Do you/would you use whims?

I honestly forget they are there. I only really use them if I'm trying to get points.

I tend to use whims during gameplay lulls when I don't know what to do, or when I'm first jumping into a household. If the whims reflected the sims traits/likes/dislikes better I would probably get more use out of them.

I like the idea of whims, but I've never used them much even before they hid them. I did try downloading a mod to make them more interesting, but even then I forgot to use them much and found the mod slowed down my game significantly, so I got rid of it.

All that to say, I would love them to overhaul the system, but I can't say whether that would get me to use it more or not.

They're kind of boring. Zzz

I use to use them for extra points when the game was newer. Once they turned them off though I stopped... mostly because we have so many aspirations now and ways to get the sim ahead I don't need the extra reward points.
I don't really like most guided play in general though. I'd still want to be able to cancel them out easily or keep them hidden if they were revamped in any way.

I'm really glad I read this thread because now I have downloaded bienchen's whim overhaul mod and am really excited about it!

I love to play with whims, can't even imagine not playing with them. If they were well implemented (like they were in previous games) they show us what our sims are willing to do with their lives, from small quick goals to bigger accomplishments in life.

I like to set my own goals/story for my sims but well implemented whims will only help me by showing me how my sim is developing, feeling, how is he integrating everything that is happening with his life...

Whims used to be (in older games) very connected to traits, aspirations, development of skills, everything that happened around the sim (if he knows someone attractive, if he interacts with some object that interests him...) and they used to be very complete too, there were whims for everything. Everything that was in the game, could show as a whim, depending on the sim and his life...

And more important than all, everything was so connected that whims made sense.

I hope for that whims overhaul that the devs spoke about, but i wish them to make sense. Not just to them being added.

And i wish they don't make half work, like they did with the likes/dislikes system, which seems that was made just to say that it exists but it is so incomplete, compared to all the items that should have been considered...

I use whims and I would love for them to be more specific and personal to the sim personalities. Things like telling me which career they would like instead of just the generic get a job whim that every sim gets. I want my sims to be able to give me input on how they would like their lives to go instead of me having to plan every single detail for them.

I like to play with whims because it helps drive my game play. But in TS4 they are wayyyyyy too focused on buying things, I don't like that at all. I also use Whim Overhaul and it makes the whims so much better because you know ... they actually make sense.

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Anyway, I like the whims, but I do wish they were more life-stage/state specific. Like vampire sims getting whims to "fly as bat/ use power" or to "drink/ask to drink X sims plasma". Or Spellcasters, "cast spell on X/cast X spell/Repair broken object with spell" maybe even "brew potion of X or fly with broom".

Age-specific, I mean, it's weird that teens and children get whims to buy washing machines or dryers. Also, teens getting the urge to buy pools that are 1x1 square or to do laundry, huh? What kind of whim is that?