Recently I started playing with Eva Capricciosa in Windenburg. She had an extremely active love life, several dates a day and a lot of woohooing in closets and bushes. Until suddenly she dies from a broken heart. This made no sense to me, so of course I had to look into how death from broken heart works.
This is what I found out: There's a hidden counter that goes from 0 to 100 (commodity_Death_BrokenHeart). When it reaches 95, the sim dies of a broken heart, unless they're either pregnant or a vampire.
Breakups, being cheated on, and failed romantic interactions increase the score. As they should. But here's the problem: cheating also increases the cheater's score. This means that if your sim is in a committed relationship, but still has romantic interactions (kissing and woohoo) with other sims, your sim will eventually die from a broken heart. This completely ignores everyone's romantic boundaries, making certain types of open relationships virtually impossible.
There's also no way to heal a broken heart. It takes about 10 Sim days to reset the counter from risky levels to zero, and there's literally no way to speed up the process. Which makes no sense, sims mourn the death of their loved ones for three days, a broken heart shouldn't take ten days.
Here's a bug report for this, please vote if you've experienced this too.
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TL;DR: Open relationships are deadly in The Sims and a broken heart takes days to heal
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Adds two new club activities, Deep Clean (includes vacuuming) and Laundry.
Adds two new club activities, Deep Clean (includes vacuuming) and Laundry.
