Witches or Mermaids?

"LiELF;c-16854667" wrote:

"IceyJ;c-16854398" wrote:

"Rae357;c-16854361" wrote:
I doubt mermaids will ever be a thing. We as of yet have no swimable water except pools, we can't even fish unless there is a sign to click on. It would be a major thing. I always liked witches in Sims3. Setting fires and watching a dozen sims panic until that one smart sim ran up and put the fire out. There's some much that could be done and would give a lot of interesting gameplay.

Mermaids came in second place in the poll, so they're very likely to happen eventually.
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1012814687912714240

The thing that bugs me about the way that poll was done, was that it pitted specific Occult groups against each other instead of having a full, single poll of a complete list of creatures.

Also, I saw so many people say they voted for Mermaids because they wanted swimmable oceans, not because they actually wanted Mermaids. So a good chunk of the Mermaid vote was for swimmable oceans and the result is very misleading. That would be like voting for Witches because you want more halloween costumes, or if I joined a poll for world themes and voted for mountains over tropical islands because I thought it might have Werewolves in it. It's for completely unrelated reasons, not for any love for that particular poll subject. Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting those who actually want Mermaids, I'd like to see a more accurate poll of that percentage. But I am a little ticked that Werewolves got completely bumped off despite how much I see them requested over here, and I'm still trying to get my mind around the Imaginary Friends result, which confounds me.

I just think that it would have come out very differently if people had voted honestly to their preference and not used the poll to vote for something that could be unrelated.

Unfortunately on Twitter, you can only poll 4 options at a time. That's why he had to split it up like that.

The issue I have is how some interpret the polls. You can only choose one option at a time. Many people want more than one, but are forced to choose which one do I want the most right now. It's not accurate to say another option did so poorly because they are pitted against an option that was clearly wanted the most.
This is why Werewolves should not just be tossed aside. The majority of the comments I've read that wanted Witches also wanted Werewolves. Some also wanted Faeries and Mermaids. A very few others wanted Robots and Imaginary Friends.
Werewolves might be the next most wanted. Mermaids might be the next most wanted. It's hard to tell unless you take the obvious winner out of the equation and keep doing so each time. I don't think we will have the opportunity to see many be eliminated though because at this rate, if it takes 2 yrs to get an Occult state, we will only get maybe 2 more.