In general I've seen an uptick of played Sims being auto-killed by the system. This rarely happened before getting the Life and Death package. In my current game, while playing the same household across , I've had 4 deaths of my played Sims in, I'd say less than a week of playing time. The first two were played sims that were not active. The last two, within two days at the most, were with an active Sim freezing to death. This Sim has ALL the cold weather attributes including one that says he won't be adversely affected bye cold / freezing weather (I'm paraphrasing). I can't remember the details of the first, but the system gives no way to prevent this from happening.
The latest, the Sim returned home from work and joined his partner who was already celebrating with a group at the bar. I saw the Sim arrive, in normal color, almost immediately I clicked him to make an action and he was blue. My instinctual action was to have him walk to the bar so he was inside. I saw he was headed to the fire to warm up. I quickly canceled the current request and clicked on him to complete warming at the fire, and found he was automatically walking back outside to the cold! It was like I was fighting a no win battle against the system.
What I would expect would include any one or combination of the following.
- he'd automatically put on appropriate cold weather clothes when traveling to a colder climate.
- His traits would kick in so he'd enjoy the cold weather vs freezing.
- If my Sim didn't have these traits, or not specifically the freezing one, I'd expect a Sim might occasionally freeze to death but not unless I left him out in the cold for a long time; like at an event without out appropriate clothing, or on a long jog in freezing weather.
- Alternately, in that last scenario, I immediately brought him into action inside the bar when brought to the location, or quickly changed into cold weather clothes, the sim would warm up and not die.
I realize having one of your played Sims turn into a Ghost makes using the new Ghostly features more enticing, but give me a break.....
Fortunately I save often to prevent losing too much game play when one of many crashes or uncontrollable deaths occur. I go back to the main menu without saving and find out where I have to live Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, we all know, there is no Groundhog Day. You never get the same options even if you could remember exactly what you did and in what order.
Please check these algorithms and ensure the triggers for those rare events you force an active Sim to die adhere to safeguards the player has put into play for the Sim.
Please add this to a 'One of the Most Irritating Game Play Situations' list.
Not that it should matter in this instance, but I'm on a Mac. Game and Mac fully updated. No mods now or ever.
