The Sims and all its variations are great games. Build houses, furnish them, get jobs, fall in love… it's just like real life (kind of…)! But if you've played them game, figured out the cheats, and realized that there's no way to really “win,” you know that it gets a bit boring.
What can you do besides kill them off and start fresh?
Get that finger off the delete button, there are better ways to get rid of your Sims!
Drown Them
Spend some of your Sim's hard-earned money on a swimming pool and invite them in to take a relaxing swim. Once they're in, pause the game, go to your “build” function, and delete the ladder to get in and out of the pool. Resume game play. Your Sim will swim and swim until they gain maximum strength… and until they starve and perish in the pool.Burn Them
There are multiple ways to do this, but my favorite requires the “Livin' Large” expansion pack. Build a small house (2-4 square units) and carpet it. Place a rocket launcher inside. Invite your Sim inside to launch a rocket. Pause the game when the Sim is inside, enter “build” mode, and delete the door, locking them inside. Resume game play and watch what happens.
Another strategy is simply to not buy the Sim family a smoke alarm. I experienced a sad storyline where two parents died trying to put out a fire and 3 kids and a baby spent the next three days running from room to room avoiding the moving fire. It was sad… but kind of funny.Isolate Them
If you want a prolonged, visible death for your most annoying Sim, use this strategy. Build a small house (1-4 square units) and invite your Sim inside. When the Sim is inside, pause the game, enter “build” mode, delete the door, and maybe put a window or two in for sick irony. Resume game play and watch your Sim ask for a bathroom, a social life, food, sleep…. Gosh, this is cruel…Abduct Them
Have your Sim spend all the time they can looking through a telescope or working with the chemistry set. Build their science knowledge to maximum, and keep them peering through that telescope. Eventually… they should be abducted by aliens. Serves them right.Random Deaths
Once I had a family who I was experimenting with having affairs with neighbors and the like. The son (poor kid) had a hamster to keep him company. I went to go have dinner and left the game at normal speed. When I came back, everyone was dead… except the hamster. Disease? I don't know.
Try to have more fun with your Sims when you reach the boredom point of the game. Don't be afraid to experiment… hey, as long as you don't save, nothing's permanent!
