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bouquet0roses
Seasoned Novice
1 year ago

Questions about Fears Feature

Does anyone know if the more recent packs have specific fears? Like a fear of horses (Horse Ranch), or a fear of mold/getting evicted (For Rent)?

It feels strange that there’s very little integration between this feature and the game itself. Realistically, every want should have an opposing fear associated with it (Want: adopt a dog vs fear of dog, for example). 

And if the team was going for a more phobia based system than just the Sims 2 style, not having fears of the different death triggers was odd.

Practically most of the current deaths have real life phobia counterparts (rapid rodent fever > hamsters > cricetophobia, falling off a horse > horse > equinophobia, killer rabbit attack > rabbit > leporiphobia).


(If I misspelled anything, let me know)

gameplay issue

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  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    Well, there are 3 post-High School Years fears:

    • Fear of Being Inferior (Growing Together) - A child exclusive fear coming from low Childhood Confidence.
    • Fear of Horses (Horse Ranch) - Most likely comes from aggressive horses.
    • Fear of Eviction (For Rent) - Every knock will scare your sim now.

    I still don't like the fact that pre-High School Years packs still don't have their own fears though...

  • bouquet0roses's avatar
    bouquet0roses
    Seasoned Novice
    1 year ago

    I don’t have Horse Ranch or For Rent, so thank you for letting me know they have an associated fear. When I looked up fears in the game, I couldn’t find anything for those two packs.

    Do you have those packs yourself? I’ve been debating on getting Horse Ranch, but I don’t plan on getting For Rent until the Gallery gets further updated to deal with pre-For Rent patch lot corruption (I’ve not experienced the issue myself, but I don’t have FR, so I wouldn’t be able to test it anyway).

  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago
    @bouquet0roses wrote:

    I don’t have Horse Ranch or For Rent, so thank you for letting me know they have an associated fear. When I looked up fears in the game, I couldn’t find anything for those two packs.

    Do you have those packs yourself? I’ve been debating on getting Horse Ranch, but I don’t plan on getting For Rent until the Gallery gets further updated to deal with pre-For Rent patch lot corruption (I’ve not experienced the issue myself, but I don’t have FR, so I wouldn’t be able to test it anyway).

    Yes, I do have these two packs.

    Well, For Rent is a buggy pack at the moment indeed. So I understand that.

    Horse Ranch, well, it's up to you to decide in the end. You get horses, goats, sheep, new world, but you could leave it for the moment it goes on sale.

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