toggle on/off vampires

"pepperjax1230;15568340" wrote:

"stilljustme2;15567802" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;15567710" wrote:

"Cnstnc680;15567440" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;15561448" wrote:
Umm why would you buy a pack revolved around vampires if you don't want vampires in the game?

That's not a valid argument. My boyfriend plays the sims too and he wants vampires so we got the pack. I hate vampires but am now stuck with them in my game. A toggle would have been great. Hoping the MC Command Center adds this option as they did with aliens.

That is a valid argument and if you bought it to please someone then that is your business if you don't like vampires. A toggle might make the vampires less then they are that isn't acceptable to me. I bought the pack because I wanted vampires.

All a toggle would do would be to stop the game from generating vampires if you have it selected -- players could create their own vampires if they wanted to add some, or just deal with the three existing ones however they wish. It would have no effect on your game if you chose to leave vampires on. Or they could "nerf" the vampires the way they did with alien abduction. I would think with that choice, adding the toggle would be preferable.

I don't want a toggle a toggle to prevent them is don't buy the pack. I can't help if people hate vampires and buy it to please other people they live with. Thats not my problem.

Again, I don't hate vampires -- but I don't want them taking over every single save. I want some saves focused on vampires, some where they're just there in the background (maybe my Sim marries one) and saves where they don't exist so I can play my own way...where I can, you know, "rule". Using the toggle would be completely optional. If there was another way to keep the game from spawning vampires, for example deleting Vlad and the other pre-mades, or by staying out of Forgotten Hollow or not studying vampire lore, that would be just fine. Just some way where I can control the vampire population.

"MVWdeZT;15570872" wrote:
If you send your Sims to Forgotten Hollow, the game will generate additional vampires. And you should generally be wary of any strange Sims that show up on the front porch after 5 pm or so -- they may be vampires. But they won't come in if you don't interact with them.

My sim lives in Forgotten Hollow as a vampire slayer and all I see besides the 16 vampires that live there is human sims that constantly walk through the park. When my sims goes to other towns to use venues or go to the Fairs in CL I see the a few vamps but they are always my sims neighbors from Forgotten Hollow - no new ones at all. My sim is a Night Owl so he basically keeps the same hours as the vamps do - so I am not surprised they travel to the same places he goes a lot of the time. The only time I don't see the vamps at all is if there is a party or something my sims are invite to at the Buff or the Haunted Mansion - just human sims seem to show up for those.

"Writin_Reg;15570843" wrote:
Not that I can see - but then they seem to indicate that the game does not generate any townie Vampires - so I wonder if something else in your game is causing that to happen. I know myself I have not had a single vampire generated by the game. The Guru's said the game will randomly pick sims to generate to fill positions needed in the game from walk bys to what ever is needed and it will generate what the Guru said was Faux vampire or vampire wanna bes but they have no vamp abilities just look and dress the part. Well that is all I have seen and very few of those. They look gothic but aren't vamps.

My game generates actual vampires -- when you go into CAS they have the vampire symbol above the traits. And I know in my Gregor Rossi (vampire) save there are vampire townies because my Sim has met and is planning to romance one. You might want to check Manage Households (specifically Not in World population) and see if you have any single young adult households that may be actual vampires.

Well they are not supposed to as the Guru's said they weren't. Did you watch the Vampire Twitch tv game plays with the vampires? I believe that's where they said that. They even talked about the Faux vampires. The team that made the gp is who played it. Seems to me they'd know what they programmed it to do.

I have been playing with the vamps since they came out and as I said the only vamps I have in game besides the 3 that came with it I added. All of them live in Forgotten Hollow.

Dave Miotke
‏@SimGuruNinja

@TheSimScraper @SimGuruMegs No on/off switch, but Vampirism only spreads when you (player) do it. So no swarms of Vamps invading your worlds

Yes, SimsGuruNinja say that they are not supposed to stay, but yet some are still here. I'm repairing my game to see if it change something.

Vlad just turned up as the receptionist in my science career. I was going to freeze him but it was time for my sim to go home. If he turns up again he will have to be deleted from the game. I don't know why my regular receptionist disappeared. This is the only thing I find super annoying.
Wims are also a problem with sims constantly getting a wim to research vampire lore on the computer but wims are just annoying In general anyway.
In one save Vlad did enter my sims apartment uninvited and bite him while everyone was sleeping. Other than messing up his first day of work it wasn't that big a deal and hopefully was a one time thing. Usually he just stands outside the door until morning.
How can you not interact with a vampire if you don't know they are a vampire? I guess if you wait long enough they will do some vampire actions but Vlad did nothing but play on the computer if I had not known who he was I would have had my sim introduce himself.
Now is Lilith immune to the sun? She was at a party at the bluffs and was still dancing away at 10 AM when I sent my sim home to sleep. I went in and edited the generated vamps so they don't dress like regular townies and I can keep better track of them. I have found so far my game wants to have 3 townie Vampires. If I delete them, 3 more spawn.
There are definately many more vampires in my vampire save. Especially in Forgotten Hollow. My vampire has to go to the city every Night to find food.
I like this pack enough to deal with the vampires. Aliens running around dressed as aliens but not recognized as aliens is worse for me.

It must be a bug.
I had repair my game, play with my vampire, go back to the world view, check on manage household and saw two new people in the "Not in World population" and they are vampire, plus there is this townie i have meet before, who wasn't a vampire, who came into forgotten hollow and when i click on her it says that she was a vampire, so i wait until she leave FH, and she is still a vampire.
I don't understand what my game is doing Oo'
Didn't touch my game, i locked my vampire in her house and wait, the game have create new vampire townie ( and i don't have any mod/cc in my game )

"suzanna13;15570963" wrote:
Vlad just turned up as the receptionist in my science career. I was going to freeze him but it was time for my sim to go home. If he turns up again he will have to be deleted from the game. I don't know why my regular receptionist disappeared. This is the only thing I find super annoying.
Wims are also a problem with sims constantly getting a wim to research vampire lore on the computer but wims are just annoying In general anyway.
In one save Vlad did enter my sims apartment uninvited and bite him while everyone was sleeping. Other than messing up his first day of work it wasn't that big a deal and hopefully was a one time thing. Usually he just stands outside the door until morning.
How can you not interact with a vampire if you don't know they are a vampire? I guess if you wait long enough they will do some vampire actions but Vlad did nothing but play on the computer if I had not known who he was I would have had my sim introduce himself.
Now is Lilith immune to the sun? She was at a party at the bluffs and was still dancing away at 10 AM when I sent my sim home to sleep. I went in and edited the generated vamps so they don't dress like regular townies and I can keep better track of them. I have found so far my game wants to have 3 townie Vampires. If I delete them, 3 more spawn.
There are definately many more vampires in my vampire save. Especially in Forgotten Hollow. My vampire has to go to the city every Night to find food.
I like this pack enough to deal with the vampires. Aliens running around dressed as aliens but not recognized as aliens is worse for me.

Okay if Vllad (He is the Vampire Master) is showing in your place of work would be normal as he is a sim in the game and the game programs them to be co-workers - it is supposed to happen. But coming into your sims apt without an invite ever from you is not something that happens. Even the vampire Lore book says vamps cannot go into a sims living quarters if they have never been invited in and I know in my game they never come in as I have never allowed any in. Once you allow them in then they can come back all the time.

As for deleting a programmed character that might be an issue as they are not homeless sims generated by the game - in fact he is the most major of the Vamps for the pack - and you might have issues with your game if you do that. My niece and her friend both got their games corrupted by deleteing the three resident Vampires even though tons of people tell players to - it is not recommended when a character is in the actual programming as the game is programmed to tell that sims to do various things and when it is not there it can create conflict in the IA and do anything from corrupt the saves related to that game to creating lag when the game starts searching for the sim it has to control to do things. It is a different matter removing just game generated Sims in this game. If you want them gone they need to die to keep things like that from happening. From my understanding he may be respawn eventually but not sure when or if this is a fact as the devs were not clear on that - but usually programming needs the subject control it is programmed for or it creates serious issues.

In past sims games it created corrupt files, and saves, and created freezing and lag.

"lulubadwolf;15571031" wrote:
It must be a bug.
I had repair my game, play with my vampire, go back to the world view, check on manage household and saw two new people in the "Not in World population" and they are vampire, plus there is this townie i have meet before, who wasn't a vampire, who came into forgotten hollow and when i click on her it says that she was a vampire, so i wait until she leave FH, and she is still a vampire.
I don't understand what my game is doing Oo'
Didn't touch my game, i locked my vampire in her house and wait, the game have create new vampire townie ( and i don't have any mod/cc in my game )

I have no idea why it does that - maybe because you play a vampire and learn the Lore? I think they do if you actually play one as vamps need vamps. I know my sim is not a vamp and is level 15 on the vampire lore because he is a slayer of vampires - he doesn't kill them - he cures them - lol and I never see any new vamps. I have tons of pictures where my sim goes to vamp paries galore and he goes to human parties and outings and not a vamp in site in the human outings. But as I said he is not a vamp just lives in Forgotten Hollow and is being groomed as a slayer.

Locking vamps in a house doesn't usually work as they can generally get out as the mist teleport or the bat eventually.

Oh wow! I guess I have really messed up. Thanks for letting me know @Writin_Reg. Will I just corrupt the saves in which I have deleted Vlad or will all my saves be corrupt?