Death

"mightysprite;d-995387" wrote:
How do you feel about the demise of your sims?

How do I feel about it…
Good question. I suppose all options apply depending on what the state of “death” means in relation to each individual sim or narrative.

Sometimes I have to let a sim pass on in order to continue the story with them. In my game death is never really the end and although Grim may reap a sim’s soul I will always place the urn (of a played sim) in my active sim’s personal inventory. It gives me a chance to think about what to do next. There’s a potential to have them resurrected if that’s what needs to be done. If letting go is more important, I will dedicate a grave to them in the garden of the house or in a graveyard.

By default I play with aging off for all sims since I don’t want the game to dictate when the next birthday is or when the end is nigh. When I reach a turning point in the story, I may turn aging on for all npcs and slowly age up my own sims. Then I turn aging off again and continue with the next act.

I do care for my story characters and I don’t find killing them intentionally a “fun” thing to do.
However, sometimes I feel a little wilder and crazier than usual. In those cases I’d install the Zombie Apocalypse mod and turn many npcs into zombies. I don’t like zombies - at all - so it gives me perfect reason to form a zombie hunter squad and destroy all the undead with grenades and shotguns. The absolute mayhem is good fun and it helps me cope with stress. ?