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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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.
Neighborhood Stories settings are easy - they're in Manage Households. There's a set of settings for "My Households" (off by default) and another set for "Other Households" (on by default). Switch into Other Households, click the symbol in the top right corner, and turn off die in accidents. (or use the top checkbox to turn off effects)
What's so funny is that people are saying it's in "Manage Households" but since I've no idea where that is, it's frustrating. I literally spent about 1/2 an hour clicking on all kinds of stuff on all kinds of screens and waiting through transitional screens, etc., before I finally came up "Manage Households". I truly don't understand why no one, and I mean none of the people who mentioned it, thought to actually point out where it was. It's double frustrating because I know I'm the kind of "helper" who provides details to make it easier.
That said, Neighborhood Stories isn't enabled so that isn't the issue.
I literally downloaded Growing Together 3 days ago and in the 2 days I've played it, the 3 Sims I played (2 later married so 2 Households) lost good friends or BFFs. Nothing else changed. In the 4 1/2 years I've been playing TS4, I've never had a close Sim die. On rare events, and I mean rare as in handful, I've had stranger elderly Sims die and leave an inheritance. That's it. I also don't know how the recent Sims died because I've never had it happen before. All I got was a notification for one of the deaths, just that it had happened, and the other two I found out because they had a Sad moodlet. Now I find out there is Emotional and Accidental deaths - but again, NH Stories isn't enabled.
I have Mods: MCCC, Little Ms Sam, Twisted Mexi & . I had already made sure they were up to date with the 6th update.
I can't play the game this way.
