This is such a stupid death. Now my toddlers have no mom. Thanks a lot Sims 4.

Yeah, they place far too much emphasis on emotions in this game. I'd prefer to see more interesting game play than these silly emotions ruling your character all the time. Another one I really never understood was getting angry over watching a bad movie. Really? Angry? I've been disappointed after seeing a bad movie but never angry. That seems a bit mental.

Couldn't agree more. A Sim can get Beaten UP without limit, like as many times as you care to try, and they only get the same Dazed moodlet you'd get from taking a second dose of cold medicine. Can't die from having the tar beaten out of you repeatedly (without mods) but you can die of embarrassment? Laughter? Well then, how come you can't die of being grungy? I mean, it could cause a skin condition or an infection that could kill you, potentially, right? But you literally cannot die of embarrassment no matter how much you might wish to. Farting in math class, brings on that kind of wish, but death is no rescue in that case.

I hardly ever notice this feature. Avoid the goofball trait and send your sims to a mirror to calm down if they become very playful. It gets critical if they become hysterical. Also, pay attention to any items with enabled emotional auras. Emotional deaths have been a thing for a very long time, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they can happen.

This is a tricky one. If you have too many happy moodlets that are boosts, it will make one playful moodlet affect all of them and thus, making the sim hysterical.

Going back a month or so ago, Travis Scott died at the humor and hijinks festival in one of my playthroughs. it was far too easy to build the playful moodlets. it was the only death that i've recalled that was way too easy to get in short order (by way of jokesters). I've had the occasional hysterical moment from laughing, i mean to the point what was funny quickly turns into the need to breathe and your sides is starting to get painful or your head starts going as red as a cherry.i haven't died from laughter when those things happened. Sometimes the moodlets don't make a lot of sense in that way, because one random thing is possible to set someone off laughing like a mad man, it has been known to happen. for all the attention put on the emotions, there isn't enough of certain specifics that can get your sim giggling for what seems totally odd and out of the blue.

With no warning my mom sims died of laughter. I am so mad.

JanuaryGarnet08
New Spectator
5 years ago
"BatmanFanGirl;c-17360806" wrote:
OMG Guys!!! YOu are right. I didn't have the CC box checked. I have her saved in my library!!! :D :D :D

Glad you’ve been reunited! ?
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"BatmanFanGirl;c-17360806" wrote:
OMG Guys!!! YOu are right. I didn't have the CC box checked. I have her saved in my library!!! :D :D :D

I am so very happy for you! So glad you found her. I'm sure she's glad, too. ;)
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"BatmanFanGirl;c-17360578" wrote:
So I believe I saved her to my gallery at one point but she isn't there. I just tried saving the current family to the gallery also and I don't see them? Am I doing something wrong?

When you first save anything to the Gallery, you'll find it on the 'news' page. I panicked once when I didn't find a family I had just saved on my actual page. But, I did a little 'tour' of the Gallery and there on the news page on the right among other new items saved it was. I usually don't check until the next day but by then it's in My Library. Check the news page for your new family. :)
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
5 years ago
"BatmanFanGirl;c-17359898" wrote:
With no warning my mom sims died of laughter. I am so mad.

Well... at least you didn't die of extreme mad-ness. ;) :D
Karababy52
New Spectator
5 years ago
"BatmanFanGirl;c-17360806" wrote:
OMG Guys!!! YOu are right. I didn't have the CC box checked. I have her saved in my library!!! :D :D :D

Yay! \o/ Glad we could help. I'm so happy for you and glad it turned out to be an easy solution due to just a simple oversight to get her back . :) Happy Simming! <3
TanteGummigutta
5 years ago
@alyssa123 I struggled too to get my sims to die by emotion (playing a legacy so had to have 10 different deaths).

The hysteria one I struggled with for generations before I managed it, tormenting my sims with alternating comedy tv, playful paintings, cozy fires, bubble baths, jokes etc, you name it. I finally managed it with some MySims after an online tip. To get a sim to die of embarrassment was slightly easier, but I had to work for it. I have yet to manage getting a sim die of anger. No matter how much verbal and physical abuse from mean relatives with angry paintings around, I never get them beyond very angry. Tips from those of you who have had angry deaths?
TanteGummigutta
5 years ago
@Arzekial Is the "bad movie" angriness from movie stuff?
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"KiniHokulani;c-17358714" wrote:
Oof. This happened to the 2nd gen heir of an old legacy save I've since finished and deleted. She had twins. Just got married so she had that happy newlywed buff, her twins aged up, and she had a bunch of other random happy moodlets. New husband was at work, first day on the job as a cop.

One of her toddlers did something super cute I guess. I wasn't focused on the house and next thing I know the camera pans over to her as she's dying of hysteria. Grim comes and reaps her, kids are sobbing, I make the husband come home early. Shocked the plum out of me since it came out of left field.

That seems to be the way that emotional death hits. Strike right out of left field.
BatmanFanGirl
5 years ago
"Sharonia;c-17358548" wrote:
I turned off emotional deaths with MC Command Center. It's such a dumb design choice to me and I don't want it in my game.

Can you tell me which MC Command I need to download? Is it in the basic mod or do I need to download one of the sub categories?
mia_noelle97
5 years ago
I had one of my sims die of laughter after he had just finished celebrating Winterfest with his husband and kids. He had a bunch of happy moodlets because of it and I think his alien toddler must have told him a joke. I tried calming him down in the mirror, but it was too late and he ended up dying in the bathroom.

Now, I disable emotional deaths with MCCC. I appreciate the fact that they're there for people who want them, but I hate how easy they are to achieve, especially the playful one. If you take good care of your sims and they have nice houses, they're just one joke or bubble bath away from dying. I don't think they should get rid of them as there are people who still like them, but I wish sims didn't constantly have a bunch of happy moodlets that make it easier to become hysterical.