So! With the addition of a new occult Sim, I find myself sitting there staring at CAS not wanting to be ANY of the occult options. I have my gripes about all of them honestly but here's the thing, I always tend to just make a normal sim. I find the occult Sims to be... novelty. Cool for the moment when they come out and maybe neat to have in your game here and there but I just don't go out of my way to be any type of occult Sim.Don't get me wrong I am sure there are plenty that feel opposite and enjoy them but man I just... don't wanna micromanage things that come along with them. While spellcasters can live a relatively normal life with no micromanagement, I sincerely can not play vampires.Vampires thirst is annoying to manage because the blood packets don't fill needs enough (I feel) and then if you have an introvert Sim, finding someone to bite is sometimes a challenge... and then sometimes the bite fails. The sun situation is understandable but annoying if you want to go to a festival or something. I don't know why but I just don't enjoy the Occult sims past maybe a week after their release so here's my question, what is your favorite occult and what is your most hated? Why? My favorite I suppose is Spellcasters because it has the smallest impact on lifestyleMy most hated is Vampires because they are annoying to manage.

I feel you about vampires. It's why I've never liked them all that much. I find it annoying to go out and look for suitable plasma sources. However they don't need to be social, just find a sim, compel for deep drink. Done. Witches, on the other hand, I have always loved. Nearly all my sims in 3 are witches and things will probably be similar again in 4. There are exceptions though :) but like you said, you can also just play them as normal sims or spellcasters that never level up at all. All that being said, I'm sort of itching to do an all-occult household (that is a household with one of each occult type, minus aliens). But that will be sometime after my magical school :D

"MaggieMarley;c-17245801" wrote:Most of the sims in my legacy save have been vampires. I also like playing normal sims but I find vampires so much easier to take care of (and sometimes they can be more fun to play). With the right combination of vampire perks, you can have a sim who:- Doesn’t need to sleep (dark meditation all the way!)- No bladder need- No hygiene need- No social need- No fun needSo the only need you’re left with is thirst and they won’t even die of that. My vamps usually live next to a fishing spot so that they can fish without leaving the lot. That means they have an ample supply of fish for lots of free plasma packs. I also get them an orchard of plasma fruit trees and they complete the food vampire aspiration so that others usually don’t deny their requests to drink. Honestly I don’t find the third need challenging to keep up with.The fact that they have so few needs leaves them with lots of time to make a fortune by painting and they can complete lots of aspirations to earn themselves a money tree for more $$$The vampiric speed and teleportation powers are so useful. I hate how slowly normal sims walk sometimes!And there’s a power to speed up skill gain by a lot at night. That’s very helpful. Stacked with reward traits which also speed up skill gain (such as top notch toddler, the childhood aspiration traits, the scouting aptitude trait)m you can max out skills very quickly.The burning in the sun thing is annoying but I always get my vamps level 3 sun resistance which gets rid of that issue.The ‘eternally welcome’ reward trait which enables a vampire to enter any house uninvited is a lot of fun. I’ve had more than one kleptomaniac vampire burglar.And obviously they are immortal. I like that. It means I can keep many generations of the family around.I have played with spellcasters enough yet to form a comprehensive opinion on them, but they also seem fun! I don’t know whether they will replace my beloved vampires yet but we shall see.Im glad someone loves Vampires. Maybe I will work on trying to enjoy them more but for now, they remain the bane of every game for me. Teleportation power is fun with a spellcaster sim, makes walking obsolete so I can see how that is an awesome perk.With perk's though you can get the never hungry, tired, ect as well as being a normal sim they just are a little more costly but I understand how they are useful for a vampire. I just hate the sun and thirst aspect I suppose.

I love the occults, especially vampires there is just so much to them and I do not find them hard to manage, just gotta get the hang of it and know which perks to pick (mine always have sun resistance maxed out, unless I want to play a more "traditional" vampire).Mermaids are next, I just always loved mermaids and for a sidefeature they are pretty well done imho, I enjoy evil mermaids the most, trying to drown sims and such >:) Aliens are kinda boring, they can't really do much interesting stuff but I still like having some.Plantsims...not much to them either, plus you can't be one permanently and can't change their hair...Ghosts are fun for a little while.I don't have spellcasters yet, since I am on console and got to wait till october, but I have a feeling they will become my number 1 occult.in general I just love a good mix of realism and magic/weird in the sims and the world (like buildings/venues some are normal and some are...different).

I like Spell casters and Vampires the most. I like that they have that whole extra UI skill point thing going on. Vampires become a lot easier to manage if you invest time into them and choose your skill points wisely. Mermaids and Aliens are quite boring to me compared with the above two occults because they feel rather lacking.

For me it's just preference for the stories I want to tell and am attracted too. I have started out vampires multiple times but .. well I think I want it to be much darker than it is for me to put that work into it, because those are the stories I grew up with and the only stories that I want to tell and those stories are harder to tell in this game. Maybe it's just that vampires aren't simmish to me. I can see witches as kind of goofy to normalish (trying to live in a normal world like a normal person) and still have fun with them I can play them as sims... and I guess since I'm seeing all they can do it's easier to come up with more options to tell different stories or see more scenerios as I actually engage with it. I'm engaged and it opens my eyes to seeing more possibilities. Heck I even do this with scientists... I don't make normal scientists they are mad scientists or evil or megamind types that want to take over the world.When I play vamps I can usually feed fairly easy in the beginning depending on traits... I have an aversion to trying plasma packs. I'll have blood dolls in my basement or get my blood like a classical vamp or nothing thank you very much. I think if I went further with it..actually allowed myself too I'd be more open to trying them out more. As it is though I like having them as silly adversaries and since I'm enjoying witches so much I'm tempted to try a household with a witch and a vamp. I'm guessing some nice spells/potions can work on vampires to help the fledglings I make get to a more powerful state faster... then maybe I'll enjoy them more.

Do You Even Occult Bro? (Discussion)

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Scobren
Legend
6 years ago
"SERVERFRA;c-17249631" wrote:
I love making hybrids. I made an alien/vampire/mermaid after Island Living came out. I plan to have a quadhybrid by adding Spellcaster with full powers & perks.

That is so cool, I love hybrids too.
bsozz
6 years ago
Whenever I try to dabble in occult sims I end up aimlessly fooling around with their novelty powers and then quickly get tired of it and return to “realistic” play.
JC1979Solenegir
6 years ago
I think it’s all interesting to me. I tend to play more with human sims with a dabble of weird here and there, but I think my next game save will be more men in black style. With all these different beings living among us, but unbeknownst by most, which is a perfect world for those “conspiracy theorist” sims. I think I want to build worlds with different communities of supernatural types, like Willow Creek could a be community made up mostly of plant sims and New Crest could have many alien residents, San Myshuno could be a mix of alien, human, and witches; and Forgotten Hollow & Glimmerbrook can be a mix of vamps and witches, and so on...Plus building will be quite interesting.
SimsLovinLycan
6 years ago
I actually have more fun with supernatural sims than normal sims. The powers and quirks they have just make life more interesting. Plus, I'm a big fantasy and sci-fi nerd, so I get bored easily with most down-to-earth, slice-of-life stories. Unless the characters are really interestingly written or something action-packed or borderline sci-fi is going down, I don't watch or read anything about normal people doing normal stuff because it bores me to death (hence, why I absolutely despise the book Bridge to Tarabithia, because it got my hopes up for an assigned reading that would actually be something I like to read, and turned out to be boring trash about boring kids playing pretend in the woods).
Nielsern75
6 years ago
Until recently vampires were my usual go-to occult, mostly because of all their energy and the possibility to give it a boost with dark meditation and no need for bathroom breaks, and of course immortality.

However, after ROM came out, spellcasters take first place now, basically because of all the fun things they can do and although the disappointment of the so called "immortal" potion I can still keep them young forever with a "zillion" rejuvenation potions, technically keeping them immortal in a way while they can still work on that tan and enjoy a good meal.

Aliens are okay but not that interesting, and using telepathy to learn other sims' traits gets old fast.

Mermaids are on the bottom of my list. I mean, it's cool to see them transform when they're in the water, and it's cute that they can call on dolphins but that doesn't keep me interested for long, I feel like I'm playing with an ordinary sim who will die if they don't shower or get wet otherwise in time.
dfstone
6 years ago
Mermaids are cool because you get access to all the same cosmetic options vampires do. Their powers are kind of meh. Mermaid kiss is ok, and the songs are alright. But thats about all you get outside of the water. Still they are the easiest occult to switch in and out of since all you need is a couple of mermaid kelp to turn from human to mermaid to human again. And I found 10 of them just exploring that cave on the nature island. I haven't gotten magic yet. I never get an expansion until after they release the first bug patch.
GlacierSnowGhost
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Since I don't really play the game as a game (I use settings, cheats and mods to tone down, control, or get rid of time management gameplay aspects like needs, aging and death) I don't really notice if occult sims are harder or easier to play than human sims. I just love playing the occult sims most because I love science-fiction and fantasy stories. Since I use The Sims mostly as a box of tools for creating stories, I am naturally drawn to the sims I can use for creating science-fiction and fantasy stories.

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