there are no new whims in island living and
:/ and there may never be again it makes me sad I like whims a lot it makes the sims seem more alive
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I love the whims and would very much like them to reflect a sims trait and aspiration more than they do now. Fears would be a great addition too.
These are some comments I made in another thread about whims:
I love whims. I remember when I updated the game some time ago after a long break from the game and found that whims had been switched off - I genuinely panicked that they had been removed before reading that they were just switched off by default. The sims just feel more real to me because they have temporary whims, just like humans! Having said that, I don't agree with some of the whims (pool squares and bee boxes!) but on the whole, I feel that the game would be poorer without them.
One thing I wish the game had is an unemployed sim rolling a whim to enter a specific career. I used that all the time in Sims 2, when my sims grew to adulthood or finished university. If the career in question conflicted with the Sims LTW I let them enter the desired career just to get the aspiration points and then had them get the job they really wanted shortly afterwards. :) Unfortunately we have fewer aspirations tied to jobs now so having an unemployed sim (not a freelancer or sim with a custom title) wish to enter a specific career would give a little more meaning to the career choice, I think.
These are some comments I made in another thread about whims:
I love whims. I remember when I updated the game some time ago after a long break from the game and found that whims had been switched off - I genuinely panicked that they had been removed before reading that they were just switched off by default. The sims just feel more real to me because they have temporary whims, just like humans! Having said that, I don't agree with some of the whims (pool squares and bee boxes!) but on the whole, I feel that the game would be poorer without them.
One thing I wish the game had is an unemployed sim rolling a whim to enter a specific career. I used that all the time in Sims 2, when my sims grew to adulthood or finished university. If the career in question conflicted with the Sims LTW I let them enter the desired career just to get the aspiration points and then had them get the job they really wanted shortly afterwards. :) Unfortunately we have fewer aspirations tied to jobs now so having an unemployed sim (not a freelancer or sim with a custom title) wish to enter a specific career would give a little more meaning to the career choice, I think.
