Poll: How do you feel about accidental deaths in the Sims 2?
notveryawesome:
I finally broke down and tried ACR. I'm finding it enjoyable enough, so far, but I don't like having to set up each individual neighbourhood and/or family, and I'm having the same problems that I have with any autonomous actions - the sims decide to do them at the LEAST convenient times (like right before the carpool arrives). I'm keeping ACR in my game, for now, but I honestly don't know how long I'll be able to stand it. I like to play with free will on, because I like the autonomous conversing, flirting, etc, but I can't stand it when they decide to go off and cook lobster thermidore for no good reason. No-autonomy hacks have become my best friends. That said, it was kind of funny to see Bianca Monty putting the moves on Oberon Summerdream at a party, with no prompting from me. :D
Sagana:
I leave freewill on and then tediously micromanage. If they're doing something I don't want them to, I click it off and occasionally tell the stupid sim to 'stop that, right now' when it doesn't go away fast enough. ACR goes away fast enough, so I don't have any issues with it. (I must have the game paused more than it's running...)
I didn't set up every house though - I set the hood, and then I set houses that I want to be different for some reason, but if I'm satisfied with the way it works standardly, I just leave them be. Oh and I use... uh, not-static so it'll change based on what I do/let them do.
<loves ACR>
Zazazu:
I generally micromanage my sims only on the weekdays. I'll give them two hours before bed to goof off, but other than that it's work/skill build/homework/friend build. On the weekends, it's a free-for-all. I'll check their needs ever four hours or so just to make sure they aren't pillow fighting themselves into bladder failure, but that's it.
ACR has been interesting. I have a Grilled Cheese non-zombie (a first, but she was my legacy girl and rolled Romance so I couldn't bring myself to zombify her)/Family sim combo right now and every 32 hours like clockwork, it's time to strip and woohoo. They could be on the way to get a bottle for that toddler they had against the Oversoul's wishes (ugly little thing it is, too) and they'll drop that for a little hibbity jibbity. Cracks me up. Toddler's starving, but they're getting it on.
halfeatencorpse:
Frankly, I don't mind the thought of having a little bit of random mayhem in my game, but it's been virtually mayhem free, and I've been playing since TS2 was released. I did experience the bug related pregnancy death you mentioned in the scarecrow thread, which was triggered when a Sim visited a community lot whilst pregnant (but before she started to show), but beyond that, the only two accidental Sim deaths I've experienced were death by fright and death by satellite. The death by fright incident would've been avoidable if I hadn't built a mausoleum to house the urns of 9 generations of dead Sims & let one of my knowledge Sims fulfill her "see a ghost" want. The death by satellite incident would've been avoidable as well if I hadn't let Daisy Greenman watch the pretty clouds.
Considering the number of ways that a Sim can die, I guess I've been lucky. That or I just rule my Sims with an iron fist. Probably the latter. I don't let them do stupid things very often unless the population is in dire need of culling. Or the whim strikes me. Or they continuously engage in stupid or annoying behavior during those odd moments that I feel gracious enough to grant them free will, in which case, I generally feel the need to punish them. In my game, stupidity is a crime and, depending upon its severity, it can be punishable by death. It's my version of natural selection.
frivolous:
Quote from: pamysue on 2007 April 07, 18:05:52
I'd love for a message to pop up sometime and tell the family that Mommy/Daddy died on their way home in a car wreck. I think death is way to predictable in the game.
i have been waiting for a hack like this since 2005.
D:
the sims is too cookie-cutter! i never use fire alarms as that at least gives me a CHANCE of accidental death......
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