Do you like Wants/Fears more than Whims?
I'm trying to gauge how the community feels about this new system. Are wants/fears more fun to play with than whims? Why or why not? Personally, I have yet to update my game to get the wants & fear...
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I preferred whims and it makes no sense to me that they didn't expand the mechanic to incorporate wants/fear and also hook in likes and dislikes for that matter.
Where the whim system beats the new wants/fears is that whims were contextual to location and other sims. A sim might get a want to chat to random sim, but by the time I spot it, that random sim has long gone from the lot. Fulfill a whim and then another whim will pop related to sims in the vicinity and also have some connection to the relationship to the sim in the whim. Visit another lot and the whims will relate to the lot type. Sure the buy a pool type stuff was annoying, but the rest of them worked well.
One of my favourite ways of play was what I termed 'Playing the Whims', where I would largely allow my sims to follow their whims resulting in some great emergent gameplay. This playstyle has now been completely killed stone dead by the wants and fears system.
Thanks a bunch /s
Where the whim system beats the new wants/fears is that whims were contextual to location and other sims. A sim might get a want to chat to random sim, but by the time I spot it, that random sim has long gone from the lot. Fulfill a whim and then another whim will pop related to sims in the vicinity and also have some connection to the relationship to the sim in the whim. Visit another lot and the whims will relate to the lot type. Sure the buy a pool type stuff was annoying, but the rest of them worked well.
One of my favourite ways of play was what I termed 'Playing the Whims', where I would largely allow my sims to follow their whims resulting in some great emergent gameplay. This playstyle has now been completely killed stone dead by the wants and fears system.
Thanks a bunch /s
