This would be so cool! In the beginning, when creating your sim, you could give them a disease or defect at birth or somewhere is the settings be able to turn it off. You could make them have cancer, and eating disorder, like real life to be honest. And in game it would notify if anyone sick was near by and if its contagious, and they would put like a red sign above a sick sim. And if a sim has cancer or a more serious disease, when you click to chat, you could encourage them and make them feel better about their insecurities. And, not to mention, a new challenge! The All disease challenge would be so fun. Could you survive through all diseases in the sims? It'd also be educational in a way. If your sim had an eating disorder they would have to see a therapist, and if a sim had diabetes you would have to have them eat foods they can eat, same with other diseases that have side effects and things.

sorry op but no i fully disagree with you and do not went desease in the sims4 because have you dealt with losing family members because of disease so i do not went any disease of anby kind in the sims4 :/

Sorry to tell you this but people play this game to get away from real life diseases and illnesses such as what you are asking for. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean that it should be in the game. If people want stuff like that, then they can download a mod that may give more serious illnesses as what you are asking for. Cancer is no laughing matter and should never be put in the game. You can use your imagination and pretend that they have cancer but I really don't think that this is something that EA will ever put in their Sims games.

I love making TS realistic, but personally, I do not want to go as far as having real diseases such as these in my game.They're serious real-life issues, not a fun game feature. And I'm sure a majority of people (including myself) may even find it offensive to have them in TS4, especially those who've experienced such things or have watched others go through it, and are ones who escape to the game to get away from those things.We can easily save everyone the trouble and use our imaginations if we want to take our gameplay that far.

Sounds interesting, reminds me of the game Plague Inc. It's a fun game, but I always feel terrible after for killing off the Earth's population lol. I don't think this would ever happen in the Sims. Maybe they could get sick temporarily but they'd always have a cure/medicine.

Obviously there would be a way to turn it off in the settings, like aging, and knowing the Sims, theyw ould definately have a cure in a special store of some sort. This would just be interesting for people who think the sims is too easy, and it would also be hard having enough money to pay for the cure, (Like real life) It's just an idea.

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FriendlySimmers
New Traveler
9 years ago
sorry op but no i fully disagree with you and do not went desease in the sims4 because have you dealt with losing family members because of disease so i do not went any disease of anby kind in the sims4 :/
lisasc360
Hero
9 years ago
Sorry to tell you this but people play this game to get away from real life diseases and illnesses such as what you are asking for. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean that it should be in the game. If people want stuff like that, then they can download a mod that may give more serious illnesses as what you are asking for. Cancer is no laughing matter and should never be put in the game. You can use your imagination and pretend that they have cancer but I really don't think that this is something that EA will ever put in their Sims games.
DevilNDisguise7
9 years ago
I love making TS realistic, but personally, I do not want to go as far as having real diseases such as these in my game.

They're serious real-life issues, not a fun game feature.
And I'm sure a majority of people (including myself) may even find it offensive to have them in TS4, especially those who've experienced such things or have watched others go through it, and are ones who escape to the game to get away from those things.

We can easily save everyone the trouble and use our imaginations if we want to take our gameplay that far.
Bmm209
9 years ago
Sounds interesting, reminds me of the game Plague Inc. It's a fun game, but I always feel terrible after for killing off the Earth's population lol.

I don't think this would ever happen in the Sims. Maybe they could get sick temporarily but they'd always have a cure/medicine.
EmmiCreamy
9 years ago
Obviously there would be a way to turn it off in the settings, like aging, and knowing the Sims, theyw ould definately have a cure in a special store of some sort. This would just be interesting for people who think the sims is too easy, and it would also be hard having enough money to pay for the cure, (Like real life) It's just an idea.
lisasc360
Hero
9 years ago
It might just be an idea but it's not something that EA will ever put in. I'm guessing you never ever had to see someone you lover suffer from and/or die from cancer because if you had, you wouldn't be asking for this in the game. And I can tell you that it's not a pretty sight to watch someone you love have to suffer and try to put up with the pain and all of the side effects of chemo and radiation and watch their hair fall out and getting sick from them. It doesn't matter if EA puts in a way to turn them off, there is no way that EA will ever add them. And if EA was to add this, just think of how much money they probably would lose because people just wouldn't want to buy the EP even though they know that they would be able to turn them off. They only real life illnesses that they probably will add into the game is the cold, the flu, allergies like they did in TS3's Seasons and upset tummies from eating bad food. And I believe the only way for this to happen is if someone makes a mod for it so that if someone wants this, they can add the mod and play like that. That's what mods are for, is for stuff that EA can't, won't or isn't allowed to put in.

Asking for this is just as bad as asking for disabilities, birth defects, cigarettes/cigars, abortions in a game that is meant to be fun. To me, the Sims is a spoof/parody of life. To me, it's a way to allow my Sims to do things that I can never do in real life such as having them be a vampire, witch, fairy, genie, ghost, etc.

Like I said earlier in my first post is that you can use your imagination that your sim is sick with cancer. You can already send them to the hospital with the Get to Work EP and have them get examines, surgeries with the table. So you can pretend that when they get a surgery, that they are getting a cancer tumor taken out. Or if they get sick and throw up from having an upset tummy, you can pretend that they just went through chemo or radiation and now they have gotten ill from getting. See I just pretended that a sim has cancer without it ever being in the game. This game is about using our imagination... ;)
FriendlySimmers
New Traveler
9 years ago
op we may all be simmers but we all have diffrent play style some plays familys let there sims live die ,ove on to the next generationbut some play the sims to escape real life and everyday worrys me i am the kind of simmer that prefers not to let my sims age or dies, and some also creates there family members in game so that even if in real life they have passaway at least they can have good healthy cancer free lives in game same go for alzheimer and diabetes
JaysWrxld
9 years ago
I agree!!! But some people will be offended and some people are kinda being rude about it. I would like the idea.
lisasc360
Hero
9 years ago
"JaysWrxld;14481111" wrote:
I agree!!! But some people will be offended and some people are kinda being rude about it. I would like the idea.

I really don't see anyone being rude about this. People are just stating their opinion and how it's not something that should ever be in any Sims games. People play this game to get away from real life issues such as these. I really don't think that people would want to see their Sims decline from having cancer. Cancer is no laughing matter and should never ever be in any Sims games. I have seen too many people that I love die from this disease. If you they ever did put this in here, then they might as well put in abortions, disabilities such as blindness, deafness, guns and knives that can kill people, STD's. This is a game, not real life.
JaysWrxld
9 years ago
"lisasc360;14481172" wrote:
"JaysWrxld;14481111" wrote:
I agree!!! But some people will be offended and some people are kinda being rude about it. I would like the idea.

I really don't see anyone being rude about this. People are just stating their opinion and how it's not something that should ever be in any Sims games. People play this game to get away from real life issues such as these. I really don't think that people would want to see their Sims decline from having cancer. Cancer is no laughing matter and should never ever be in any Sims games. I have seen too many people that I love die from this disease. If you they ever did put this in here, then they might as well put in abortions, disabilities such as blindness, deafness, guns and knives that can kill people, STD's. This is a game, not real life.

Okay But still what I'm saying is I thought it'd be a cool idea to add real life features to it, I know its a game. A loved one of mine has died from cancer too, And I did not say cancer was a laughing matter.