Sickness Length

Does anyone else wish the illnesses from GTW lasted a bit longer than a few hours? Usually they don't even last long enough for a full day off work if you've chosen to go down that route, so the notification says you were "sick." I'm surprised we don't have any that last 7-10 hours, or even 24. After all, if a Sim can be in mourning for a random acquaintance for 2 days, or a pregnant sim can have the morning sickness moodlet for several days, why can't the sim be ill for a full day or so?

I haven't experienced poisoning and most of the other negative scenarios in JA yet so I am not sure how those compare, lengthwise.

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14 Replies

mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"mikamakimon;c-16781701" wrote:
"Mariefoxprice83;c-16779684" wrote:
Yes! When we play the Doctor career we can treat sims we might have seen elsewhere in the world, and we can even make house calls, but when we're playing those other sims, we can't visit the hospital, except for childbirth. It's a real shame it doesn't work both ways.

So true. I wish they did this with the Get To Work pack. If our sick pets can visit clinics, why not our sick sims?

I don't have Cats and Dogs - does that mean a vet practice works both as the vet and as the pet owner?
invisiblgirl
7 years ago
The moodlets come and go, too. I don't know how often my Sim's been sick at school, and fine when she gets home. A little later, the moodlet shows up again. In any case, I've been going the natural route lately and having them drink orange juice and take naps when the moodlet persists.
Hermitgirl
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
No.. I wouldn't want the sicknesses to last longer unless other changes were made. Right now to me they are mostly just irritating when they happen so I'm glad they are over pretty quick for the most part.
What I'd like is for them to add in ways that we could always have "well" sims.. like booster shots once a year or the beginning of every season or even a trait(s) An instant cure option would be good also... we already have medicine and snake oil (GTW).
Then we could have longer sick times and make sickly type sims if we want... and for those of us that don't we have gameplay/options to make sure we don't.
floridameerkat
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"Mariefoxprice83;c-16781721" wrote:
"mikamakimon;c-16781701" wrote:
"Mariefoxprice83;c-16779684" wrote:
Yes! When we play the Doctor career we can treat sims we might have seen elsewhere in the world, and we can even make house calls, but when we're playing those other sims, we can't visit the hospital, except for childbirth. It's a real shame it doesn't work both ways.

So true. I wish they did this with the Get To Work pack. If our sick pets can visit clinics, why not our sick sims?

I don't have Cats and Dogs - does that mean a vet practice works both as the vet and as the pet owner?

Yes. You can own a practice and be the vet, and you can take your pet(s) to the vet when they get sick.