Balanced Death Moodlets

Recently my sims have been getting notifications that sims they barely know have died. Unfortunately, this means if your sim is popular, they’re in an almost perpetual state of mourning. The default state of the game is to give sims a sad moodlet for 2 days. Sims will be sadder when their pet dies than when a child or spouse dies. In short the 24 scenarios that can happen all have almost the same outcome which doesn’t make any sense.

This mod balances out the buffs sims receive when someone they know dies to reflect their relationship. If they are only acquaintances with the deceased they will get a fine moodlet for a few hours, but if it’s their spouse that passes they will be devastated for days! If your sim dislikes anyone, even family, good riddance! They’ll get a happy moodlet instead. Immediate family moodlets will be stronger and last longer, so a sim will be slightly sadder for a longer time if their brother dies as opposed to an uncle.

This mod will conflict with other mods that change sims death reactions when they die off lot. For now it will NOT conflict with scumbumbo’s Improved Death Reactions V3 (although that mod is out of date and not functioning at 100%). In the very near future I’ll be incorporating that mod into this one.

There are a lot of changes
buff name | original values >>> new values

• buff_DeathOfSim_Acquaintance | sad strength 2 lasts 48 hours >>> fine strength 1 lasts 4 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Pet_Neutral | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> fine strength 1 lasts 4 hours

• buff_DeathOfSim_Spouse | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 4 lasts 5 days
• buff_DeathOfSim_Child | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 4 lasts 5 days
• buff_DeathOfSim_Sibling | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 4 lasts 5 days
• buff_DeathOfSim_Parent | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 4 lasts 5 days

• buff_DeathOfSim_Pet_Friend | sad strength 4 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours

• buff_DeathOfSim_GoodFriend | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 2 lasts 16 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Friend | sad strength 3 lasts 48 hours >>> sad strength 2 lasts 16 hours

• buff_DeathOfSim_Spouse_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 3 lasts 48 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Child_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 3 lasts 48 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Sibling_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 3 lasts 48 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Parent_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 3 lasts 48 hours

• buff_DeathOfSim_Nibling_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 2 lasts 16 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Grandparent_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 2 lasts 16 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Divorced_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 2 lasts 16 hours
• buff_DeathOfSim_Pibling_Disliked | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 2 lasts 16 hours

• buff_DeathOfSim_Nemesis | sad strength 1 lasts 48 hours >>> happy strength 4 lasts 5 days

this mod overrides the following XML files:
buff_DeathOfSim_Acquaintance 190991
buff_DeathOfSim_Spouse 185359
buff_DeathOfSim_Child 185335
buff_DeathOfSim_Sibling 185356
buff_DeathOfSim_Nibling_Disliked 185347
buff_DeathOfSim_Parent 185349
buff_DeathOfSim_Grandparent_Disliked 185344
buff_DeathOfSim_Spouse_Disliked 185360
buff_DeathOfSim_Child_Disliked 185336
buff_DeathOfSim_GoodFriend 185341
buff_DeathOfSim_Sibling_Disliked 185357
buff_DeathOfSim_Divorced_Disliked 185339
buff_DeathOfSim_Friend 185340
buff_DeathOfSim_Parent_Disliked 185350
buff_DeathOfSim_Nemesis 190761
buff_DeathOfSim_Pibling_Disliked 185353
buff_DeathOfSim_Pet_Friend 190774
buff_DeathOfSim_Pet_Neutral 190775