Are vampires really as obnoxious as people say?

I don't have vamps but what I gather is that it's GREAT if you're into supernaturals but if you want to play as normal sims it could get a bit boring especially since there is nothing for them to do...
But then again I don't have vampires so don't take my word for fact :D

They are everywhere, when you click on a sim there's 3 options related to vampires, I know people praise them a lot in here because of the powers and weakness system, it's great but the actual powers don't add anything interesting really. If you're not a fan of supernatural... things It's not worth it IMO.

I don't have very many problems with it. I do get the occasional Vlad breaking into my sims home and drinking from one of them, but that's quite rare. Although, if he does it once, he comes back quite often.

I'm pretty sure that if you have MCCC you can turn that off. Apart from that, they don't really bother my sims :)

They specialise in home invasions in my game, arriving in the middle of the night to suck the life force of the sims of my active household. So a lot more in your face than previous versions of the sims.

"Moon_Willow;c-16026553" wrote:
They specialise in home invasions in my game, arriving in the middle of the night to suck the life force of the sims of my active household. So a lot more in your face than previous versions of the sims.

Do you have a mod installed that makes these sort of drama events happen more? Vlad has never one time returned to suck the life force from my Sim more than once. It just doesn't happen. If you put up some garlic and maybe get high skills in vampire lore, you can fight one and they don't return. I just don't get where people say they come back every night, it just doesn't happen that way in my game. First family, first time, yes, if I open the door to let him in but never if I don't. And he never comes back a second time. Caleb and his sister aren't blood drinkers from humans, so I just don't get it.

ETA: OP, I will say it again as I am a big fan of vampires in the games, I turned two Sims in my game and honestly I hardly ever see them anymore, at first I saw them turn while they were walking down the street about three days later, but since then and all the patches I'm hard pressed to find them anywhere at any community lot. The game may generate one or two more for jobs but they are also the first to get culled when the game culls townies every Sunday.

ETA: Anyone knocking at your Sims door after dark is a vampire, just don't open the door, you will never be bothered.

Note, my Sims don't live in FH, maybe that makes a difference, I don't know.

Mine live in all the neighborhoods just like everyone else. I've never had one break in. The worst they do is come up to a door at night and knock. If I don't let them in, they just stand there and eventually go away. If I let them in, I have the sims I'm playing talk to them and it's just like any other sims visiting. They've never bitten anyone or sucked out their life force during a visit. I have one who has all the powers and she never does anything to anybody. She just stays home with her two boys.I worry more about my sim who has all the collections and the kleptos who are casing his house TBH.

I have mods to keep vampires in Forgotten Hallow. I got tired of my sims constantly being attacked while they slept and when they are on communities lots not being able to go home because "a vampire is breaking into a lot" and my sims would be stuck out until dawn. Put in that mod and haven't had any problems with vampires since. Otherwise I would have likely uninstalled it.

"DivieOwl;c-16026599" wrote:
I have mods to keep vampires in Forgotten Hallow. I got tired of my sims constantly being attacked while they slept and when they are on communities lots not being able to go home because "a vampire is breaking into a lot" and my sims would be stuck out until dawn. Put in that mod and haven't had any problems with vampires since. Otherwise I would have likely uninstalled it.

Before that, were you letting in strangers?

I have Vampires and even my super god tier vamps wont bother my human sims, been playing my human sim for like 10 hours straight and almost everyone in her family has converted to vampireism, but not her as I wanted to keep her human for other reasons, and even though she has like 6 family members who live in a different town who are all fully fledged vamps, and I do see them quite often but they tend to mine their own, mostly only the ones who can walk in sunlight will show up at lots, I can interact with them and not need to worry about vampire stuff, sure the vampire options show up in the menu, but easy enough to ignore, if I did not know I had turned them into vampires, I might not even realise they were Vampires, since they don't really do vampy stuff unless you intrude on it, I don't notice the vamps while playing my human sims any more then I notice aliens in disguise tbh.

I don't have a problem with break-ins, either. I do make it a priority to get some garlic braids up whenever I move to a new lot, but once they're in place any unwanted nocturnal visitors quickly get disgusted and leave.