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Well, between that and other related bugs it seems my new default setting is Wants OFF.
This makes me want to play even more. I want my Sims to make more choices that can't be changed, I feel less like a child playing with dolls.
I don't know if someone answered this but to cancel click the pin 2 times. 1st time should pin it and the 2nd time should cancel it.
It's not working like that in my game. 1st click pins it, 2nd click unpins it.
Somehow I got a want to cancel by clicking that pin a few times. I think I saw a cancel option on the want but I was also rattled because I thought my sim would die if I didn't get her +50 enraged moodlet to go away. So I really wasn't paying attention to what I was clicking but somehow I canceled a want because it disappeared and changed to a different want.
I'm using a Whim overhaul mod and since this system replaces whims I'm fairly certain it means the mod will break so I'd need to remove it and then be stuck with an inferior system. Seems like I'm in no hurry to download this update then although I'd really like to have the body hair and sexual preference features.
There is potential about the wants/fears system but I basically expected it to be released half-baked. It's kind of a trend that they don't consider different packs and their integration.
I'd be rattled too with a moodlet that intense. Yikes! I'm sure there's a way to reroll them I'm not sure what it is exactly.
Maybe while you were frantically trying to save their life they autonomously completed that want?
I'm repeating myself: Why no options? For those players who want the challenge the new system could be an option that could be enabled in the settings. But why change the system entirely with no option for those players who actually liked the easier and more free system?
I love playing with whims, because I use bienchens Whim overhaul!
I LOVED that whims in Sims 4 were different than in Sims 2 where you HAD to fullfill their wishes or otherwise they would be unhappy, same with the - in my opinion - stupid fears. I was so glad that in Sims 4 whims were just options and not forced on the player. The whims gave me freedom to play how I wanted to play, if I wanted a different whim i could just click the wrong ones away until I get the perfect whim for my story.
But NOW I'm stuck again with the forced wants and fears system that I hated in Sims 2. If I'm lucky, a mod will make it optional again, but somehow I'm getting tired of needing to rely on mods.
Some of the changes in this update and the upcoming pack are causing real stress for me. I so wish that every change in basegame would also have an option to be turned off.
You can turn wants and fears off in the gameplay settings menu. Whims were automatically turned off for me so the wants and fears will likely stay the same way.
I want to have the old system as an option and turn off the new "improved" wants and fears, because they are more interfering to my style of playing.
it wont bring whims back though
I’ve had one fear of not fulfilling dreams because she wasn’t fulfilling listening to her favourite radio station as I was trying to complete it via the ear buds. I’ve not had anymore.
Its better than whims but not as good or as deep as the sims 2&3
Ah, thank you - that makes sense. Unfourtuantely even when my Sims went to community lots (I believe I had them to go to a restaurant and a park yesterday) neither of them had a third want pop up. It doesn't seem like they'll have the third want appear much unless that's just my game or I haven't played long enough yet.
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I guess it's a bit realistic and sad... but annoying in terms of gameplay.
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To be honest this system doesn’t seem very much at all like that in the Sims 2
Yes, apparently you get wants that are related to needs when they drop. It seems a bit redundant, but on the other hand, your Sim gets 5 reward points for eating when hungry, etc.
Okay, that's just... dumb.