About 'Drain Life Spirit' interaction for vamp

Drain life spirit resets that's sims memories and relationships, so if that sim had a negative relationship with your vamp they would no longer know them. Restoring life sprint gives them the memories back...I think, I haven't restored yet.

I had my Vampire sim ask his Alien wife for a drink and the notification said something like "No Way!!! You keep those fangs away from me!!" and their relation is maxed out!

"VenusABatson;15605928" wrote:
I had my Vampire sim ask his Alien wife for a drink and the notification said something like "No Way!!! You keep those fangs away from me!!" and their relation is maxed out!

That might be because she's an Alien, too. Aliens don't have plasma, apparently.

I'm wondering about this "restore life spirit", too here it says that you can refresh your prey using restore life spirit. But after draining and restoring life spirit to a sim, you still can't drink from them even the next night.

So, how is the restoring life spirit supposed to really work? Is it just glitched right now, or is the Sims Wikia wrong, when saying you can refresh your pray with it?

"kati77;15608574" wrote:


Thanks for clearing that out. I really wish I'd known that before. One thing I was thinking about, when I gave my vampire that power, was that several vampires could drink from the same sim in a short while. That it only needed restoring life spirit. But obviously it's not that way.

I think the "refresh your prey" thing just meant that if you've been feeding on someone, and thus have a negative relationship, then you can drain their life spirit which resets all their relationships back to zero. So basically they'll forget you've been feeding on them and they won't hate you any more.

Whenever there is any type of draining of plasma on someone, they get the "bitten" moodlet which prevents them from being bitten again by anyone until that wears off. I found a mod that disregards the bitten moodlet and allows a vampire to feed off them again anyway. I've been using that so I don't have to keep finding new prey for my vampire.

"kati77;15617445" wrote:

"JimG72;15616257" wrote:
I think the "refresh your prey" thing just meant that if you've been feeding on someone, and thus have a negative relationship, then you can drain their life spirit which resets all their relationships back to zero. So basically they'll forget you've been feeding on them and they won't hate you any more.

Well, that's kind of useless, then. If my vampire compels someone for a drink, it doesn't really make any difference, if the sim hates them or not. They can still do it again the next day.

It makes sense to me. You don't have to love a vampire to be bitten and die... >:) Too bad these can't kill off a few townies, other than Enrage. :)

"kati77;15617445" wrote:

Well, that's kind of useless, then. If my vampire compels someone for a drink, it doesn't really make any difference, if the sim hates them or not. They can still do it again the next day.

It's not overly useful and I don't use it very often...especially since it erases all relationships. But I've found a few uses for it.

The negative relationship can build up pretty fast (especially if you use a mod which allows re-feeding with no time limit)...so I've had others start fist fights with my vampire and I used drain spirit to reset them so I wouldn't have to deal with that stuff. Plus, if you want to invite them over instead of having to leave the lot or track them down, then they often will decline an invitation to come over if the friendship meter is too far in the red. So resetting it helps there too. Also, I had a sim who kept calling and texting my main sim every day about going on a date and how she can't stop thinking about him. He's married and has kids...I had him tell her that he just wants to be friends and that dropped his romance meter to zero but hers stayed the same. I couldn't seem to get it to reset even with cheats so I switched over to Vlad and went to her apartment and had Vlad drain her life spirit. So all her relationships were reset to zero and my main sim never hears from her anymore, lol.

There are some mods out there which allow unlimited re-feeding without time limits and can even be set to remove negative relationship effects from feeding. That's the goal the OP described and that's the easy way to do it......"drain life spirit" isn't really intended to circumvent the feeding cooldown built into the game.

I use it as a punishment mostly. Vampires excommunicated from my vampire society are made mortal and drained of life spirit before being cast out by one particular vampire who serves the role of enforcer.

@JimG72 I never really invite humans to my vampire. My vampire just visits random sims, goes into their house and drinks.

@starcrunch the punishment idea sounds cool.

"starcrunch;15617983" wrote:
I use it as a punishment mostly. Vampires excommunicated from my vampire society are made mortal and drained of life spirit before being cast out by one particular vampire who serves the role of enforcer.

wow!! Sounds like a part of movie. awesome! :D