What's your story for the aliens?
Aliens definitely exist in Maxis-sims world, and have since SimCity 3000 & The Sims 1: cities could be visited by ufos, and Sims there could be abducted. As the series has progressed, we've seen more and more aliens, until now in The Sims 4, there are alien nights at the bar. So...how do you explain them, and how do you play them?
My head-canon is that the aliens (who I call Xenons for some reason) began visiting the Sims world 20+ years ago, and didn't realize that Sims regarded their attempts to communicate and learn about life on Sim-Earth were perceived as abductions. As more people were abducted it became impossible to hide the fact that there are aliens. The military wanted to rally and stop the Xenons, but were so out-classed that the Xenons didn't even realize they were under serious attack. Eventually, the Sims learned that the Xenons' home planet was mostly uninabitable now, and that they lived in space and were interested in partially settling Earth. Although the Sims couldn't really STOP them, the Xenons were given a small area where they were allowed to settle among humans (Strangetown in Sims 2), in exchange for trading tech. In the last 20 years, Simworld's tech has grown exponentially thanks to that trade, with the ability to clone sims and have talking robots, etc, and more and more aliens have settled. They now live everywhere, not just in Strangetown, but often assume human guises so that their hosts won't freak out by how many aliens there really are. There are different-colored Xenons just as there are different-colored sims. There's a sims ministry that is just about Xenon-Sim relations. (Er...diplomatic relations, not bedtime relations.) The plants in Strangeville may or may not be from the Xenon's home planet. (However, I just realized why I call them Xenons: the alien world in Half-Life is Xen. :D )
My head-canon is that the aliens (who I call Xenons for some reason) began visiting the Sims world 20+ years ago, and didn't realize that Sims regarded their attempts to communicate and learn about life on Sim-Earth were perceived as abductions. As more people were abducted it became impossible to hide the fact that there are aliens. The military wanted to rally and stop the Xenons, but were so out-classed that the Xenons didn't even realize they were under serious attack. Eventually, the Sims learned that the Xenons' home planet was mostly uninabitable now, and that they lived in space and were interested in partially settling Earth. Although the Sims couldn't really STOP them, the Xenons were given a small area where they were allowed to settle among humans (Strangetown in Sims 2), in exchange for trading tech. In the last 20 years, Simworld's tech has grown exponentially thanks to that trade, with the ability to clone sims and have talking robots, etc, and more and more aliens have settled. They now live everywhere, not just in Strangetown, but often assume human guises so that their hosts won't freak out by how many aliens there really are. There are different-colored Xenons just as there are different-colored sims. There's a sims ministry that is just about Xenon-Sim relations. (Er...diplomatic relations, not bedtime relations.) The plants in Strangeville may or may not be from the Xenon's home planet. (However, I just realized why I call them Xenons: the alien world in Half-Life is Xen. :D )
