Vampires or Casters?

"scoed;c-17246863" wrote:

"WolfNate;c-17246688" wrote:
As someone who owns both races I can honestly tell you in my opinion Casters have more to do. I'm not saying Vampires are stupid go Casters. I've played hours of Vampires I even made my celeb a vampire just to complete aspirations and have less needs to handle. No I'm saying in my honest to Thoth legitimately unbiased opinion Casters have more content then Vampires.

Casters has more powers and abilities then Vamps, that is for sure. But Vamps have more game play than casters. I know this is counter intuitive, but here me out.

Casters have abilities that eliminates game play, and they get them early. One of the first potions you learn fills all needs and only costs one apple to make. Your sims no longer have to shower, socialize, have fun, sleep, eat, or take restroom breaks. Since you no longer have spend much time at all you no longer have to balance your sim needs vs skill gains (magical or otherwise) and a great many skills become obsolete like cooking, gourmet cooking, baking, hardiness and more as magic does what they did, but better. This simplification of game play eliminates challenge reduces effective game play in my opinion.

I've found it worthwhile to continue to use cooking, gardening, and handiness, but that might just be my playstyle.

Relying on the Delicioso spell means you don't get to choose what you eat - which could be problematic if you want to entertain vampires and conjure up Garlic Noodles, or to make a cake to age up your kid (or want to put your sim on a diet). Yes, the basic cake is only level one, but I'd rather not risk burning the house down because my Sim has never used a stove... Also I don't think Grand Delicioso counts as a Grand Meal for holidays (if you have seasons)

Florialoral and Herbio - well, Herbio has the same "random" issue as Delicioso, and Florialoral means you don't increase your gardening skill while weeding or watering. Which means it takes longer to learn to graft and super sell.

Repario - This one and Scruberoo I use a lot, but if I want to go fishing in the Forgotten Grotto, I don't think Repario is going to get me through the boarded up entrance. And I'm not sure if you can use Repario on computers (the one time I tried, she was already auto-repairing it the manual way and Repario didn't come up under magic options.) And certainly Repario won't help with the chance cards in Jungle Adventure.

Also I find it a waste to use the Needs potion if I'm only down one or two things, but again, that's probably just me.

Casters do have a lot of cheats, but like with Cheats in real life - there's a penalty to using them. If you're just powering through becoming a Caster, then maybe you won't see that penalty. If you're going for a more integrated playstyle, they could present a problem.