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So what are you hoping for with mermaids?
Sam_Is_Great
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Since mermaids in IP is pretty much a given and most, if not everyone, is really excited for them, how are you hoping they'll be handled?
Do you want to be able to make them in CAS, for example?
How about change their tail, like changing the fairy wings? Maybe even some Ursula tentacles? (I would love that btw)
Abilities? Special needs? (Not in that way
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Do they turn into normal Sims when on land?
Do you want to be able to make them in CAS, for example?
How about change their tail, like changing the fairy wings? Maybe even some Ursula tentacles? (I would love that btw)
Abilities? Special needs? (Not in that way
)Do they turn into normal Sims when on land?
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hmm..
make in cas, I hope so
change tail color, oh yes please.
Maybe a 100% mermaid can't go on land...
but a child of a mermaid can ... and on land have legs!
special ability breat under wather
sumon fish
needs to get into wather atleast 1 time a day.... and can't use a shower (as they grow tail when in wather) so they have to use a tub....
some wather power so they can stop fire....
It is not said. But Island Paradise is Island Time expansion from survey. And in survey, mermaids are occults of that expansion.
So it is high possibility that we will get them in Island Paradise if EA will stick with survey.
Plus many people want them, and we have huge amount of hints in different TS3 expansion for them. And this expansion is really right place for them.
I like your ideas. But maybe they can use the shower, but they just fall out when they get water on them?
And if 100% mermaids can't get legs... :? :oops:...How do they Woohoo? :oops:
Seriously though. I hope they make more "dangerous" creatures. Mummies were scary to encounter at first in WA. Vampires give normal sims a negative moodlet. We need more lifestates the scare the pants off of normal sims. Zombies were a step in the right direction but they have way too much of an annoyance factor. So I hope they make mermaids a little more diabolical. Something your sim should not really want to encounter when they go scuba-diving.
Perhaps the mermaids could be armed with a trident which could be used to ward off scuba-divers? I dunno. I'd really like to see mermaids, but because they're limited to the water we'd probably have to have underwater houses (right?) or something similar. It'd be extremely difficult to create a house... considering the ocean is incredibly slope-y.
yea... like the falling... same in rain.. they have to stay out of rain..
they wohoo in the ocean... so you have to do it when diveing...
THey could mix it with Siren's they would lure sailors to them... and sailors would drown...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren
what ever they do I just wish to be able to awoid them when I want to...
I'm sorry but that's just twisted and gross. That's basically woohooing with a fish at that point. I think all mermaids should be able to have legs when they are on land, otherwise if you have to woohoo in the ocean with a fishtail to get half mermaid kids, I won't want to play them. Just the thought of such behavior makes me want to throw up.
Like the kinda scary mermaids from the last pirates movie?
I fear purposefully drowning Sims might be a tad too dark. Maybe their siren song just drains their targets needs as well as summoning them, and if they are already low enough, indirectly causing them to drown. Like how witches can't directly cook their enemies, but they can burn them to death by setting fire to the ground around them.
1. Mermaids can have two forms like werewolfs or fairies for example.
Mermaid form in water, or ocean and legs on land ( maybe different skintone, with scales on the skin ).
Underwather world can be just a rabbit hole ( like space in Seasons for aliens ).
2. Mermaids have the ability to enchant sims by singing.
3. Mermaids can magically control the element of water ( Create magical water waves, magically raise water to the air, magically heat the water, magically freeze water, create magical bubbles of water ect.. )
4. They have special connection to sea life..
The possibilities are endless.....
This can be managed in a similar way as mermaids in the popular TV show ''H20 Just Add Water''
http://youtu.be/m0mc_mYNuzo
http://youtu.be/4NLawzqcVWI
Freezing powers
http://youtu.be/2sY5KUaimlE
Other powers
http://youtu.be/z0g6q_uRnrM
Mermaid transformation
http://youtu.be/EA_QGTYIhAI
I hope that we will get them, and that they wiill bi similar to mermaids in ( mermaid ) tv show ''H20 just add water''.
They would be my favorite creatures in the sims, and great tool to make great new stories in TS3.
can't see why...
it dosn't need to be wohoo to get babies... could be partly magic... plant sims could just shake their heads...
what if it is a special underwather kiss... and then a few days later a seashel with a pearl is on the shore that you need to go colect.... and when you open it inside is a baby... becous she can't keep the baby with legs in the ocean.
I had the same kind of questions. I've known that the community has been requesting the mermaid life state for quite a long time, but I really don't know (at least the way things are in The Sims right now) how EA would be able to pull it off.
Nearly all functions performed by sims happen on dry land (aside from swimming and lounging.) Therefore, to play a mermaid sim, it would probably have to happen under water. It is rumored that the Island Adventure expansion will feature life under water (human sims with scuba diving, and mermaid sims swimming.)
It's not that the idea of mermaids doesn't excite me, because I love new and different types of gameplay, but I'm not very interested in the idea. I prefer my sims to be and live on land (other than the new boats included in Island Adventures, of course!)
All I can see the mermaids doing is swimming around, perhaps having some sort of super power; maybe transforming into their fish-tail-state (if you will) when they shower or swim on land, but I don't really see how any of those suggestions bring significantly new gameplay.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see :P
yea they would need to twist it like that....
or a marmaid could get people to do things for them by singing
better chance when your mermaid skill was high... and the "victems" needs is low....
A little like mindreading and think of me actions with vampires...
for fun a mermaid could give others the soaked moodlet....
So, it's true the game will have mermaids?
I can fantasis of the lifestages... but mostly atempt to ignor them... it just not the way I play...
I hope we can disabel them just like the vampires ect.
There could be a permanent transformation potion, lifetime reward, or some kind of irreversible "forsake merform" interaction.
And then there could be short term potions (Made with the SN alchemy station, GEN lab table, the UNI lab station, or something new).
Depending on the skill of the sim making the potion, the transformation could last between 4 sim hours and a sim week.
The potion could either be rebooted by returning to the water at a crucial point or require another potion to regain the form.
I'd like the mermaid to be able to be created in CAS.
Mostly because I'm lazy and still have not gotten to have a unicorn in my household.
Tentacle and other tail options sound great.
Evil and nice/beautiful mermaid features also sound great. ^^
(I mean isnt that how most mermaid stories go in fiction? They want to experience dry land so bad.)
After you complete the steps there is that camera zoom in que sparkle turn around and the mermaid has legs now.
Obviously she would have residual powers and traits that would be with her as she continued her life on land.
example:
a need bar for time spent in water
fav food is seafood
ability to drown fires
super fast swimming/ athletic skill rate doubled while swimming
moods elevate when she bathes/swims
other random interactions
And similar to a Genie a small percentage of these abilities would be passed down to her children.
This seems the most logical to me, and if they did let you create them in CAS then it would be the "after" transformation version, like the Genies are now.
creatorZ
Actuially the mermaids in dnaish folklore... do not want to be on land... not permanent.
They will go on land and take of their skin.
(they supose to look a little like seals)
but just to sunbath.
And if you take their skin you tie them to you, but if they ever get their skin back they be gone in the ocean for ever... and as long as they on land they will long for the ocean.
You can't destroy their skin... or they die.
The only Mermaid I know that wants to be on land is the little mermaid....