Do you/would you use whims?

Of course, I want to be forever fresh with a steel bladder & never weary while watering my money tree.

But I don't want to do it by giving my housekey to strangers or putting a bee box, hot tub, or bubble blower in my small apt. Meeting someone new doesn't seem really safe after 2am. And I'm a little too busy to play in a leaf pile or have a water balloon fight. Leave a note for who? I live alone & don't have a bulletin board. I don't know any kids, so why do I want to buy a toy or an activity table?

Hopefully, it's on their refresh to-do.

Whims were okay like the first 1 year of playing the game. Then it got boring cuz it was repetitive and also in top of that, I always played the same sim household (even tho I sometimes use cheats to add more new traits for them), so the repetitiveness became more apparent.

Whims are great in theory. But I liked the concept a whole lot better in Sims 2. Even if they don't want to bring Fears back, making Sims 4 Whims more like Sims 2 Wants, that actually make contextual sense for the sim's day-to-day reality and longer-term goals, would make them so much better.

But really, the Wants and Fears system from 2 was the pinnacle of that whole gameplay feature.

I haven’t used them in years. It came to a point where my whims for my sims overshadowed the game generated whims. And since they weren’t in sync with my whims I turned them off:

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.

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.

When all we had was the base game (and most of us hadn't played for long and hadn't figured things out), whims were more important because you didn't gain points as quickly. These days you get reward points for everything, so getting that perk that benefits your career or whatever is easy.
Back then I literally grinded whims, until I realized how easy it was to get reward points in other ways.

"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~