Bring Whims back please
Wants and fears are not gonna be ok for me. I was so used to whims! Turning them off wouldn't be right for me, I just am connected to whims. Maybe make an option button to enable and disable whims an...
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Without the whim bubbles over the sims head in the corner, I am really disappointed with game play now because I am not sure how to build aspiration points.
I do not like that fact that we can only pin them not remove them like before. It is annoying.... I am about to disable them.. If I can get on sims seems origin is down at least for me it is
I had this issue but the discovered a cheap potion in the aspiration point rewards store. Think it was called want refresher potion or something.
- @RavenLure You can refresh your whims in two ways. The fastest way is to have your Sim go to sleep. You can immediately wake them up and any non-pinned whim will refresh. The other way is to use a satisfaction reward to refresh the want (which works on any non-pinned whim.)
The whims are based on the Sim's traits and chosen aspiration. They do need to be base game or HSY. Hopefully, in the future, they'll add ones based on other packs.I miss whims too and they were such a big part of my game play before the recent patch! It was great to be able to cancel some of the more annoying ones that would always replicate, like build a pool 1x1 or buy a beebox. LOL I really hope EA fix this or at least allow the option to cancel the want/fear.
- @willem39 If you have seasons installed you can add extra holidays to the calendar, if you complete the all the traditions, you get rewarded a certain amount of aspiration points for completing the holiday successfully. Or as I've discovered in my gameplay, give your Sim the bro trait and 99% of the time they'll 'want' to watch sports which is super easy to complete lol
@CommodoreLezmo , yes! In addition to that, with the Seasons Holiday events calendar, you can also edit existing holidays to be easier to complete for those Aspiration points! So, for Love Day, if I have Sims that are single that I don't want to get them into a romantic relationship at the moment, I just change what activities need to be done in order to satisfy that holiday's requirement to get the points! So, I usually just have them decorate their home and watch the Romance channel on TV! 🤣
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Since the Chage from Whims to Wants I have tried 2 families. I deleted the first because of the incest bug. I have not had 1 single want that was in any way related to the sim's aspiration, regardless of what that Aspiration is. I have tried the Wealth and Mansions, Spell caster, Beach life, Artist, even the children's aspirations do not relate to their wants. The reset Wants potion does little to change the wants they just recycle other old wants. With only 3 primary Traits there seems to be very little want variation. With Children and Teens, you have even fewer. It has become painfully clear that Likes and the 3 primary traits are what drives wants. Since there are missing activities, it is hard to get a sim to want to do their Lifelong Aspiration.
People realized that they removed the majority of the base game whims. Anything that was associated with Moodlets and by extension asperations was binned. My understanding is that if you have the more recent expansions there are more wants and fears but they still lack substance and become very intrusive. I am currently trying to get one of my sims to the top of business but it is proving impossible with how often I come how with "fear of dead end job" Then I had the issue of him getting the Fear of Unfulfilled Dreams. I can't get rid of the dreams one until I get right of the Dead end job one and now my Sim has to spend ages doing stuff to cheer him up just to attempt regain passion. Nothing about fears is good. In the time it takes you to do one fear you could have done four to six moodlet related whims.
Yesterday I found fears for the first time. Other players have terrible experiences with fears overwhelming sims. I have no idea why they are essentially non-existant in my game. But I saw fears next to my whims for the first time. At first I didnt know what it was until I read the tooltip. I had to complete a whim to talk about fears. What a pointless limitation.
I would be ok with fears as they add something to the character but in its current form, besides the bugs, its useless and detrimental to our gaming experience.
