Have vamps been nerfed?
Actually, this is a question I've had for a while... I remember hearing about how vampires were sneaking in to drink from your non-vampire Sims, and there was nothing that could be done to stop the...
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"Onverser;c-17892227" wrote:
I still don't get where all the occult hate comes from these days. Occults have always been part of the game, and magic has been there since makin magic way back in the Sims 1 in 2003. Like the sims has never been an exclusively "realism" game and wacky out there content has always been just as much a part of the sims as happy families is.
In 2 you'd literally get green witches in pointy hats creating chaos if you bought the apartment pack and in Sims 3 half the darn game is occult sims and you couldn't go to the park without seeing a fairy flying around. Meanwhile in 4 they barely exist in the game and just act like normal sims even though they're in dedicated packs and even that's still too much for some people.
The difference is that in the other games, even if you bought the pack, occults have always been optional. You had to speak directly to the occult sim to activate them in your game. So even though they showed up to the lot, they did nothing until you interacted with them.
People were mad that in TS4, the aliens abducted you randomly. I was a player who had a sim abducted multiple times a night over a week without having ever played the science career or had anything to do with aliens. I liked abductions being tied to the telescope in previous games because you rolled the dice on it. It annoyed me in TS3 and TS4 where it was completely random. Vampires were similar. TS4 had them auto break-in and feed, which isn't what previous games did. So I can see how people wouldn't like that. I know the first time it happened in my game, I had no idea what to expect because I thought we'd have to activate them. I didn't want that particular family to be occults or have anything to do with occults. It's hard to explain this, but I want to play the sims with occults, but the insane level of occults that originally spawned was more like playing feeding vampires with sims.
So I modded it out of my game originally and now I tweak it to suit my playstyle, which is to have the world be realistic for a majority of my sims and then have a few oddballs that seek out or stumble upon the occult world and go on fantastical journeys that no one will believe.
