Sims dying of laughter

I've only ever had one sim die of laughter and it was on a purpose. You're probably playing too "well" - I mean making your sims have too many happy moodlets. Sims are in danger if too many happy things are happening too fast. I see other people suggested the same too.

Happened to me just a few days ago with a playful sim who was dancing... luckily her boyfriend was there and i made him beg the Reaper so he saved her life. Also got a nice sentiment from that so yay

I had a sim die once from laughing. I have since turned off emotional deaths using MCCC. I don't want this in my game.

"JueJue;d-995413" wrote:
I've played this version of the sims since it came out and in all that time have had 1 sim die of laughter. In the last 3 weeks, I've had two sims die of laughter. What is going on? Anyone else notice this suddenly?

No, but my very first death by Hysteria, was two very close family members to my Rock Star. Both at the save Event one, after the other. That was shocking enough, but oddly satisfying in that finally something other than dying of Old Age had occurred spontaneously in my game. Yay! for that. But oddly enough, my Rock Star became a 'target' of the game. He died twice and was on his way to a third very untimely death when another player asked if I hadn't made a back up of my saves prior to whatever Patch that one was. I had. I switched out the saves and picked up where things left off at the time just prior to the Patch and went quite a ways without my Sim dying. Thankfully, he hasn't died since. But, I confess, once I experienced it, I set MCCC to prevent it again. It was one of those been there, done that, don't need to do it again, moments for me.

All of this to say, no, I haven't been experiencing this, but then again MCCC keeps it from happening. Perhaps, another player will come by and share.

Could it be to do with environmental scores being tweaked? I think they made it lot based or something. I believe it was based on proximity to things before. Not sure if this has changed.

If sims are generally more stable in their moods, then they are more likely to remain in dangerous moods long enough to die from them.

I haven't been outside of build mode since the change though, so I could be completely wrong.

I didn't know this could happen. What happens to the ghost? I don't think I've ever seen a laughing ghost.

My sim had been busy with chores most the day so I let her do what she wanted so I could go watch the chickens running around, lol. A notification came up and all it took was for me to look at the notification and see "Your sim is very playful" and I clicked on her real quick and sent her to the mirror. It did not bypass very playful in my game. She was watching the comedy channel :D This happened a couple days ago.

It doesn't pay to take your eye off your sim(s) ;)

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-18009888" wrote:
@JueJue

What your second response tells me is you allowed too many happy moodlets stack. That is an easy way to bypass very playful and go straight to hysterical. The trick is to not have your sims always in a happy mood. I often allow my sims to be a little tense from needing fun as an example.

The crazy thing is I didn't do anything to make her happy. I make sure they eat, sleep and use the bathroom but other than that I let them do what they want because I like watching the crazy things they'll do on their own. I hate the idea that I have to make my sims miserable, intentionally, to keep them from dying

i've had one sim die of laughter and i was able to bring them back but it escalates so quickly before you know it the grim reaper is here - i love making them extra happy and satisfied so maybe i need to cut back with the micro managing

I don't let my sims have washer and dryer sets because of the happy deaths it caused. I had it happen in family homes where there were toddlers, sims who tend to be happy have a habit of dying of hysteria near toddlers, washing machines and dryers, and goofball sims. I've accidentally killed several sims in those ways but not in a long long time.