Dying of embarassment, etc

The emotional states were the gimmick for this iteration of the game. It is interesting that your gameplay style always has Sims in a flirty or playful moods. I can honestly say that it takes me way too much effort as I never had a sim die from laughter. It would be nice to turn off that gimmick for story driven players.

I have had a sim die from laughter in my game last year.

My lawyer that lives in San Myshuno with his novelists wife collapsed from laughing while watching TV. 

I had to plead with death to revive him because he is in my main save/storyline.

This gimmick/ emotional state works fine for NPC's but not for my favorite households.

Seriously, it always pops up for my sims to accept the cheerful trait because they are feeling happy and whatnot it says. My households are all friends or family and like many of the same things in general and the cheerful trait usually pops for most of them though I don't take it on all because I do different plans for many of them. I think this happens more often than not on my sims with the cheerful trait and it's like I don't wanna remove it because I feel like that goes again who they are naturally. I'm terrified every time I throw a gathering if they sit down to play the woohoo game because they will start laughing like crazy and I have to watch closely. They're just a fun loving, mischief making and joke telling group. I can't tell you how many times per sim day I have to make them run to a bathroom mirror and try to calm themselves down so they don't die. This last death, they were on side by side treadmills working out and joking with each other and next thing I know bam. I thought they were just flirty and I was pausing and decorating and totally missed it. So yeah, just would like to turn it off bc it's just too much when to me it messes everything up as I explained. 

Yeah Grim didn't listen. HIs wife is a spellcaster but I didn't want to resurrect him and deal with the widow, grieving and all that stuff. So I just exited without saving. I "usualIy" save every time they go to sleep but since this last update causing the game to crash all of the time that has been iffy. I have zero problems with it happening to npcs as I can't stand 98% of them anyway. But for played households we should be able to disable it considering watching tv, joking with each other, taking a darn bubble bath and whatever else can easily cause them to die of laughter. 

There always seems to be a way out though, which I personally actually dislike about the game. 

Whenever something happens that could kill them, it won't unless you do a specific thing again like trying to fix electronics again after getting a shock, or staying in the extreme version of an emotional state. 

Personally I don't like that because then it goes from accidental deaths to me as the player making them dead and I don't want to do that either. I just like the random chance it could happen. 

I haven't had trouble yet with changing the emotions to prevent death, even from the wishing well I had eight sims pick make a wish with the hooded face there and all eight survived, making different wishes with the worst possible outcome. 

Like I said, it is your playstyle that put them in the dangerous mood. My own sims are usually just inspired or energized and for a majorityof the fltime the are "fine" with no emotional state. I have to actually work extremely hard to make them to the first level of playful. While I understand your own dilemma, what you are requesting is for them to disable the gimmick the game was based upon which is "current emotional state."

I agree with you but this is the game. The Sims 4 is still a game that you have to beat like any other game and I prefer a first person shooter...but I also like playing with life and that's why I play sims 4 for now...I'm really itching to go back to more graphic violent games but those games don't relax me...I just get more worked up unless I'm playing with friends.

I didn't know about the gimmick so it was not what incentivized me to buy anything. I found out about these emotional states the hard way. I don't make my sims playful, they just get that way naturally from the every day things they do. My specific group of sims and households generally stay inspired, energized, flirty, focused or playful. And it can flip so fast I don't have time to notice and react. I'm not asking them to disable anything. I just want them to make it an option to turn off emotional deaths the same as people can turn off fears and such. Fears were a gimmick too right. It is no different. 

I still have the fear bug no matter what I turn off in game.

Sims still be running around like crazy 🤪 in 2025.

I think the game needs more fixes than toggles. 

fixes and toggles with fixes weighing in a more heavily. But how they can fix stuff when it is constantly going whackadoodle out of nowhere is beyond me. I mean sims just dropping to the ground like they're dead, but they're not dead, for no apparent reason, is just nuts. but that is another post topic I made. I'm just so over the craziness.