Occult Sims

"Cinebar;c-16712512" wrote:
I'm not sure how it works, but I think everyone has to stay busy. So, when they have finished what they are doing in a GP or EP etc. they move on over to a different pack. I think they already know what is coming next long before they ever finish a GP or EP. Or you would have some departments twiddling their thumbs waiting on work to do. I don't think they can manage this game that way. I think every department of TS4 has to stay busy with no breaks in between or you would be paying people for doing nothing. So, it stands to reason @Dannydanbo is more right than wrong. :)

Example: If the FX guys have finsihed what they were supposed to do for a GP or EP, then they would be just sitting there while others continued to work on the pack..so they have to know what is next and move on as others finish their own work in a GP or EP.

I understand engineers, some fx, animators etc don't ever have idle time - so those kind of positions never wait for work. In fact the Sims 4 people say they always have too much work to do for those positions - that those are the hours they talk about when they talk about budgets because they always wish there were more hours in a day for those people. They said if it was money they were trying to budget they could just get more money - but in this case it is hours and there are only so many hours in a day.

While I'm not crazy about occult sims, I wouldn't mind witches.

Something to bear in mind, if he did a 'what occult next' poll without putting witches on it, that would've started a HUGE flurry of 'OMG WITCHES SOON!!!!!111!!' that I can't imagine would've been smiled upon. They could well have started a witches GP before that poll (as anyone who has even slightly glanced at this forum can see people who like occults REALLY want witches), but it was way too early to acknowledge it.

Not saying they did! But it's not impossible.

"KirbySkywalker;c-16660186" wrote:
I think what they mean is compared to sims 3. There was not only occult added by supernatural. Every EP had an occult or something similar added.

There were mummies, aliens, skeletons, 2 types of robots, genies, mermaids, plantsims, witches, fairies, werewolves, zombies, ghosts...

That’s 13 types and I’m just going off of memory.

In ts4 we have 3, but ghost don’t add any worthwhile gameplay. Count me in the crowd of simmers who want more.

We have more than 3, you're forgetting skeletons and plant sims.

Skeletons are fun but temporary, but plant sims are just down right half baked.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16660182" wrote:
Depends on how you define 'occult'. TS2 has witches, zombies, vampires, werewolves, plantsims, and aliens.

Zombies? Oh. I don't remember that one.

@Dannydanbo

I don't know if I'd class supernaturals as a "small" percentage currently, but without arguing semantics, the issue, as I stated above, is not with the way things are, but with the way things could become by increasing focus on the supernatural aspects of the game. Eventually you come to a point where those aspects do overrun the core "life sim" aspects.

"Dannydanbo;c-16662378" wrote:

"So_Money;c-16662312" wrote:
@Dannydanbo

I don't know if I'd class supernaturals as a "small" percentage currently, but without arguing semantics, the issue, as I stated above, is not with the way things are, but with the way things could become by increasing focus on the supernatural aspects of the game. Eventually you come to a point where those aspects do overrun the core "life sim" aspects.

S3 Supernatural is the only pack dedicated to supernaturals. Any other supernaturals in any version, until vampires, have been a small part of the larger whole. That means normal game play far outweighs supernatural game play considerably. But, if you are, by some stretch of the imagination, correct, then it makes more sense to create a standalone pack with normal sims and no supernaturals to increase focus on normal aspects and leave things the way they are for everyone else.

I'd accept that alternative. Not sure how you'd sell it, though, at this point. It seems to me it would be easier to market a supernatural spinoff.

"Dannydanbo;c-16679137" wrote:


That is NOT my quote, that is someone else's quote. Please correct your post.

Oh, I'm sorry! I think I've fixed it.
It's a shame one can't just quote a certain string from a post on this forum without quoting the whole post...

I'm hoping for not just werewolves, but different were-animals. Why just stop at wolves?

"JoAnne65;c-16706534" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16703887" wrote:
The devs make what sells, simple as that. If certain occult states from past games sold well, there's no doubt in my mind that they hadn't forgotten about them and are making them now. Occults like PlantSims, Werewolves, and Zombies weren't nearly as popular as the top winners of Vampires, Witches, and even Mermaids, so I doubt the less popular ones will ever be getting made in this version and fully expect the most popular ones to be remade in TS4 instead.

How would they know that? Besides, popularity also depends on how those creatures were implemented. Werewolves for me were a turn off in Sims 3 and mermaids could have been much better as well. Fairies too. And zombies are nothing but a (bugged) nuisance in the game.

I like to think that when they introduced new occults in Sims 3, they were testing to see how popular each one seemed to be so that they would know what they wouldn't want to invest on in the next game, Sims 4. I don't have too much interest in Werewolves (but if it means getting body hair then I'm all for it), Fairies/Mermaids are cool if they were updated to be better (thus understanding people's expectations for them to be in this version), and uh...Zombies are only liked by a very specific niche of people, as far as I've seen.