Poll: How do you feel about accidental deaths in the Sims 2?
Moa:
Deadly scissors: I think they still work, they're simply not as deadly as they used to be. I recently put the latest downloaded version from the official website to use against Lorenna Sunset (knowledge Sim and the prettiest adult female in my game) to satisfy her desire to beat death. Her SO, Flower Forth, had a desire to save someone from death. Neat when it works out like that, but I held my breath when Grim showed up. I've only had one high relationship ever fail the pleading, but still.... (Loved the tension, however.)
Lorenna did have to make several runs with the scissors before she got the desired results.
Death to Ugly Sims?: I'm still a bit puzzled over the prejudice against ugly Sims in the game. Sure I want some attractive Sims in the game, and I'm very pleased when a plain child blossoms into a swan, but I like to be able to spot a Sim going by on the street and immediatly know who it is. Everytime one of my Sims makes an age transition, I send them to the mirror, put them temporarily in a generic hair style with no makeup, glasses, or facial hair, then take screenshots in full face and profile. I've got enough of them now that I can say that the Sims I deem the most attractive are almost identical, with only noticeable differences in the minor facial features. Since I want more variety among the population, I don't kill the uglier ones. (Okay, the really ugly ones I don't let breed as much.)
Of course I've got a large number of Sims at this point, so there's room for a lot of variety.
Difficulty letting go of my Sims: Yes, I'm a wuss. I can't pick and choose which ones to bump, especially since I'm not practicing any sort of eugenics program. But its cool when one of them bites it at random. And with the capacity to resurrect the dead, I don't feel quite so bad about letting them go. At some point I intend to get a group of bereaved relatives together at the household of the one Paranormal expert and roll a number to bring one of my dead Sims back. Some fun tension, because I won't know until then who it will be.
Quote from: elle.jae on 2007 March 30, 11:42:21
Every sim day at 6 o'clock, I roll a die for every teen, adult, and elder sim in a household. The number rolled determines whether they take a run with the Giant Scissors of Death. As a sim gets older, their odds of having to run with the scissors gets higher.
That really appeals to the random events freak in me. I may adapt it for my own game.
Sagana:
Another request for dealier-than-you scissors please.
Ok, since I'm posting I'll say that what I'd really like is more objects like those that are pretty much instant or interesting death and you have the option of whether to use them or not (so people that don't want their sims to die can easily choose not). What I most don't like about the available ways to kills sims is the need to be mean to them first.
I have a difficult time letting my sims stats go all down red/playing badly on purpose so motives and aspirations are low (and I micromanage to a ridiculous point - my sims can't do much at all without me knowing it and either letting them or stopping them) and it seems like the vast majority of the deaths require good numbers of low stats or they aren't deadly, and then you wait... and wait... and wait while they starve/drown/get low enough for the next lightning bolt to kill 'em. I want optional instant death. I want the scarecrow scare to kill - don't hafta use it if I don't want it.
I have several death-type mods, but I wish EA would do some more - they fit better in the game, and they can do the instant thing or add other ghosts and stuff that modders can't do (or not easily) so what I end up with is just another form of lightning (no offense to modders) or poison that means I have a starved ghost (fits and it's fun, I just want some different ones too).
But seeing as how EA won't even give us more wants and ltws and turnons and all, and took away the scissors too, I'm not holding my breath for more 'bad' stuff.
I didn't answer the poll cuz polls are Verona's to do but I belong to that second group there even if you count Pescado's way.
PS: Yes I love the random death roll idea and will probably blatantly steal it as well :) <adding not-thanks here>
angelyne:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 March 30, 23:11:50
I hope Theo's sim surgery differs from regular sim-surgery in that it does not involve the creation of useless sims, but merely a straight LXNR replacement.
Yup. That's why Theo's sim surgery plugin is definitively MoreAwesomeTM. It allows you to load a package file (created with body shop) in order to perform the surgery. The other method is next to useless. Who wants to clutter their neighbourdhood with a bunch of useless clones.
neriana:
Quote from: Moa on 2007 March 31, 00:04:17
Death to Ugly Sims?: I'm still a bit puzzled over the prejudice against ugly Sims in the game.
I don't mind ugly Sims, I mind mutant freak Sims. I have quite a few born in-game fuglies whom I rather like. The difference between them and Maxis ugly is that my fuglies look human. Maxis ugly is scary.
J. M. Pescado:
If you've got some really ugly ones, maybe you should submit them to the Chernobyl Challenge. :P
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