Glasses need purpose!

Cool idea, AbbyBaba729

Yes! I wear glasses and think this would be really cool! :blush:

And we should be able to purchase Lasik in the rewards store.

i think nah

I guess i wouldn't care if i can take my sims to get the surgery so they don't need glasses but I don't really vibe with game telling me what my sims can and cannot do

especially cause even blind people can do some things better than people with perfect vision so itd just become minefield trying to say someone cant be awesome at skill simply because they can't see

That's a cool idea. I like the prescription glasses on the Sims.

Simmingal brings up some valid concerns. My other thought is ... what about contacts? I know many people who wear/have worn contacts, which means... what? a "blank" glasses icon that represents contacts? I guess that could work.

But, as for the skills... it really depends so much in reality on why you need glasses as to how much needing them interferes with skills or the ability to maneuver the world. I need glasses for distance reading and that's about it. Right now, as I type, I'm not wearing glasses. When I get up to go to bed, I won't be wearing glasses. A sim based on me wouldn't be any clumsier because I need glasses, because my needing glasses doesn't keep me from navigating more or less anywhere unless I need to read a sign. I only wear them when I watch TV if I'm expecting to need to read something on the screen.

And while it's great for the occasional comedy piece, it gets dull fast if everyone is the same level of "nearly blind without 'em" for glasses and the same joke plays over and over and over again. (and it's a kinda cringeworthy joke as is.)

I wouldn't mind, I would probably prefer for it to be a trait. That way the player could make it genetic. I'm not sure what rewards and disadvantages one would have with that trait though. Maybe some activities could be harder and some activities could be easier depending on your sim wearing glasses or not but it's so different for everyone.

I wore glasses for around 20 years until I did lasik, from my personal experience, glasses helped me a little bit with energy and focus because you don't have to concentrate your eyes as much when you are wearing glasses, even people who have normal eyesight sometimes wear glasses if they sit a lot in front of their computer for example because it protects their eyes and helps them focus.

But they made it harder for me to be flexible, like working out. But again, it's different for everyone.

I would love it. And hopefully it would stop that annoying tendency of your Sim going off to work without glasses on - after taking the time to make sure you set glasses to each of their outfits. So why do they ignore it for work?

The concept is fine, but I personally feel no need for a hidden trait like this in game. I’d rather have more hidden preference, personality and skill traits than realistic need traits.

I give my sims glasses when I decide they need them. For example, in my game they will never wear those things in their work-out gear and pajamas. They don’t wear them on a hot day. In those cases we’re left with so many choices that a trait like that may not make any difference and has the potential to leave us with a buggy gameplay experience instead.

Or it gives us annoying notifications like these:
”You’re not wearing your glasses today. You can’t see a thing”. ... minus minus FUN.
So my sim tries to get their fun boosted by playing computer games. Notification:
”You can’t play computer games. You’re not wearing your glasses. You can’t see a thing”. ... minus minus FUN.
And then my sim dies from depression.

I’ve had myopia since I was a little brat. But I don’t always wear glasses. Sometimes I wear contacts. Sometimes I wear nothing at all. Because sometimes I just want the world to look blurry.
I don’t need my sims to have bad eye sight. I just want them to look and be more interesting.

I suppose they could add glasses requirements for far or near sighted activities, but knowing EA, they will probably come with a little swirling cloud. If they don't wear the glasses maybe it will take longer for sims to skill through say reading a book? Or their knitting will end up in failure more often? But if glasses end up being like slippers and sims will wear them in immersion breaking activities such as the slippers while sleeping or swimming, I'd rather not have compulsory glasses requirements. I don't really like using them on my sims anyway cause I can't see their faces, especially with the sunglasses.