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Goodbye Claire.
L33tP33tNW
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One of my first sims i played with for a long time is days away from death, and I feel so sad. How do you deal with your favorite sims dying?
ID: L33tP33tNW
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I save them so I can play with them when ever I want so it doesn't matter if they die in one save
All the sims err'day
However, if I am detached and ready for their story to finish, I wouldn't mind some prep. Perhaps build a crypt and invite friends and family over to say goodbye one last time. Then it is just deciding if I want to see the ghost, but if it is my fav I probably do.
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I didn't know sims could autonomously woohoo. I spent the day remodeling their home since one of their very rich kid gave them a nice chunk of change. They started fostering 2 orphans and they still live in their original home, which is now a industrial neighborhood. So I wanted their house to be a little nicer on the inside to make up for it. Anyway...I was testing out seating and making sure everything was functional as I went along. I didn't notice how often they were kissing and flirting. Then they went and woohoo'd and I heard Grim music immediately after. And that was it. His wife plead for him and Grim said no. I cried for 15 minutes and ranted/vented to my hubby. Now I'm like...do I even want to play this game anymore.
Yes, I have become very attached to my sims.
It's heart-rending, that much is certain. It's like reading a very good book in which you really love the main character and then that character is killed or dies. Hard to finish a book when you can't see the words for the tears in your eyes. As for how to handle the loss of a dear Sim. I have a confession to make. I generally restart a new game save starring the Sim who passed on. I also play on LONG. I have to say I have had key Sims die prematurely, as it were, making the plot moot. So a Restart is my only option. Can't even recall how many times I've had to Restart — it's that bad. My hope is to see my Global Superstar still performing live concerts in his elder years. Of course, he's not yet reached elder. He became an Adult two games saves ago before a patch hit that scuttled the game. I played a TEST save until my mods were updated, but upon installing the key updated mod, something went awry and he lost all the albums and songs he was receiving royalties on. Too hard to make that up, I started anew, figuring it was flat out easier for him to write songs for license and to record albums on his way up to the top. Also, he earned his status in just eleven Sim days than the previous save. So, despite the fact that I was truly enjoying playing the domestic side of his life, it is what it is. Just got him married again and his first child is born. However, Cottage Living is also almost upon us, so I will be playing a different save for quite some time.
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I know myself well enough to know I'm the kind who could get attached to a Sim I've played for a while and be saddened at their loss.
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For this challenge I've even expanded the simdays for a year to have enough time and reduced the chance of dieing (for him only). I gave him a nice elderly life with a part of his family around him, I've let visited his granddaughter, the current heir, to spend some time with him. In the end it still hurts, he was part of my game for over one year. After the death I've checked my older savefiles to save him in my gallery, unfortunately through the changes of the savefiles, I haven't any savefile from the beginning anymore. In the oldest savefile he is still a child but almost a teenager, but at least I've could saved him now. Well, I have also many pictures of him, so I can view these whenever I want.
Back in my Sims 1 and 2 days, if a sim I really loved died unexpectedly, I'd stop the game and exit without saving. My favorites are not allowed to die. I play with aging off.
I would also stop and restart for other sims, but if a sim really seemed determined to die then I'd let them go, call them an id.iot, and continue on with that family. I had one house in Sims2 that I swear was cursed, the adults kept dying in stupid ways and no matter what I did, they'd just keep doing the same things and dying as a result. I restarted at least 3 times when the mother died of hunger (toddler and baby in the house - those kids'll get you every time). The rest of the family kept getting in front of the fridge, preventing her from getting food. I tried moving the fridge and even putting food in front of her and her family kept getting in the way. I gave up. Later the father went swimming. The rotten kids kept getting in front of the ladders, preventing his leaving the pool. I tried at least 4 times, telling the kids to go away - then the neighbor got in the pool... I finally gave up when he died again and the game told me the game was over because there were no adults left. I finally gave up on that family and deleted the House of Doom. I didn't build on that lot again!
Plus tons of screenshots. Once I figured out pose player, I went back in to my tray files, popped my first generation into a photo/testing save, and took a few poses group shots of them to put around their kids' houses to keep their memory alive in game. I've seen some people make a museum for their legacy/NSB families, and I think I'm going to do that for a lot of my sims' achievements in this save.