I played a teen mom runaway challenge: she started the game with literally no cash and a newborn baby. I spent so much time watching her eke out a living, struggle to keep herself and her baby alive, and eventually grow up to be a famous actress and a fantastic grandmother. Her little shack became a great mansion for her family, she had tons of adoring fans, and she found love with her make-up artist. Because of her, her child and his children have had better lives than she ever did.
But I wanted space in the house, and she wasn't dying of old age any time soon. So I had her stay outside during a heat wave until she died. She deserved better than that, but what can you do?
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Only a few times, because most of my sims are pretty OK. But there was this one time when I had a sim who was really cute and nice and had a great life, and I got a bit too attached to her... and then I went and basically ruined her life and killed her off in the end because I'm a horrible person. But hey, it was part of the story.
I wouldn't call it guilt, but I do get sad when I visit a sim and their pet is sick. I usually use cheats to add the animal to my household so I can give them medicine then remove them from my household. I hate how often pets get sick. It makes me so sad
Never! I have spent my entire life making sure everyone else around me is happy, often sacrificing things I wanted for myself. I have a!ways gone out of my way to never intentionally cause harm to another living soul, ever. So when I switch on that pc and take control of my little world, I do what I want to whomever I want consequences be plummed! I have no remorse about it either, because they are pixels not people. S4 is so much cheaper than therapy.
I wouldn't call it guilt, but I do get sad when I visit a sim and their pet is sick. I usually use cheats to add the animal to my household so I can give them medicine then remove them from my household. I hate how often pets get sick. It makes me so sad
Do you know you don't have to have the pet in your household to give them medicine? Just stock up on those cure-all treats from the vet and you can feed them to any sick animal.
I wouldn't call it guilt, but I do get sad when I visit a sim and their pet is sick. I usually use cheats to add the animal to my household so I can give them medicine then remove them from my household. I hate how often pets get sick. It makes me so sad
I think you can give the vet's wellness treats to animals that aren't in your household. I usually have my pet-owning Sim buy a bunch, and they'll often give a couple to any sick animals they run into.
As for the guilt -- I felt terrible when a child was struck by lightning in TS2. And one of my Sims died of embarrassment after his girlfriend in TS4 turned down his proposal. I try to keep them as happy as possible.
I have a couple of times in the Sims3. When we got the casino world, I played an old man and realized the girl he was with was a gold digger that had the aspiration to see him dead. I called him off in the pool and he finally died. 1st and only time. I realized the baby she was carrying wasn't his, so I brought him back and kicked her out to baby daddy's house. 2nd time, I had a motorcycle man cheat on his wife. They had one child together. I usually don't do the cheating unless I saw a lady sim I thought was pretty and wanted her in my game.
Sometimes. But not often. Mostly I try to play by my own Values. It's when I deviate from that I get a case of the guilts. Go figure. Way back in Sims2, my first real gaming experience I decided to play out an autonomous situation that occurred. I was playing my Cantrell family (created for my mini-series, see my siggie. This to help flesh out the background of my O/C ). This meant the Vulcan Nanny was created and living with my family. Well, Joseph came home and while I was busy with the Mom and the toddler daughter (my O/C) upstairs, I discovered Joseph was out on the back patio making a bit too nice with the Nanny!
I wondered about the effects of a divorce. So, I pushed this relationship until the break-up happened. Bad news. All five children cried relentlessly. I was no longer having fun. So, I deleted the game save. LOL
I just recently decided I had to start all over again with another game save. The mod wasn't performing as it should so I used it to impregnate Sarah by John. In my head I was going to have the two move out on their own, have this child and then their second son. Then age her up get them properly married before their third son came along. This is NOT how it went in RL. The more I thought about it, the guiltier I felt. I had besmirched their reputations. I'm thinking the problem must be a corrupted Sim. So, yesterday I spent hours working on them in CAS to recreate their nuclear families. I used the Sim of John I created in the Demo way back when. (He ended up being a somebody, and there was a challenge offered for those of us who had the Demo to create a person out of history.) It was fun and that's what sparked my inspiration to play out the lives of my sixth great-grandparents. (That's six times great: g-g-g-g-g-great grandparents.)
Sometimes. But not often. Mostly I try to play by my own Values. It's when I deviate from that I get a case of the guilts. Go figure. Way back in Sims2, my first real gaming experience I decided to play out an autonomous situation that occurred. I was playing my Cantrell family (created for my mini-series, see my siggie. This to help flesh out the background of my O/C ). This meant the Vulcan Nanny was created and living with my family. Well, Joseph came home and while I was busy with the Mom and the toddler daughter (my O/C) upstairs, I discovered Joseph was out on the back patio making a bit too nice with the Nanny!
I wondered about the effects of a divorce. So, I pushed this relationship until the break-up happened. Bad news. All five children cried relentlessly. I was no longer having fun. So, I deleted the game save. LOL
I just recently decided I had to start all over again with another game save. The mod wasn't performing as it should so I used it to impregnate Sarah by John. In my head I was going to have the two move out on their own, have this child and then their second son. Then age her up get them properly married before their third son came along. This is NOT how it went in RL. The more I thought about it, the guiltier I felt. I had besmirched their reputations. I'm thinking the problem must be a corrupted Sim. So, yesterday I spent hours working on them in CAS to recreate their nuclear families. I used the Sim of John I created in the Demo way back when. (He ended up being a somebody, and there was a challenge offered for those of us who had the Demo to create a person out of history.) It was fun and that's what sparked my inspiration to play out the lives of my sixth great-grandparents. (That's six times great: g-g-g-g-g-great grandparents.)
I am like you in those respects - and I love happy people in life and in my game - of Course Sims are bit too happy sometimes - LOL - but I balance it out with so many households to change to. I just don't want meanness, pain, and hurt in my game - too much in real life out there - this is my escape - my Utopia place. I like dependable families and support systems - and keep the "Life is Hard" aspect we cannot control in real life out of my Utopia.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
It's hard for me to feel bad for them, since they don't really seem to care that much about anything themselves. What's that? My husband cheated on me with my mother and divorced me? Well that's okay, I ate a good dinner tonight. Oh, my son died in a pool? That's fine, the decor in this room is really pretty.
It's so unrealistic that I can't even begin to think of them as an interpretation of humans to start feeling badly for them. This could also simply be due to my lack of imagination though
I know they're pixel people, but I still feel bad when I kill someone off for storyline purposes. I haven't completed the mischief/evil aspirations, though I did try them out once. I just want to be friends with (almost) everyone, become rich, and live out the fantasy.
Even so, if I'm out in public and someone just dies, I'm not bothered unless it directly affects my plot. Why is that? Apparently I don't mind things happening to Sims as long as I didn't directly harm them myself.
Guilty of doing things to your sims or other sims in the game?
So, I hooked up Don Lothario with Penny Pizzazz (had to get him away from those evil Caliente sister) and they have a child together, strictly dating, not living together. I play rotational but they are not in my regular rotation.
One of my regular rotation woman is a Serial Romantic ... I felt GUILTY that she had an affair with Don even though she is good friends with Penny.
Her cousin is a Vet ... went to visit a friend and her friends dog was sick, and I felt GUILTY I could not do anything for the dog. (Am really hoping I see them the next time I play her)
Have you done anything to your Sims that makes you feel a little guilty?
I only just recently started playing TS4 so I haven't really had time to be mean to any sims yet.
In TS2 (and even in TS3), I was usually very nice to my sims, unless of course the story I was playing out at the time called for a sim to die or something. Though last week I made ts4 versions of some of my favorite ts2 sims, then ended up making some more, then felt bad for not making the others so I've been quite busy getting all of them made. lol
Meh, they're pixel people and sending sims through the rollercoaster of life makes things interesting! I love playing as if my large legacy family has the politics and death rate of a medieval royal family with death aplenty from dice-controlled epidemics and power/money motivated backstabbing, rivalries, and unfortunate accidents that happen to hugely benefit one member of the family.
A few years back I decided to make an evil sim, so I downloaded a creepy house and basically kidnapped a sim. I trapped the sim in a room, waiting for them to die of hunger or something, but extremely underestimated how long it takes a sim to die of starvation. After multiple sim days, I was probably getting close to the sim dying, but I suddenly felt really bad for this sim for some reason...
So after waiting all this time, I end up letting the sim go... so I basically wasted about an hour of my life because of guilt.
No, not really. I have a dark sense of humor and like a little (and sometimes a lot) of drama.
A thing I felt bad about the other day wasn't even something my own sim did, just something he witnessed. He was invited to a lampoon party and I saw the guest of honor was a child. I thought "That's pretty low, all these adults picking on a little kid!" then one by one they started dying, including the little kid . About 7 or 8 sims dropped one after the other and I had no idea what was happening. Then it all made sense.
A lampoon party is a formal event, there was a heatwave on that day, so the guests were dressed in formal attire, and there were fireplaces on at the venue. I didn't see my sim overheating because he's got weatherproof traits. I thought "That's a genius idea, wish I had thought of that myself!" but I did feel bad for the little kid who got roasted (literally) by guests and then died of heat exhaustion. I had my sim plead for her but she wasn't spared, they had never met before but I thought she should be spared. I'm usually an anything goes type of player but I don't go out of my way to bully little kids or find ways to kill them. It was a series of circumstances the game did, no input from me. (formal party, heatwave, fireplaces) I am totally going to do that myself but I'm not planning on inviting any kids, haha.
I drowned my sim's ex-fiance in the pool because he cheated on her and was mean to her family. I felt guilty at first, but then again he's a sim and an 🐸🐸🐸🐸 one at that, so I got over it quickly
I know they're pixel people, but I still feel bad when I kill someone off for storyline purposes. I haven't completed the mischief/evil aspirations, though I did try them out once. I just want to be friends with (almost) everyone, become rich, and live out the fantasy.
Even so, if I'm out in public and someone just dies, I'm not bothered unless it directly affects my plot. Why is that? Apparently I don't mind things happening to Sims as long as I didn't directly harm them myself.
My 7th great-grandfather passed away in 1770. I used MCCC to cause him to decease when I reached the time frame. (I control the vertical, I control the horizontal and TIME.) I think it didn't make me feel bad, because it did happen and it was so very long ago. He was the father of my sixth great-grandmother. Inexplicably, my 7th great-grandmother (mother of my sixth great-grandfather) also passed away, in 1773. Nobody knows why or exactly when, just that she didn't make the trip to the Settlements from Virginia. 300 miles southwest from the Shenandoah Valley where they lived. To the Island on the Holston. These Settlements expanded and eventually became the State of Tennessee.
I ended up either restarting or rolling back a game save when that same great-grandfather toasted himself to death fixing the broken dryer. It was necessary as not all of the known younger children had been born in my game, yet.
My main sim that I created in CAS was a serial romantic who had 9 kids by 5 different fathers (lots of twins were involved). In Sims 2, I might have felt bad because romance sims hated being married or having children. But in Sims 4, because I never gave her the hates children trait, she was perfectly happy to be a serial mother as well as a serial dater. It actually started with fulfilling one of her whims, actually. And I have had all of the children retain relationships with their non-custodial parent, so I don't think anyone in the family suffers. The only time I ever felt guilty was when one of the fathers became very sad upon seeing her flirt with another man. The angry responses didn't bother me but I hated making them sad. And the youngest two are the children of Father Winter, of which my neighborhood has two, and when I finally played that household at Winterfest again when they were teens the other one showed up, so they have never met their father. But mostly, regardless of how their lives line up with traditional values, most of my sims are pretty happy most of the time. So no guilt.
Actually, in TS2, Romance sims may have 'feared' getting married and 'feared' having a baby (other Aspirations occasionally also rolled those fears), they didn't hate being married or hate their kids. I usually found my Romance parents were better parents then my Family parents.
Actually, in TS2, Romance sims may have 'feared' getting married and 'feared' having a baby (other Aspirations occasionally also rolled those fears), they didn't hate being married or hate their kids. I usually found my Romance parents were better parents then my Family parents.
While technically this is more accurate than what I posted earlier, and Don Lothario was an excellent father, I was still making their fears come true and felt kinda bad about it. I don't have that problem in Sims 4 unless the sim hates children or is noncommittal, and honestly I rarely use those traits for that reason.
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I played a teen mom runaway challenge: she started the game with literally no cash and a newborn baby. I spent so much time watching her eke out a living, struggle to keep herself and her baby alive, and eventually grow up to be a famous actress and a fantastic grandmother. Her little shack became a great mansion for her family, she had tons of adoring fans, and she found love with her make-up artist. Because of her, her child and his children have had better lives than she ever did.
But I wanted space in the house, and she wasn't dying of old age any time soon. So I had her stay outside during a heat wave until she died. She deserved better than that, but what can you do?
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Same here. I like that everybody is friendly and nice in my game. It makes for a happier world.
I think you can give the vet's wellness treats to animals that aren't in your household. I usually have my pet-owning Sim buy a bunch, and they'll often give a couple to any sick animals they run into.
As for the guilt -- I felt terrible when a child was struck by lightning in TS2. And one of my Sims died of embarrassment after his girlfriend in TS4 turned down his proposal. I try to keep them as happy as possible.
I wondered about the effects of a divorce. So, I pushed this relationship until the break-up happened. Bad news. All five children cried relentlessly. I was no longer having fun. So, I deleted the game save. LOL
I just recently decided I had to start all over again with another game save. The mod wasn't performing as it should so I used it to impregnate Sarah by John. In my head I was going to have the two move out on their own, have this child and then their second son. Then age her up get them properly married before their third son came along. This is NOT how it went in RL. The more I thought about it, the guiltier I felt. I had besmirched their reputations. I'm thinking the problem must be a corrupted Sim. So, yesterday I spent hours working on them in CAS to recreate their nuclear families. I used the Sim of John I created in the Demo way back when. (He ended up being a somebody, and there was a challenge offered for those of us who had the Demo to create a person out of history.) It was fun and that's what sparked my inspiration to play out the lives of my sixth great-grandparents. (That's six times great: g-g-g-g-g-great grandparents.)
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
I am like you in those respects - and I love happy people in life and in my game - of Course Sims are bit too happy sometimes - LOL - but I balance it out with so many households to change to. I just don't want meanness, pain, and hurt in my game - too much in real life out there - this is my escape - my Utopia place. I like dependable families and support systems - and keep the "Life is Hard" aspect we cannot control in real life out of my Utopia.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
It's so unrealistic that I can't even begin to think of them as an interpretation of humans to start feeling badly for them. This could also simply be due to my lack of imagination though
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Even so, if I'm out in public and someone just dies, I'm not bothered unless it directly affects my plot. Why is that? Apparently I don't mind things happening to Sims as long as I didn't directly harm them myself.
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In TS2 (and even in TS3), I was usually very nice to my sims, unless of course the story I was playing out at the time called for a sim to die or something.
So no, I don't feel guilty. mostly.
So after waiting all this time, I end up letting the sim go... so I basically wasted about an hour of my life because of guilt.
A thing I felt bad about the other day wasn't even something my own sim did, just something he witnessed. He was invited to a lampoon party and I saw the guest of honor was a child. I thought "That's pretty low, all these adults picking on a little kid!" then one by one they started dying, including the little kid . About 7 or 8 sims dropped one after the other and I had no idea what was happening. Then it all made sense.
A lampoon party is a formal event, there was a heatwave on that day, so the guests were dressed in formal attire, and there were fireplaces on at the venue. I didn't see my sim overheating because he's got weatherproof traits. I thought "That's a genius idea, wish I had thought of that myself!" but I did feel bad for the little kid who got roasted (literally) by guests and then died of heat exhaustion. I had my sim plead for her but she wasn't spared, they had never met before but I thought she should be spared. I'm usually an anything goes type of player but I don't go out of my way to bully little kids or find ways to kill them. It was a series of circumstances the game did, no input from me. (formal party, heatwave, fireplaces) I am totally going to do that myself but I'm not planning on inviting any kids, haha.
My 7th great-grandfather passed away in 1770. I used MCCC to cause him to decease when I reached the time frame. (I control the vertical, I control the horizontal and TIME.)
I ended up either restarting or rolling back a game save when that same great-grandfather toasted himself to death fixing the broken dryer. It was necessary as not all of the known younger children had been born in my game, yet.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
While technically this is more accurate than what I posted earlier, and Don Lothario was an excellent father, I was still making their fears come true and felt kinda bad about it. I don't have that problem in Sims 4 unless the sim hates children or is noncommittal, and honestly I rarely use those traits for that reason.