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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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).
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...
So, after spending about 1/2 an hour trying to find "Manage Households" because no one thought to tell me where it was and so I had to click on every single menu I could think of...and clicking on a menu in the screen where you go to change households is something I have never done...I came across the "Manage Households", and Neighborhood Stories is NOT ENABLED.
I also don't think I ever said "accidental", just that these Sims died. I have no idea how or why they died because literally, in the 4 1/2 years I've been playing this version of the Sims franchise, I have NEVER had a Sim die, except for the random elderly Sims who leave. I downloaded this pack 3 days ago, played it for 2 days, the 3 Sims I played, 2 of whom later married, each had a friend or BFF die. Seems a hard sell to try to convince me that there is no correlation between Growing Together and this completely never seen before raging phenomena.
And this thread was started after Growing Together came out and the OP was writing about the exact same thing.
It's been 3 weeks since I last posted and still no real response. EA doesn't allow us to ontact them for help, relying instead on the kindness of strangers who don't work for EA. Obviously, speaking to people who aren't EA employees doesn't help when there's a real issue so I have no idea what to do. I now absolutely hate the game.
Again, this is something that is a big enough issue that there are plenty of requests for help when you Google it. There is literally a gaming website that provides a cheat code to toggle death off and on, but you have to enter it each time to play, which is in no way a solution. The bulk of these complaints actually DID occur after Growing Together came out so perhaps some folks who don't want to or can't address the issue shouldn't focus so much on trying to tell me Growing Together has nothing to do with it.
Since reporting the problem 3 weeks ago, I've been trying to find information on how to deal with this and there literally is nothing on it coming from EA, which makes the whole thing of EA forcing these forums as a sole means of support even more frustrating. It is obviously a problem that needs to be addressed but there is no way to request help directly from them.
I finally tried another save of mine the last couple of days to see if I was still experiencing this issue. Keep in mind that I have disabled Neighborhood Stories, which I shouldn't have to do. After a few Sims days, I noticed my wife/mother Sim was sad and yes, sure enough, a good friend had died. I have no idea from what but it truly irritates me that I have no control over a gameplay that ruins the game, and certainly seems a disturbing aspect introduced into a game that kids will play, too, as well as people who might be triggered by this. And all without a way to simply turn it off or modify it. So what do I do? How do I let EA know that this is detrimental to their game? That it is insensitive and could create issues for people? How do I get EA to fix this? Because I've yet to see anything other than the toggle to make it stop.
