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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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.
- @columbia93 Since Neighborhood Stories isn't enabled, the only thing I can think of is a potential mod effect. Even though, as you mentioned, your mods are all updated, it's possible one of them has a setting that's causing sims to be culled that normally shouldn't be. Since it sounds like the issue doesn't take long to occur in your game, it might be worth trying to play through a clean new game save with no mods at all, just to see if you still experience the same issue, if only for process of elimination purposes.
