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About 'Drain Life Spirit' interaction for vamp
Jeansoo
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Not sure I'm doing well with this interaction. I created a vampire feeding club as I really don't want to hang around for plasma. I got 3 homeless npc human sims as club member. I used 'compel for a deep drink' and got double minus from other members, so yesterday, I used 'drain life spirit' and didn't get the negative reaction.The problem has happened on the next night. I tried to drink and it says that this sim has recently drained so not able to drink this sim. So I restored his life spirit and then it says,"this sim recently has stored his life spirit so I cannot drink'. Ok so I got it for now. Then next night, I opened the club again, then tried the sim but it still says the same thing and I cannot drink it.
Which one is the best way to drink without negative reaction except for Permission to drink? Or how this drain and restore life spirit works? Thanks for reading.
Which one is the best way to drink without negative reaction except for Permission to drink? Or how this drain and restore life spirit works? Thanks for reading.
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That might be because she's an Alien, too. Aliens don't have plasma, apparently.
So, how is the restoring life spirit supposed to really work? Is it just glitched right now, or is the Sims Wikia wrong, when saying you can refresh your pray with it?
and be very careful with draining life spirit. it's more dangerous than the alien memory wipe. draining life spirit resets all relationships for the target sim, and restoring life spirit seems to have, at best, a 10% chance of giving them their memories back. super exciting... when the spirit is restored, the sim will get a 3 day long confident buff and can't have its spirit drained again during that time, either. i think the 'restoring' was meant as 'give them their memories back', but was taken to mean 'you can feed from them again'. (also, if a sim is spirit drained, they are said to fail against vampire powers more often, but so far, i've only seen vampires fail their powers vs other vampires...or out in the sunlight if they have that sun fear weakness)
Thanks for clearing that out. I really wish I'd known that before. One thing I was thinking about, when I gave my vampire that power, was that several vampires could drink from the same sim in a short while. That it only needed restoring life spirit. But obviously it's not that way.
I think the "refresh your prey" thing just meant that if you've been feeding on someone, and thus have a negative relationship, then you can drain their life spirit which resets all their relationships back to zero. So basically they'll forget you've been feeding on them and they won't hate you any more.
Whenever there is any type of draining of plasma on someone, they get the "bitten" moodlet which prevents them from being bitten again by anyone until that wears off. I found a mod that disregards the bitten moodlet and allows a vampire to feed off them again anyway. I've been using that so I don't have to keep finding new prey for my vampire.
Well, that's kind of useless, then. If my vampire compels someone for a drink, it doesn't really make any difference, if the sim hates them or not. They can still do it again the next day.
It makes sense to me. You don't have to love a vampire to be bitten and die...
It's not overly useful and I don't use it very often...especially since it erases all relationships. But I've found a few uses for it.
The negative relationship can build up pretty fast (especially if you use a mod which allows re-feeding with no time limit)...so I've had others start fist fights with my vampire and I used drain spirit to reset them so I wouldn't have to deal with that stuff. Plus, if you want to invite them over instead of having to leave the lot or track them down, then they often will decline an invitation to come over if the friendship meter is too far in the red. So resetting it helps there too. Also, I had a sim who kept calling and texting my main sim every day about going on a date and how she can't stop thinking about him. He's married and has kids...I had him tell her that he just wants to be friends and that dropped his romance meter to zero but hers stayed the same. I couldn't seem to get it to reset even with cheats so I switched over to Vlad and went to her apartment and had Vlad drain her life spirit. So all her relationships were reset to zero and my main sim never hears from her anymore, lol.
There are some mods out there which allow unlimited re-feeding without time limits and can even be set to remove negative relationship effects from feeding. That's the goal the OP described and that's the easy way to do it......"drain life spirit" isn't really intended to circumvent the feeding cooldown built into the game.
@starcrunch the punishment idea sounds cool.
That's.... actually a really cool idea.
--T
wow!! Sounds like a part of movie. awesome!
I am almost positive that if you click on the sims you drained, you can restore the spirit. I have had it modded for a long time. When my vampires drain life, it is death for that sim. LOL
I had my Vampire "Drain Life Force" from Brant Hecking, and he just stood there like a cabbage on a sidewalk in Oasis Springs! He didn't go home to Brent or Brindleton Bay!
Just wanted to ask, before this old thread got closed.
Can anyone help?
If you use any mods like a piece of life or something else, it might be from the mods. It's supposed to turn back to the complete stranger.
Should I just remove Slice of Life to see what it does?