Do you/would you use whims?

Whims were just handled very poorly. I'm not going to say that the Wants from Sims 2 and 3 were amazing, but the Whims in Sims 4 just kept....repeating no matter what, and they were the same exact whims that another Sim of different personality would want. I just turned it off because I didn't even try to accomplish their Whims. If they brought back the Wants (AND FEARS) and built upon them I'd be all for it.

I love whims, I play with them all the time. I just wish they were less "purchase this" and "purchase that". I hate materialism. I also wish we got more whims in general. I haven't notice a new one for ages. Which is kind of disappointing.

I would like to have whims based on traits, likes, skills and most importantly relationships.

I use whims to drive my gameplay all the time and I really like how it works as immediate/short goals for my Sims. My impression is that when I follow my Sims whims generally something random happens after a while or the gameplay itself flows better (but I guess this is much more on how you play the game).

I wish they would keep updating it (RIP) and also fixing old ones (text or/and functionality)

I think the main problem with the whims system is that they stopped including new whims with packs, and they didn’t have enough variety to begin with. We also don’t see the same progression we saw in TS2 Wants. For instance, “gain a skill point” gets satisfied when your sim increases their cooking skill, but then they roll a want to get their cooking skill to level 5. That progression made sense and it really felt like your sim wanted it.

I use Bienchen’s whim overhaul and it makes my gameplay so much more interesting.

I'd love to see more whims from later pack releases.

MORE WHIMS. Other than that, with whimoverhaul, I'm a happy camper.

I loved whims and used them all the time to build satisfaction points for my Sims. But after awhile, they weren't updated and became very, very repetitive. I would use them again in a heartbeat if by some miracle they were updated for all packs and weren't so repetitive. For one thing, the buy a bee box, buy a1x1 pool, buy a stove, buy a bed, buy a toilet, etc., all those 'buy buys' need to go bye bye! 99% of my Sims start out Rags to Riches and it just makes me sad seeing those kind of whims, so I turned them off a long time ago.

I love using whims and will often use them for storytelling or to let my Sims to "make" certain decisions despite me controlling them. ie) If they have a whim to propose to their partner, I'll direct them to do that since it's technically something they wanted to do in the first place rather than me forcing it on them.

However, as others have said, I do wish whims were more relevant to a sim's personality or now that we have likes/dislikes, that they would reflect them. ie) a Sim who likes painting, wants to create a painting. Or a sim who likes cooking wants to a cook a meal. As opposed to getting so many "buy xyz."

EAxis' idea of a whim is "buy a 1x1 pool", they're not nearly relevant enough.

"babajayne;c-17995574" wrote:
I use Bienchen’s whim overhaul and it makes my gameplay so much more interesting.

Same !

I like playing with whims a lot actually, as I prefer a looser, more "go with the flow" kind of play style, and so its fun for me to take cues form things like whims. But, I definitely they could use improvement based on how they are now. I've talked about this before, I think there's an old post (or a few lol) with me ranting about it around here someplace, but some basics I'd like improved are things like:

more bigger lifestyle whims like for adopting a child as well as the "try for baby" one, moving out of house when a sim ages up, quitting a job or switching careers as well as starting one when their unemployed (especially for the non-committal sims

fewer "buy" whims, and nixing buy whims completely when off the home lot, as often the sim has already bought the thing its just waiting for them at home

and then revamping them to be more tailored to traits and such (for instance, it should be less common for a happy loner sim to get the "meet someone new" whim, and there should be more diversity in the possible "happy" moodlet whims over all so they can better suit the different character traits available)

Also, when a whim gets "x-ed" out and canceled, there should be cool down period of, like, least a few sim hours if not a full sim day before it can re-appear again.