Death phone calls?

I keep getting inundated with calls about my sim's old coworkers (with whom he never actually spoke to much) biting the dust and he's despondent for 2 days. This has already happened 4 times in a short period. I'd rather just get close family/friend death notices, it's a cool feature, but not when it depresses my sims almost constantly

"sazzieJ;c-16734478" wrote:
the amount of calls when the neighborhood gets older is so frustrating. call after call, notification after notification that sometimes have to be clicked several times before they go away is too much.

i mentioned on another thread that a newspaper with a death notices or replacing the mobile with a tablet that can be silenced so no calls or sms that come through would be nice.

alerts for close friends/family passing is acceptable but my sim got an SMS for a death with no sim name but a 2 day death moodlet. thats unacceptable. it needs work.

Maybe a good way to tie it into the 'read obituaries' interaction.

I voted for the notices to remain but maybe reduce the time the Sim is sad, if at all, for someone they just met. Nothing bugged me more about TS4 than to meet a Sim and try to find them later, and find out they were culled. So, with death notices (normally just elderly since there is no death in TS4 per se from other stuff) I would be aggravated again, for the Sim my Sim met, to no longer be in game (again) and I wouldn't know why. That was extremely annoying before death notices. And before they stopped the culling of Sims we just met.

Feel like the only calls that matter would be close family and friends, but the sadness lasts WAY too long for me, almost feels like weeks

It just needs to be for close friends and family. Seems more realistic that way.

The first time any of my Sims ever experienced this (somewhat) was last night. Except, my Sim didn't even get a call or a notification at all, she just suddenly got the sad moodlet. I had to go look in her relationships to see who died. It was a co-worker she'd only known for a few days with limited interaction. His ghost was listed in her relationships still as a co-worker, but the next time she went to work, he was replaced with another townie. He's not in households management either.

What really bums me out is this guy had won the lottery and I was contemplating having my Sim marry him for his money and then send him to 'the deep forest' herself with one last woohoo. I know that sounds, well, cold. But hey, that's a much happier way to go for a millionaire than just dying alone of old age 'somewhere.' I don't even know where to find his urn if it even exists since he was 'not in world.' :/

Anyway, I think it would be better to only get notices for family and close friends with varying degrees of mourning depending on how strong the relationship happened to be with your Sim. I also agree that if the Sim was an enemy, you wouldn't necessarily get the sad moodlet, but perhaps happy, fine or none at all depending on how deeply the Sim was disliked and any prior relationship they may have had. I can see how that might get too complicated though so maybe that's why they just assigned a blanket 'sad' moodlet for everyone your Sim knew. I don't know...*shrugs*

Thanks for putting up a poll about this. I'm going to link to it on my thread about community feedback about death mechanics in TS4.

I think this feature was introduced because there has been feedback about wanting Sims to react to deaths outside their households. It's a shame that the devs instituted such a "one size fits all" policy. If you click through my signature to my death feedback thread, you can see some more nuanced ideas about how they could have tailored moodlets to reflect the relationship with the Sim (e.g. an Evil Sim is happy when an Enemy dies, a Good Sim is sad they never made up).

I hate the random texts anyway. They stop my sleeping and working sims from going high speed and I feel like if I could turn the cell phones off entirely for certain sims I would. As it is, I have to install a mod to turn them off. More texts is not at all good in my own opinion.

"Karababy52;c-16751910" wrote:
The first time any of my Sims ever experienced this (somewhat) was last night. Except, my Sim didn't even get a call or a notification at all, she just suddenly got the sad moodlet. I had to go look in her relationships to see who died. It was a co-worker she'd only known for a few days with limited interaction. His ghost was listed in her relationships still as a co-worker, but the next time she went to work, he was replaced with another townie. He's not in households management either.

What really bums me out is this guy had won the lottery and I was contemplating having my Sim marry him for his money and then send him to 'the deep forest' herself with one last woohoo. I know that sounds, well, cold. But hey, that's a much happier way to go for a millionaire than just dying alone of old age 'somewhere.' I don't even know where to find his urn if it even exists since he was 'not in world.' :/

Anyway, I think it would be better to only get notices for family and close friends with varying degrees of mourning depending on how strong the relationship happened to be with your Sim. I also agree that if the Sim was an enemy, you wouldn't necessarily get the sad moodlet, but perhaps happy, fine or none at all depending on how deeply the Sim was disliked and any prior relationship they may have had. I can see how that might get too complicated though so maybe that's why they just assigned a blanket 'sad' moodlet for everyone your Sim knew. I don't know...*shrugs*

I agree with dependence on strength of relationship. My Sims don't meet many people outside their family, so I haven't had any notifications for acquaintances. However, I've had two days of sadness for a family member my main household never met. I married a townie to one of my Sims, and it made sense for her to be sad when he died (though they didn't have much of a relationship at that point), but her child had the sad moodlet for two days for her father's sister, though none of my Sims knew her at all.

I don't want to get rid of the notifications - players have been complaining for ages that unless a Sim actually witnessed a death, it had little effect, even if the Sim was a close relative or friend. It just needs a bit of tuning.

I want to get phone calls only for close friends and relatives.
Babies and toddlers shouldn't get any notification, it's so annoying they don't have a phone so why is it ringing?! And it's dumb how babies age up to be sad. Babies should not be sad about deaths! I think toddlers should be sad for an hour, MAX, depending on who died.