Have you ever left your sims run all night while you slept?

I actually have a police officer---as far as I can tell, the only time the cell doors work is 1) when your sim is a police officer and 2) when he or she is actually at the police station, on the job

I have but it was an accident. I had a panic attack in the midst of playing and took my meds, which made me sleepy, but I pressed on thinking I'd be okay because having something to concentrate on will usually help calm my anxiety. Short version of this story is I fell asleep in my chair and woke up several hours later to find nearly every member of a seven Sim household, including pets, had died. The lone survivor was their cat who had run away due to a lack of attention and was now a stray. Three of the adult Sims died of starvation even though they all were at level 10 in the cooking skill. One died of drowning in the pool. One died of anger. And the poor doggo passed away of unknown causes. I exited without saving and managed to continue with that household, but it taught me a lot about how dumb my Sims are when it comes to self-preservation. :/

"Paigeisin5;c-18029956" wrote:
I have but it was an accident. I had a panic attack in the midst of playing and took my meds, which made me sleepy, but I pressed on thinking I'd be okay because having something to concentrate on will usually help calm my anxiety. Short version of this story is I fell asleep in my chair and woke up several hours later to find nearly every member of a seven Sim household, including pets, had died. The lone survivor was their cat who had run away due to a lack of attention and was now a stray. Three of the adult Sims died of starvation even though they all were at level 10 in the cooking skill. One died of drowning in the pool. One died of anger. And the poor doggo passed away of unknown causes. I exited without saving and managed to continue with that household, but it taught me a lot about how dumb my Sims are when it comes to self-preservation. :/

Yeah, sims are definitely needy!

"Paigeisin5;c-18029956" wrote:
I have but it was an accident. I had a panic attack in the midst of playing and took my meds, which made me sleepy, but I pressed on thinking I'd be okay because having something to concentrate on will usually help calm my anxiety. Short version of this story is I fell asleep in my chair and woke up several hours later to find nearly every member of a seven Sim household, including pets, had died. The lone survivor was their cat who had run away due to a lack of attention and was now a stray. Three of the adult Sims died of starvation even though they all were at level 10 in the cooking skill. One died of drowning in the pool. One died of anger. And the poor doggo passed away of unknown causes. I exited without saving and managed to continue with that household, but it taught me a lot about how dumb my Sims are when it comes to self-preservation. :/

That is some terrible luck. I'm glad you were able to rescue the sitaiton.

Never had a problem with 4; I can leave it then once a prompt pops up the game will pause. Sims 3 on the other hand.. went to the corner store, came back, kitchen burned up and the husband was dead.

I left them running while I was in the shower once, and the whole household was gone. My suspicion is that they left food on all the available surfaces for cooking, and then kept taking out food and dropping it because they couldn't cook it, and starved to death. They don't make good choices on their own.

This could be fun to try out in different ways. Locking the sim in a basement with no door, but everything they need to fill their needs on their own would be a fun way to play it out. Maybe even have two or three sims down there and see what relationships form of it.

Hmmm, make sure vampire immure to sunlight, because if you left sim young vampire on own, it's might die in sunburn as a.i is not design to handle it, to be safe. No spellcaster prisoner?

MIne always pauses at events etc so I have never been able to have them run w/o me? There was a challenge in the Sims that involved a group staying together in one house and leaving it to chance for most of what happens. So long ago and yet I still remember it as being a lot of chaos and fun. I don't think any of the other series allowed that at least without a mod. Would love to try it again with Sims 4.

I think it was @Simmerville that started it but not positive. Was great fun though.

I have done this accidentally twice. Once I thought I logged off, my sims were camping in granite falls. their tents were burned, everyone looked dirty, but no one died.

Once, I took a nap. When I woke up there was an urn. I wonder who died. It was my main sim. I quit without saving and got him back. Whew!