Growing Together: Why are my Sims BFFs dying?
I just purchased Growing Together with this past sale and the very first time I played it, my Sim's husband had a good friend die. Within a Sims day or two, my Sim had her BFF die. WTH is happening? ...
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@columbia93 You don’t need a mod. Just turn off dying in neighborhood stories - either for all sims, or just for the households your sims make friends with.
Exactly, if you go to Manage Households, you can customize options like this in Neighborhood Stories settings for each household, or even disable them completely if you want.
I don't know what that means "Neighborhood Stories". I saw that someone said turning it off using a computer and MC...which I did, although it was a bit confusing with the disabled/enabled options & figuring out what was what...but it only had to change it to enable and nothing about individual households (which no, that would be absurd) or the neighborhood (which still irks me something fierce because I don't want it ANYWHERE. Forcing me to have to do something to make it go away is frustrating and truly maddening, let alone making me do it on an individual basis.)
Anyway, I did the Enabled thing in MC like someone said, (exited/reentered game) then played a different household, where I see that one of my Sims came home from work sad because his friend just died...another stinking, lousy Young Adult FRIEND. EA must be a bunch of sadists. I'm really angry that there wasn't a warning about this before I bought the game. I mean, seriously....3 Sim friends have died in literally days and EA thinks this is "real"? I'm ready to go back to TS3. This is the worst thing EA has ever done. (Except for banning people for daring to speak out against them...so I'll probably get banned now - after spending hundreds and hundreds from buying everything that came out with Sims 1 onward - although I'm not doing it so much with TS4, which speaks volumes.)
Stories what they are and how to deal / not deal with them.
Neighborhood Stories System (ea.com)
Sorry about your deaths.Ugh.
I understand what it means because TS3 had a "system", too (which I was able to disable through Mods to override). What I do not know is how to access it (or even why I should have to simply because EA seems to be a bunch of sadists). Going to that link is nothing more than a very abbreviated overview on what it is but it sure doesn't give any info on how to access it. It only shows a household, but I want it OFF for every single household in every single one of the Saves/Neighborhoods. Am I seriously going to have to go to each one of them to eliminate this absurd death issue that EA should never have allowed? And will I be able to tune the "deaths"? I'm okay with the elderly sims dying sporadically but I'm not okay with the younger ones...if they do, it should be a once in a lifetime kind of thing. The game is literally unplayable as is. This is frustrating and apparently I have to Google how to do this because this EA link is not much help. Like EA,
Again, Ugh.
