"simfriend1968;c-17226608" wrote:
"Echova;c-17225926" wrote:
"simfriend1968;c-17187701" wrote:
PlantSims were poorly done, but they were part of a free patch/ challenge. So it is my hope that they could some day be revisited/ revamped, maybe with another free patch or as part of a Farming Expansion pack. To tell the truth, I am the least concerned about them since they are a made up being unique to the Sims franchise.
They’re not, actually. The concept of a plant person isn’t new at all in gaming culture, much less mythology. DnD/Neverwinter has the dryads which are based off of dryads from ancient Greek lore. DnD has had them since before The Sims was a thing. Guild Wars 2, while much younger than The Sims, also has a plant person race called the sylvari. There’s also the floran of Starbound. I can go on but yeah, it’s not unique to The Sims.
Well yes but they weren’t called dryads or associated with trees in the TS2. I love dryads (and naiads, and other mythological creatures from the ancient world) and would love to see something like them in TS4, as I think I said elsewhere in another thread. In TS2, plantsims were created chemically as a consequence of the overuse of pesticides. They were a very unique lifestate in how they reproduced asexually, had their own narrower range of needs and lived shortened lives compared to ordinary sims. So they have their own lore, quite different from that of dryads and other plant-based creatures etc. I would love to have them back in TS4 in full form in future but I don’t care much for them now as a temporary state.
Yes, it is the temporary status that disqualifies plantsims for me. I am a rotational player and it would irritate me to no end to always see my poor plantsims walking around in the wrong state. Which the sim would do very shortly after switching household. Part of the charm of rotational play for me is interacting with my other favorite sims. With my plantsim I would have edit the sim back to it’s original state every time. Less fun, more irritating. Easier just to ignore them for the time being and hope that they will receive an update at some point.
