Your Thoughts on Phobias

It has been thought of multiple times.

My concern is, I need to be able to chose, or control, what my character becomes afraid of. I know what my sims are, and what they will come to fear, and how they will over come it. I can't afford the game to shape my characters into something they're not.

Maybe connected to not being able to fulfill Aspirations, but I don't think they should be connected to personality traits.

It would be interesting if some sort of phobia trait or "nightmare" very-bad-day, scarred-for-lift scenario unlocked for a sim if a particular set of random chain of events (perhaps individualized per each sim) occurred.

Why not make it a trait sims can gain through gameplay, but can easily get rid of via the phone, cheats, or specific actions. For instance, a Sim gains the pyrophobia trait after catching fire three times with in a certain time frame. They never go near lit camp fires, fireplaces, or any sort of flame because of it, and pass out during an actual fire. There could even be a fearful emotional state to accompany any type of phobia:

Hydrophobia- from being very uncomfortable and trapped in a pool for hours or witnessing another sim drown.
Achluophobia- from being locked in a dark room of a day straight.
Agoraphobia- from being embarrassed or mortified several times in a row (without death).
Zoophobia- from constant negative interactions with cat or dogs or being bit.
Pyrophobia- from catching fire three times in a short span of time (without death) or witnessing another sim die by fire.
Technophobia- from being shocked several times (without death), or witnessing another sim die from electrocution.
Fear of Vampires- from being attacked by a vampire three times in a short time frame.
Fear of Aliens- from constantly being abdupted by aliens.

Stuff like that. Sims can have unique interactions and reactions depending on their phobia and they can have any number of phobias at once or none at all. You can get rid of them by using the phone to go to a two hour therapy session to delete one or all phobias for a selected since, or turn off the option for phobias in the game options menu.

I personally like the perks and weaknesses that came with vampires. I think that would be a fantastic way to approach sims in general. A lot like in medieval. It would be nice if you could pick an aspiration (with trait) three base traits, then one flaw and one fear. (Favorite food, music, and colors like in the sims 3 would be nice too)

Love this idea! Could work similarly to celebrity quirks from GF, or perhaps even able to assign in CAS. I have mentioned this in a couple other threads, but I loved how in The Sims Medieval, you had to choose a fatal flaw in addition to the positive character traits. That'd be a cool way to do it too!

Everyone's afraid of something. Sims should be too. ;)

"ghjdied;c-16986690" wrote:
Why not make it a trait sims can gain through gameplay, but can easily get rid of via the phone, cheats, or specific actions. For instance, a Sim gains the pyrophobia trait after catching fire three times with in a certain time frame. They never go near lit camp fires, fireplaces, or any sort of flame because of it, and pass out during an actual fire. There could even be a fearful emotional state to accompany any type of phobia:

Hydrophobia- from being very uncomfortable and trapped in a pool for hours or witnessing another sim drown.
Achluophobia- from being locked in a dark room of a day straight.
Agoraphobia- from being embarrassed or mortified several times in a row (without death).
Zoophobia- from constant negative interactions with cat or dogs or being bit.
Pyrophobia- from catching fire three times in a short span of time (without death) or witnessing another sim die by fire.
Technophobia- from being shocked several times (without death), or witnessing another sim die from electrocution.
Fear of Vampires- from being attacked by a vampire three times in a short time frame.
Fear of Aliens- from constantly being abdupted by aliens.

Stuff like that. Sims can have unique interactions and reactions depending on their phobia and they can have any number of phobias at once or none at all. You can get rid of them by using the phone to go to a two hour therapy session to delete one or all phobias for a selected since, or turn off the option for phobias in the game options menu.

That:’s quite similar to the Quirks system in GF; maybe they could tweak it and add the feature, then you either buy the potion like with the quirks or go to an off-screen psychologist for “treatment (for a suitable fee of course.

Only we could just choose them. I’d be really annoying if a Black Widow sim became afraid of water because that’s how you got rid of her husbands, for example.

Great Idea. >:)

Support, especially if there was a fear emotion to go along with it.

Don't forget necrophobia- fear of ghosts, skeletons, tombstones, urns and maybe vampires too: from negative interactions with those creatures. Sims with this phobia do NOT like Spooky Day or most of the stuff in the Spooky stuff pack.