there are no new whims in island living and

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.

"Mariefoxprice83;c-17134565" wrote:
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.

that would be nice I also wish they could roll a whim to adopt a child and if we get cars I hope they roll whims to learn to drive and teach others to drive or fix up a car or if we a had a university pack a whim to go would have been nice and with the new magic pack a whim to cast spells on other sims @Mariefoxprice83

I wonder if the sims gurus miss whims and wants to

"comicsforlife;c-17134589" wrote:


that would be nice I also wish they could roll a whim to adopt a child and if we get cars I hope they roll whims to learn to drive and teach others to drive or fix up a car or if we a had a university pack a whim to go would have been nice and with the new magic pack a whim to cast spells on other sims @Mariefoxprice83

I'm not fussed about cars but I definitely agree with the rest :) Sims 2 did all of those things in its whims, and it feels like a step back to be without them if and when we get the relevant packs. We I know we're getting magic in some form, so hopefully whims will play at least an occasional role in that.

One thing I've noticed is that in Sims 4 we just don't get the fun random element in the same way as we did with Sims 2. Sims don't want to enter any careers unless it's related to their aspiration, crazy things don't happen often, and sims only want to flirt with sims they have already expressed romantic interest in, because there's no clear attraction system (I think I miss that the most!)

I already updated my whimoverhaul mod for Island Living:
https://www.deichschafblog.de/s4/sonstige-mods/

The thing that bothers me most about whims is that they just decided to get rid of them rather than improve on them.

Sure, whims are extremely lazy and irrelevant in the Sims 4, often times they don't make sense (like the whim for buying a 5x5 pool) or are too trivial (like the whim for buy a toy). But, it's been over 4 years, and they've had plenty of opportunities to improve them. But no, I guess it was just too difficult for them to do this, and they ended up just eliminating them altogether. You can turn them back on, but what's the point if they're not even updating them for existing packs? Like another poster stated, they didn't bother updating them for Strangerville, and now they haven't done it for Island Living either.

I really hope the devs actually read this. THEY KNOW that the sims are shallow and lack personality. And they could have improved this with fixing the whims. But, NO, this was just toooo hard. All they care about is windows dressing :(

AND If they can't even fix or update whims, do you really think we'll get attraction, fears, or favorites? If whims are too hard for them, how will they improve the sims at all?

"bixters;c-17134894" wrote:
The thing that bothers me most about whims is that they just decided to get rid of them rather than improve on them.

Sure, whims are extremely lazy and irrelevant in the Sims 4, often times they don't make sense (like the whim for buying a 5x5 pool) or are too trivial (like the whim for buy a toy). But, it's been over 4 years, and they've had plenty of opportunities to improve them. But no, I guess it was just too difficult for them to do this, and they ended up just eliminating them altogether. You can turn them back on, but what's the point if they're not even updating them for existing packs? Like another poster stated, they didn't bother updating them for Strangerville, and now they haven't done it for Island Living either.

I really hope the devs actually read this. THEY KNOW that the sims are shallow and lack personality. And they could have improved this with fixing the whims. But, NO, this was just toooo hard. All they care about is windows dressing :(

AND If they can't even fix or update whims, do you really think we'll get attraction, fears, or favorites? If whims are too hard for them, how will they improve the sims at all?

The only real reason I use whims is to get the rewards.

Honestly they should just bring back Wishes from Sims 3.

They popped up based on what a Sim was doing, where a Sim was or what traits they had

And you could save up to 4 wishes you wanted to fulfill, not just 1

"FreezerBunnyCowplant;c-17134993" wrote:
Honestly they should just bring back Wishes from Sims 3.

They popped up based on what a Sim was doing, where a Sim was or what traits they had

And you could save up to 4 wishes you wanted to fulfill, not just 1

You can actually pin both non-emotional whims.

"SimQueenie9;c-17134997" wrote:

"FreezerBunnyCowplant;c-17134993" wrote:
Honestly they should just bring back Wishes from Sims 3.

They popped up based on what a Sim was doing, where a Sim was or what traits they had

And you could save up to 4 wishes you wanted to fulfill, not just 1

You can actually pin both non-emotional whims.

Yes, but you can just pin 1 and not 4, as stated in my post.