Playable Infected Sims

Mine went into the spore hallway without suits last night. They were knocked out and then infected temporarily. At that time, the only actions you have are to walk around. Once it wore off after 20-30 sim minutes, my Sims were back to normal. Not sure how that works with the fruit, but I might have to try that next. :D

"kalaksed;c-16975900" wrote:
i'm considering making a full thread about just this, but in the meantime, all the info on it i've discovered is posted in this thread (mostly the latest post, but a bit, more spoiler-specific is higher up)

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956199/spoiler-question-about-strangerville-spoilers-inside#latest

I hope you do. : ) I know now I will have to go get infected!!!

If you have two infected sims in the same household, they get special conversation topics with each other (and also with their mystery plant in the backyard). All they can do besides chat is sit, but I was also able to send one to work. It's not a good idea, because his performance there suffered. Oh, and they can also plant new mystery plants on their homelot (no need to have fruit in your inventory).

Also I play with free will off, still the one infected attacked another sim on his own accord. They weren't in a conversation, just in the same room. Infected playables also attack other infected, when those are not in possessed mode at that moment.

The two sims both ate a mystery fruit (for science, hem, hem) and their possession episodes return randomly lasting 3 hours each time (as opposed to the 30 minutes you get slapped with in the corridor).

"kalaksed;c-16976029" wrote:
@EnkiSchmidt your two played infected, do you remember the times they got their possessions? my one played, she was always possessed at 1 in the morning, so i'm trying to see if it's the same across all sims or seems to be randomized per individual

From my gut feeling they had more than one episode per day and the instances were spaced out across the day. They were not always in sync, but often. Both sims ate the fruit at the same time, but I didn't always have both active at the same time, sometimes I'd take only one to a venue and leave the other at home or at work.

For hard data I have one screenshot where it is late afternoon/early evening. Then another one from when the criminal came home from work (2 am?) and another one with both being possessed early in the morning. Then one time I send them to bed, hoping possessing would not occur, but they woke up in the night. I think that was around 1 am, but do not have the exact time.

I'll pay more attention to the clock tomorrow and take notes.

Right now I'm only playing with the "infected" wife of the main character and it's fun. Did you know they can still woohoo and try for baby lol?
There are other things that have stood out like don't send your possessed sim to garden normal plants... won't spoil it more than that.. but just don't.
I haven't seen all the interactions because it's side play but still.

Oh and just in case if you have a new born.. not sure if it's a good idea to just have an infected adult in the household as they can't care for the baby. I guess that's a spoiler and frankly for a baby to be taken away in that instance would make sense but I can see people getting upset about it.

I'm planning on making a sim that has a "herd" of infected basically a cult leader type also but I'll save that for later.
I also want to play on the dark side and go another way for the story end...

"EnkiSchmidt;c-16976292" wrote:
Now I NEED to send my infected to garden. They have just one mystery plant and one potatoe plant with grafted-on mystery fruit and so far I failed to notice anything out of the ordinary. When possessed they can chat with the mystery plant and they can plant new ones, but nothing special so far. Is the spoiler tied to high gardening skill or autonomy, maybe? Dang, now I want to fire up the game just for ten minutes and check more in-depth!

Actually I don't know how high mine was .... but it's a gardening option with normal plants, not mother plants and you might not like it depending.

Urrgh I don't want to spoil it but it's not that big a deal just made me sit up

I don't want to rush playing with infected sims more than I'm doing it for my story line I just love seeing the new stuff. I understand they react differently to the welcome wagon in Strangerville also. I have not played that out.

I have an infected sim. I saved her to my library. I really hope she is infected when I place her in another save. She would be a great roommate for my Vamp save.

I placed her in another save and she still has the trait.

She snuck off to StrangerVille and bought some strange fruit. She was able to plant the fruit in Forgotten Hollow. I am now waiting until 1 am to see what happens. Funny thing is the infected sim is Sookie Stackhouse.

Pippy Longstockings - Vamp and her friend Sookie Stackhouse- clumsy infected sidekick.

Edit: 1 am game time.
It works I am never healing her lol

Because infected transform at that time.

I don't know what went wrong in my first household that the sims got possessed in the afternoon. I actually liked the unpredictability of those early days, but by now my infected seem to have settled into the 1 am shedule, too :(