i actually signed up to this forum to complain about death not being deadly enough. there should be an option to turn on spontaneous death or to make death deadlier.
in s2 i had a pregnant sim, i had not played lots of s2 and so my sim was miserable during pregnancy, i just couldn't keep up with her needs. she was at home alone on her last day of pregnancy, her husband was off to work and she was really hungry and had to pee and while she was cooking labour started. she stopped cooking, had her baby, cried, peed herself, cried again, then a fire in the kitchen started - by that time i was panicked at the speed of bad things just unraveling before my eyes - and my sim caught on fire and died. i immediately called her husband home from work to plead for her life, but grim was quicker and before i knew it, the husband came home to find his wife gone and his baby alone with grim. i cried with the husband and at the same time i got so connected to him and the baby.
another issue is the cowplant. i LOVED s3 cowplant and i DESPISE s4 cowplant. why oh why do sims NEVER die on their first attempt at eating the cake? and not even that, the also NEVER get the urgo to eat the cake on their own while they have the drained-moodlet. (there is a mod for this, but since so many other issues have me fed up with playing s4, i haven't gotten to enjoy that mod yet.)
also in s3 i liked playing households with 8 sims where i gave them all very diverse traits and then never controlled anyone and just watched what would happen. sometimes i'd give the 8 sims just 3 murphy beds and a very narrow kitchen, a fireplace, a gellybeanplant, a cowplant, a sodamachine, a narrow long pool with just one place to enter (ie all objects that could potentially kill sims) and wait and see what happens. they were dropping like flies. in my fire game like this after 24simhours there were 3 deaths. i've tried the same thing in s4 and it's boring as hell. noone drowns, noone burns, noone fights (traits do not matter at all!!), they just walk through each other and live their happy shallow lives. i hate it.
