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death in the future
Tamaldo77
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What if when a Sim goes to the future to visit their descendants and then dies?
For example, a Sim is at their descendants house watching some TV when suddenly the TV breaks and this Sim offers to repair the TV whilst the descendants sit quietly on the sofa. After a few minutes, the Sim get electrocuted and dies, right in front of his descendants. So the Grim Reaper arrives and takes the Sim's ghost away.
That being the case, would the Grim Reaper tell the descendants that they'll be wiped out of existence, or would they disappear the moment that Sim died?
Actually, if you think about it, if this Sim's destiny was to die (be it in the future or in the present) and not have any children to begin with, I assume that the descendants wouldn't have existed in the first place!
Someone please help me out on this one!
For example, a Sim is at their descendants house watching some TV when suddenly the TV breaks and this Sim offers to repair the TV whilst the descendants sit quietly on the sofa. After a few minutes, the Sim get electrocuted and dies, right in front of his descendants. So the Grim Reaper arrives and takes the Sim's ghost away.
That being the case, would the Grim Reaper tell the descendants that they'll be wiped out of existence, or would they disappear the moment that Sim died?
Actually, if you think about it, if this Sim's destiny was to die (be it in the future or in the present) and not have any children to begin with, I assume that the descendants wouldn't have existed in the first place!
Someone please help me out on this one!
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What happens if you go to Oasis Landing with a single Sim and he dies there, is another question - independent from any time paradox.
It never occurred to me that a Sim died in one of the WA worlds or in the university world. What happens then?
Game over. You get booted back to the main world with no active household. It was very sad. My sim just wanted a soda from the soda machine.... It was stuck...
If the sim was married with children, and then dies for some reason. You continue on playing that household with the other surviving members of that sim's household.
If the sim dies in their descendants' living room. I would imagine that the descendants would suddenly get a mourning moodlet. Just like any other sim would when they witness another sim's death.
but what if the spouse is still alive?
The sub-hood functionality is the same with all sub-hoods and so this will happen in Oasis Landing when you go there with a single Sim and he dies. Does this answer your question, Tamaldo77?
Thank you Cyron43 and mcveighjess! This was really helpful! Although it would be fun if there was a paradox and everything suddenly disappeared or something like that!
but what happens to the descendants?
If you visit Oasis Landing with a single Sim household and this Sim dies then you are beamed back to the main world anyway. So you wouldn't know if the descendants still exist. The next time you visit Oasis Landing with a different Sim but he has nothing to do with the descendants of the first Sim. So the game will not generate them anyways but the descendants of the new Sim.
In case you visit Oasis Landing with more than one Sim and one dies, the descendants can still exist. You wouldn't know if the other Sim will not marry again and have other children of which these descendants could be.
These scenarios can get very complex and we don't know how far in the future Oasis Landing is.
Conclusion: It would take a big amount of number crunching on one side and not much benefit on the other side. Implementing such a simulation (with many unknown values) would simply take too much time and money and the result could be anything.
We could as well roll a dice, or in terms of programming: the game could as well retrieve a value from a random generator.
But if your sim dies from fixing their tv and they cease to exist hose tv did he fix?
Wich means he never died in the first place since there are no descendents with abroken tv...BUT now that he is alive so are they...and their tv is broken and he tries to fix it and dies. Now that he is dead again so are they...wich means he is now alive again...and so are they AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Lesson learned; If someone from the past comes to your house claiming to be your great great grandparent ask them if they have kids before you let them fix your tv
That's a really good point!
Anyway it's too late to add anything to ITF. The Development is done.
About your signature: You are wrong on this. See? It says "multiple times". So bumping is not forbidden per se.
You can then play with an surviving family member, except if that member is a Baby or Toddler..then the child(services - I forgot the name for that person) comes and takes the child/dren away and the Game whisks you away to Edit Town Mode...So then you have to start over...hapend to me..