Please Fix the Alien "Discovery" Issue
@SimGuruDrake @SimGuruNinja @SimGuruLyndsay @SimGuruHydra You know, the issue in which Sims will "discover" that another Sim is an alien, despite the alien not being in disguise to begin with. Thi...
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> @Sjofn said:
> This started bothering me a lot more post-vampires, where even though there's the whole dark form thing, everyone just knows who's a vampire and no one cares. Yet my undisguised aliens freak people out? Bah!
Until the November patch, all my Vampires were recognized as Vampires whether or not they were "showing" their Dark Forms, and every relationship started on a negative note (there is a weakness trait that can make this negative relationship status worse, but all of my Vampires were instantly recognized either way). One or two bad Vampire puns later, and every NPC would then be at ease and praising Vampires to the sky. Now they only take notice if my Vampires drink "without permission" from a Sim at a public venue, and even then it's only a minor dislike, and NPCs no longer even mention Vampires in random conversation anymore.
As for Aliens, Alien NPCs have all but vanished from my game since the November patch. Before the addition of Vampires, Aliens were my favs. Now I am afraid to go back to my Alien family (Alien husband=stay-at-home-dad, Human wife=doctor; children=two half siblings, one fully human, one part human, part Alien) for fear of his wife and son humiliating him to death! Before all these troubles began the only major problem I had with Alien Sims was a tendency for them to be abducted by their own kind while undisguised, "Yo, dude, I'm one you, ya idiot!" lol
I've said this before, and I'll probably say it again, Occult Simmers are the forgotten middle children of TS4. I don't even own the Pets EP, yet I've found piles of dirt near treasure hunting nodes that if I dig in (like a dog :s ) will yield upgrade parts (yay?) as if to compensate for messed up characters and stories that I've played for months.
As an intellectual exercise, I think I will create a blended family of Aliens and Vampires just to see what happens.
Good luck, all, and hang in there, I'm sure the developers will sort things out....eventually.
> This started bothering me a lot more post-vampires, where even though there's the whole dark form thing, everyone just knows who's a vampire and no one cares. Yet my undisguised aliens freak people out? Bah!
Until the November patch, all my Vampires were recognized as Vampires whether or not they were "showing" their Dark Forms, and every relationship started on a negative note (there is a weakness trait that can make this negative relationship status worse, but all of my Vampires were instantly recognized either way). One or two bad Vampire puns later, and every NPC would then be at ease and praising Vampires to the sky. Now they only take notice if my Vampires drink "without permission" from a Sim at a public venue, and even then it's only a minor dislike, and NPCs no longer even mention Vampires in random conversation anymore.
As for Aliens, Alien NPCs have all but vanished from my game since the November patch. Before the addition of Vampires, Aliens were my favs. Now I am afraid to go back to my Alien family (Alien husband=stay-at-home-dad, Human wife=doctor; children=two half siblings, one fully human, one part human, part Alien) for fear of his wife and son humiliating him to death! Before all these troubles began the only major problem I had with Alien Sims was a tendency for them to be abducted by their own kind while undisguised, "Yo, dude, I'm one you, ya idiot!" lol
I've said this before, and I'll probably say it again, Occult Simmers are the forgotten middle children of TS4. I don't even own the Pets EP, yet I've found piles of dirt near treasure hunting nodes that if I dig in (like a dog :s ) will yield upgrade parts (yay?) as if to compensate for messed up characters and stories that I've played for months.
As an intellectual exercise, I think I will create a blended family of Aliens and Vampires just to see what happens.
Good luck, all, and hang in there, I'm sure the developers will sort things out....eventually.
