Enjoying the new pack but...

My sims won't stay at their work places if I let their house get to haunted. I find it a little frustrating as my family couldn't afford to keep missing work so I had to keep their haunting to a minimum.

"BlkBarbiegal;c-17796110" wrote:
I wonder if the brave trait will help.

The friendly specters seemed to replenish my sim's energy... I only played 2 sim days when I noticed it.

I can't give her the brave trait. She has enough satisfaction points but it's greyed out. She has the squeamish trait so I wonder if that means she can't get it.

Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

I won't, I love it despite that. It's just a little frustrating that's all.

"calaprfy;c-17797175" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

Oh, it will be. Someone will.

That's what I'm afraid of. Somebody on twitter already asked for it to be toned down.

"simm621;c-17797303" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

I won't, I love it despite that. It's just a little frustrating that's all.

Oh thank you so much. I can understand frustrating. I just don't want it to get nerfed.

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797311" wrote:

"calaprfy;c-17797175" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

Oh, it will be. Someone will.

That's what I'm afraid of. Somebody on twitter already asked for it to be toned down.

"simm621;c-17797303" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

I won't, I love it despite that. It's just a little frustrating that's all.

Oh thank you so much. I can understand frustrating. I just don't want it to get nerfed.

I love paranormal and occult play too much and hated it when they nerfed vampires. Too much nerfing already.

"CelSims;c-17797221" wrote:

"calaprfy;c-17797175" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

Oh, it will be. Someone will.

I've been playing a household on heroic mode with 2 toddlers and now they're aged up to a teen and a child. Heroic mode. Using the in game provided methods to calm the house it is very easy to have almost no intrusion at all by the haunting even on heroic. I really hope EA ignore any calls for nerfing and just send people a stock reply telling them to use in game provided tools or take off the lot type :/

I clean all vines, dolls etc every day they are there and do a ritual occasionally and I don't even have the hand so it should be on normal activity. I mainly only get green or blue specters but even then my sim will be painting and stop to communicate with them. No matter how many times I send her back to the painting she stops immediately to talk to them. I mean I can just not have her do anything while they are there but they stay until late morning sometimes.
Just to be clear I am not asking for it to be nerfed, just airing a little dissatisfaction.

"PlanetSixam;c-17797432" wrote:
The only thing I'm getting a tad bit annoyed at, is the emotional rollercoaster my sim seems to go through all the time. I think that's less to do with the pack and more to do with how emotions work in general. Still, being terrified beats being tense I guess lol.

I have my sim sleep during the day, and then wake up around the same time that Guidry appears. I get her to do all the paranormal stuff at night, instead of trying to sleep through it. Could be worth doing that? If you're able to that is.

I'm about about 3000 points away from being able to get the brave trait, so I'll wait and see what that does.

Meaningful Stories is really good for fixing emotions. Can't recommend enough.

"simm621;c-17797335" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797311" wrote:

"calaprfy;c-17797175" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

Oh, it will be. Someone will.

That's what I'm afraid of. Somebody on twitter already asked for it to be toned down.

"simm621;c-17797303" wrote:

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17797168" wrote:
Please just don't ask for the paranormal activity to be toned down or nerfed...

I won't, I love it despite that. It's just a little frustrating that's all.

Oh thank you so much. I can understand frustrating. I just don't want it to get nerfed.

I love paranormal and occult play too much and hated it when they nerfed vampires. Too much nerfing already.

I totally agree with this. I find it quite disrespectful overall when some people call for features to be nerfed. So I'm glad you're at least willing to put up with the frustration

I'm wondering if your problem is actually due to the pack's mechanics though or maybe an autonomy bug that just happened to come with the pack? I mean packs tend to be buggy when they're first released. But as long as you're just expressing some dissatisfaction, that's totally fine.

I think the all over challenge for EA is that each pack's features must blend in with features from all other packs. I don't think many simmers have say only base game + vampires. If you have most packs, it would be just as bad if your sim will no longer be able to perform other tasks due to constant vampire attacks. Staying up all night because of a feature of pack A might not be a good thing if you also want your sim to develop skills in the ECO or FAME pack. So, would it be more fair to not ever get to use the features you paid for in ECO or GF?

Game would probably benefit from more customizable settings. We should decide the balance between pack features, maybe I want to focus on extreme vampire activity this month, but on getting famous the next. Then each simmer could adjust pack dominance and everyone would be happy :) And - we could also purchase a new pack with different motives; BB or features or whatever. Would be a pity if great BB would be restricted to specific extreme game play. After all, most packs come with great general stuff, too.

Perhaps the hand that came with Paranormal is one step in the direction of adjusting the pack feature levels. I don't understand why such setting ability is hidden in an object instead of being in the game settings, though. Many gamers who don't frequent the forum might never discover the possibility of adjusting the intensivity of the haunting etc.