"igazor;c-16218707" wrote:
"Simtown15;c-16218502" wrote:
That sounds like it's not the mod for me then! I don't like those kinds of things; they just make me stressed.
Then by all means you are welcome to not use it. ;)
The appeal of Vector, for many of us anyway, is not really to make or see our sims or those around them suffer. It's more that after playing this game for a long while, especially long ongoing ones that reach stages of evolution and progression where it's not really difficult to keep our sims happy all of the time surrounded by loved ones, expensive toys, appliances, and furnishings, it's a welcome extra challenge to work through to also keep them healthy and react to disease-created conditions that otherwise just do not exist in the game. The mod was originally designed before Seasons, so we didn't even have the flu and allergy "feeling germy" afflictions that the game now has, and unmodded they are pretty weak as challenges to work through by comparison.
I often keep most of the diseases disabled (dormant/switched off) myself. Even though I don't find the challenges they present overly stressful and I never play with the lethal ones anyway, I don't need them to be overwhelming either as my sims have more than enough to keep them very busy already. :)
Very well put. For me there is also the fact that I've always found Illness in the sims just way too easy. in Sims 4 in particular it basically just made your character look funny, but with a little effort to keep them happy had no real impact on game play, and I appreciated seeing a mod that had so much thought put into how to make illness more challenging, I had a really nasty cold back in November and was struck down fiercely, having a mod that does the same for my poor sick sims was really refreshing and honestly a lot more fun to play. Much as igazor said, sometimes managing your sims just becomes too easy. It's kind of nice to have a wrench thrown into the happy game play every once in awhile. I don't tend to play with the fatal diseases enabled unless it's just one of goofing around/test worlds, but I tend to leave at least one illness running since yours sims can be immune for a certain number of strains. Never want to be too confident the llama pox still can't get you!
I'd also like to clarify I am in agreement that I don't necessarily want to torture my sims just to torture them, I just think illness is an important part of real life and like seeing it in the game.
