Illness for Vampires?

My sim is a vampire & sick. I gave her medicine 7 times, i made her drink tea and nothing worked. What should I do?

"keekee53;c-16204471" wrote:

"Movotti;c-16203495" wrote:
Lots of viruses to be found in blood...
Or something.

True but I have yet to hear any vampire lore where a vampire got a human illness. If they coded in immortality for those with the vampire trait, I think they could have done the same with illness.

I think exactly what a vampire can and can't do is always up in the air. Whenever I write about vampires, I always have it so that they can get some minor illnesses, like a cold, but nothing deadly or permanent. Then again, I also always have my vampires needing to eat normal human food along with occasional blood, and completely able to get a sun tan without dying a slow death (Hey, Dracula could go out in the daylight in the original novel, so why not?) Anyway, to me it makes sense that a vampire can get illnesses in this game. The illnesses are minor, eventually go away, and make for a good laugh (at least for me). But, I understand why many people disagree.

"BloodValkyrie;c-16514744" wrote:

"keekee53;c-16204471" wrote:

"Movotti;c-16203495" wrote:
Lots of viruses to be found in blood...
Or something.

True but I have yet to hear any vampire lore where a vampire got a human illness. If they coded in immortality for those with the vampire trait, I think they could have done the same with illness.

I think exactly what a vampire can and can't do is always up in the air. Whenever I write about vampires, I always have it so that they can get some minor illnesses, like a cold, but nothing deadly or permanent. Then again, I also always have my vampires needing to eat normal human food along with occasional blood, and completely able to get a sun tan without dying a slow death (Hey, Dracula could go out in the daylight in the original novel, so why not?) Anyway, to me it makes sense that a vampire can get illnesses in this game. The illnesses are minor, eventually go away, and make for a good laugh (at least for me). But, I understand why many people disagree.

Yeah I will agree to disagree on this one. It doesn't make sense to me that a vampire who is technically not alive would get a human illness. I sort of stopped playing my vamps because it bugs me so much.

I have a vampire working in the hospital in my game. No reaction from other Sims. He even feeds on his patients sometimes. My Sim (who also works there) is the only one that notices he's a vamp and gets mad at him.

I'm gonna see what happens when a vampire comes for a check up.

Can't say I have a particularly strong opinion on this subject, it's more like "how did they forget about this".

It did seem kinda weird for them to be affected by illnesses at all, though. My boy got poisoned in the jungle once. That was weird. These guys are undead, immortal beings, why should illnesses bug them at all?

I really thought that sim vampires couldn't get sick, kids and toddlers maybe, but I didn't think that adult and teen vampire sims could get until I saw that my vampire (who is a young adult) got sick. I do find it kind of weird that they can get sick but since this is the first and the only vampire that I have seen sick I'm not too bothered by it.

I see sims vampirism more like a viral transmission. They're not dead, they never die from a bite. They gain powers and taste for plasma. The vampire inoculates his virus to others. There is a transformation and a cure. It is quite strange that they can get ill from the flu or a cold. Logically, we would think that a virus that gives superpowers won't let a flu virus live into the organism.

It's even wearder to see a gost take a shower, eat grilled cheeze, pee and sleep ! HaHa

These are the sims, but it could have been worked differently.

Or else, could it be a bug ?

It's still not fixed IIRC some dev was looking into this issue long time ago but i'm surprised that it's still not fixed.

Vampires are undead and to me should be unique and not be plagued by the same type of things a so called living Sim would be plagued with. I am against undead sims or any other "creature" Sim being too much like the living, normal, sort of human sim. Injury and illness should be unique to the kind of sim one is playing - and different in my view.

I do like the fact creature sims can have babies (they are just to cute and precious not to have) but some where we need to draw the line from the Creature sims to the so called living, normal sims or at least options to not allow our creatures to be just like living sims. I enjoy the uniqueness and differences I feel between normal sims and all the rest and I would like the option to at least be there because I don't want my creatures just like my ordinary sims.

My vampire sim has only been ill once, which I did think was odd but didn't really bother me that much. I agree vampires should be immune to human illnesses, but also agree that vampire lore is very versatile and it's better for players to have options regarding their vampires strengths and weaknesses and how 'human' they are. Honestly I kind of wish my vampires were less immune to things, such as temperature, not so they become ill but so they change their clothing accordingly. My vampire is rather precious and likes a nice home with central heating rather than a cold, dank castle.