The Mysterious Choking Death
schmoopee:
Oh, I don't have a problem getting roof raisers - I spend a lot of money on decorations and take a lot of pics, is the problem. *lol* Fountains, sculptures, plants, you name it! I like them to have nice wedding pictures. So my financially challenged sims, I send them to this really pretty community lot to get married, so they can get pretty pictures without having to buy the decorations, because I don't like to cheat and buy it for them. :)
RainbowTigress:
I haven't tried community lot weddings. I try to avoid community lots because they take so long to load anyway. I was disappointed when I first got the game and discovered that sims couldn't get married at other sims' houses. For instance, the Goths had that pretty wedding setup in their backyard, and it would have been nice if their friends could come there and get married. But no, you have to set it up for each and every house where sims want to get married. It's kind of gotten to be annoying, although I like weddings. :)
Ancient Sim:
From my experience, I would say the "mysterious choking death" is totally related to the disease token the Sims get when they first become ill. This is why so many pregnant Sims fall victim to it, because they always get one along with their pregnancy token (which is why the first 24 hours are the dangerous ones). According to what I read, the Sim has to be ill for 10 days before they can die of the 'flu, but this isn't the case. I had a Sim catch the 'flu during her wedding party (around 7 or 8 of the 12 guests present had it) and she died under the wedding arch within seconds of taking her vows. She hadn't sat down since the message about her 'flu had come up, she'd been socialising the entire time, so that might have been the reason.
Since my last reinstall I've had 4 more choking deaths (which I've gone into on the variousimmers thread mentioned earlier). Three have been male (one YA and two former YA's) and one was Allegra Gorey, former YA, who died less than one sim hour after giving birth. All 3 males recovered from the 'flu on another lot, one at a wedding party, one at a graduation party, and one whilst sampling the delights of the neighbourhood bordello. Allegra never went anywhere during her pregnancy, but she did catch the 'flu somewhere in the middle of it.
It could be a similar situation to the problems that can be caused if a Sim becomes pregnant on one lot and then moves to another one, although I've never had problems with that. If the disease token is personal to the lot rather than the Sim, there could well be problems if the Sim recovers on another lot, insofar as the game will become confused as to their state of health. Shouldn't happen of course, but it seems to me that it's definitely a programming bug of some sort.
Personally, I don't mind it. I enjoy the drama, the break from routine, the surprise element ... I'm just waiting for the day when they can have accidents and I can finally stick a nanny in the middle of the road and just wait (rubbing hands together gleefully) for the arrival of the school bus ...
RainbowTigress:
The first time I hired a nanny when I first got the game was for Brandi Broke. She had just gotten a job in Politics, and I didn't know if the nanny was going to make it in time for her to go to work, but she did. She was taking her time walking across the road when the carpool came up, and I thought it was going to run her over, but of course it didn't. I kept clicking on the carpool and finally Brandi went to work but it was close. Another time a sim kid ran in front of the carpool, and he really would have been dead if it weren't just a game.
Back to the choking death, your theory about disease tokens makes sense, Ancient Sim. I have never had this happen in my game, but I think it's because I use Inge's no disease patch. I also use JM's no eat crap mod. Visiting sims were always getting sick because they would eat spoiled food even when the residents wouldn't. When I take out my hacks to troubleshoot, and the no disease patch is gone, I will usually get an error message about the disease controller whenever I enter a lot for the first time. (I play with debug mode on.) Resetting it usually fixes it, but this leads me to believe that each lot has a separate disease controller just like the pregnancy controllers and aging controllers. I believe Jase, who made the InTeenimater, says there are two controllers for pregnancy, one is a pregnancy token the sim has, and the other is a controller on the lot itself. I may not be saying it exactly the way he did, but I think that's the general idea. So I think somewhere in the disease controller lies the problem.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, this is all too confusing for me! If my sims gets sick, I send them to bed. If they wake up, I let them go to the bathroom and have something to eat, then they go back to bed again, until I get the message that they are well again! If necessary I stick the TV in the bedroom so they stay there! I've never lost a sick sim yet! If I see one puking up on another lot, I exit and go back to their home lot so they don't show up anywhere else and spread the disease, and get them better fast!
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