Enchanted by nature: Fairy discussion

atreya33​  The way I have always used it, and I might be wrong about this in a general sense, but I think that fae refers to the plural of faerie, and might include other types like elves, gnomes, pixies, nature sprites and etc. So, more inclusive and referring to many rather than just one. Since the game will be giving an ability to have fauns and satyrs as well as pointed ears, it seemed to me that the more inclusive term was correct.

As far as the use of the word faerie, I read a whole lot of old world tales of the fae when I was young those books used this spelling. so I think it is just an older form of the word. It looks more enchanted to me, and I have always preferred it to the more modernized (and possibly more western/new world) version of the word, which is fairy. 

I think it doesn't really matter, and they are all commonly used interchangeably.  

I like the skill tree. It looks promising. I also like the CAS of the fairies. There are some nice options to design the fairy. I wonder if the colour wheel is restricted to the wings or if we can paint the tattoos as well. 

Could be they wanted to have the fairy powers wait to present once they become teens, as with the other occult children. I'm guessing they do that because it's easier on the design side of things. 😉

amjoie​ I saw the mood shrub in the trailer and it looks useful. Depending on the reaction of sims on fairies feeding on their emotions, I might have to use this a lot.

What is the difference between fea, faerie and fairy? In my language we don't make that distinction. 

Horrorgirl6 wrote:

Remember when I said there was nothing to worry about faries getting skill trees .Because Life and Death had them for ghost.Well ,I was right

We had a decade of shallow occults in EP. So after 10 years simmers we're sceptical about EA breaking with this tradition. Having a decent occult in an EP is not evident. But I am happy you were right and EA surprised us by doing something new. 

The gameplay trailer showed a new plant, the Moody Shrub, that fae can pull emotions from for sustenance. It was the largest spiral plant that is multi-color and glowing. I would imagine fae will need a grove of them, if the faerie wants to live off them as their only emotional food, because undoubtedly there will be a time interval between draw-downs. 

I wonder if we will be able to choose to play the fae in their small forms, or if they will only have a few interactions that use the small form, like "bathe/play under water faucet" or "sleep in doll house." I would love to keep them small when sitting on a chair or sleeping in a bed. It would be like playing a Tinker Bell type faerie. The fae are so darling when small. It would be a shame if we cannot take advantage of it. Maybe a modder could help with that, if EA did not include it.

From what information is available so far, I think this expansion pack has the potential to be the best one in a long time. The CAS customization for fairies looks like it will be far better that I was expecting. It's also pretty awesome that the skill tree will (supposedly) have two different paths. As I recall, fairies in TS3 were relatively neutral as far as their behavior; the only thing that slightly influenced it was basic traits like good and evil.

Of course, but mermaids are also severely lacking. To be fair, I think they took the criticism for mermaids into mind.  I really hope mermaids, plant sims and Aliens get a refresh. 

Remember when I said there was nothing to worry about faries getting skill trees .Because Life and Death had them for ghost.Well ,I was right.

The first post is updated with information from the gameplay trailer with the skill tree, cross pack features and a few other infos