Neighborhood Stories: Excessive deaths
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%) What is your current game version number? 1.96.365.1030 Wha...
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Yes, I have the same issue. I hope it'll be fixed soon.
TheSimsDirect
The Sims Team
The Sims TeamHello All,
If anyone of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?
If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.
Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420
Thanks!
- @TheSimsDirect I just purchased Growing Together this weekend and the first time playing the game after that, Marcus Flex died. He had a high relationship with my played Sim's husband. Kinda ticked me off, though. Then, within a day or two (Sim's days), my sim was notified in the middle of the night that her BFF died. (Becca Clark?) This is unacceptable. If EA feels they need to cull Sims, then why choose Sims with relationships with played Sims? There are plenty of townies I'd never miss or interact with. Plus, both Sims were Young Adult. Personally, I feel like it's a really nasty thing for EA to do. There's realism and then there's realism and this isn't either one.
EA should also keep in mind that this sends Sims into mourning and with a few Sim days being several months in Sims time, this ridiculous gameplay incapacitates the Sim(s) for far too long to make gameplay enjoyable or to keep it moving forward. It also really screws with the Sims who are attempting to "collect" friends. It's just wrong on so many levels.
I also do not want to turn off aging in any capacity because I like having my Sims age, as well as their friends. I do have it on a custom span that is longer than the EA long, but I still want the aging to move forward....for all of the Sims.
I play with Mods. I didn't add any Growing Together Mods yet but I'm not going to remove my Mods just on the off chance that a family friend dies again. It's sometimes hard enough to play with the mods in (boring) and would be unbearable to play without them (waaaayyyyyyyyy more boring).@columbia93 Accidental deaths don't have anything to do with Growing Together.
And if you don't like this feature you can turn it off completely or only for some households in the settings for Neighborhood Stories (in Manage Households). These features are totally customizable.
First of all, accidental deaths have never happened until I downloaded Growing Together. And judging by other comments that "coincide" with the release of Growing Together, I'd say that it absolutely has everything to do with Growing Together. In all the years I've been playing this game, NONE of my Sims - and I play a lot of them - have ever had a friend die. There've been rare - and I mean "RARE", as in not losing 3 friends in less than 3 days - deaths of some elderly person here and there and a matter of inheritance. Killing off friends is something that should have been an opt in and not an opt out.
Also not sure why you bothered to tell me I can get rid of the feature without thinking of telling me how? I know nothing about Neighborhood Stories or Manage Households. And no, I'm not stupid. After a couple of decades playing the previous franchise games and enjoying/knowing their gameplay, I've not had much interest in the weird/juvenile emotional stuff in TS4 or interest in understanding it. It's obviously geared for younger players who haven't been around through the other variations, which is fine by me. So now I have to do some Googling to find out what you're talking about.... I've helped a lot of Sims players throughout the years and was always happy to provide details...
