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I hate emotional deaths :(
SimTrippy
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I have been playing with this really cool sim and her really really awesome (adopted, not created) dog.... She wanted to become a famous artsy city-dwelling photographer or museum owner or whatever... and just as she was on one of her many unsuccessful dates, she decided to become hysterical and ... die 
I hate this. Will just have to exit without saving, but uhhhghfughr.
Just expressing my frustration.
To keep her in loving memory, here's a pic of her celebrating NYE a couple of days before she perished.
I hate this. Will just have to exit without saving, but uhhhghfughr.Just expressing my frustration.
To keep her in loving memory, here's a pic of her celebrating NYE a couple of days before she perished.
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I really hate the hysterical and mortified deaths. They're way too silly. The hysterical is so easy to reach too because the excessive happy buffs just bump everything up. I could deal with a depression death or death from fright, but laughter? Ugh.
Yes I should really start making a habit of that, too. Thanks! She's alive and well now in her parallel universe, it's the day pre-NYE again, and... I'm going to sleep now knowing that it's the weekend tomorrow! Time enough to fix it then.
Has anyone actually laughed themselves to death? I can't recall it ever actually having happened. I am sure it could cause cardiac arrest; but even then...
And, hooray for an earlier save game rescue!
Lol wait, that can happen? How awesome. See my sims never die from something cool like lightning strikes, it's either old age or ... laughter. For some reason.
@Hestia will do that too now. Completely agree.
I disagree. The sims are your responsability to keep alive, it’s kind of the point of live mode. You either help your sim prosper and be successful, or watch them fail at life and yes, potentially die. The emotion system is one of the core gameplay features of TS4, and 100% manipulative. I would check out a couple of tutorials if you are struggling? I wouldn’t call it dumb to add challenging buffs, it is a game at the end of the day.
If you end up with up to +40 Worth of emotional buffs (I think that’s when your sim is in the danger zone), then stop what you’re doing and watch out for your sim. Same as if you have an elder who gets over-exhausted (similarly this is a danger zone for elders), you make them take a bath or have a nap; Or sims freezing outside, or swimming with sharks, or just sleeping on the new Murphy bed lol.. There are times when you need to step in and save your sim! Death by extreme emotion is easily avoidable, just saying
Dying from being happy or embarrassed.. now that is just straight out weird.
Btw, I think if you just reset your sim before it died, you could save her. Like that, you could keep your save file.
I'm not "struggling", I just think emotional deaths are idiotic. Sure, keeping your sims alive and healthy is your responsibility but the emotion system is in sooo many ways a flawed system that isn't well thought out at all. There are so many positive / playful moodlets all stacking on top of each other that shouldn't even have the power to kill anyone (I mean, I don't know, but I've never met anyone who died from wearing freshly washed clothes, playing with their dog and having friends over), and there are barely any negative ones. So while it's not very difficult to have a sim that's overly playful, embarrassed or happy, it's dang near impossible to have one be thoroughly depressed. And let's not forget that embarrassed, angry and sad are like the only really negative emotions we have. Where is scared/terrified? Nostalgic? Claustrophobic (looking at you, Tiny Living .......)? And I actually did send my sim to "call herself down", just like the other times this happened, about 5 seconds after the hysteria buff comes on, and another 5 before she dies.
It's fine if you like the emotion system, but it can hardly be called a balanced system. I'd be excited if my sim died from prolonged depression - not that it's realistic, but at least it would be less weird than laughing or .. enjoying(?) herself to death. Trust me, I loved and played TS and TS2 a lot and those were actually hard in terms of need management. Except that never infuriated me quite as much as emotional deaths do. Guess we're all different
I do hate them. It's just way too silly for me. And everytime I have a vampire use that emotion control power somebody dies 😆😆😆 I had a beloved sim die of anger and I'm like... seriously?! 😓 it was either restart and loose tons of progress or start cooking up a death cure because grim wouldn't bring him back.
And I have a hot head celebrity sim with the emotion bomb quirk who becomes enraged for no reason and has emotional meltdowns so I have to keep a close eye on him lol. I never had one die of hysteria. I try hard to keep them from bring too happy🤣🤣
Never had one die from lightening either....
i don't really get it when people complain about their sims dying; it's a life simulator, and there can't be life without death. but that's just me. if you want to keep your sims alive forever, cool, go for it, but it's your responsibility to achieve that. if your sim gets to the point where they might die of hysteria, mortification or enragement and you don't stop them, it's kind of your fault. plus, if you're one of those players who wants to let their sims live on forever (nothing wrong with that, play how you wanna play), then utilise the saving system.
basically what i'm trying to say is that the emotional deaths are so easily avoidable. they don't just happen out of nowhere, they happen because of a build up of moodlets, moodlets the player is practically entirely responsible for. if you don't like emotional deaths, you can avoid them. simple.
I don't judge how others play though.
https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/public/616a83a072616b1d18fb3268
Yes, this.
@alyssa123 I'm all for death and realism too. Dying from laughter isn't realistic however. And to me, it's just not fun. Also, no, the player isn't entirely responsible for the moodlets. Am I supposed to not do my laundry and have a party just because that makes moodlets I'm not even fond of stack so fast, I can't even get my sim to call down anymore? While I actually have to download mods to stop such stacking moodlets from destroying any kind of sadness my sim may experience? 🤔 Yeah sorry, that's not realism.