Life and Death Negative thread
This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.
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SO HUGE NEGATIVE FOR THIS PACK
It turns out that when you reap souls, they're culled from the game. Which means they stop appearing in the game. I figured it wasn't a big deal, since ghosts could come back and wander Ravenwood whenever. No harm, no foul. Yeah, it makes sense from a continuity stand-point, but would they really cull my sim like that without telling me?
Anyway, my sim reaped his grandpa's soul and he got culled. On top of that, it completely broke the family tree. Now he can't see any of his relatives from that side of the family, because the link is broken. He doesn't even have an icon. Now I have to get rid of an entire days' worth of time to reload an old file - if the game will even let me go back that far.
EDIT: I was able to reload an old save and get him back in the nick of time. I thought there was supposed to be a way for ghost to rekindle marriages when they're brought back? Guess there isn't.
I seriously hate culling in this game. I even got a mod to stop it. Why can't they at least let sims' details stay in the family tree, even when they're gone?
Yep. I rotationally play and one of my families has a mother and the storyline is what her son will do to bring her back from death. Well fast forward, playing new pack, new family and one of my assignments was to go collect a bunch of ghosts that were causing chaos. One of the ghosts was this families mother. I luckily saved, collected her soul, released it into the portal. Then left without saving and went into the other family and yep..... she was gone. I was able to quit without saving and bring her back. She's still completely broken from her urn but I'm wondering if that happened with the new pack, she was an unplayable ghost and I always just had her son call her from the urn but now I can't do that at all. Sooo yay she exists but boo because I still am unsure how her son is supposed to call her forth now.
If you didn't tell about this culling, I would believe as you said that the ghosts should still be in the world before going to the netherworld (culling). Maybe this culling is designed to deal with "random sims generated to the dead role", not for existing sims.
I'm relieved that at least you have a backup to reverse the progress but also feel bad about losing a lot of time.
I hate the culling without warning too. The game secretly culls my sims in other households and hidden households. If I didn't check the "other household" window regularly (to delete unwanted random sims), it may be too late to reverse back. Fortunately, there is a mod that can stop it.
I hope modders can make the mod to stop the culling of reaping activity too. So, you can reap the soul of relatives or friends without losing them forever.
coloncocon It culls Sims without you, too?! This is wild, and a very strong "no" for me for this pack. I wouldn't check Other Households nearly enough. I already stress over Neighbourhood Stories ("off" isn't always effective?!) and Aging.
For me, the culling happened before the Life & Death Pack. It might be related to the limited population.
"Neighbourhood Stories" Toggle-off is 100% effective to me. I disable it for every household so I can say that. If there is any change, it might be another function.
By the way, MCCC mod can completely disable culling, so I don't worry much. Just not sure to add more population.
Big yikes: I just confirmed this in my own game. Who on earth thought this was good programming? I love this pack overall, but THIS--forcing us to cull our Sims without our permission or even giving us a warning in order to perform an active career--is not even a LITTLE bit okay. Please re-visit this, EA.
Karamazov123Thanks for flagging this! If I got this pack it wouldn't be for the Reaper career (I'm more interested in grief and bucket lists and such), but this is absolutely wild and so not okay! They need to offer a toggle in Game Options to turn it off, at the very least.
