Re: Golden Tombstones/Urns?

@PugLove888 Thanks 🙂 I don't think this is about aliens, I believe there should be also tombstones variations for other sims, but I just don't know what the right conditions are.

Heart attack? Maybe it was old age?

No, I was trying to get rid of this sim on purpose, so it's a heart attack (Cardiac Explosion, Rage) or maybe fire.

@rostsit  & @mrtun3r , Since I hadn't had an Alien die in my game yet, I was more focusing on the alien shape of the tombstone and not the gold color.  Sorry about that! 😳

I was thinking that maybe your Sim had perhaps fulfilled their Aspiration, but then I remembered that  I had a Sim die by fire, and the urn was gold! 🤨 I have kept it inside, so I never saw it as a tombstone.  (I will try moving it an see what happens!)  The Sim was a regular young adult Sim who hadn't lived very long. I was testing out the Day of the Dead items so I was trying to get a Sim to die.  

Update: I went back to that same family that had the gold urn and the Sim that died by fire.  When I moved her urn to the outside, it just became a regular tombstone, not a golden one. 🤨 I'm not sure why! 🤔

First is a picture of the urn

Second is a picture of the tombstone:

As far as I know all human urns in TS4 are bronzy. Are you sure the alien tombstone didn't appear golden due to weird lighting or something?

@PugLove888 All regular sims' urns look like that 🙂

@mrtun3r It looks golden in all possible lightings at any time of the day. I'm not blind to mix up white (regular alien tombstone/urn) and golden :D

@rostsit, did you ever find out why your tombstone looked different? 🤔  

(I only have a few tombstones in my game since I play on different Save Games and rotate through them slowly, so I will be on the lookout for any different looking tombstones when ever another Sim dies in my game!)😳

@rostsit, Thank you for the update, even if you haven't found another golden urn in your game! 😉  

I really need so play out some of my Sim families some more, since I only have a few urns or tombstones in my game(s) to begin with! 🤭 I never paid that much attention to them since I was always focusing on the ghosts.  If Death was handled the way it was in other versions of the game, I would have probably had some more deaths in my game , but without a local cemetery, or realistic mourning, I never bothered much with it in TS4.  They have added some improvements recently, but now I'm stuck in my habit of playing! 😳😃

I could do some testing on this, but with Seasons about to come out, I don't know how far I can progress in killing off more Sims to see if I can recreate this in my game.  You wouldn't happen to have a picture of the regular bronze urns next to the gold ones would you?  (Preferably if they are both Alien urns or tombs, since that is the one you have that is gold)? 🤔  I think that is why @mrtun3r was asking if it was how the lighting was that made it look gold, since they look close in color, at least on my computer.  😉

@PugLove888
Well, no. Aliens urns/tombs aren't bronze and are nowhere close to the gold colour. It's impossible to not notice the difference, since they are white 🙂

All urns: http://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/5/6/2/2/8/3/MTS_Tremerion-1691141-sims4graves3.png

All tombs: http://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/5/6/2/2/8/3/MTS_Tremerion-1691139-sims4graves.png

@rostsit, OK -- I think I understand now! 😳 Normal Sim urn is a golden bronze (or is that a bronzy gold?) and turns white when it becomes a tombstone if you move it outside.  Normal Alien Sim urn is white (with neon green trim) but usually stays white even when it becomes a tombstone when you move it outside.  But for some reason, one Alien tombstone in your game is that golden bronze color of a normal Sim's urn!  🤨

Thanks for the pictures as they clear up my misconception! 🤭 No that is definitely not a trick of the light! 😃  I think I only had one Alien die in my game but it was a long time ago and I never saw a tombstone or urn.  I was off the lot with another Sim from the household I think.  But I could have moved him out and then forgot about him and just thought he died when I returned to his household sometime later.  But other than that I have not had any Sim Alien deaths in my game yet! 😉

I'm can try to kill off several Aliens in my game to see if I can get any of them with a tombstone/urn that isn't white.  Do you remember how your Alien with the different tombstone died?  Did he or she die of old age or with a completed aspiration, or under any other special circumstance?🤔

:D LOL 😃 Thanks, that should help me to try to recreate the circumstances somewhat.  I saw from your original post that it was a Townie and not one of your own Sims, but I'll do the best I can!  😉

@rostsit, I made an elderly Alien Sim and with the life span set to short for all Sims I was able to get her to die of old age.  But she only had the regular Alien tomb/urn and not the golden one. 🤒    But my Sim was disguised as a human at the time of her demise.  I didn't save, so I will now try her death in her original Alien form and see if that makes any difference. 🤔 She wasn't angry at the time of death, like your Sim, though.  She was focused. 😃  I tried it twice with the same result.  The 2nd picture is taken in the glow of the sunset, so looks a bit different.  One side looks silver and the side to the sun looks a little golden, but not nearly as golden as your tombstone picture.  🤨

@rostsit, it tried to have her die in her true Alien form, but got the same results.  Here are some more pictures, with the last 2 taken at night: 

@PugLove888

Did the sims you tested with fulfill at least one Aspiration?

@rostsit, sorry I couldn't come up with anything conclusive yet!  The closest I could get was a Alien tomb that looked different in different types of lighting, but not quite as golden as your Alien tomb! 🤨  I will still try, but I will be focusing more on Seasons in the coming weeks.  But if I see anything I will tell you. 😉  I was also thinking you might have some glitch, but I have no clue as to how that happened! 😳

@jpkarlsen, no my Sim had not fulfilled an Aspiration, but since @rostsit stated that the Alien Sim that died and produced a golden tomb was a random Townie, I doubt that this Townie has fulfilled any Aspirations! 😉  The only thing we know about his Alien townie Sim is that he was elderly, an Alien, and very angry.  I was unable to make my Alien Sim that angry right at the time of her death.  

I can work on getting an Alien Sim to fulfill an Aspiration before death, but that will take some time unless I use cheats (but many of the cheats are not working since the last update).  Plus I plan on concentrating on exploring the Seasons EP, so I probably won't have as much time to try to get my Alien to fulfill an Aspiration in the coming weeks. 

Jpkarlsen, feel free to test this if you want!  You might be able to succeed more quickly than I can at the moment. 😇

@PugLove888

As with you I will have my hands full exploring Seasons and there is that pesky thing called work.🙂