Cottage Living - Random (silly) questions

"Gamer_34567544;c-17954033" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17938493" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17938239" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17937827" wrote:

"SERVERFRA;c-17937823" wrote:
Can a Vampire turn a chicken, cow, llama, fox & bunny? :D >:)

I'm going to go ahead and guess no. :D

But I do wonder whether they can feed from them.

Hm, imagining Vlad replacing his cellar prisoners with cows... hm, a big fat NO, I think...

I don't know, I don't do much with vampires usually, but I can imagine some fun storytelling options. Vampire tries to be good, moves to the country to feed on livestock instead of humans. Is discovered feeding on cows by neighbors, drama ensues.

Honestly, though, why can't vampires drink from livestock?

I still think they should have added this option. However, my theory is that they decided that if the vampires drank from the livestock, they would have to have effects on the animals (similar to what you get with sims), and they were already overwhelmed with the coding for the animals. Which is a shame, because I think it would have been better to have vampires able to feed on the livestock even if we didn't see any special effects on the animals. But I suppose if they had done it that way, some people would have completed that the interaction was incomplete or lacking.

"simfriend1968;c-17953777" wrote:

"Isharell;c-17953657" wrote:
How long does it take for chicks to grow up? I turned on animal aging but it seemed to take forever so I sold them. I got tired of all the elderly foxes and bunnies dying of old age. I've now got animal aging off again.

I think it takes about 3 or 4 days for a rooster or hen chick to age up. I don't really keep track, but sometimes they seem to take a little longer to age up. Once I had two chicks hatch within an hour of each other. The first one aged up after 3 days, and then I kept waiting and waiting for the second one to age up and for some reason it took nearly a whole extra day. No idea why. So I don't think it is three days in every case, but roughly in the ball park of 3 or 4 days, depending on the chick.

Thanks @simfriend1968 It's good to have an idea how long it should take. :) I'm not sure how long I waited, but I think it was longer than three days. These were bought chicks which I finally sold. I've got a rooster now so I'll make a note of when one of the eggs hatches. If it takes too long I'll know I have a bug. I don't play with mods or CC.

"Amapola76;c-17954899" wrote:

"Gamer_34567544;c-17954033" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17938493" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17938239" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17937827" wrote:

"SERVERFRA;c-17937823" wrote:
Can a Vampire turn a chicken, cow, llama, fox & bunny? :D >:)

I'm going to go ahead and guess no. :D

But I do wonder whether they can feed from them.

Hm, imagining Vlad replacing his cellar prisoners with cows... hm, a big fat NO, I think...

I don't know, I don't do much with vampires usually, but I can imagine some fun storytelling options. Vampire tries to be good, moves to the country to feed on livestock instead of humans. Is discovered feeding on cows by neighbors, drama ensues.

Honestly, though, why can't vampires drink from livestock?

I still think they should have added this option. However, my theory is that they decided that if the vampires drank from the livestock, they would have to have effects on the animals (similar to what you get with sims), and they were already overwhelmed with the coding for the animals. Which is a shame, because I think it would have been better to have vampires able to feed on the livestock even if we didn't see any special effects on the animals. But I suppose if they had done it that way, some people would have completed that the interaction was incomplete or lacking.

I wouldn't know, but they could probably just get away with stopping aging on the animals and giving them special meals, if the bite turned them. To force a drink, however, human Sim victims only got uncomfortable. Animals could say their mood was less than content from that...

"Gamer_34567544;c-17955034" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17954899" wrote:

"Gamer_34567544;c-17954033" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17938493" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17938239" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17937827" wrote:

"SERVERFRA;c-17937823" wrote:
Can a Vampire turn a chicken, cow, llama, fox & bunny? :D >:)

I'm going to go ahead and guess no. :D

But I do wonder whether they can feed from them.

Hm, imagining Vlad replacing his cellar prisoners with cows... hm, a big fat NO, I think...

I don't know, I don't do much with vampires usually, but I can imagine some fun storytelling options. Vampire tries to be good, moves to the country to feed on livestock instead of humans. Is discovered feeding on cows by neighbors, drama ensues.

Honestly, though, why can't vampires drink from livestock?

I still think they should have added this option. However, my theory is that they decided that if the vampires drank from the livestock, they would have to have effects on the animals (similar to what you get with sims), and they were already overwhelmed with the coding for the animals. Which is a shame, because I think it would have been better to have vampires able to feed on the livestock even if we didn't see any special effects on the animals. But I suppose if they had done it that way, some people would have completed that the interaction was incomplete or lacking.

I wouldn't know, but they could probably just get away with stopping aging on the animals and giving them special meals, if the bite turned them. To force a drink, however, human Sim victims only got uncomfortable. Animals could say their mood was less than content from that...

I wouldn't think the bite would turn them. Vampire animals would be a whole different tangent... one which would have a fairly small niche audience, if any, and I can't imagine they would want to spend the time programming that, if such a thing were even possible. I think simply having the ability to feed on livestock, and then as you say, the animal becomes a little less content, or maybe hungry, would be quite sufficient.