Regular townies turning into spellcasters?

Sims 4 REALLY needs be more like sims 1-there were all sorts of random,unexpected things that tended to happen in Sims 1( the Hot Date janitor randomly going out into the middle of the street and holding up traffic, you were able to turn other Sims into toads,etc. I even saw a Youtube video where some Sims died lighting a fireplace while the Oxygen Machine was in use.

Hopefully,Sims 5 will be more like Sims 1 and 2,and actaully be FUN to play.

Yeah, your theories are proving correct for me too. I have 16 spellcasters, but all plopped in 2 houses, so far, and I have not tested at all, just been playing, I know Johnny Zest, an elder from Sulani (cant remember her name) and the pregnant one from City Living have been drawn, for sure. There could be others I'm not noticing, I havent been to the realm in a while cause I'm writing my story atm, but when I get there I'll jot them down. But to have 32 more sims in my game, to me, is a lot! I haven't even got 32 sims of my own in there, yet, lol. Thanks again @DaWaterRat , if it were not for you and your efforts, we wouldn't know! Knowledge at least is power!

I have been making townie-spellcasters but I don’t quite have 32 yet. Working on it. Thanks for the updates.

Still super excited for the pack though!

"graventhe;c-17239379" wrote:

"EmmaVane;c-17239364" wrote:
They only autonomously practice magic in the Magic Realm. Extra spellacasters aren't needed until you go there, so just don't visit and your save will be fine.

There will be premades in the world though, and these will likely regenerate as randoms if you delete them.

What the point of owning the pack if I never visit? I just want the magic to stay there and not spellcasters appear in other worlds?

And where these premades you talking about? In other normal worlds? Or in magic realms? I don't want spellcasters townies to spawn in other worlds and see them walking around, in the magic world its fine of course..

The game will make other spellcasters for your sim to interact with if you go to the magic realm. Since there is a big community of sims there it makes sense. It would have to delete them when you left if you do not want spellcasters in your save.

Hmm... think I will make my own spellcasters in a different save and just port those households into my save that I play now. I want expand the magical bit slowly in this story so no realm-visiting for my main sims right now. Looking forward to having a save with lots of spellcasters.

And hopefully if Bob is the played father of my favorite alien toddler, he won't show up in the magic realm at all. Because Bob has quite enough to deal with in my game already.

The Goths, however, are welcome to put in an appearance.

Nope started playing 4 last year and didn't hang out with community again till this pack

"fullspiral;c-17239659" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17239642" wrote:

"fullspiral;c-17239633" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17239619" wrote:

"WolfNate;c-17239605" wrote:
Nope started playing 4 last year and didn't hang out with community again till this pack

I will fill you in:

Alien visits
Fires
Vampire visits/attacks
Weather related deaths

I think there’s more but, I get so frustrated when I talk about this stuff I forget. But yes, they give a feature to introduce random happenstance into the game. A vocal minority complains loudly and then quietly in a patch unannounced in the patch notes they drop the occurrences of these features to the point where the barely exist. Features that were in fact advertised elements of the game/pack that people paid money for because they wanted those features. So now the only time something “random” ever happens in your game is if you work very very hard to absolutely force it to happen.

Even some of the original traits you could acquire were changed. They nerfed never weary which was NEVER weary...and made it SORTA never weary where it just slowed how fast your sim got tired.

Remember when that was a big complaint on the forum?

Yes, now that you mention it...and they changed the insane trait to “erratic”. In fact I think that was in the same patch, those were announced, but when they decreased the chances of fires starting and the rest on my list it was done quietly and people just noticed over time that it wasn’t happening hardly at all anymore.

I guess they announced the nerfing of the weather deaths too. To smooth the ruffled feathers of those who spun out about it.

Sad. For us. I recall in my serial townie/premade killer save I had a sim that just wouldn't die. I gated her in a pool for days....weeks. She gasped, cried, glubbed and stayed alive. I put her in a very small room with a fire. She didn't die. I couldn't get rid of her! I've no idea why!

This game just wants happy, happy, sunshiny days. Pfft.

She must be immortal because I just killed a Sim in a pool a week ago once his needs were all in the red.

I don't know what she was. She was an elder that never died. Of drowning, hunger, fire, sleep deprivation, etc. I ended up deleting her from my sim's dungeon and then deleting her from that save.

I can never get npcs to die in my game! They never starve to death or anything!

I'm thinking of starting up my game before I get it, go into families and delete anyone I don't want to see as a spellcaster from what I have read here. Goodbye to the Landgraabs and the Pancakes and......... :)