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mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
2 months ago

Played Sims Dying During Rotational Play

I thought they said during the livestream that played sims with story progression turned off wouldn't die when you're playing a different house (or rarely) but it's now happened in 2 of my 7 households. 

It hasn't ruined my entire game plan but it did throw me a bit.  One of the sims will work just as well as a ghost and I have evicted the other and removed his played tag so he can roam the world as he pleases, because although I was planning to play him throughout his life, I never intended to play him as a ghost.

I use MCCC so I don't know whether that could be a factor.

  • 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) 

    • LiELF's avatar
      LiELF
      Seasoned Ace

      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 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. 

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

  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace

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

      • mariefoxprice83's avatar
        mariefoxprice83
        Seasoned Hotshot

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

  • LiELF's avatar
    LiELF
    Seasoned Ace

    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.

  • Jehane40's avatar
    Jehane40
    Rising Veteran

    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.

    • mariefoxprice83's avatar
      mariefoxprice83
      Seasoned Hotshot

      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.

  • What about those of us who don't have L&D? I just had a sim die on me when I walked away for a bathroom break and the only need he showed he was down on was hygiene. I backed out and didn't save it, because I have never had one just die out of the blue like that. Yes I have mods in my game, but they haven't interfered with any game play yet. I have LS turned off, as I once had an NPC die on the way to visit a Sim after they called and said they were on their way. But not knowing where he died, I could never find his urn, even with the game sending my sim messages about his spirit. 

    Anyway, had anyone else encountered this? I am considering playing another household and see if it happens there. Never had one die just because the hygiene got low. And it was fast too, I was barely gone 3 minutes.