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    EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
    edited February 13 in Nominated Threads
    Hi! Here again to make a discussion of finding fun things together!

    This time: death notifications when you check what has happened from the mailbox.

    From the announcement post, we have this:
    [Sim Name] was milking it and got too close to a cowplant.

    While this discussion goes on, I'll update this post with more notifications we get. It's fun to see what text is written there.
    All the collected notifications are under the spoilers.
    Base Game:
    Starvation:
    Currently not possible.
    Fire:
    • [Sim Name] tried to make cereal but it burst into flames.
    • [Sim Name] tried fixing the toilet and it randomly burst into flames.
    Drowning:
    • [Sim Name] should have taken swimming classes.
    • [Sim Name] went to sleep with the fishes.
    Electrocution:
    • Shockingly, [Sim Name] botched a repair and was electrocuted.
    • [Sim Name] stuck a finger in a plug and eletricity came out.
    Overexertion:
    • [Sim Name] might have loved too much for his/her/their age.
    • [Sim Name] exercised too much for his/her/their age.
    Cowplant:
    • [Sim Name] was milking it and got too close to a cowplant.
    • [Sim Name] fell for a cowplant's cake bait. He/She/They could not have his/her/their cake and eat it too.
    Laughter:
    • [Sim Name] heard a dad joke and laughed a little too hard.
    • [Sim Name] had his/her/their last laugh.
    Anger:
    • [Sim Name] got a little too angry and exploded.
    • [Sim Name] was so angry he/she/they burst into flames and died.
    Embarrassment:
    • [Sim Name] blushed so much he/she/they exploded.
    • [Sim Name] experienced more embarrassment than any Sim can handle.
    Meteorite:
    Currently not possible.
    Spa Day gp:
    Steam:
    Currently not possible.
    City Living ep:
    Pufferfish:
    Currently not possible.
    Vampires gp:
    Sunlight:
    • [Sim Name] forgot he/she/they shouldn't go under the sun.
    • [Sim Name] tried to get a tan and is now ashes.
    Jungle Adventure gp:
    Poison:
    Currently not possible.
    My First Pet sp:
    Rabid Rodent Fever:
    Currently not possible.
    Seasons ep:
    Freezing:
    • [Sim Name] let it go and froze solid.
    • [Sim Name] forgot his/her/their winter clothes and became a popsicle
    Overheating:
    • [Sim Name] wore winter clothes during a heat wave and overheated.
    • [Sim Name] stayed in the sun a little too long and overheated.
    Lightning:
    Currently not possible.
    Flowers:
    Currently not possible.
    StrangerVille gp:
    Consumed by the Mother Plant:
    Currently not possible.
    Realm of Magic gp:
    Spellcaster Overload:
    • [Sim Name] overcharged and couldn't contain the magical energy.
    • [Sim Name] tried to cast one too many spells.
    Discover University ep:
    Catastrophic Meltdown:
    Currently not possible.(Might never exist, but I'm keeping the options open)
    Tiny Living sp:
    Crushed to Death by a Murphy Bed:
    Currently not possible.
    Eco Lifestyle ep:
    Flies:
    Currently not possible.
    Beetlejuice:
    Currently not possible.(Again might never exist, but as ghost type exists, I'm keeping options open)
    Snowy Escape ep:
    Vending Machine:
    Currently not possible.
    Falling from Heights:
    • No cliffhanger here; [Sim Name] slipped when rock climbing.
    • [Sim Name] thought he/she/they could conquer a mountain, but the mountain conquered him/her/them.
    Cottage Living ep:
    Slain by Rabbit:
    • [Sim Name] got on the bad side of a rabbit.
    • [Sim Name] asked a rabbit if it wanted a carrot, but the rabbit chose violence.
    Slain by Chicken:
    • [Sim Name] got on the bad side of a chicken.
    • [Sim Name] was victim to a vicious chicken attack.

    Here are the factors that determine the accidental deaths. Credit to @kusurusu for sharing this info!
    Cowplant:
    x0 - Child
    x2 - Foodie/Adventurous/Clumsy/Green Friend
    x2 - Gardener
    x2 - Gardening skill (0-3)

    Electrocution:
    x2 - Geek/Genius/Clumsy
    x2 - Scientist
    x2 - Handiness skill (0-3)

    Anger:
    x1.5 - (age based)
    x2 - HotHeaded/Jealous
    x2 - Retail
    x0.5 - Wellness skill (4+)
    x0 - Vampire

    Laughter:
    x2 - Goofball/Cheerfull
    x0.5 - Gloomy
    x2 - Comedy skill (5+)
    x0 - Vampire

    Exhaustion:
    x0 - Child to Adult
    x2 - Romantic/Lazy
    x2 - Athletic career
    x0 - Vampire

    Embarrassment:
    x1.5 - Child to Young Adult
    x2 - Gloomy/Snob
    x2 - Style Influencer/Social Media
    x0.5 - Entertainer

    Fire:
    x1.5 - Astronaut
    x2 - Clumsy
    x2 - Cooking skill (0-4)

    Drown:
    x2 - Clumsy
    x0.5 - Lifeguard
    x2 - Fisherman/Diver
    x0 - Vampire/Mermaid/Child of the Ocean/Master of the Sea (career reward)

    Sun (GP04):
    x0 - everyone minus Vampires w/o Perfect Sun Resistance

    Frozen (EP05):
    x0 - Vampire
    x0 - (seasons based)
    x3 - Winter
    x0 - Force Comfortable (hidden buff)
    x0.1 - Spring

    Overheat (EP05):
    x0 - Vampire
    x0 - Winter
    x3 - Summer
    x0 - Force Comfortable (hidden buff)
    x0.1 - Fall

    Climbing (EP10):
    x3 - Rock Climbing skill (0-3)
    x3 - Adventurous
    x3 - lives in Komorebi

    Spellcaster Overload (GP08):
    x0 - everyone minus Spellcasters
    x0 - Magical Resonance perk

    Killer Rabbit/Chicken (EP11):
    x0.1 - Animal Enthusiast
    x2 - lives in Henford

    Let's begin! I'll try my best to get those messages too. I think I'll create a save where I only allow accidental death to happen.
    Edit. It turns out text for old age doesn't exist.
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    Post edited by EA_Solaire on

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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited March 2022
      Oh, just a look into another discussion and I have made another find:


      Ooh! So we have multiple for each death! That's exciting!
      Edit. Ah, they may or may not have made into the game. I'll put these in italics in the header post then...
      Edit 2. I found two of them! Onto hoping to find the toilet bursting into flames one!
      Edit 3. Finally I had the "toilet bursting into flames" one! This means that they all are in the game.
      Post edited by EgonVM on
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      SnaveXsSnaveXs Posts: 4,322 Member
      Three of my sims died by cowplant notification. I've had 5 sims die accidental deaths so far through neighborhood stories. I'm starting to think the cowplant death will be frequent in my game. I was also getting worried that most of the deaths were adult mothers but then my 5th death was a young adult father who has an infant child. So, Now my sim baby will have to grow up without his dad.

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      JALJAL Posts: 1,041 Member
      Sofia Suàrez got a little too angry so she exploded. (She did have four kids, a husband and her mother in the house, so I guess it makes sense).
      Moreover, I advise that the cart button must be destroyed!
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      elanorbretonelanorbreton Posts: 14,549 Member
      SnaveXs wrote: »
      Three of my sims died by cowplant notification. I've had 5 sims die accidental deaths so far through neighborhood stories. I'm starting to think the cowplant death will be frequent in my game. I was also getting worried that most of the deaths were adult mothers but then my 5th death was a young adult father who has an infant child. So, Now my sim baby will have to grow up without his dad.

      Woah! That sounds like a LOT of deaths. How many sim days is that spread over?
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      crocobauracrocobaura Posts: 7,385 Member
      elanorbreton wrote: »
      SnaveXs wrote: »
      Three of my sims died by cowplant notification. I've had 5 sims die accidental deaths so far through neighborhood stories. I'm starting to think the cowplant death will be frequent in my game. I was also getting worried that most of the deaths were adult mothers but then my 5th death was a young adult father who has an infant child. So, Now my sim baby will have to grow up without his dad.

      Woah! That sounds like a LOT of deaths. How many sim days is that spread over?

      It does sound like there are a lot of accidental deaths. How many cowplants are there in your game to cause so many deaths?
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited March 2022
      EA_Cade wrote: »
      Oh this is just morbid.

      ...I'll allow it.

      That's called morbid curiosity. :) (oh, sorry, :( )

      I have played the game and found some texts. I have updated the list.
      SnaveXs wrote: »
      Three of my sims died by cowplant notification. I've had 5 sims die accidental deaths so far through neighborhood stories. I'm starting to think the cowplant death will be frequent in my game. I was also getting worried that most of the deaths were adult mothers but then my 5th death was a young adult father who has an infant child. So, Now my sim baby will have to grow up without his dad.

      Interesting. Here I had 5 deaths, none of them cowplant, all of them unique from each other. One of the victims was my sim's neighbor. I even saw the moment her profile picture in the relationship panel turned into a ghost. So I checked the mailbox.
      She was killed by a rabbit.

      I have taken a picture each time I got a death notification through mailbox. Used those pictures to fill the list. At one point, I'll take all the notifications from the pictures and upload them to the forums.

      Oh, and I discovered that no, death by old age doesn't have a separate notification. Sad...
      Due to this, I think an obituary feature where you can see recent deaths (including old ages and deaths of your sims) would be neat...
      Post edited by EgonVM on
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      PuzzlingMysteryPuzzlingMystery Posts: 155 Member
      My first (and so far only) one I seen is, "Christa blushed so much she exploded."

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      simgirl1010simgirl1010 Posts: 35,884 Member
      I don't have random deaths enabled so I'll have to live vicariously through the comments in this thread. 😄
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited March 2022
      PuzzlingMystery wrote: »
      My first (and so far only) one I seen is, "Christa blushed so much she exploded."

      Thanks! I'll take it as death by embarrassment.

      One became too angry and other blushed too much and one heard a dad joke. Everyone exploded...
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      StormkeepStormkeep Posts: 7,632 Member
      edited March 2022
      I wasn't going to enable random deaths for any sims, but seeing this thread was too tempting. I have MCCC move elders out of households automatically, so I'm going to turn random deaths on just for all of the homeless elders.
      ...saying that out loud made me feel like a really horrible person.
      This post will be edited by StormKeep at some point.
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      QuillWriterQuillWriter Posts: 67 Member
      I decided to enable deaths on one of my challenge families that I'm finished with, just to experiment, and I got a notification that my elder Sim tried to conquer a mountain, but the mountain conquered her. So I guess she fell off the mountain while trying to climb it?

      Unfortunately, the rest of the household were kids, and they seem to have been deleted when the elder died. I'm hoping they show up in the adoption pool, but we'll see.
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      EmmaVaneEmmaVane Posts: 7,847 Member
      Rabbit Death
      [Sim Name] asked a rabbit if it wanted a carrot, but the rabbit chose violence.
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      LiELFLiELF Posts: 6,449 Member
      Sounds like a lot of overkill.

      Ha!
      #Team Occult
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      StormkeepStormkeep Posts: 7,632 Member
      I've had two deaths since enabling it for the elderly households:

      "Wolfgang forgot his winter clothes and became a popsicle"

      And another one that I cleared out before writing down exactly what it was, but it basically was that she died from too much woohoo. :lol:
      This post will be edited by StormKeep at some point.
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      mightyspritemightysprite Posts: 5,896 Member
      This thread is amazing

      I'm so happy (morbidly) that death by illness/accident is now possible for unplayed sims

      Oh, maybe not illness? Anyway, lots of entertaining accidents

      Hints of this...
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      https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/01/19/edward-gorey-the-gashlycrumb-tinies/
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      aparkisonaparkison Posts: 135 Member
      edited March 2022
      I wasn't expecting that and I laughed so hard!

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      kusurusukusurusu Posts: 971 Member
      The following 16 death types are currently included in the new neighborhood stories feature (with 2 text messages in each case):
      Anger
      Cowplant
      Drowning
      Electrocution
      Embarrassment
      Exhaustion
      Falling
      Fire
      Freezing
      Killer Chicken
      Killer Rabbit
      Laughter
      Overheating
      Sunlight
      Spellcaster Overload
      My SuperSim Collection: Rosetta Stone · Sona Ali
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      kusurusu wrote: »
      The following 16 death types are currently included in the new neighborhood stories feature (with 2 text messages in each case):
      Anger
      Cowplant
      Drowning
      Electrocution
      Embarrassment
      Exhaustion
      Falling
      Fire
      Freezing
      Killer Chicken
      Killer Rabbit
      Laughter
      Overheating
      Sunlight
      Spellcaster Overload

      Interesting. So currently it's 16 out of 28 (old age excluded). Thus 57% is covered. That's interesting... I have yet to encounter embarrassment, overexertion, overheating, sunlight, and spellcaster overload.

      Could I ask where you got this information? It would be really interesting to know.
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      kusurusukusurusu Posts: 971 Member
      EgonVM wrote: »
      kusurusu wrote: »
      The following 16 death types are currently included in the new neighborhood stories feature (with 2 text messages in each case):
      Anger
      Cowplant
      Drowning
      Electrocution
      Embarrassment
      Exhaustion
      Falling
      Fire
      Freezing
      Killer Chicken
      Killer Rabbit
      Laughter
      Overheating
      Sunlight
      Spellcaster Overload

      Interesting. So currently it's 16 out of 28 (old age excluded). Thus 57% is covered. That's interesting... I have yet to encounter embarrassment, overexertion, overheating, sunlight, and spellcaster overload.

      Could I ask where you got this information? It would be really interesting to know.

      info can be found in BG/tun/story_progression.story_progression_tuning.xml
      My SuperSim Collection: Rosetta Stone · Sona Ali
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited March 2022
      kusurusu wrote: »
      EgonVM wrote: »
      kusurusu wrote: »
      The following 16 death types are currently included in the new neighborhood stories feature (with 2 text messages in each case):
      Anger
      Cowplant
      Drowning
      Electrocution
      Embarrassment
      Exhaustion
      Falling
      Fire
      Freezing
      Killer Chicken
      Killer Rabbit
      Laughter
      Overheating
      Sunlight
      Spellcaster Overload

      Interesting. So currently it's 16 out of 28 (old age excluded). Thus 57% is covered. That's interesting... I have yet to encounter embarrassment, overexertion, overheating, sunlight, and spellcaster overload.

      Could I ask where you got this information? It would be really interesting to know.

      info can be found in BG/tun/story_progression.story_progression_tuning.xml

      Thank you so much. I'll update the list with what is not possible and have two points for each possible ones.

      Please do keep me updated when new deaths are added to neighborhood stories!
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      wahini2024wahini2024 Posts: 547 Member
      The Hermit (Hilta?) In Granite Falls died due to a rabbit attack

      Supriya Delgato died of laughter

      Judith Ward died due to flies (but that's because she beat up my kid so that death is on me technically)

      A few random townies died but I didn't bother to see how
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      simgirl1010simgirl1010 Posts: 35,884 Member
      I need to create some Sims specifically marked for death.
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      EgonVMEgonVM Posts: 4,937 Member
      edited March 2022
      I seem to have no luck getting new ones today...

      Here are all the notifications I have got!
      [img][/img]mrobifmv8pi0.png

      I'll have to try again another day, but if you get a unique death message when checking the mailbox for neighborhood stories, please share.
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      aparkisonaparkison Posts: 135 Member
      wahini2024 wrote: »
      Judith Ward died due to flies (but that's because she beat up my kid so that death is on me technically)

      That just made me laugh out loud! I had one of the Sulani Sims barge into my house and I didn't have the option to make them leave, so I had my Sim, June, fight them and then got the option to tell them to "Get off my lawn" and they finally left.

      Afterwards, I decided to turn on Neighborhood Stories on their household, so I'm waiting to see now if they die in an accident. I had thought about playing the household in question since I haven't before, but after they raided my fridge and knocked over my trash, I was like nope.

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