Will Vampires affect my gameplay too much?

"too much" means something different to everyone.
you can expect a break-in once in a while
you can expect sims walking around the neighborhood dressed as vampires
if you play in forgotten hollow for any extended period of time you can expect the game to generate a lot of vampires
other than that they don't really do all that much or get in the way of anything

I have found that if you delete Vlad and the other pre-mades, the vampires have very little effect on gameplay unless you actively get involved with a vampire or decide to make a household with vampires. Occasionally, there will be Sims (who may or may not be vampires) knocking on your door, but you don't need to let them in. I have had very few break-ins, but maybe I've just been lucky.

Vampires is my favourite pack, so I definitely recommend it, but then I am a vampire/supernatural fan so I'm probably not the best person for you to ask? As others have commented though, I have been able to easily avoid vampires when I wish to and you can always delete or cure them. Vlad often visits once shortly after you start a new household, but you don't have to let him in and as long as you don't do any vampire related interactions or learn vampire lore then you shouldn't get many if any 'creatures of the night' at your door. I very rarely have had vampire break ins and my main sim IS a vampire. I believe some simmers have had issues with vampires breaking in at venues, but this has since been fixed? I never experienced it myself so I can't be sure. Also I don't believe a vampire can turn your sim into a vampire without your say so. Even if they could though, it would be easy to fix with cheats. Honestly I find celebrities much more intrusive.

I have bought the pack mostly because of the CAS and bb which are awesome and also to give a try on the vampires, although im also a realistic player. I also found out, like other people has commented that if you don't interact with nothing related to them you'll only find a vampire once in a while. Even so for me it was too much and I ended up disabling the Pack. But you can try. A lot of realistic players haven't disabled it and can cope with these rare encounters...

There is no autonomous turning, so you don't need to worry about that at all.

I've had the pack for almost a year and never had a break-in. I have gotten the calls saying "what a nice neck you have there" though. Expect to see sims walking in the clothes from the pack and to see some vampires walk by at night, but that's pretty much it if you're not playing them

Sims can't get turned autonomously, so don't worry about that. :)

I don't know much about vampire break-ins, though. Sometimes they may show up at your door, but if there's a vampire in the household, they'll just leave. Or maybe they left because someone in the household was awake.

I've mostly had actual vampire break-ins with households I played with really briefly. They would come in, wake up a sim, drink their blood, and leave the sim exhausted on the floor. No random death, no random turning. Don't worry about it.

It's probably better for you to just avoid interacting with vampire content in general, but if it's too late, garlic may keep them out. Locking doors also helps.

"AriaMad2;d-959212" wrote:
I’ve been thinking of getting the vampires pack, but will it affect my realistic gameplay too much? If so, what can I expect and how can I prevent? For further reference, I meant break ins or my sims getting turned as ‘too much’.

I have had vampires break in at the worst times. (Once when my Sim was up for a promotion at the end of a work week!) I haven't had break-ins hardly at all since I started playing with at least one vampire in the house. Once Vlad showed up and washed my dishes, doing his creepy vampire walk the whole way. They add an element of randomness to the game, for sure.

Honestly, the furniture is pretty and the clothes are cool, but many of the items are only relevant if you are actually playing with vampires. (I assume your normal Sims don't plan to sleep in coffins, and plasma fruit will make them sick.)

The only way to turn a Sim if there's no vampire in your household is to actually ask an NPC vampire to do it. So just don't click that interaction by mistake if you're chatting with one. (Though even if you do turn by accident, there is a cure, it's just a pain to get.)

Get Famous is more intrusive than Vampires, for sure. They show up EVERYWHERE, and everyone gives them all their attention. Vampires are generally okay, they tend to leave you alone. The occasional break-in, they show up to some venues, but they keep quiet.

"belpita;c-17061346" wrote:
I have found that if you delete Vlad and the other pre-mades, the vampires have very little effect on gameplay unless you actively get involved with a vampire or decide to make a household with vampires. Occasionally, there will be Sims (who may or may not be vampires) knocking on your door, but you don't need to let them in. I have had very few break-ins, but maybe I've just been lucky.

I've found that using the Private Household lot trait can even cut back on the strangers (vampires or faux vampires) knocking on the door. I don't answer the door after about 9pm Sims time unless it's a Sim my Sims know.

If you're not mod-averse, MCCC has a function where you can humanize vampires (and also aliens). Or you can just go through Manage Households and delete any game-generated vampires (they're typically just a single Sim, and if you go into Do Modify in CAS (the pencil icon on the household panel) you can see if they're vampires or faux vamps. Do it once a Sim week and that should keep the vamp population under ontrol.

I love a lot of the items in the pack, but I don't want to play with vampires every single save.