Let's talk about vampires in the sims 4?

Personally, I think Vampires was well done and I don't really think it needs that much added, given the Sims tone and teen rating.

If it were refreshed, however, I certainly wouldn't object to some more CAS assets; a tangible reward for becoming a Head Vampire and maybe something around enthrallment, like becoming a Vampire thrall for a day and a method for human's to resist enthrallment.

I think the only thing needed is that if your active sim is a vampire and you go visit some world at 3am, it should populate with things to do.

My biggest issue with my Vampire sims is I have to mostly leave them in Forgotten Hollow with a mod that lets them wander there at day (and I could get another mod to let them do that in any world but then one of the features of them is gone...)

I would love to have them spend a lot of time in the more urban worlds in particular, but these largely depopulate in the evening outside of a few sims in racoon cosplay.

We kind of need a 'Nightlife' pack.

I have yet to play a Vampire, despite owning the pack since the first time it was on sale, so unfortunately I'm limited in knowing what I'd like to see if such a pack refresh happened.

I do know that I would like them to re-enable the vampire break-ins. And I'd like the Vampires to be a bit more active at night, showing up more often on appropriate community lots and creeping around other neighborhoods even, all at night of course.
It kind of sucks almost NEVER seeing them. I wouldn't know I even owned the pack most of the time without seeing the stuff when I go into BB and CAS. It wasn't a Stuff Pack, last I checked...

I have a vampire club in my game right now, so I'd also like to see them add more club activities specific to vampires. Some good, some bad. I want to be able to have 2 vampire clubs, one for the wicked vampires and one for the vampires that want to pretend they are still decent human beings rather than undead blood suckers. I'd use the club system to simulate covens or bloodlines or whatever and right now there's just not enough vampire-specific club activities to make them very distinctive.

I plan to play a Vampire soon™, she's already in my game, I just haven't added her into my rotation yet.

I'm saying all of the above as someone who was extremely bothered by how Vampires "took over" the worlds completely in TS2, because I only play the occult types occasionally. There's a happy medium between making them spread like a zombie plague (TS2) and having them feel almost non-existent (TS4). I wish they'd find that happy medium...

I was thinking more recipes for vampire with plasma fruit, plasma fruit pancakes for example, we already have obviously drinking from sims, plasma packs 2 types, plasma fruit salad, fizzy plasma juice if you have eco lifestyle and of course the new wedding cake from my weddings stories, with vampires I either have them in forgotten hollow or in the city to protect them from sun exposure

I want my vampires to work in a morgue or as medical examiner. Maybe even a funeral director. If you are going to be a creature of the night, you should have solid allies that cover things up for you.

I would love to have little additions to the vampires pack

even as it is its definitely in my favourites of all sims packs ever

but there is few things i would add

for example standing up coffins for space saving in big vampire families would be cool

and it would be lovely to have more plasma things like plasma tea plasma bath plasma wine etc

I also think that they should tweak the plasma bags just a little so they fill up more thirst because as much as i like vegan vampire options its just really tedious to keep them fed with fruits vs sims

and I would like toggle to disable randomized townie vampire generation

because despite loving vampires i wish i could keep the power among sims i actually play with and am willing to turn vampire

and this way if you deleted all vampires you wouldn't have them spawning over and over to annoy you mid your non occult save

which means realism players could stop the " please nerf vampires" cries too and everyone could be happy

I would love to have toddler and child vampires or at least be able to give my vampire kids their own cute coffins to sleep in... or i simplify it more give them coffin shaped bed at least so they can join the family for a snooze

it would also be cool to have vampire hunters that fight your vampires to try to turn them human with vampire hunter lot challenge

but only if i can assign sim of choice cause im tired of random townies for important npc

aand i kinda wish we could do something about the graves in forgotten hollow like if some of them were real graves or we could bind sims to them or something

oh! and i wish we could have vlad statue of our own sims and replace it in the town center when we take over forgotten hollow but i suppose thats reaching :lol:

oh and they could also make vampire break in a lot challenge so people who dont want it ever dont have to deal with and those of us who love it actually get it sometimes

I had a similar idea for a thread but I never got around to making it. I've often wondered if occult players played vampires and spellcasters like normal sims, giving them day jobs, etc.

I never saw a need for my occult sims to have jobs or normal sim lives because in my mind, they've already done all that life stuff. Having lived for "centuries," wouldn't they already have all the wealth they need? Or am I overthinking it? That's why I've always struggled to enjoy occults, especially vampires.

As for the vampires game pack, I think it was really well done. I actually tend to like all the game packs better than stuff packs and a few expansions.

If they were to refresh vampires, I don't think we really need anything else added, except for maybe more CAS assets. I would love a few extra lots in Forgotten Hollow but I think that would be pushing it.

ETA: I think more recipes would be useful. Cooking is my favorite skill so more recipes are always welcome.

My vampires work at jobs that are at night criminal, paranormal investigationer and night shift at the fast food restaurant lol

I'm disappointed on the lack of break ins aswell, it made it unpredictable @CelSims

I think it's a very solid pack, but I would welcome a refresh for any pack especially this one since it's one of my favourites.

I don't give them any jobs because I think they would be terrible co-workers. I loved the Anne Rice vampire books when I was a teenager, so to me vampires are very artistic since they've been alive for centuries, so I have my vampires paint, write, compose music or sell plasma fruits if they need money.

In a refresh:

• Plasma food and beverages to fill up their thirst.
  
• Hair, especially side hairstyles for the male vamps because I like to give all my vampires the earring that came with the pack.
  
• Clothing and jewelry, especially old fashioned since they are alive for centuries.
  
• More bat and sun tattoos would be nice. I give them the bat tattoo when they first become a vampire and then the sun ankle tattoo if they can walk in daylight.
  
• I'd also like the evil and good vampires to autonomously fight each other and to naturally not get along. It would be fun to catch a vampire fight at a festival.
  
• I don't want them to autonomously eat human food if they can't digest it.
  
• Some kind of trait for evil vamps so they always bite people for snacks and break into houses more.
  
• Traits for the good vamps, so they always try to help human sims.
  
• Moodlets related to their vampire life and how they feel about other types of vampires, occult Sims and human Sims.
  
• I would really love it if vampire children could start gaining some vampire powers like the bat transformation, fast running, extra boost to skill building at night.
  
• And I wish they could learn magic as well and we could have vampire spellcasters.
  
• Edited to add one more thing, I'd like pregnant human Sims to be able to get vampirism like disease while visiting Forgotten Hollow or interacting with other vampires and have a vampire baby.