Ran with scissors

Ran with scissors

I posted this on another site, and I didn't like the replies I got. Does anyone have better news for me?

I was getting tired of my legacy household running so slow, so I decided to have grandma run with scissors so I would have one less person to worry about. Grandma has been perma-plat for quite some time now. She ran with scissors, then Grimmy came to take her away, and left a regular tombstone. I really wanted that Family Platinum grave. I was going to have the current generation's mother move out with the non-heir children, but now I feel like I have to keep her to get her Family Platinum tombstone (and she better be platinum when she dies, because I'm not giving her 6 kids, and her LTW is to marry off 6 kids). Grrrrrrrr!!

 

I am entirely uncertain what you expected to happen.

 

Maybe it's something to do with the hack? It "removes" the platinum status from the Sim's death or something?:confusion: I've had the object for a while, but not had any Sims die playing with it yet. Just have to keep trying, I guess:devious:

 

I was just pretty upset that I had this sim in Perma-Plat status, and I had her run with scissor hoping she would die so my game would run faster (lots of sims in a household REALLY slows the performance of my game), and she died and left a regular tombstone! So why did I even bother trying to get her to be Captain Hero? And now, because it's my legacy house and I want the points, I have to make sure I have another family sim in platinum when they die. Grrr.

 

I agree the platinum gravestones are prettier. I've had sims get them without being permaplat, though.

 

I had two elders in platinum just from hugging, kissing and flirting with each other all the time. Unfortunately, they were the same age and each feared the death of the other, so when Grimmy showed up, the one he took first had a platinum gravestone but the second one lost platinum status because of the death of the first just a few seconds earlier and only had a regular gravestone when she died a moment later.

p.s. I think the platinum urns are real pretty.

 

Hummm. I don't know, maybe she had a fear of dying or something?? (trying to remember, have I seen that one before? I know there's the fear of spouses and loved ones dying. . . hummm.)

 

Yeah, MegRen. So sorry to hear about this and also to note Pescado and Josh's less than helpful suggestions. I am just wondering ... I've not had a huge number of natural deaths in my game so the platinum tombstone ain't something I am familiar with but at a rough guess I'd suspect that Maxis made pretty sure that a really boss monumental legacy wouldn't get awarded to clumsy oikish sims who commit seppuku (or who get murdered ... I've not done it myself but a sim in perma-plat will still starve to death if locked up and not fed).

So ... let that be a lesson to all. Moider is plain wrong however you go about contriving it.

 

LOL, in case that wasn't clear enough, I believe what everyone is trying to say is that you can only get a platinum tombstone/urn from a natural "old age" death. An "accidental" death will always produce a regular tombstone, regardless of aspiration level.

 

Dang it! The thing I don't like about waiting for them to die of old age is that if they're platinum when they become elders, they don't die for a REALLY LONG TIME. So I have to wait to start the next generation because I want the platinum graves (so I can't move the elders out), but I hate having more than 5 people in a house (I micromanage and my game gets really slow). From now on, no one is becoming perma-plat until they're already elders. So there! Sorry. I just had a kindergarten moment.

 

She feared the death of her spouse. I was a little new to the game and didn't notice that fear although I probably couldn't have done much about it. This was before sims could achieve permanent platinum status so it was easier to lose it.

 

My problem with elders is, they have no new goals to achieve for themselves. Everything seems to be "relative gets married" or "relative gets engaged." It helps if they don't retire, then they can have career goals, but still ... once a sim has run out of things to accomplish it's time to shuffle off the simmy coil.

One way I plan to solve this is have a grandkid move in with my gen 1 sims after she graduates from college. That way, she gets use of their cool party house and I can play them to the end without suffering death by boredom. It's not that I don't like them anymore, it's just that they've done it all. I can't even shake things up by giving them a surprise (adopted) baby. I don't want too many people running around ...

I won't kill them off, though. Tyson is permaplat and just became an elder. He may very well outlive some of his grandkids at this rate.

 

A lot of people use Elders for babysitters. I was trying that before I had to start over in August. Charlene had transitioned to an elder and was keeping her two youngest children and 2 grandchildren while her daughter and son-in-law worked. It was a full house, lots of activity, but Charlene is a family sim, and seemed happy. I got her a maid (she's very lazy) and she played with the kids and helped them with their homework and encouraged them to be nice and outgoing. I was enjoying playing that household.

 

Well, that is part of the plan ...