Enjoying the new pack but...
It's so annoying trying to get my sim to do anything at night when the specters are about. She cancels whatever I tell her to do just to go talk to them...every single time.
Forum Discussion
"CelSims;c-17798038" wrote:"Simmerville;c-17797949" wrote:
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.
You make it sound like people are asking for vampire attacks every night when all they want is the frequency to be higher than the 3 break ins in 5500 hours I've experienced.
There's already toggles to turn off the attacks, garlic and don't research vampire lore. And a whooping great DO NOT TRESPASS option on the lot itself.
I have no idea what the frequency was before it got tuned down. I got the pack late. And I agree there would be no need to tune it down if there are several in-game ways to avoid the break ins in the first place.
Btw, I'm not the typical occult simmer, but I think the vamp pack is one of the very best packs.
