Author Topic: What do the tunes mean? (Read 1824 times)

Catarra Nightshade · « **on:** November 21, 2011, 01:38:25 AM »

I had a weird little melody sound off while I was playing. All my sims were asleep. It doesn't look like anyone outside the household died. It was a sad little tune...reminded me of the tune that plays when either someone is disgraced or they lose a chess match, or perhaps a pet dies. I don't have any pets in this household. I have no idea what the tune means! I haven't heard it before. Any ideas on what it could be?

samoht04 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2011, 01:55:34 AM »

Did you have a failed/missed opportunity? When you miss/fail those you hear that music? Sometimes someone dies or something or you miss the deadline and it fails.

simfulicious · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2011, 06:47:42 AM »

Was the ice cream truck outside your door, because it plays music. It also has a habit of showing up at like midnight when everyone is asleep.

HannahEloise · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2011, 08:05:13 AM »

Quote from: Catarra Nightshade on November 21, 2011, 01:38:25 AM

I had a weird little melody sound off while I was playing. All my sims were asleep. It doesn't look like anyone outside the household died. It was a sad little tune...reminded me of the tune that plays when either someone is disgraced or they lose a chess match, or perhaps a pet dies. I don't have any pets in this household. I have no idea what the tune means! I haven't heard it before. Any ideas on what it could be?

When my sims go to sleep sometimes, I hear the noise thats like when the ghosts come out from there graves. Yet, nobody has died and I don't live near a grave yard.

Have you got generations? A teen might of set a prank?

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2011, 04:26:45 PM »

Good suggestions. I didn't get a notice about missing an opportunity. Usually there is a pop up saying that you shouldn't have accepted an opportunity if you weren't going to complete it. The ice cream man is always outside, but it wasn't his tune. No ghosts on my lot...yet. And it wasn't the ghostly tune. I didn't see the grim, but I'm wondering if music plays when a stray animal dies? Or what about the wild unicorn? Does it die, and would there be a tune for it?

HannahEloise · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2011, 04:33:12 PM »

Quote from: Catarra Nightshade on November 21, 2011, 04:26:45 PM

Good suggestions. I didn't get a notice about missing an opportunity. Usually there is a pop up saying that you shouldn't have accepted an opportunity if you weren't going to complete it. The ice cream man is always outside, but it wasn't his tune. No ghosts on my lot...yet. And it wasn't the ghostly tune. I didn't see the grim, but I'm wondering if music plays when a stray animal dies? Or what about the wild unicorn? Does it die, and would there be a tune for it?

Does the tune always happen? At a certain time?

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2011, 07:27:18 PM »

Quote from: HannahEloise on November 21, 2011, 04:33:12 PM

Does the tune always happen? At a certain time?

That is the first and only time I have ever heard it, and I play a lot, and have since the beginning.

Saltypaws · « **Reply #7 on:** November 21, 2011, 07:58:49 PM »

I sometimes get a tune, but it is not from a ghost or missed opportunity. I still have not been able to figure it out yet. It doesn't seem to happen any specific time of day or night. I know what most of the tunes are and there is no pop up either. I thought maybe it might mean there is a unicorn somewhere, but that was not it either.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #8 on:** November 21, 2011, 09:32:12 PM »

Quote from: Saltypaws on November 21, 2011, 07:58:49 PM

I thought maybe it might mean there is a unicorn somewhere, but that was not it either.

Im wondering if the Unicorn died? I'm playing a dynasty, and the same unicorn has been around, as far as I've noticed, for 3 generations. There hasn't been a tune announcing the unicorn, but perhaps there is one when the unicorn passes. There can only be 1 wild unicorn in town at a time, it's passing could/should be noteworthy.

samoht04 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2011, 01:29:44 PM »

This may sound like a stupid question but what kind of noise was it? A happy sound, sad or something like that?

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2011, 04:38:51 PM »

Quote from: samoht04 on November 22, 2011, 01:29:44 PM

This may sound like a stupid question but what kind of noise was it? A happy sound, sad or something like that?

It was a sad little melody, like what plays when the lose a chess match, or a pet dies, only my sims were all asleep and they don't have any pets.

Joria · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2011, 05:57:38 AM »

When a unicorn appears there is a tune. When a unicorn blesses, there is a tune. I don't know about when a unicorn curses. When a unicorn transports, there is a tune. So could have been a unicorn. Sometimes they start to show up, you get a bit of sparkle and the tune, but then they change their mind and never do show up.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2011, 09:07:39 PM »

I heard it again! And again, all my sims were asleep, and I couldn't find the cause of the tune. It's a longer tune. Maybe next time, I'll think to record it.

moonshadow · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2011, 10:01:15 PM »

This happened to me a few weeks ago. I was playing a family and kept hearing this kind of creepy tune. I started looking around and I seen some gnome graves poping up. One of the sims must have had a lot of gnomes in her inventory.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2011, 10:59:53 PM »

They do have 3 gnomes, and at least one is an elder gnome. I noticed the age right after hearing the tune the first time. The other two gnomes are sculpture gnomes, and I don't know how old they are. I have never heard music play when gnomes age or die, though.

samoht04 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 26, 2011, 07:53:03 AM »

Only Base Game Gnomes will age and die. This is strange, the Mystery Music!

HannahEloise · « **Reply #16 on:** November 26, 2011, 08:31:20 AM »

Is the music fast or creepy? I've been hearing the noise when ghosts come out of their graves some nights around 10pm-4am. It only started happening after I installed pets. When it happens I always zoom in on the grave yard and sure enough, there's ghosts out.

Once, I also heard the noise of a pet dying but I had no pets.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2011, 01:31:15 PM »

It's not the ghost music, I know what that sounds like. And I don't have any pets, and I don't know what it sounds like when a pet dies.

Gnomes have the same life stages, so when you get a gnome, I would assume it'd be a young adult...so maybe it became an adult the first time I heard the music, and an elder the second? If that is what the tune is. Perhaps, like with the ghost tune not starting until after pets, maybe I didn't get the gnome music until after installing pets.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #18 on:** December 19, 2011, 01:37:42 AM »

I hadn't heard the tune for quite a while, and then it finally played again tonight, and I hit record...and the movie has no sound. >.<

loveSims · « **Reply #19 on:** December 19, 2011, 03:18:16 AM »

Did any big birds die on your lot? A sad tune is playing when a bird die.

Catarra Nightshade · « **Reply #20 on:** December 19, 2011, 01:29:25 PM »

As far as I know, there were no animals on my lot. And I've had a couple Sixams die, and it wasn't the same sound.

loveSims · « **Reply #21 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:48:01 PM »

When a sim become best friends with a pet there is also a tune. I can't think of someting else lol.

kattiq · « **Reply #22 on:** December 19, 2011, 04:44:29 PM »

I know what tune you are talking about because it has happened to me quite a few times in the night! But nothing has ever been on my lot to cause it to go off..I wonder if it's a glitch?

Joria · « **Reply #23 on:** December 19, 2011, 10:50:49 PM »

Ahhh, the melodious mystery meanders on. Hope someone figures it out. I have my sound turned off when I play, (it annoys my husband to hear it), so I've not heard this sad song.

Banksia · « **Reply #24 on:** December 20, 2011, 03:57:04 AM »

Could it be the sound of a spirit infestation in a nearby house?