Does a Last Will and Testament Matter?

Eleri · May 5

Currently, when a sims dies, their personal inventory moves to the household inventory. That's okay if you plan on selling it, but what if you want to keep their knickknacks? You have to put them in the world one by one so another household member can pick them up. I know, one solution is to move their stuff to someone else before they die, but sometimes a sim dies unexpectedly or the player loses track of where they are in their elder stage.

It would be nice if sims could make a will so that their inventory items would go automatically to a different sims inventory. They might designate a sim to inherit all of their personal inventory, or they could break it down by the different inventory filters. Maybe that one cousin with a green thumb inherits all of the gardening items, and the gemologist brother inherits the collectibles, etc. If the person named in the will dies first, then everything they were supposed to inherit goes to the household inventory, same as before.

Anmirla · May 5

I need this!

I love this idea!

LeGardePourpre · May 5

If the only sim dies in the household, it should not be Game Over.

The testament could tell who is the next sim to control receiving the family fund and the house of the dead sim.
Of course it should also include the unpaid bills.

If there are several sims, only the family fund should be split.

If the dead sim is a NPC, the game could choose the one family related with the best relationship and social compatibility.

crocobaura · May 5

I'd probably use this, but I wouldn't get excited over it.

Nobody really dies in my game, but if the option is there, I might use it. My sims will be pretty angry after I resurrect them and see they got nothing left.

Briana2425 · May 5

I need this!

They had that in the Sims 2 which I thought wasa great gameplay a family dies and depending on the relationship the Sims with the highest got a huge lump sum and the ones with the lowest got some or none.
I would like a will and testament in game.

Simmingal · May 5

I think id just be paranoid such feature would not work as it sounds complicated and things could get lost in the shuffle n all that

so I would keep doing it manually/ the old way of placing the items in household inventory, storage box or around the house

and/or elder sims might give some items as presents while they are alive rather than keeping it to their very death

I also just tend to place down/ sell any items from my sims inventory that they are not using all that often cause idk part of me just finds it weird to have all these items in my sims imaginary backpack at all times

I don't run into many accidental deaths and i have the neighborhood stories off though so yeah its usually me deciding when my sims pass away

all that said maybe some money management could be cool though like saving money to your sims children

I know theres the vault but its just so big to fit in any normal house

Caerfinon · May 6

I'd probably use this, but I wouldn't get excited over it.

would need interactions for sims with evil trait to get elder sims to make them the beneficiaries... a whole new revenue stream.

friendlysimmers · May 6

Zero interest.

I have 0 intress in this because i let my sims live forver never age never dies so has a player i would have 0 use for such a feature

Eleri · May 9

So it looks like there are actually three ideas about this. There's my idea of an individual legacy for distributing personal inventory. There's @LeGardePourpre idea of a household legacy for disposing of household assets after the last member dies. I'd like that too, my only issue is the idea of inheriting a house. Sims aren't allowed to own multiple residences to live in. I think it would be less messy if the inheriting household inherits the value of the house in cash, instead of the house itself. It would be cool if they could also inherit household funds and inventory, though. You could end up with this whole class of society that are old money aristocrats.

Then there's @Briana2425 idea of bringing back life insurance from the Sims 2. I'd almost forgotten about that. Now I think it's weird we don't have it. Maybe instead of making it automatic, sims can actually choose who their beneficiaries are. Maybe I'm making things too complicated . . .

Hopefully, if we get a funeral pack, they'll give us all three of these.

LeGardePourpre · May 9

@Eleri

I didn't sell the house because the player may want to keep some personal stuff like photos.

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