Occults should have On-Off switches

"logion;c-17849917" wrote:
I agree about a toggle, I think all packs should have toggles if possible. I enjoyed vampires when it was released in 2017, it does not mean I want vampires to show up and bite my sims when I am playing a family in Mt. Komorebi in Snowy Escape in 2021.

"Pamtastic72;c-17849567" wrote:
Ha ha ha ha ha! It cracks me up when people think toggles are going to solve anything.

• They nerfed weather deaths pretty much entirely even though there was a toggle included with the pack to keep weather from affecting sims.
  
• They nerfed aliens even though there was a toggle on the satellite dish to prevent abductions.
  
• They nerfed vampires even though there were multiple in game toggles including garlic to prevent break-ins.
  
• They nerfed Murphy bed deaths even though there was a toggle in the form of an upgrade to prevent those too.
  
• They nerfed fame & reactions to celebrities even though there were toggles in game for those in the form of the celebrity disguise and the ability to turn fame off entirely. Now you’re global superstar hardly merits reactions from the common folk.
  

Toggles only work if people actually use them and the dollhouse crowd won’t. They prefer to simply have key pack features removed for their convenience and immersion, and anyone who specifically paid good money for those features can just go kick rocks.

I think the issue was that the toggles they offered were not that great.

• Only way to not have sims die of the weather effects because they were too dumb to switch clothes was to turn off weather effects completely, then you had sims walking in normal clothes in winter instead.
  
• You had to have a sim in the scientist career, get them promoted until they learned to make the satellite dish and then it only works for a day so you had to toggle it every day.
  
• You had to place garlic in front of the door in every household you played, and they still showed up, they could even interrupt you on community lots, preventing you from traveling.
  
• You had to level up your sim in handiness, just to be able to use the bed because it was the deadliest thing in the game.
  
• Turning off fame did not disable celebrities showing up on every lot and interrupting everything sims were doing, even sims that worked on community lots. Celebrity disguise could only be used if you played a celebrity.
  

Strange as well that these toggles that are so difficult to do are all available through mods.

I agree with this. I'ld prefer toggles in the menu options. In-game toggles usually require some steps that must be repeated in all households. It's just boring. I never used them because i like occults and wish they were more active in the game, but i wouldn't use in-game toggles over and over again, everytime i'ld play a new household. I can see that working for legacy play but for rotational play... uff there has to be a better way. I don't want my game to be a chore...