# Minor rant - Who the fuck killed my Sims? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697 "2004-12-26T19:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/1 "2004-12-26T19:06:23Z")
I was bored and decided to play Sims 2. (Stop looking at me like that! It’s a great game!) I had 2 main familys I was playing with, and I was going to marry the two teenagers. But when I went to one of the families, their two kids have been killed off, and my adult sims are now elders. Who the fuck killed my Sims, and WHY?! I spent ages working on that family! I can’t be bothered to re-do the whole thing. Guess its time for me to get a real life… ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Sparky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Master\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Sparky)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/2 "2004-12-26T19:13:34Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > I was bored and decided to play Sims 2. (Stop looking at me like that! It’s a great game!) I had 2 main familys I was playing with, and I was going to marry the two teenagers. But when I went to one of the families, their two kids have been killed off, and my adult sims are now elders. > > Who the fuck killed my Sims, and WHY?! > > I spent ages working on that family! > > I can’t be bothered to re-do the whole thing. Guess its time for me to get a real life… I’d suggest looking for some shallow SimGraves in the SimBackyard. And if you suspect the adults, you can always wall 'em off in a door-less, bathroom-less room for some nasty punishment. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/3 "2004-12-26T19:20:07Z")
> [@Master Sparky](#): > > I’d suggest looking for some shallow SimGraves in the SimBackyard. > > And if you suspect the adults, you can always wall 'em off in a door-less, bathroom-less room for some nasty punishment. It couldn’t have been the adult sims, as I would have noticed last time I was playing. I think this is the work of an actual person. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/4 "2004-12-26T20:10:29Z")
Ok, I admit it, it was me. ~drops EMP shotgun~ Whatcha gonna do about it!?! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/5 "2004-12-26T21:58:33Z")
Maybe SimGod told the parents to kill their children as a show of faith? ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/6 "2004-12-27T01:58:58Z")
Did you forget to clean the guinea-pig cage? ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/7 "2004-12-27T03:15:11Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > But when I went to one of the families, their two kids have been killed off, and my adult sims are now elders. Wow, that sucks, **AngelicGemma**. I know how much time I put into my Sim families when I was playing Sims2. (In fact, I might just load them up again now…just to check on them, you understand…not to play for the next 12 hours or so.) The only thing I can think of is that perhaps you accidentally went AFK without pausing? Sims left to their own devices tend to get themselves killed in short order, I’ve noticed. Sorry to hear of the fate of your little guys. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/8 "2004-12-27T03:48:36Z")
I suggest putting in the “no aging” cheat btw. I turn it on and off at occasions. I started with one guy, no aging. Til he made a lot of money and had a wife, then three kids. I turned on aging til the kids made adult, turned it off again. Produced grand kids then aged them to the point where I felt the original generation was about to die and turned it off there. The game just goes by too quickly with default aging. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/9 "2004-12-27T04:06:58Z")
Seconding the ‘no aging’ code here, too. Grow the kids up, move 'em out, turn aging off again until such time (if ever) that you’re ready for them to go dying off. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/10 "2004-12-27T04:48:40Z")
people get too caught up in their sims, anyway. have you ever had someone be mad at you in real life for something _a sim based on you_ did in the game? ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/11 "2004-12-27T12:10:12Z")
I was using the no ageing cheat, but turned it off because I wanted so grow up the teen so she could get married. There are two people who would have been able to get onto my laptop and kill my sims. My brother and my boyfriend. Both are denying it. My investigation continues… ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/12 "2004-12-27T18:51:51Z")
Where’s Simlock Holmes when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/13 "2004-12-27T19:41:16Z")
Gosh that’s annoying. You can probably look in your elder Sims memories and maybe see what killed their children? (if it was a fire or something big?) You could periodically save your neighborhood to protect it from the villain who appears to be sabotaging your families. To preserve neighborhoods as you left them, go into ‘My documents’ - ‘EA Games’ - ‘Sims 2’ - ‘Neighborhoods’. Then copy/paste (into a hidden, safe folder labeled something discreet like ‘recipes’) whichever neighborhood you’re playing. For me, it’s neighborhood one as I’m always in Pleasantview. This preserves the neighborhood at the moment you copy/pasted it. I tend to do this before every big change, but I also have back-up copies of my photo’s too so feel free not to listen to me here. 🙂 Of course, a real life is good too…I’ve heard good things. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/14 "2004-12-27T22:13:19Z")
Is it possible you accidentally left it running at some point? I left a game running, thinking I had paused it. I went away, and came back some hours later. In the meantime, my brother had used the computer, so when I came back, the program was shut down and I completely forgot I had even been playing until later that night, when I opened it to find that one of my newer families was in complete disarray - there was death and aging galore. And of course, my brother - doing his best to be dutiful - had saved the game, after all the damage had been done by a newly created Sim family left to their own devices. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/15 "2004-12-27T22:28:51Z")
> [@Lady of the Lake](#): > > Gosh that’s annoying. You can probably look in your elder Sims memories and maybe see what killed their children? (if it was a fire or something big?) [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip\_id=122](http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/16 "2004-12-28T00:30:57Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Where’s Simlock Holmes when you need him? That made me grin. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/17 "2004-12-28T01:11:19Z")
I don’t understand why y’all need the no aging cheat. Decently played your Sims will have more than enough aspiration reward points to buy enough elixir to keep them young forever. We had seven bottles of the damn stuff stashed up in the attic in one family. Besides, letting your Sims die off now and then provides cash from inheritances, as well as ghosts (which your Knowledge Sims are going to want). And it makes room to bring more people into the family. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/18 "2004-12-28T01:23:48Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > I don’t understand why y’all need the no aging cheat. Decently played your Sims will have more than enough aspiration reward points to buy enough elixir to keep them young forever. We had seven bottles of the damn stuff stashed up in the attic in one family. Yeah, but what about all those times when you _don’t_ want to play them decently? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/19 "2004-12-28T05:02:29Z")
Did you have Grand Theft Auto installed on the same computer? ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697/20 "2004-12-28T11:17:22Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > I don’t understand why y’all need the no aging cheat. Decently played your Sims will have more than enough aspiration reward points to buy enough elixir to keep them young forever. An excellent point. 🙂 I’ve not played since \*before \* the fix was put in for that jump-out bug (the elixir was one of the leading causes of it) so my playing experience is geared towards just not letting them age instead of reversing it as it happens. I should really give it another whirl now they’ve fixed the bugginess. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-rant-who-the-fuck-killed-my-sims/281697.md?page=2)