative died, so everything was too happy in the game. So they added the feature so that Sims would feel sad about people in their life dying. I think it's less getting rid of the feature than it is tuning it down a bit -- maybe a few hours for an acquaintance, 8 hours for a friend, 1 day for a really good friend and 2 days for a family member. Think about real life -- pretty much the longer and deeper the relationship the longer the mourning period. (What would be funny is if an enemy died and the Sim got a short Happy moodlet. )

NorthDakotaGamer

There is a mod for this. It changes to give the appropriate emotional response to a death depending on how well you know the sim. It is on mod the sims.

g_marie0419

I'm so glad someone else brought this up!! I was so tired of my sims being sad over someone they barely knew I started using aspiration reward points to get the potion that removes all negative moodlets every time a sim died.

hunniboo1

What is barbie stuff if I may ask? And yes I'm serious

LolaLuvsSims

Ive never received a death call, I'm starting to feel left out