I hate emotional deaths :(

Emotional deaths were the DUMBEST idea for the game! This limits the desire to want to see the broad emotions of the game. I always make sure I disable emotional deaths!

I’ve never been a fan of emotional deaths and am always happy to turn it off with MCCC. I see it as too ridiculously dumb and childish.

"Catzilla;c-17410715" wrote:
I had a sim get killed by being electrocuted indoors during a lightning storm once, he was at the computer, I think. I sat there stunned for a minute wondering what just happened (I was pretty new to the game) and then I was like, Nope, not going to happen like this, let me exit and reload.

Lol wait, that can happen? How awesome. See my sims never die from something cool like lightning strikes, it's either old age or ... laughter. For some reason. :joy: Still curious to know if anyone's sim ever actually died from sadness or anger though. Cause I'm sure that my sims can walk around sad for days on end without anything happening. Meanwhile, playful moods stack to such a ridonculous degree that I rarely even know what exactly made them hysterical.

@Hestia will do that too now. Completely agree.

I disagree. The sims are your responsability to keep alive, it’s kind of the point of live mode. You either help your sim prosper and be successful, or watch them fail at life and yes, potentially die. The emotion system is one of the core gameplay features of TS4, and 100% manipulative. I would check out a couple of tutorials if you are struggling? I wouldn’t call it dumb to add challenging buffs, it is a game at the end of the day.

If you end up with up to +40 Worth of emotional buffs (I think that’s when your sim is in the danger zone), then stop what you’re doing and watch out for your sim. Same as if you have an elder who gets over-exhausted (similarly this is a danger zone for elders), you make them take a bath or have a nap; Or sims freezing outside, or swimming with sharks, or just sleeping on the new Murphy bed lol.. There are times when you need to step in and save your sim! Death by extreme emotion is easily avoidable, just saying ;) If you have multiple sims another tip is to give them all a death flower in their inventory, you can save dying sims by exchanging the flower with Grim.

Just curious btw, I play on console and there is an auto save feature. There’s also a warning tip to save frequently in the loading screen, is that not a thing on PC?

"ddd994;c-17410981" wrote:

I disagree. The sims are your responsability to keep alive, it’s kind of the point of live mode. You either help your sim prosper and be successful, or watch them fail at life and yes, potentially die. The emotion system is one of the core gameplay features of TS4, and 100% manipulative. I would check out a couple of tutorials if you are struggling? I wouldn’t call it dumb to add challenging buffs, it is a game at the end of the day.

If you end up with up to +40 Worth of emotional buffs (I think that’s when your sim is in the danger zone), then stop what you’re doing and watch out for your sim. Same as if you have an elder who gets over-exhausted (similarly this is a danger zone for elders), you make them take a bath or have a nap; Or sims freezing outside, or swimming with sharks, or just sleeping on the new Murphy bed lol.. There are times when you need to step in and save your sim! Death by extreme emotion is easily avoidable, just saying ;) If you have multiple sims another tip is to give them all a death flower in their inventory, you can save dying sims by exchanging the flower with Grim.

I'm not "struggling", I just think emotional deaths are idiotic. Sure, keeping your sims alive and healthy is your responsibility but the emotion system is in sooo many ways a flawed system that isn't well thought out at all. There are so many positive / playful moodlets all stacking on top of each other that shouldn't even have the power to kill anyone (I mean, I don't know, but I've never met anyone who died from wearing freshly washed clothes, playing with their dog and having friends over), and there are barely any negative ones. So while it's not very difficult to have a sim that's overly playful, embarrassed or happy, it's dang near impossible to have one be thoroughly depressed. And let's not forget that embarrassed, angry and sad are like the only really negative emotions we have. Where is scared/terrified? Nostalgic? Claustrophobic (looking at you, Tiny Living .......)? And I actually did send my sim to "call herself down", just like the other times this happened, about 5 seconds after the hysteria buff comes on, and another 5 before she dies.

It's fine if you like the emotion system, but it can hardly be called a balanced system. I'd be excited if my sim died from prolonged depression - not that it's realistic, but at least it would be less weird than laughing or .. enjoying(?) herself to death. Trust me, I loved and played TS and TS2 a lot and those were actually hard in terms of need management. Except that never infuriated me quite as much as emotional deaths do. Guess we're all different ;)

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"SimTrippy;c-17410945" wrote:

"Catzilla;c-17410715" wrote:
I had a sim get killed by being electrocuted indoors during a lightning storm once, he was at the computer, I think. I sat there stunned for a minute wondering what just happened (I was pretty new to the game) and then I was like, Nope, not going to happen like this, let me exit and reload.

Lol wait, that can happen? How awesome. See my sims never die from something cool like lightning strikes, it's either old age or ... laughter. For some reason. :joy: Still curious to know if anyone's sim ever actually died from sadness or anger though. Cause I'm sure that my sims can walk around sad for days on end without anything happening. Meanwhile, playful moods stack to such a ridonculous degree that I rarely even know what exactly made them hysterical.

@Hestia will do that too now. Completely agree.

I do hate them. It's just way too silly for me. And everytime I have a vampire use that emotion control power somebody dies ??? I had a beloved sim die of anger and I'm like... seriously?! ? it was either restart and loose tons of progress or start cooking up a death cure because grim wouldn't bring him back.

And I have a hot head celebrity sim with the emotion bomb quirk who becomes enraged for no reason and has emotional meltdowns so I have to keep a close eye on him lol. I never had one die of hysteria. I try hard to keep them from bring too happy??

Never had one die from lightening either....

I’m so happy that I’ve never had an emotional death in my game! I’m kind of surprised, though, because I always keep my Sims as happy as possible. If an emotional death ever does happen, you can bet I’ll be rolling back to a previous save!

i kind of wish emotional deaths were easier to achieve-- they're too hard as of now and i think they make gameplay more interesting. i also think there should be more than just 3. i will always advocate for the inclusion of more ways for sims to die. the more the merrier.

i don't really get it when people complain about their sims dying; it's a life simulator, and there can't be life without death. but that's just me. if you want to keep your sims alive forever, cool, go for it, but it's your responsibility to achieve that. if your sim gets to the point where they might die of hysteria, mortification or enragement and you don't stop them, it's kind of your fault. plus, if you're one of those players who wants to let their sims live on forever (nothing wrong with that, play how you wanna play), then utilise the saving system.

basically what i'm trying to say is that the emotional deaths are so easily avoidable. they don't just happen out of nowhere, they happen because of a build up of moodlets, moodlets the player is practically entirely responsible for. if you don't like emotional deaths, you can avoid them. simple.

I've only had a sim die of an emotional death once, at his own wedding of hysterical laughter. I decided that I wanted to play out that sim couple so I did exit without saving. Normally though, I would just let it play out. It doesn't happen though, I guess my tendency is is to look after my sims. If they start getting extremely emotional, I calm them down or put them to sleep.

I don't judge how others play though.