The Sims - Cruelty or Happiness?

Post stories of how you either put your Sims through seven circles of hell or make their life a waking dream of candy and puppy dogs.

Personally, I'm cruel.

I created a love triangle, with a guy called Peter Mac Griffin, a woman called Sara Trenton and the Townie Marylena Hamilton.

Basically, Peter loved Sara, but Sara loved Marylena, but I threw a bit of happiness in as I liked Peter and Sara so I cut Marylena loose and had them two become a couple.

Being a Sim God means dabbling in shipping, I'm afraid.

Tell us your stories so I can get ideas...I mean be entertained by your stories of unimagineable horror or sweet loving happiness.

I generally just raise Sims justly and benevolently, unless I want to make a graveyard or haunted house.

Then I go nuts.

I read about someone whose Sim got fired from work just before lunch, so when he got home he was starving to death. After a failed attempt at cooking, he ordered a pizza and died just as the deliveryman got to the door.

The Grim Reaper, after collectiing his soul, ate the guy's pizza.

The game can be cruel by itself. XD

In the Sims 2, I had an Elder by the name of Folly Katt, she had 4 cats that constantly had litters and a Cowplant that once belonged to her "now deceased" Plantsim husband. To extend her own life, she harvested the souls of the Riverblossom Townies until one day, she was stupid enough to try and take the cake herself.

Her husband's Spore (Plantsim Child) then turned her into a Zombie out of hatred.

edited 26th Dec '11 4:23:21 PM by PippingFool

My sim in Sims 2 I made a multimillionaire through ripping the town off ruthlessly thanks to the Open For Business expansion.

His house was AWESOME.

How'd you do that? They just not buy anything from me if I do anything like that.

Pay-by-hour business, poker tables, and a good sales skill. Once I maxed sales, I set the price to $999 and siphoned the infinite money away from NP Cs.

Until you get the gold sales badge, though, keep the price low.

edited 26th Dec '11 4:54:28 PM by MarkVonLewis

I prefer "buy or die".

Kills a lot of good Sims though.

So maybe "Buy or imprisonment in Alpha Compound."

Well I'm planning on killing two Sims off to make them have a ghost kid

the BDSM mod makes Cruelty Play very very weird.

I just try to max out my Sims' happiness and keep them adults forever through the immortality elixir.

edited 26th Dec '11 7:30:03 PM by Firebert

I get too attached to my sims to murder them.

That happened with my love triangle, I found Sara's mannerisms too cute to do anything, and Peter was doing really well at work.

Meh, someone else can take Marylena.

I've taken a canon route in Pleasentview and had Mary-Sue catch Daniel with the maid, he's moved in with his sister Jennifer's family and I want Mary-Sue's life to plummet for the hell of it, what route should I take now?

edited 26th Dec '11 8:38:05 PM by Steventheman

UPDATE: Sara and Peter got married and Sara's now pregnant!

Is there a place where I can put my Neighbourhood's grand story? As I think the official website is down now, and even if it wasn't, there's too much "oddness" there...

BTW, I refer to non-canonical events caused by me as Ganon, as the stuff I do is usually evil.

I'll take a picture of Sara and Pete for you all.

edited 26th Dec '11 9:44:22 PM by Steventheman

The only time I'm cruel is when I want Sims to move out and break up. That is, have Adam and Steve humping in bed in front of his wife, make out with their kid watching, etc.

I made Saddam and Mao as a married couple.

Tropers, what should I do with them?

Have them kill countless innocents? Like in Real Life?

Have them fight for political dominance of the town. Have it escalate into murdering one anothers supporters, and have it culminate in them attempting to kill one another.

You know, what generally happens when you put two brutal dictators in an area together.

I did that in Veronaville before I lost the data.

It was geared up to be awesome...

Wife tried getting a death-by-flies thing in 2, but no matter how many rotten plates of food we had and how crappy his mood meters got, no dice. Poor guy spent weeks in his own filth.

^ I tried the same thing. Never worked. Ever.

I wanted a pink ghost, dammit!

The top cause for death in my sims was, at first, death by fire.

After certain mods were installed, it was death by gunshot.

Sims are rather stupid when it comes to fire.

Once, we had a Sim die in front of a shower tub. While it was occupied. The Sim in that tub complained and everything until his hunger meter ran out, and only then did he hop out of the tub to immediately die. Pretty much every mood meter was fully red by the time he expired, including hygine. That was some nasty water after three or four days, mind you.

I hate those glitches, kills some of my best sims.

Although the times it did happen, I was able to incorprate it into the Ganon.

Console commands were my bestest friend, for stuff like that.

That and quitting qithout saving.