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

"mia_noelle97;c-17358977" wrote:
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.

Thing is many of my Sims are well-to-do, living the high life as you suggest, yet it took years (I've played this game since release) for me to experience an emotional death, as I explained in an earlier post on this thread. What I think EA should look into (if they have a mind to tweak it at all) is to NOT take it away, but possibly to do something about that stacking system where a nicely decorated room can blow away the black cloud of sadness all by itself, or other positive atmospheres. I think the idea was a good one, on the whole, but something went awry when the positive emotions stack up the way they do and lead to a death. All people who get happy, don't just continue to have that mood escalate at an alarming rate. Sometimes a good laugh is enough to diffuse it. Sadly, the system is flawed. I'm one who rails against the tameness of this game, starting with Sims3. So, it took a preposterous set of events for me to finally turn off emotional deaths in my game, until such time the game ceases to target my most favorite Sims.

I've seen that sims taking a bubble bath might be sitting in the tub laughing and having fun long after they are clean. I always keep an eye on someone who takes a bath. Never had a sim die from laughing yet, though.

Another emotion effect that I strongly dislike is that in my student dorm female students get extremely flirty from watching a romantic movie on tv. This leads to female students flirting with everyone, and especially with other females, regardless of being a shy person or what. It simple looks very wrong that a sensible woman suddenly starts flirting like crazy just because she watched tv. Hello??? I've never seen this in homes, but frankly I mostly played students since the DU release.

I've been trying to kill an elder without just deleting her. She's Nina Caliente's mother. I keep sending her on jogs, she gets a few steps from the house, turns around and goes and lies down somewhere. lol! The reason is I want her to stay on the genealogy diagram. Not a blank.

But yeah, the death by emotion thing is kinda dumb.

"Admiral8Q;c-17359611" wrote:
I've been trying to kill an elder without just deleting her. She's Nina Caliente's mother. I keep sending her on jogs, she gets a few steps from the house, turns around and goes and lies down somewhere. lol! The reason is I want her to stay on the genealogy diagram. Not a blank.

But yeah, the death by emotion thing is kinda dumb.

Make her woohoo continuously. Should make her drop eventually.

"Nindigo;c-17359625" wrote:

Make her woohoo continuously. Should make her drop eventually.

LMAO!!!!!
Now that's a good way to die! :D
Heh heh! Too funny!
Epitaph: Died by having too much woohoo.
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I'll send Don Lothario out immediately...

In ~2000 hours of gameplay I've had only one accidental emotional death. My Vampires caused quite a few emotional deaths but I worked for those and intended them. Granted I don't like play much in fancy environments - give me run-down houses any day.

Careful. If you get too mad, you'll die of cardiac explosion.

I can't find my sim who died in any gallery and her urn disappeared. Is there any way I can recover her for even a future game? She seriously was the prettiest sim I ever made. :(

"BatmanFanGirl;c-17359898" wrote:
I can't find my sim who died in any gallery and her urn disappeared. Is there any way I can recover her for even a future game? She seriously was the prettiest sim I ever made. :(

Only if you have a backup saved game or haven't deleted her from your personal offline gallery. If she was on your played lot when she died, the urn would not normally disappear on its own. You could check the family inventory or one of the other Sims' inventory.

But other than this, you'll just have to move on if she is nowhere to be found.

"BatmanFanGirl;c-17359898" wrote:
I can't find my sim who died in any gallery and her urn disappeared. Is there any way I can recover her for even a future game? She seriously was the prettiest sim I ever made. :(

When you first created her in CAS and then clicked on the check mark on the lower right to place her in your game, that is supposed to make a copy in My Library. Do you have a back up version of your saves folder, or your Tray? She should be in your Tray. Again, obviously, you got into the Gallery, but then you have to go to where it says My Library. Click on households and see if she isn't somehow hiding from you. Other than that, I'm afraid I can't offer any other advice other than for you to try to recreate her in CAS. I have a tendency to make back-ups prior to patches. I also will take my Sim families into cas.fulleditmode, noodle with them if needed (mostly to change out their wardrobes) but then I will also make a point to save them to My Library. There's a file folder icon near the top in CAS. But, you should already have a copy if you didn't lose your Tray.

Best of luck, and I feel your pain.