Aliens, Ghosts, Neither or Both?

Occults are what help make the Sims so unique. I don't want a 1:1 real life simulator; if I did I'd just go live life as it is.

It depends for me. In some of my saves I don't have occults, in others I do. But vampires are my favourite. I do hope that witches are added next.

It took a while for the aliens to grow on me, but I like them now. Ghost, I can take 'em or leave 'em. Don't care much for the vampires, but I'm hoping before it's all said & done that we have witches, fairies, mermaids & maybe genies.

Depends on the save. Sometimes I like to keep things more realistic with no occults, other times I’m cool with them. Heck, the dude in my avatar met his wife on Sixam.

I rarely play occult Sims, but I like the variety they add to the world in saves where I’m less concerned with realism. It’s kinda need having ghosts stick around to haunt their old houses, and no Scientist’s life would be complete without meeting some aliens.

I wasn’t planning on having any aliens in my current save, but then one of my Sims accidentally married an alien. Dad (the alien) didn’t stick around (he fled back to Sixam after his cover was blown publicly), but they had a kid. Kid seems totally human despite being a hybrid, but there’s alien DNA in the family tree now, so that’s cool.

(Here’s the kicker: Kid never knew his dad. Mom hasn’t told him his dad was an alien. Kid has absolutely no idea he isn’t fully human... could get interesting if the alien genes are more noticeable in his future kids.)

I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with ghosts in the current save yet. I might go TS3-style this time around and build a community graveyard once my founding Sim finally kicks the bucket.

I don't like TS4 ghosts, didn't care much for TS3 ghosts either.
I did like TS2 ghosts. They were more mysterious and scary like ghosts should be. :)
I also wish we had cemeteries.

I kind of like TS4 aliens, but I wish they could get an overhaul and be as interesting as TS4 vampires.

We have aliens, vampires, bring in witches, Wolf's and fairies. This would make the game unique.

Vamps all the way

I like having occults if you took them away the ability to cheat, how quickly they age, how pregnancy goes by and other things have long stopped this game from being a "realistic" simulator. Though it's a game I want it to be fun realistic doesn't go with most games considering games are good to learn the difference between reality and fantasy. Which is more important than it seems. I need witches, fairies, werewolves, genies, and if we don't get imaginary friends I want more items like Patchy that come to life.

I'd love ghosts if they acted different from ordinary sims.

The Gen 3rd heiress Married a grandson(?) of the Nancy and Geroff Landgraab whose father was an alien. So his and America's (Gen 3 heiress) have alien interactions. My current heiress (Gen 7) and her twin moved into the same apartment where their Mom and their "Aunt Leah" (technically Cousin like 2/3 times removed) lived and also where some other more distant aunts passed away in and one of these two ghosts helped me with a story plot in Gen 7-regarding The heiress' true love.

The Vampire thing is coming in Gen 8-not there yet.