Hello guys! I seem to be having a lot of my friends dying in the game! Every single time someone dies my sim becomes sad and I can never sort this out. I tried cheats but they don't work so I really need your help here guys! This is from today and I'm really pissed off! I can't take the sadness off of me. https://image.ibb.co/cvWGHT/Screenshot_83.png

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

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Kathykins
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"loubyloulou;c-16602925" wrote:
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.

This mod is a true blessing at times, if you don't mind using mods. I use it to remove the "Lovelorn" moodlet too, that sims who are NOT romantic constantly get. Or the "Curious about clubs" for non-Insider sims. Known bugs that I hope will be fixed.

As for the sadness, I don't think anyone my sims know died in my current save. Quite a few of the premades are now elders, so I guess I'll find out soon enough if my game is affected.
LivininSim
7 years ago
Yep, this is still happening, and it's pretty widespread, in my game, and in a lot of yT Let's Plays, @SimGuruNick.

It's a really nice feature to get a phone call about death. :) I love the direction this is going. :relaxed: But if wonder if the moodlet could please be tuned to the relationship. Also wonder if the phone call could please be for friend and higher. For family members, could the phone call be before they die, when they get to the "sparkly age bar" point? I dunno if that's all possible within the code?

Here's a link to the EA Answers thread that crinrict maintains, so if you have this in your game, and it is causing problems with gameplay, you can click "Me Too."

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-gets-quot-phone-call-quot-amp-notice-about-another-sims/m-p/6891985#M65892
aallii2222
7 years ago
Btw it's not a bug. I guess it just happens because I have so many friends and they die all the time!
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Wow. Is yours an older save? I had this type of thing run rampant in my Pinstar Legacy Challenge save. We're not supposed to move from the Legacy house, as per the rules, but my Townies kept dying off. It was crazy-insane. I haven't had Grimmie showing up so very often since I started my newer game saves. I play on Long, for one. Perhaps, you're playing on short or normal?
aallii2222
7 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-16594358" wrote:
Wow. Is yours an older save? I had this type of thing run rampant in my Pinstar Legacy Challenge save. We're not supposed to move from the Legacy house, as per the rules, but my Townies kept dying off. It was crazy-insane. I haven't had Grimmie showing up so very often since I started my newer game saves. I play on Long, for one. Perhaps, you're playing on short or normal?

I'm playing on normal lifespan. I just changed it to a long one! Would this make a difference?
aallii2222
7 years ago
"CagierSaturn;c-16594397" wrote:
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 really thought about the same way! I had a lot of troubles because of that and now I really hate it! I wish if they do something to fix it! It's not fair to be sad all the time! Also, could you pleas provide the potion's name?
aallii2222
7 years ago
"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
ahr404
7 years ago
I just had this start to happen since the patch- sad all the time! Maybe they tried to tweak the emotions because so many were complaining? but since they also took away so many cheats, it's gone too far the other way.
BlueSeaWaves
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Ugh, I missed the deaths of my sims parents cause I moved her out and forgot to check on them and was disappointed she wasn’t notified. Now that they included it, it’s so annoying! My sims met their uncle and aunt and barely got anywhere past acquaintances and when they died they got the mourning moodlet for 2 days. Weirder thing that happened was I had a grave in my family inventory from when before the patch was implemented and I decided to lay it out in the back yard and then 2 of my sims that didn’t know the guy who died got a notification saying someone died but I didn’t read it and cleared it. I looked everywhere to see who died that made them sad, the only one who seems to cause it was the grave from family inventory.
aallii2222
7 years ago
"AHR404;c-16594659" wrote:
I just had this start to happen since the patch- sad all the time! Maybe they tried to tweak the emotions because so many were complaining? but since they also took away so many cheats, it's gone too far the other way.

So fat, long lifespan option seems to be the best sultuon.