This game has been out for 8 years, and we still don't have a proper system of toggles for Occults and generated sims. In case you don't know, Toggles are On/Off switches for different features in the game. There are some available in Settings. The Sims 3 had toggle switches for all Occults in the game, so you could turn them ON or OFF whenever you wanted. There should be toggles for the spawning of all Occults (vampires, werewolves, mermaids, spellcasters, etc.), celebrities, and npc characters. Do you like the BB and CAS of Werewolves, but don't like werewolves? Problem solved, you can turn Werewolves Off with a Toggle. I constantly see complaints about "nerfing" on the forums, and this would help with that. If we had toggles to turn off features/occults, the developers could go all out on specific features, such as alien abductions and vampire break-ins. If the people who bought the pack don't like these features, they can turn them off.EA would also make more money if the had Toggles to turn On/Off occults. Customers would feel more comfortable buying Occult packs for the CAS and BB, knowing that they can easily turn off the occult if they don't like it. So, please Sims team, bring back Occult Toggle switches!

I completely agree with this, and I would go further and say let us toggle it on and off per save. Maybe I want to play with occults in one save, but in another I want to keep it entirely realistic and go from one to the other depending on my mood? In general, I'm just for anything that puts the power in my hands instead of developers. I want to play my game my way, someone else has completely other preferences. Let us decide how we want the game to be as far as possible without crashing the game.

I don’t know why, but for some reason Maxis prefers to use in game triggers instead of toggles with occults in Sims 4. Ages ago, one of the developers apparently said that toggles contributed to the instability of TS3. If that’s true, I can understand the hesitation, but they definitely used toggles with Neighborhood Stories and a few other things. If they could figure out a way to do it without introducing bugs, I’d be all for it. It would certainly cut down on some of the agitation when a new occult is added, and allow more player control of the type of occult, and maybe even intensity of involvement in any game. Then, maybe those who like them can have them integrated more fully into their games, again.Until then, if we want the packs for other reasons, we have to avoid in game triggers.

Yup I'm tired of occults getting nerfed because people buy the packs for CAS & Build/Buy ten whine about occults in their game. Just let the whiners turn them off in the settings!

Yes, please let us have toggles for as many things as toggles make sense for. Occult life states is among the most excellent candidates for such options, though I'd prefer it to be per individual occult type and on a save-by-save basis rather than a completely one-click global thing. I enjoy occult game play in general, but I don't enjoy some of the occult life states (aliens very literally make my head/ears hurt with their voices). Also, some of my saves are intended to feature only one or two certain occults (or none), and I'd like to be able to set that up properly. It would be awesome to be able to customize my saves for the way I prefer to play them.

I think this is just one of those things people have to deal with if they want the B/B stuff. The gurus already confirmed they can't do many toggles for the sake of stability. They do what they can. And people never use the in game toggles.Occults in ts4 is not very invasive and do a good job of staying hidden. You'll never even catch a spell caster doing magic. I'd love it if they could do it so the stuff I enjoy could stop getting nerfed. But ts4 runs smoothly and I wouldn't want to sacrifice stability for it if it were to cause problems.

Can we please have toggles for Occults & other systems in game?

GlacierSnowGhost
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
"Hearts4u;c-18130023" wrote:
"GlacierSnow;c-18130008" wrote:

werewolves hating and fighting vampires on site

Has this been confirmed? This is the first I've heard of it.

Watch DrGluon's YouTube video. I've only watched his video and Greg attacked Vlad. Vlad was beat up by Greg each time and he actually looked beat up. ?

But is that just with Greg because he's supposed to be hostile and beastly, or is it with all vampires and all werewolves?
simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
"Hearts4u;c-18130004" wrote:
It won't be the non-occult players "wrecking" your fun. It will be the occult players. People (meaning occult players) are already complaining about Greg hating and fighting vampires on site. That is the way it should be especially for Greg. Greg is supposed to be a beast; they should not nerf him, no one should be able to woohoo with him; every time the other occults interact with him--it should be on. And Greg should win every time.

One thing they should tweak about Greg is that he should not love anyone and nor should anyone be able to woohoo with him. No one should even be able to cheat a relationship with Greg. Let him remain beastly. Ramp it up even more for Greg. He is one of the best creations I've seen added to this game.

Greg is going to remain Greg in my game. No taming him or trying to be friends. No little Greg's running around.
GracieFace312
New Spectator
3 years ago
"Hearts4u;c-18130004" wrote:
"DaniRose2143;c-18126864" wrote:
"Hearts4u;c-18126848" wrote:
Yeah, they're adding a pack setting that I've wanted for the longest.

After watching the werewolf livestream, I'm happy that they included the option to limit werewolves to Moonwood Mill. Having this feature will allow everyone to play the way they want to play. Hopefully, there should not be any request to nerf features since you don't have to have werewolves appearing in other worlds.

It will be truly happy days if we can get this added to all previous occults, so then the non-occult players will quit wrecking our fun. I don't mind that some people don't share our passion for occults, everybody has their favorites and their own gameplay style. But it gets old losing out on having our gameplay at it's fullest because some people want the CAS and BB and not the main thing the pack was supposed to be about, the occults. There should be no reason to see any feature of this pack nerfed now.

It won't be the non-occult players "wrecking" your fun. It will be the occult players. People (meaning occult players) are already complaining about Greg hating and fighting vampires on site. That is the way it should be especially for Greg. Greg is supposed to be a beast; they should not nerf him, no one should be able to woohoo with him; every time the other occults interact with him--it should be on. And Greg should win every time.

One thing they should tweak about Greg is that he should not love anyone and nor should anyone be able to woohoo with him. No one should even be able to cheat a relationship with Greg. Let him remain beastly. Ramp it up even more for Greg. He is one of the best creations I've seen added to this game.

He's gonna be the new Crumplebottom in my story! Maybe they'll be friends... just friends though!

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