Neighborhood stories: No accidental deaths [ Edited ]

[Fleeglesnark]

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.77
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play regularly with Neighborhood Stories turned on for unplayed households
What happens when the bug occurs? The townies do everything NS is supposed to do, except die. Everyone dies of old age
What do you expect to see? Townies dying in accidents because of Neighborhood Stories
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title, Added Base Game Version Number, fixed duplicate template.

[them1dn1ghtfa3ry]

Hi, 

I have an issue of neighborhood stories not allowing Sims to have babies on their own or adopt children. I haven't found anyone else saying that neighborhood stories wasn't doing something that it should, until I read your post. 

Have you found a solution? 

[Fleeglesnark]

Yours is literally the only response I've gotten. I even posted asking over on reddit. No one else seems to have the issue, or have noticed it if they do.

[Creeper545548]

I can't confirm this. In my game. I had someone from the stories say they died of electrocution and their ghost came to my lot since I have the Haunted Lot Challenge with electric bolts inside them. The devs might have made it so it doesn't happen often since they don't want so many sims to die. I can tell you in my game I had a Neighbourhood Stories death last night. So I can confirm it does work and why people are not talking about it since it must be working in their game.

[Fleeglesnark]

I've just downloaded the base game on the PS4 and it's still the same, so it's definitely a bug. I played for 4 hours real time with nothing but death by accident on in neighbourhood stories and all it would tell me was that nothing of note had happened.

[Creeper545548]

@Fleeglesnark Might be an issue on Console then since you been talking about Xbox and Play station versions. I don't play on Console so I can't check. Hopefully someone else can confirm this since I can't. Happy simming.

[them1dn1ghtfa3ry]

@Fleeglesnark I've done the same in regards to only having my settings on having babies in neighborhood stories. I've gone through up to 10 sim days on one lot and nothing!

[them1dn1ghtfa3ry]

@Creeper545548 I have a similar problem on PC

[flauschtrud]

This might be because accidental deaths are triggered depending on population size. They have a much higher chance to occur when the population reaches the max limit. And depending on how many packs someone owns and on play style this might take a little longer. I often start playing with a totally wiped save and it always takes a while until the first deaths by accident occur.

[Fleeglesnark]

@flauschtrud So you're saying that I should try to hit three or more gens? Do you know how long it takes? Because I've gone two gens with none recently.