Something is making my sims die of hysterics!

My sim self's son Andrew was an actor and for his work gig he had to research the playful emotion. Within seconds of clicking 'research playful emotion' the camera pans to Andrew and he died with in seconds of clicking on research playful emotion!

My sim died yesterday of hysterics too, and I have no known objects to cause hysterics. This has never happened to my sims before. I was watching another sim, and I saw my other sim in the process of dying, and my guy pleaded but to no avail, so maybe it is a bug.

"crocobaura;c-18230102" wrote:
Maybe they are eating the emotion berries or drinking tea that causes playful emotions?

I don't have any berries on the lot. They do have a tea maker but neither of them use it. So that can't be it.

"Brd709;c-18230107" wrote:
My sim self's son Andrew was an actor and for his work gig he had to research the playful emotion. Within seconds of clicking 'research playful emotion' the camera pans to Andrew and he died with in seconds of clicking on research playful emotion!

This is similar to Wren's death. She did research the emotion and was almost immediately hysterical before she could even do any of the interactions. Edmonda is not an actor though and did nothing of the sort. In fact, all he did was do his usual routine.

"Colorist40;c-18230110" wrote:
My sim died yesterday of hysterics too, and I have no known objects to cause hysterics. This has never happened to my sims before. I was watching another sim, and I saw my other sim in the process of dying, and my guy pleaded but to no avail, so maybe it is a bug.

It is possibly a bug because I've only ever lost one other sim in this way and that was long ago. Of course that was a once bitten, twice shy situation so I try to keep my sims from being playful at all once they reach YA to keep it from happening.

You can probably figure it out if you have the presence of mind to look at their moodlets when they become hysterical. The descriptions of the moodlets should say where they are coming from.

Perhaps you have one playful moodlet stacking with a whole bunch of happy moodlets. The happy moodlets increase the playful and that can tip over into very playful or hysterical easily.

"mightysprite;c-18230219" wrote:
You can probably figure it out if you have the presence of mind to look at their moodlets when they become hysterical. The descriptions of the moodlets should say where they are coming from.

Perhaps you have one playful moodlet stacking with a whole bunch of happy moodlets. The happy moodlets increase the playful and that can tip over into very playful or hysterical easily.

The bolded part is what happened. He had 1 playful moodlet and a whole string of happies. I didn't realize they were interacting like that. I guess I should have considered it. ?

That sucks though because I guess the lesson is "Never a happy and playful sim be, lest the Grim Reaper come for thee."

There we go. We all need a little bit of dark. If we don't bring our own, Grim will bring it for us!

I like the possibility of random deaths and I hadn't suffered one single emotional death, but then I had two in the same evening! My Global Superstar was throwing his very first Charity Event at a bar and of course invited those he knew were likely to donate. This included his only sister and her husband. First her husband, a non-emotional type, (Vulcan), found Erik's silly joke all-too-funny and Spock died on the spot. :open_mouth: His wife for some odd reason was slow on the take and didn't notice her husband had deceased, but then she grew hysterical, too and over she went. :open_mouth:

I tried to carry on the save, but Erik was ill-equipped to care for this identical twin nephews and his then girlfriend was of no help. I only threw in the towel when the twins' needs were so bad, I thought for certain the Social Worker would be at their doorstep poste haste. Then the game seemed to target Erik, killing him at least twice. That's when I used MCCC to disable emotional deaths. And that's my story.

Wow, that's insane. My sims still keep getting hysterical so I think I may need to turn off emotional death. It needs tweaked at least.

The playful moodlet can be dangerous. I’ve lost 2 sims the exact same way you did. They became hysterical and before they could calm down at the mirror the grim reaper appeared. Now anytime I get a playful moodlet I watch what other moodlets it’s combined with. If there are too many happy ones I immediately try to get rid of the playful one even if it means tea or berries. Just get rid of it asap.

"mightysprite;c-18230459" wrote:
There we go. We all need a little bit of dark. If we don't bring our own, Grim will bring it for us!

Good ol' Grimmy to the rescue... I guess. Lol