Played Sims Dying During Rotational Play

I just finished typing this while I switched households, and my vampire has just died as well .  It's getting to be annoying now.

That is scary... Any info when you check neighborhood stories through the mailbox?

No.  I hardly ever use that anyway.

One of the sims that died had the chased by death trait, though.  So that could have been a factor.

I was having an issue in my main save with homeless Sims suddenly moving into empty residential lots, so I think Neighborhood Stories is bugged. Because of this, I decided to play around with the new EP in a new save so I don't compromise my years-long invested households. I would recommend experimenting with a new save to see if it's still happening.

Also, it could have something to do with MC Command. Some of their settings are by default, set on a Story Progression function similar to Sims 3 and would need to be changed to prevent it. I do not use the Population, Career or Pregnancy modules (for now) in my game because there's a lot of settings and I can't remember which ones to change to get it back to "normal". You could try doing this as well. 

Also, a good thing to try is to temporarily remove your mods folder and set it aside, delete the localthumbcache file (I also delete the avatarcache) in your Sims 4 folder (the game will generate a new one on startup) and do a game repair in the EA app. When that's finished, put your mods folder back in and start up, see if anything changes. 

I've come to habitually delete those cache files and do game repairs every so often, but I always remove my mods folder first, just in case. 

Side note:  MC Command just updated again as of Thursday - I got an email from Deaderpool's Patreon, so if you haven't grabbed the new one, you should do that too, it might help.

LiELF wrote:

I was having an issue in my main save with homeless Sims suddenly moving into empty residential lots

LiELF  , having same issue here. only mod installed is MCCC (most updated version) . I first thought I maybe forgot to turn NS off when I started the throwaway-save for Reaper event. But now I need to test. 

I was going almost modfree for other reasons but I'll now want to test this too without mccc.

I have to be 110% sure before I add all mods and run my main save again. (I know I am too control freak) 

Oh no. I was hoping to return to my main save but if I can't protect my families from story progression, that would be awful.

I wonder if it makes any difference if this is switched off in general (for all families) or just individual families. 

Ellupelluellu  Let us know if you figure out the issue.

I had someone recommend a workaround, but I haven't tried it yet. They said to activate NS in the main game options, but then go to the manage households and manually deactivate everything. I'm going to be using a different save file from my main one to play around with the Life and Death pack, to see if the households are still moving into empty lots. If so, I'll try the workaround in that save to see if it stops it. But it might take a few days, I've been playing around a lot in CAS. 

Oh, and here I thought it was just me. One of my teenage Sims ended up dead outside a gym while I was playing another household. I didn't even realize there was something going on. When my Sim stepped outside, there was a small crowd, a Sim covered in ice and Grim preparing to reap that Sim. When I hovered the mouse over that icy Sim, I realized it was one of my teenagers from my main household, then Grim swung his scythe and the game asked me what I wanted to do with the teen's inventory. I quit and restarted the game because if that kid really has to die, he'd better do it while I'm playing his household so his parents get to give him a proper farewell.

I've never had this issue before, story progression is turned off, neighbourhood stories are active only for NPCs but not for a single one of my households. No idea what happened there or why all of a sudden all NPC Sims decided that being out and about in t-shirts and shorts during a snow storm was a bright idea.

Yeah the random weather deaths are rough.

I've played a lot since making this post and I've not noticed the same thing happening again.  Turns out I'm not overly concerned about it at the moment because I probably started with too many households, so it was a sort of blessing in disguise.  One of the sims is still around as a "not in world" ghost and another remains in his household with his wife and 2 kids.  Fortunately that once based off Percy Shelley so his untimely death isn't too much of a loss, and he still has his job so he can bring money in.

If I do get the same problem again with Sims I really don't want to lose, I'll definitely look at my neighbourhoods settings.