Sadness problem!

One way is to turn off the aging or increasing the lifespan in the gameplay options. Most of the sims are dying by old age.
The other thing you can use is a moodlet solver potion. It is in the reward store and costs 500 satisfaction points.

This has been a disastrous problem for me lately, the townie mother of my first born toddler died literally a few hours after he was born and through like half of this poor kids tooddlerhood he was "very sad" (along with the rest of my household). Then two of my sims got a call that some random townie sim they barely knew died, and so the sadness moodlets continued. I thought all the depression had passed when founder died, and now the cycle continues.

I checked the stats for my children and they have spent a little under 2/3 of their life in a state of sadness. There is nothing we can do about close sims dying, but I think sadness levels should be tiered based on the relationship. An acquaintance level sim deserves an our or two of sad moodlets maximum, if any at all.

I remember a similar situation in an old save -- I was at the ice cream shop (was a download from a friend before we got Dine Out, using the retail from GTW and the ice cream maker from Cool Kitchen Stuff), and two or three employees died of old age while my Sim was eating.

Then this week my Sims' cat ran away, and everyone in the household had a persistent Sad moodlet (other than the teen daughter who was Very Sad but you know how teens blow things out of proportion) till the cat returned during today's game play.

I had to put my 100 baby challenge on hold because of this. On second generation mother and her siblings are dying as well as her older children, It's hard to get her motivated for new babies because she is sad all the time.

"aallii2222;c-16594451" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-16594364" wrote:
One way is to turn off the aging or increasing the lifespan in the gameplay options. Most of the sims are dying by old age.
The other thing you can use is a moodlet solver potion. It is in the reward store and costs 500 satisfaction points.

Could you please provide the potion's name? I commented on the last thread. I thought it was you haha

Moodlet Solver.
That is the potion's name. The color is dark green
I use this potion so much as it not only removes negative moodlets, it also fills up all the needs.

Here is a link to a bug report on Answers HQ:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-gets-quot-phone-call-quot-amp-notice-about-another-sims/m-p/6891985#M65892

Does that happen only when the sims's "friend" die? Or just anyone he/she knows...I am also bothered by this problem. I got a "Acquaintances" just died. To be honest, when the notification showed up, I didn't even know who she is. Turns out to be someone who has 0 friendship point with my sim. Still 2 days mourning....I mean come on! You barely know her at all....where does that long time sadness come from???

"Elysee;c-16600199" wrote:
Does that happen only when the sims's "friend" die? Or just anyone he/she knows...I am also bothered by this problem. I got a "Acquaintances" just died. To be honest, when the notification showed up, I didn't even know who she is. Turns out to be someone who has 0 friendship point with my sim. Still 2 days mourning....I mean come on! You barely know her at all....where does that long time sadness come from???

Anybody on your relationship tab. It had good intentions this update but too give such a strong moodlet ruins it.
Correct me if I’m wrong but if a male sim fathers a child(outside of the household) and the mother of the newborn calls to tell them they don’t get much out of the call. Just a new acquaintance in the relationship tab. Why should they get the strong sad moodlet that lasts for 2 days because someone died that currently isn’t part of the household.

Yeah, it bugs me that it's all so uniform. Always +3 sad for two days, no matter what sim and what relationship they had. A casual friend shoudn't be as long as a close family member, it's very annoying.

Just today, I logged into a household to find the family's toddler was in mourning. Turns out, their nanny had died. None of the rest of the family seemed to care--guess they weren't that close with the nanny. And I could kinda get with that storywise. But then, it went on for two days, and man that is forever for a toddler. I've been playing on long (longer than long actually, thanks to MCCC--only way I can handle the number of households I'm at now) but if I were playing normal? 2 days is almost a 3rd of a toddler life stage. That's...a lot. So, I think the mourning should be adjusted by life stage as well as relationship. Personality too, ideally--so a gloomy sim would stay sad longer than a cheerful one, for instance, but that's maybe getting too picky. But I think the shorter life stages should have shorter mourning times, just ofr practicalities sake.

(Also, how did the toddler get a death notification in the first place? They couldn't have "witnessed" the death since I wasn't playing them, and toddlers don't have phones????)

If you don't mind adding mods, the UI Cheats Extension mod allows you to click off any/all moodlets - super useful in this situation.