You borrow a horse and the owner dies during your ride

Oh, bad news! I just posted in another thread, but removed my quote when seeing this thread.

I was suggesting that horses are household members, asking whether someone checked what happens if the sim(s) of a lot dies. I hoped the horses would stay as a household, and that we'd have our "community lot" stable, as we would be able to visit and "borrow" horses without needing to bother with sims living on that lot. I now see they would probably get culled. I'm having a couple training grounds where just a single sim resides a residential lot, it works fine as a "borrow those horses ground" though, like we already know :)

Sorry I forgot I posted this thread, what happends is that the horse get adopted by another household, but funny enough your horse riding Sim cna go to the dead Sims household and more or less use it as it own. Sleep in the beds, shower and cook its meals

The sims team should make it where any child that is in a household when the only adult/teen dies, that goes up for adoption, they could also do the same for animals. The team makes it where we can have any sexual orientation, can choose pronouns etc. but when a child’s parents die the child just disappears. I wonder how many people that play this game have lost both parents, and how much it bothers them to see a child whose parents die in the game just disappears.. My sims would actually use the adoption feature if one of my rotational families parents died and the child was put up for adoption. How hard can that be to do?

"Lenny_Ogg;c-18302322" wrote:
Ah that's at least good news for the horses! ?
(for the children not so much o.o)
But I guess if the Sim hadn't borrowed the horse it would have been culled too?
@Peral Was the household that adopted the horse another than the Sim that was riding the horse?

Yes it was another household, about that I wonder if an unplayed horseowning Sim ever ride its horse. When my Sim borrowed the Sims horse which she did on multiple occations, the horse owner never interacted with the horse.

"SheriSim57;c-18302684" wrote:
The sims team should make it where any child that is in a household when the only adult/teen dies, that goes up for adoption, they could also do the same for animals. The team makes it where we can have any sexual orientation, can choose pronouns etc. but when a child’s parents die the child just disappears. I wonder how many people that play this game have lost both parents, and how much it bothers them to see a child whose parents die in the game just disappears.. My sims would actually use the adoption feature if one of my rotational families parents died and the child was put up for adoption. How hard can that be to do?

It can be fatal for unplayed Sims when one visits their household since they often lack cooking skill so its not that unusual that the Sims you are visiting gets killed cooking. I had such an incident a while back when my Sims visited a household to get political support. The single parent died and left two orphan children. That my Sims had to "adopt" join their household. Which was quit a task since you had to befriend both children to a degree that they accepted to join my Sims household

I have often wondered why orphaned children that lose their parents aren't moved into the household of a surviving family member such as a grandparent or sibling of one of the deceased parents. Making those kids just up and disappear has never set well with me and has often forced me to exit the game without saving or rolling back to an earlier save. :/

It is also irritating with these neighbourhood stories. In another save I went back to the horse owner who died in the mention saved. Now she was pregnant and gave birth to twins and she also had the horse to take care of. So I tracked the father; Alexander Goth who of course did know the horse owner. So I had to cheat the friendly and romantic relationship so I could move him in.