There are sharks in Britechester's waters?!

They are still there? However, looking into tuning files, it turns out it's intentional and mainly encountered in fall.

Sulani and Britechester both have shark danger level in each neighborhood, which are as follows:
Safe (Ohan'ali Town and Gibbs Hill) - No shark sightings there!
Mild (Lani St. Taz and University of Britechester) - Shark sightings, but no threat of being pulled underwater.
High (Mua Pel'am and Foxbury Institute) - Shark sightings and a threat of being pulled underwater!

Basically it works like this.

If your sim encounters a shark or has been cursed due to banishing island spirits, there is a chance of being pulled underwater while swimming in high danger oceans. Sims who have already been pulled underwater have higher chance to be pulled underwater again.

Sims who are randomly pulled underwater either get a scared or an uncomfortable moodlet. If sim gets the uncomfortable moodlet, they'll drown with a special death music. The death type is still drowning though...

Mermaids can summon the ocean threat to pull sims underwater, but these will never result in death, thus always giving the scared moodlet.

"EgonVM;c-18134118" wrote:
They are still there? However, looking into tuning files, it turns out it's intentional and mainly encountered in fall.

@EgonVM
So is the chance of it happening also based on the season, as well as the neighborhood? If so, what are the percentages?

Also, given this counts as a "drowning" death type, is it an oversight that vampires fall victim to it, but not, say, the pond from Get Famous (which can also be filled with sharks)?

"KyreRoen;c-18134132" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-18134118" wrote:
They are still there? However, looking into tuning files, it turns out it's intentional and mainly encountered in fall.

@EgonVM
So is the chance of it happening also based on the season, as well as the neighborhood? If so, what are the percentages?

Also, given this counts as a "drowning" death type, is it an oversight that vampires fall victim to it, but not, say, the pond from Get Famous (which can also be filled with sharks)?

That was actually my first time looking into the tuning files, so I don't exactly understood that spot. I noticed "universityworld" and "fall" and that got me into that conclusion. How it affects the chances I don't know. Perhaps sims will be pulled underwater only in fall or something...
So for now, I unfortunately don't have an answer for that...

About vampire drownings.
Drownings usually happen when the energy need falls zero. Vampires don't have this need (they have vampire energy, which causes death by sunlight).
However, water gardens and the uncomfortable moodlet from being pulled underwater causes drownings regardless of the needs, thus allowing vampires to drown.

@EgonVM
Thank you for your insight.

Just to clarify, vampires don't drown in the pond from Get Famous (unless they changed something recently), hence my confusion.

I suppose I'll have to stick to the safer areas most of the time, and only swim in the dangerous ones if I've my eye fixed on my sims.

I'd say there should be an anti-shark measure one can take, but common sense usually keeps the layman out of shark-infested waters in our universe, so perhaps that's not the worst example to follow, and I can always buy a boat or Aqua-zip otherwise.

"KyreRoen;c-18134317" wrote:
@EgonVM
Thank you for your insight.

Just to clarify, vampires don't drown in the pond from Get Famous (unless they changed something recently), hence my confusion.

I suppose I'll have to stick to the safer areas most of the time, and only swim in the dangerous ones if I've my eye fixed on my sims.

I'd say there should be an anti-shark measure one can take, but common sense usually keeps the layman out of shark-infested waters in our universe, so perhaps that's not the worst example to follow, and I can always buy a boat or Aqua-zip otherwise.

I see.

If vampires can't drown in the water garden, they shouldn't drown because they were pulled underwater.

There's only one thing I can do here: test it out.

@EgonVM
A simmer after my own heart.

My tests with the pond were done about a year or so ago, wherein I had mortal sims jump in and were drowned within at most 3 tries. I then had a vampire jump in multiple times, and nothing happened.

The shark attack was something I'd discovered accidentally, as a vampire of mine was wading out in the deeper parts of Mua Pel'am, and I found her urn in the water.

Tested this out.

Being pulled underwater by the ocean threat can drown your vampires, thus enabling drowning for them.

Consider this as a warning, vampires!

"KyreRoen;c-18134400" wrote:
@EgonVM
I presume you tested the water garden as well?

Yes. With jumping in and accidental fall after playing, the vampire survived. I only stopped because she had to go to work.

"KyreRoen;c-18134404" wrote:
@EgonVM
So effectively the two deaths are classed the same, but work differently, as I thought. One is normal drowning, whilst the other is a moodlet-based "drowning". Correct?

I don't think the water garden one is normal drowning as the chance of it happening are affected by traits, mood, fitness skill, and how hungry the fishes are. I guess when they programmed it, they excluded vampires...

For now, let's say there are three causes of drowning:
1. No energy while swimming in a pool or ocean.
2. Random chance when sim jumps or falls into the water garden (it feeds hungry piranhas and sharks).
3. Being randomly pulled underwater and receiving an uncomfortable moodlet called "Deep Sea Horrors".

@EgonVM
Alrighty, thank you for testing and clarifying. Seems I can leave my "What Can and Cannot Kill Vampires?" alone for now.