#2599
24th Oct 2016 at 3:31 PM
I use a mod that makes diseases deadlier but I'm thinking I may have to remove it. However, let me paint a picture for you of why I'm considering this although I like the premise of the mod since vanilla game diseases in Sims 2 are weaksauce.
Single mom Dalia has a teenage daughter (Nora) who is literally two days away from aging up and a child-aged son (Arthur) who is about 3 days from aging up. She was pretty much stuck with the two after it was clear her children's father wanted nothing to do with any of them because he's a dual romance/knowledge werewolf Sim that has interest elsewhere. Money was always tight in those early years with the nanny and bills leaving her with less than a hundred bucks daily. When Nora became a teen, she started working as well and that made things a bit better financially but it was still a top priority to promote Dalia since she had the best income potential. Still, the family is very close with everyone being friends/BFFs and their motives rarely tanking except with the kids' were-dad comes around to howl it up. Life is good then somebody got sick.
I still don't know who got sick and brought it home but it quickly infected everyone with a nasty cold. The house was filled with hacking and sneezes. Motives were dropping like bags of nickels but I was able to keep them mostly in bed with the occasional bathroom/food run. Eventually though, work/school came up and before I could cancel the action, everyone was already in their respective transport so I just crossed my fingers as no one had a pop up for pneumonia so it shouldn't be that serious yet. Everything seemed fine until Arthur came home where after setting down his homework, he hacked for a minute, tried to go to bed but unceremoniously croaked right after changing into his PJs. His sister was arriving home at this point but before I could get her to go plead for her brother's life, she started her own five minute hack session where she then promptly keeled over. Their mother was arriving and apparently missed her chance to save her daughter due to hacking up a lung but actually didn't die.
So now, Dalia, who has boyfriend that won't even stay around for the birth of his children and only has a couple days until she hits her twilight years just had BOTH her kids wiped out by a cold because the "god" (ie me) of their world wanted deadlier diseases. Man, I'm a real jerk.
I guess this can boil down to is I get annoyed when hacks don't work as intended.