Do you/would you use whims?

I sort of co-exist with whims, but I don't really "use" them. I leave them turned on, but I ignore them most of the time unless something happens to pop up that fits with the story and characters as I am already playing with them. When that happens, I'll pin it, but then I may or may not actually do the thing. Often, I don't.

I liked the way "wishes" were done in Sims 3 better, but even then I didn't intentionally use them much, and mostly ignored them. I just prefer making my own decisions about how to play.

Whims in TS4 are mostly unimportant, short sighted, and lack individuality between sims. From child to elder I will get the exact same whims and it's frustrating and boring.

I've always used wants/wishes to drive short term gameplay between long story ideas that span life stages. In earlier games, they were actually meaningful and different sims had different wants based on their age, and personality. Some wants/wishes were also more important than others and harder or took longer to achieve. They were also tied into aspirations in a gradual way.

So while I still use whims in TS4 to sometimes drive short term gameplay, they are mostly ignorable or I keep cycling through them until I get one that makes sense for the sim. As they are, they're just incredibly boring and almost useless.

I wish we would finally get wants/fears and better aspirations so these short term goals actually felt fulfilling or at least made sense. As they are currently they're just randomly based on what season it is and what household items you don't own. I have to cycle through so many useless ones just to get ones that focus on relationships with other sims. I was hoping that when they turned them off, it meant they were going to be working on something better. But, just like everything else, they dropped it instead of improving it.

"Harukotyan;c-17998973" wrote:
I use whims together with whim overhaul mod so, yes, I definitely want they to be more significant. I want to see specific career whims, more whims sprouting from traits and preferences and they need to be a lot more variable comparing to their vanilla state.

This^^

Step by step
1.Turn on whims
2. get points
3. get rewards
4. ignore whims
5. Repeat 2, 3, 4
6. Start new family repeat 1 to 5

~I drank potions instead of water~

I used to use whims, but now every whim is 'buy from ' and nothing to do with their aspiration. I'd like them to be geared towards hobbies and traits more.

"Darstep0301;c-17999794" wrote:
> @DoodlyDoofus said:
> 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 used to use them but found myself constantly using them if you know what I mean. I'm old enough not to need that content to realize what simple under the covers woohooing implies. So I stopped using them. Besides, Whims is a massive mod that has to go with MC Command which is also a massive mod. That makes your pc run slower and causes crashes and I have a HP ProBook which has no processing problems at all and those 2 combined even slowed my pc down to a crawl. LOL

I may be misunderstanding but I think you're talking about the mod that we're not allowed to discuss on the forums. This thread and discussion is about the in-game Whims (turned off by default in the settings menu) that randomize over the Sim's icon in the interface to show a Sim's possible wants like "Buy a 1x1 Pool" or "Flirt With Someone". They are all very generic and none are affiliated with traits or personality like they were in past games so a lot of people stopped using them.

I like whims (and the rewards of course!), but more added would be fab.

I think whims need to actually register whether you own pets. If my sims EVER have a cat or dog and then the pet moves out or dies, then the whims continue to be all about buying pet toys and dog bowls. It's super annoying.
Whims also feel very inconsequential. I wish there were more like "try for baby" and that there would be consequences if you didn't complete pinned whims. For example, if you fail to kiss a sim or whatever in x days, then your sim would develop a temporary quirk (much like the get famous ones) that would make your sim constantly sad or develop a habit that decreases relationship with those around them or something. The Sims 4 just needs to be harder and to include more unavoidable events that will completely change your sims' lives.

There actually are base game whims based on traits and aspiration. They just hardly ever show because they are owerpowered by silly whims. It needs a lot of fine tuning to get the balance between whims right. Also, the balance shifts with every new set of whims added.

Every time I play the game, I at least tweak one thing in my whimoverhaul mod.

I want them to add more whims for all the packs and updates.