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Dead Sims In Friend List
kturner1015
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Anyone else annoyed that all your Sims' friends who have died are still listed as friends, they're just greyed out? Obviously they don't still count as friends for careers or anything, but I think it's dumb to have them still listed under their friend panel at all. They take up so much room and it's kind of depressing seeing all my Sims' dead friends, lol.
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they want to taunt our sims of painful memories of losing a sim
The game doesn't nor should know if your other sims can bring back these deceased to life thus there is no reason not to have deceased sims in the list.
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They randomly remove the dead ones too, when that happens, the names for their tombstones get removed. Happened to my legacy founder
What?! Why would they remove the names from the tombstones? That doesn't even make sense
The game has two culling subroutines that cull from the population. For some reason we do not understand, dead Sims are considered part of that population. The recent patch has made it so only homeless Sims are culled, and I think dead Sims are considered homeless, even if their tombstone/urn is at your home. Once the dead Sim is culled, anything associated with him/her by name will have that name erased because the Sim no longer exists in the population.
There is a mod that will prevent this, but only up to the current max population figure, which is currently defined at 180. There is also a mod to stop continual spawning of townies, which puts the population higher. The modders are looking at trying to fix the "dead Sim as part of population" thing and are also looking to see if the max population can be tweaked.
Thanks for all the info! Ugh, I hope there will be a permanent fix from a patch in the future since I don't download CC or mods. I used to download all sorts of things in my game but I'm really bad at trying to sort out the good ones from the bad so I end up corrupting my game.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12773864/#Comment_12773864:
Perhaps you should rethink this ...
in TS 3 the use of mods makes the difference between a great game and a game riddled with bugs.
While it is too early to say something like this for TS 4 ... it wouldn´t be surprised if this became the case for TS 4 as well
As for OP:
It is definitely annoying ... especially if you take into account that neither in TS 2 nor in TS 3 this was a problem ... in both games you would get a notification one day before a friends death that you should use the last chance to see your old friend ... and would have your Sims mounr their friend after his/her death ... all this without having to have an urn on the households lot
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