What to do with a raging werewolf?

I have had raging werewolves swim. I could send them into the lake and they can't scare others whilst swimming. Raging sims can also still search the ground for collectibles if you have that perk onlocked.

Well, the two options the game steers you toward are

Wildfang type option: scare people, destroy stuff, maybe go for a run
Moonwood type option: lock yourself in a room until it passes (or until you successfully pull yourself out of it, when you learn that perk)

Some other things my weres have done:
Scavenging the ground
Purposely scaring and fighting the same person repeatedly (if it's someone who deserves it, of course)
Various methods of reducing fury so that you don't rampage, or don't rampage very often. There are a lot of these as you level up. Some of them are more effective in a group, like the one where a were can pacify another were. This is a very powerful ability since it reduces fury from any level to zero. Two weres with this ability can make it so that neither one ever rampages, if that's what they want.

I honestly never get tired of them howling, so my rampaging weres tend to hang around howling a lot :)

I let my raging werewolf loose in San Myshuno during a Flea Market festival. It was hilarious and tons of fun.

Yeah I too find myself tad lost with what to do once my played sim turns into werewolf since i play autonomy off and they just be standing there calm as ever :sweat_smile:

I usually just direct them to run around the neighborhood aimlessly and howl maybe destroy some things maybe swim anything that appears to be possible i guess

I normally play with autonomy off, but when they are about to rampage I turn it back on, lock them out of the house so they don't destroy their house and let them have at it everywhere else they want to. They do a lot of sniffing around, running all over the place and howling. Maybe next time I will send them to the bar before they change, just to test out what happens. >:)

Just lock them in an empty room (or any room)

"mightysprite;c-18262822" wrote:
Moonwood type option: lock yourself in a room until it passes (or until you successfully pull yourself out of it, when you learn that perk)

That's the thing, the werewolf in question had the ability to control his transformations, and an additional ability to reduce rage by howling. Neither was available during the full moon, probably by design. (Although with TS4, you never know...)

I don't want to completely suppress the nature of my werewolves by locking them up or preventing their transformations, or else I wouldn't be playing as them in the first place. But I want to be able to do stuff with them while they're raging, other than just running around and scaring people, which may be a worthwhile pastime for mischievous wolves, but not for everyone. I'm a little disappointed because this seems to be yet another TS4 feature that sounded great in theory but wasn't properly thought through, like the StrangerVille zombies that can't interact with anything in their possessed state, and we're supposed to just sit there and look at them for in-game hours until they turn back.

"Atreya33;c-18262627" wrote:
I have had raging werewolves swim. I could send them into the lake and they can't scare others whilst swimming. Raging sims can also still search the ground for collectibles if you have that perk onlocked.

I'll try that, thanks! At least it's something.

Well a plus side with raging wolvies is that the household members really improve their handiness skill whilst repairing stuff. Love those wolvies!

I have given up on this particular werewolf. His temperaments made him rage once a day because I couldn't reconcile them with his everyday life. Resetting the temperaments via lunar howl gave him slightly less annoying ones, but it was still too much for me to handle along with his fame, an infant in the house, and chickens that kept aging despite animal aging being turned off. So I decided to look for a cure, which was ridiculously hard to get, and even as a dedicated occult player, I'm pretty fed up with werewolves at this point.

Well, one thing I have learned is that you can't be a werewolf on the side, like with all the other occults. You are a werewolf first and have to build the rest of your life around that. The next time I feel like playing as a werewolf, that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'll let him live alone and unemployed in an off-the-grid cabin where he can do whatever he wants all day, no obligations besides whatever his temperaments demand of him, and see where we go from there.

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-18264328" wrote:
I have given up on this particular werewolf. His temperaments made him rage once a day because I couldn't reconcile them with his everyday life. Resetting the temperaments via lunar howl gave him slightly less annoying ones, but it was still too much for me to handle along with his fame, an infant in the house, and chickens that kept aging despite animal aging being turned off. So I decided to look for a cure, which was ridiculously hard to get, and even as a dedicated occult player, I'm pretty fed up with werewolves at this point.

Well, one thing I have learned is that you can't be a werewolf on the side, like with all the other occults. You are a werewolf first and have to build the rest of your life around that. The next time I feel like playing as a werewolf, that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'll let him live alone and unemployed in an off-the-grid cabin where he can do whatever he wants all day, no obligations besides whatever his temperaments demand of him, and see where we go from there.

The cure is very hard. Learning the recipe can take up a long time. Maybe learning the recipe could have been a bit easier.

Playing a werewolf on the side is possible if you are willing to allow yourself a cheat. I use a mod to pick the temperaments I want. My werewolves earn the lunar howl perk without cheats. But once they did the legit lunar howl, I use a mod to pick the temperaments myself. I find some temperaments easy to handle, I guess it depends on play style. With the lunar howl without cheats it is possible to randomly get two positive (blue) temperaments so I allow my werewolves two positive temperaments. This combined with the perk that protects my werewolf from the full moon, makes it possible to play a werewolf without constantly focusing on the werewolf gameplay. I am even considering to remove the lunar resistance because at times these sims are not werewolfy enough anymore.

The right temperaments make a huge difference. I play a werewolf with the romantic trait, living with his girlfriend and the frisky temperament. It was horrible with at least one rampage a day. But now he has temperaments that suit his personality better. For example the temperament to always be clean is an easy one for me.