Sadness problem!

"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.

I also ended up getting the UI Cheats Extension mod specifically for this reason. Being sad is one thing, but my guy is a vet and always greets patients impatiently when he’s in a bad mood and since he’s the third generation in my family, all my townies are dying and of course he knows them all as they’ve been owners of his patients! I’m honestly more annoyed that vets can’t just put on their big boy pants and be nice when they’re in a bad mood, so of course anything that puts him in an unnecessarily bad mood annoys me.

"MaggieMarley;c-16605062" wrote:
This is happening to me, too. My sims were almost too sad to get married at their own wedding! I also believe that most of these dying “friends” are really only acquaintances. I hope that there is a patch to confine mourning to only friends and family.

Yeah, most of them aren't significant relationships, which then makes the impact less when someone important DOES die and the muourning reaction is exactly the same as Rando Sim #6 :-/

"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???

I got the 2 day Sad moodlet for an acquaitance who died, at the same time I had a friend die so they were both on there and my Sim was Very Sad. This after the whold family was Sad because the cat ran away, but she came back so that was over with. I was worried that Sims could die from sadness. The worst part was that I had three Sims die on the same night, and two were husband and wife who left two teen children, so I had them sell the house and move to San Myshuno to live with their stepbrother. They're now part of my rotation;

"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.

I have UI Cheats but I let the Sims go through the moodlets, unless it's something that risks an emotional death such as the one above Very Playful (I can't remember the name) and risk dying of laughter -- I'll delete some of the moodlets that boost the emotion till I get back down to just Playful.

"stilljustme2;c-16608184" wrote:

"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.

I have UI Cheats but I let the Sims go through the moodlets, unless it's something that risks an emotional death such as the one above Very Playful (I can't remember the name) and risk dying of laughter -- I'll delete some of the moodlets that boost the emotion till I get back down to just Playful.

I do delete the playful ones a lot, particularly the one that came with the laundry SP - that one bugs me soooo much! I've decided with the sadness due to friends/acquaintances dying, I'll keep the moodlet if the Sim was a friend and delete it if they were just an acquaintance.

I don’t like the sadness moodlet coming if it’s an acquaintance that died. My sim met Jacques Villarreal once in a café and was just as sad as when her dog and fiancé died later in the game (The Wishing Well resurrected him so all is well again). It really annoyed me. I also didn’t like it when her friend texted her after Akira’s death and called him a “treasured friend” or something like that. He was more than a friend since they were engaged.

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