Poll: How do you feel about accidental deaths in the Sims 2?
ZiggyDoodle:
What accidental deaths? My Sims seem to be invincible and so far have survived setting themselves on fire, heatstroke, and lightning.
Kyna:
I'd like to see an accidental death that wasn't caused by glitches. The only truly accidental death I ever had was due to a Maxis bug.
To get an "accidental" death (i.e. not by old age) I have to take extreme measures to ensure it happens. Hardly an accident if I'm doing that. I'd like my sims to die by other means than old age, but I don't like having to choose which sims to kill off. I'd like some randomness in the process - even sadorandomness would be better than none.
I did use the decimate function on the lot debugger once pretending it was something like a plane crash for storyline purposes, but I got some funkiness in the game when one of the sims it selected was a baby. For my larger neighbourhoods I've been considering making a list of my playable, killable (i.e. no babies or toddlers, who can't die) sims in a spreadsheet, then using a randomise function to choose how many to kill off, which of them will die, and what they'll die of.
35-55 age group.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2007 March 29, 02:42:03
What accidental deaths? My Sims seem to be invincible and so far have survived setting themselves on fire, heatstroke, and lightning.
Lightning is probably the deadliest due to its instant hunger hit, which can kill. Sims hit by lightning also have a high likelyhood of peeing themselves as a result of the bladder hit. It's a bad thing. The lightning itself, however, appears to be nonfatal.
Katie:
The only time I had a Sim die of something other than old age without me planning it was way back in the base game. I was busy paying attention to something else, and one of my Sims managed to starve to death in that time. Negligence on my part, not really accidental.
I didn't answer the poll because none of the answers really apply. It's not that I want more death, I just think it should be handled differently. I was trying to kill off a household once, and it happened when a Sim started a kitchen fire. Of course she just ran around for hours on end waiting to be engulfed, while her housemate was upstairs in the bathroom rocking out to her MP3 player. She didn't come downstairs until the first Sim perished, and then she eventually died in the fire. While the whole scene was quite amusing, it's also not really the type of death I'm looking for. I want more random death. I like the occasional element of surprise.
J. M. Pescado:
I think the problem is that in real life, people only accidentally die through intentionally destructive acts or extreme stupidity on the part of themselves or others. Everything else is natural causes. Since sims doesn't include acts of lethal violence nor self-destruction, accidental death is understandably somewhat more rare.
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