Dying of embarassment, etc
Can you please make it so that sims dying of ridiculous stuff like this can be turned off in the game options menu? My favorite sims are happy and jokesters and love mischief and I had one sim die o...
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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.
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 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.
Nightgypsy, fears were not part of the base game until after the high-school years EP. They replaced the old wants system that people disliked at that time. The current emotional state was a part of the game from day 1. In fact it was what they higly marketed the game to have as the centerpoint these sims. The way sims get into emotional states is based on how you play and they can be influenced by in-game objects as well as how sims act or even their traits. Later they even introduced lot traits that influence the emotional states. I am not saying how you play is wrong, but giving you the heads up on why it happens.
To get a sim the first level of playful, I actually have to really work hard at it. By doing multiple actions in a row that stack happy moodlets. Like I said, a majority of the time my sims only have the fine moodlet. I don't have mods that alter the emotional states either. One way to avoid it is to not allow so many happy moodlets to stack. One way to help is to purposely not always keep their stats green (like hunger, sleep, or even bladder and hygiene). If you allow them to go yellow and red, it helps to not have them always be happy which will stack to get to the first playful emotional state. Tjey are then concerned about fulfilling the need. I also do not allow my YA to elder sims to take purposely take baths. For some reason they always play in the tub if that is available, so I cue a shower to prevent it. I have only seen the very playful and hysterical emotional states when I worked extremely hard to actually kill a sim for my black widow challenge. That even took me using rewards points to buy the playful potion help me achieve it. Oh and there is a moodlet solver potion in the rewards store, if you really need it.
I hear what you're saying but I'm not going to run my sims with low motives. It ruins many other things. I basically don't have tell them to do anything. They will do everything they need to do to take care of themselves and spend time together and utilize their hobbies and skills and not obsess on any one thing anymore. At least not for long periods of time. They actually take care of their cat too and neither has any animal lover trait. It is kind of beautiful and I can just sit back and watch but instead I decorate and redecorate and get lost in plotting and planning and next thing I know, poof, a dead sim. It seems to happen mostly when they're working out together so I guess I will take away their gym tvs and see if that helps bc I bet they are watching comedy while they work out and then start cracking jokes. I just wish I didn't have to worry about death happening this way. It's rather stressful. I appreciate all of your tips I really do but the only thing that will really solve anything is for EA to give me more control of what features I want in my game instead of forcing everything on me. Options are good and then everyone is happy bc they can use or not use to their hearts desire. Win, win.
