Strangerville spreading?

"GalacticGal;c-17042187" wrote:
Yikes. I asked about planting the plants I saw in buy/build mode. Now, I'm certain I won't plant them. :open_mouth: While the game itself was fun in it's own way. Solving a mystery usually is, trying to defeat the scenario was a tad traumatizing to this old granny. LOL

I don't have any of the plants planted either. But I have noticed he gets possessed every day just before bedtime

I had my vampire sim bite a strangerville sim without thinking and he became possessed. He lives in Forgotten Hollow so I looked out for while to see if there has been any spread and so far I think it's okay. I know that this occassion is my fault but is kind of annoying.

"hevker;c-17042224" wrote:
I had my vampire sim bite a strangerville sim without thinking and he became possessed. He lives in Forgotten Hollow so I looked out for while to see if there has been any spread and so far I think it's okay. I know that this occassion is my fault but is kind of annoying.

That would be haha. Not the case here I don't have vampire pack. But good to know that can happen!

That definitely sounds like a bug, but I actually kinda hope I have this one..

Yea, this has happened to me, but with my sim that lived in San Myshuno. One of the possessed sims came to a festival and spread the virus. I wish there was a way to turn the strangerville story off. I beat it twice, then I start a new save and bam, possessed sims all over again. Its terrible. I want to be able to live in strangerville without having to either beat the story everytime, or continue using the same save forever.

"Corenren;c-17043554" wrote:
Yea, this has happened to me, but with my sim that lived in San Myshuno. One of the possessed sims came to a festival and spread the virus. I wish there was a way to turn the strangerville story off. I beat it twice, then I start a new save and bam, possessed sims all over again. Its terrible. I want to be able to live in strangerville without having to either beat the story everytime, or continue using the same save forever.

At least you know how it started, how the festival. My sim had never even left his house before since he was newly created. And yes I wish the same. I actually love the storyline and I'm working on it the second time around I can see myself doing it a few times. But I wish we could turn it off so we don't have to every single time. I so wish we could turn off celebrities and Vampires though. Vampires is the only pack I don't have because I don't want them in my game, but I would love some of the cas if we could turn them off. I don't know why big game features like this aren't a toggle off because people would probably buy the pack more if they could just do that

@simalexandria I didn't want to buy vampires because of this too, however, they tend to keep to themselves as long as you don't use any kind of vampire interactions, or objects. I have not had a problem with them in my game. I really wish I could turn off celebrities too, they are so annoying, and I'm tired of my sims constantly swooning over them in public. I just try to avoid them. They should definitely make these kinds of major features able to be turned off. I think I read somewhere that you can turn these off with MCCC. But I refuse to use mods or CC in my game.

"Corenren;c-17043646" wrote:
@simalexandria I didn't want to buy vampires because of this too, however, they tend to keep to themselves as long as you don't use any kind of vampire interactions, or objects. I have not had a problem with them in my game. I really wish I could turn off celebrities too, they are so annoying, and I'm tired of my sims constantly swooning over them in public. I just try to avoid them. They should definitely make these kinds of major features able to be turned off. I think I read somewhere that you can turn these off with MCCC. But I refuse to use mods or CC in my game.

I do use MCCC, i don't use cc but have 2 mods (mccc and a foster child one) but only in a few of my game files not all of them. And I don't want the vampires in any of the games LOL! If they were ever to put a toggle off on vampires I would be quick to buy. Otherwise I'm going to have to really think about it and maybe maybe maybe if it goes on a big sale, but right now I'm leaning towards not having them.

I knew this was going to happen... the developers said the possession stuff wouldn't happen outside of Strangerville, but here we are... now they're probably going to come up with a ridiculous excuse like "well, it's already in the game, so there's nothing we can do about it!" and then they'll pin the "weirder stories" label on the bug and respond with something like "We want your game to be as quirky as possible!" and give a stupid smile afterwards.

Simply put, this bug probably isn't going to be fixed... and they'll just end up saying it's part of their idea to make the game quirky (despite their original claim that this wouldn't effect worlds outside of Strangerville).

And before anyone jumps at me for making these assumptions, I've been playing The Sims since the first game... I've seen the way these kinds of bugs are dealt with. Most of them are never addressed by the developers. That's one of the major reasons Sims 3 turned out to be a huge buggy mess... they don't care to fix anything.

"Lustianicia;c-17043690" wrote:
I knew this was going to happen... the developers said the possession stuff wouldn't happen outside of Strangerville, but here we are... now they're probably going to come up with a ridiculous excuse like "well, it's already in the game, so there's nothing we can do about it!" and then they'll pin the "weirder stories" label on the bug and respond with something like "We want your game to be as quirky as possible!" and give a stupid smile afterwards.

Simply put, this bug probably isn't going to be fixed... and they'll just end up saying it's part of their idea to make the game quirky (despite their original claim that this wouldn't effect worlds outside of Strangerville).

And before anyone jumps at me for making these assumptions, I've been playing The Sims since the first game... I've seen the way these kinds of bugs are dealt with. Most of them are never addressed by the developers. That's one of the major reasons Sims 3 turned out to be a huge buggy mess... they don't care to fix anything.

We'll see. My opinion is different but either way I haven't had a chance to try repairing the game yet though and if that doesn't work it's not really a big deal. The Possession only last for 3 in-game hours, which is like 3 minutes of my time. And it seems pretty rare, I have a lot of game saves and it's only one of them that it seems to be affecting at this point. I don't regret buying stranger Ville or anything because it's one of my favorite packs to play still