Life and Death Negative thread

Yeah, I don't mind the solicitor being in the park, per se. I could be wrong, but the gameplay trailer made it sound like they are not there every day, but that they appear for one of the recurring festivals. As an attorney, this makes sense to me, as many attorneys do community outreach where they might work at pro bono clinics outside the office, or do limited time appearances to help different communities access legal services. So that's not that unusual. But the completely open air set-up did make me shudder. Some sort of little pavilion would be a nice touch. 

I dislike that you can't randomize where your sim goes for rebirth. You have to pick a world and household each and every time. I hate how much micromanaging we have to do with this pack. 

Will wills be created for households not controlled, will Funerals be held outside of your household, will anything occur outside of the household?

I dislike how easy it is to become the grim reaper, and how there are many workers there. It makes it less unique . 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but children can't get heirlooms because they are too young? That makes no sense. Also, during the livestream, the mom read the will but the daughter did not stay the whole time.

I'm still annoyed that the new bathroom furniture doesn't include a toilet

They should have included one, because I don't think we have one with same swatches in the other packs.

As long as the dead sim isn't doing push-ups in the coffin! 😄

Agreed.  There's a bath and a shower, so I'd rather have gone without one of those and had a toilet instead.  Or the full set would be even better.  It doesn't make sense to leave it out.

In my opinion, every EP should have enough build AND buy to make a home (a starter home if anything). At least have the essentials be present. A bathroom set but no toilet is wild. 

I wish they would make nice collections for interiors like kitchens living areas and bathrooms with each EP as well. This used to be a recurring theme in previous games. Nothing matches and that's why I flip to cc for build buy objects. 

It would be nice to have swatches for all floors and walls in the game that match along with complete room sets that match.

Why is there another Bonehilda in the new Pack?  She's supposed to be only in Paranormal.  This will get way too confusing. 

Introducing age filters to ghost traits was a mistake. Here's an Answers HQ report on it (I'll give more info on the third page).

Basically, as you have seen in CAS, children have only two ghost types available:

• Death by Fire
• Death by Drowning

One problem however. These are the ways children can die:

• Fire
• Drowning
• Meteorite
• Steam
• Pufferfish
• Freezing
• Overheating

So, what happens when children die by causes other than Fire and Drowning?

Well, they do the death animation, Grim Reaper comes, everyone mourns, pleading is available... But after reaping, you get the usual question: do you want to make the new ghost playable or freeroaming. I chose playable and got... an alive child. Reacting to becoming a ghost, sad to have died...
What happened here is that due to the newly added age filters, the child couldn't become a ghost. And the game just... ran the usual death functions and then that was it. The child was still alive and not a ghost.

This causes other problems, like adult ghost pets being alive again suddenly (there's even a pre-made adult dog called Captain Whitaker in every game, so guess who's alive now) and Sulani Elementals taking a while to show up and always being an elder (new elementals are generated with a Death by Old Age trait, so what happens is that new ones are generated, failed to be made into a ghost, and don't pass the filter).

And CAS death traits sometimes don't match too. Teens have emotional deaths available in CAS, but they cannot die by emotions.

So yeah, it would have been easier and less save breaking to keep all the ghost traits available to all ages.
Occult filter is fine, this won't prevent ghost trait from being added. Age filter however does.