Do you/would you use whims?

because no! you are not getting a pool so stop asking for it.

I stopped using whims long time ago when all they started giving me was buy a bee box or become flirty. They annoyed me, because they made my sims look not so bright, lol. I like to think there is more going on in their minds. So I turned them off.

I would consider getting back to them if they focused heavily on particular sim and also updated accordingly to how sim developed through gameplay for example the reward traits or parenthood traits. For example sim with brave trait would like to try push their luck more often, try extreme sports or wanted to see a ghost and sim who aged up with argumentative trait would like to argue with others and put everybody down. Sometimes it happens with current whims, but it feels more like accident than design.

Whims as they are focus only on bee box and emotions which is unfortunate, because sims have personality traits and they should be much more powerful in gameplay than emotions. My point is that hot headed sims should desire different things when flirty or confident than loner sim. For example: hot headed wants immediate woohoo in the bush and loner wants more touching and kissing before that.
I would like for whims to reflect the individuality of my sims. And because they don’t I’m making the whims for them.

Early on in Sims 4 I used whims they were okay but I wish they more so fit the Sims personality and skills and that there was more of them. Pack after pack they were never updated and sadly instead of improved disabled and forgotten but at this point I'd rather just see them add a wants and fears system seeing as fear is actually a thing now is a good time.

I used to when I first got the game but I hadn't played much recently so I hadn't had a use for them. Maybe one day when I am able to play the game again, I will try again if they are revamped. I prefer the Wants/Fears/Aspirations system from Sims 2.

No... not really a fan of whims. They're a bit too random, honestly, and there's not enough variety. It's an interesting addon but it needs work/improvement

Glad to see I'm not the only one who is getting tired of sims always wanting the same things and having unhealthy obsessions with certain objects. Like, NO, Darci, for the 20th time, I'm not buying you a bee box for your tiny San Myshuno apartment when you don't even cook, have a garden, or any hobbies that require bees or their products, so stop asking for it already!!

The thing is, I actually like whims as a concept, they could make the game more realistic and give different sims more distinct behaviours based on their hobbies and personalities, but unfortunately they suffer from the same old TS4 disease of being a good idea with bad execution, so I don't use them a lot.

I like the whims! I just wish EA had kept updating the whims with all the latest packs. I think they stopped after Get Famous. Not sure....

What they need is to retroactively add whims for
1) past packs that got none
2) additional for BG updates (sentiments and favorites, for example)
3) pack-specific features with major crossover into everyday playing (lifestyles)

Then, to add some more point rewards. Heart bed from TS1, hover bed from TS3, food replicator from TS3, and such stuff could be re-added into the game as rewards for points.

And they also need a better generation that respects traits, lifestyles, sentiments, etc. rather than generic stuff (buy a bee box because it's spring and I don't care if you like gardening or not)

Like many others, I find the in-game whims a bit lackluster and repetitive. I also use Bienchen’s Whim Overhaul and MissyHissy's Custom Whims to shake things up.

I don’t use whims as much as I used to because they stopped updating them for packs.

I wish that they would give whims for all expansions, game packs , and stuff packs. I also wish they would base them on traits, likes and skills.