Why can't we play the way we want?

So if I'm understanding right, you bought occult packs you didn't want, are upset that your game now has occults in them, and are blindly trying to force the game not to spawn them even though the game is REQUIRED to spawn them to function, and you're trying to force it not to happen by using a mod incorrectly?

The game WILL spawn aliens when it needs an alien-related thing to happen. That is simply how the game works. It WILL spawn werewolves to fill in critical werewolf roles. That is simply how the game works. It WILL spawn vampires to do vampire attacks- that is simply how the game works. It WILL spawn fairies to fill in the main fairy roles. That is simply how the game works.

Telling MCCC "Dont spawn any [occult type]" will not stop these things because they are core, critical functions of the game. When the game needs an alien, it either uses one that already exists, and if none exist that fulfill the requirements of what it's trying to do, it makes a new one.

If you did not want that to happen, you should not have bought the pack that creates an occult you do not want present in the game.

(Which wasn't strangerville, by the way- it would probably also help if you knew what packs had what content in them. Also, no previous entry in the series let you turn off specific occults, either.)

(BTW, AI will not fix anything you don't like, the game isn't poorly coded in the first place, and they DO put money back into the game: That's why you're still playing it 11 years later and it's still getting updates 11 years later and it gets more updates more often in the past year and a half than it ever has or any sims game ever has.)

I am also a new Sims 4 player (since L&D) and long time Sims player who play all the installments. I too felt it needed more packs before I could start Sims 4 (well almost skipped it when I thought Sims 5 was coming out) but I also started Sims 3 late (since Supernatural). I also have tried to be very careful to not buy packs that may have features that would annoy me.

But I am the opposite player, I love the occults, but I completely understand how frustrating it is to lose immersion in a game. I wish I could remove cellphones (I have various mods that stop sims from looking/playing at their phone), I don't have builds with computers or tvs, etc. I do need mods, because some things drive me up the wall in this game. But overall I am at a good place with the game—and I am also liking the direction they seem to be going.

I do hope more toggle features and more manage world features get added to give the player more customization. My gawd, I'd love if we could manage large family trees editing via edit/manage world (which include NPCs we usually can't edit/manage (looking at you Nyon Specter and link you up with your Grim Reaper daddy (instead of the long cheat way))).

However, as mentioned in their surveys, they prefer more in depth feedback. Venting/aggro/ultimatum posts can/may just be ignored as they aren't the most helpful and usually lacking details or compromising.