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Mermaid/Vampire hybrid problem
simm621
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I have a mermaid/vampire hybrid. She's the in game born daughter of Caleb and my CAS mermaid.
She has the abilities of both. She has both the vampire energy and hydration needs but the games shows her as mermaid, she has the tail icon and the mermaid plumbob. The problem is that she has no access to her vampire points or powers. I've checked all tabs in case they were moved somewhere else but no, nothing.
She has the abilities of both. She has both the vampire energy and hydration needs but the games shows her as mermaid, she has the tail icon and the mermaid plumbob. The problem is that she has no access to her vampire points or powers. I've checked all tabs in case they were moved somewhere else but no, nothing.
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I thought The Sims 3 also tried to prevent hybrids. The Sims 2 didn't.
One of the guru's were talking about it in the launch day live stream, how you can't do it by normal means but who knows what will happen if a vamp and mermaid get together what will come out, so they were at least aware it could happen that way.
When I got out of CAS out of curiosity I sent her swimming.
When I use to play with the alien vampire hybrids they were so broken that the UI would mess up. The game can't handle it.
Yep the sims 2 was technically the only hybrids we actually had in programming. Sims 3 ones might have appeared to be hybrid but were not designed to be. But the devs said the issues of hybrids was a mess in the programming so they had to forego them after Sims 2. Sims 3 was just mainly mixed heritage - not really hybrid design and Sims 4 is basically the same. The offspring can be either but not a bit of both. Simmers did use mods too to make it seem more but if you looked at the programming that was not really what was there. Sims 2 has it - that's it and even those were trouble for the programming.
Sort of like real life.True Hybrids do not work in real life either it just makes a mess messing with cross breeding cells - game or real.
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So does that mean that we shouldn't make vampire and mermaid sims have children together or is this an issue that comes with adding traits with cheats?
The only thing I did though was marry a vampire to a mermaid that went on to have a child. I didn't cheat to get one. Seems a shame if you have to be careful who you marry your sims off to.
I've had a few alien/vampire hybrids in 4. I didn't cheat to get them, my vampire just got abducted and sometimes that resulted in a hybrid. They worked fine and had abilities of both they were just a little messed up in CAS as you can only edit 2 forms. Hybrids have more.
I don't know. I do not have any experience yet with TS4 occult genetics. My only occult offspring were TS3 Supernaturals, who always inherited the lifestate of one parent or the other, not both.
If TS4 works the same way, it should be safe to intermarry them, and offspring with either be Vampires or Mermaids. But I haven't tried, and have not researched it for this game.
But hybrids, however one gets them, are broken, and aren't supported to begin with, so I would avoid them on that account. Broken Sims can lead to corrupted game files.
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I also cheated last night and gave one of them the witch occult trait. She was originally born between a mermaid and vampire couple naturally in game. However she's become my guinea pig. She has mermaid powers, some vampire powers and needs like thirst and energy. Her spellcaster power tree is there and functioning. I was so excited. I plan on experimenting with her to see if glitches happen. I can post pics tonite after work!
Not ALL hybrids were permissible in Sims 2, though. Vampires and PlantSims were incompatible, I believe.
(For obvious reasons.
In Sims 2 Plant Sims were different and did not have life stages of the rest of the Sims - they had 2- toddler AND ADULT - so they could not really be compared to any other "monsters" - they were one of a kind and not really compatible to any other species. They were never hybrids without mods or cheats and even with mods or cheats created a lot of issues in the game.
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You could still have them. I have quite a few. You just need to light the house with sunlamps and put one above their coffin.
It caused issues? I had plantsims hybrids where they were everything but a servo or a bigfoot.
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it kind of looks like the mermaid's swapping to land-based form is based on the hydration need, since pairing them with any other occult removes the hydration need and they're able to swap to merform easily enough, but with one exception, cannot swap back out of merform.
that exception, if interested, is an alien/mermaid... whatever form they're in, the alien changes to the other one to go to 'merform', though the alien form will have a tail (the disguise form will not) and they'll swap to or stay in disguise form when move back to land. when you swap them to alien form on land, they'll have their legs just fine. ...but, they'll be all kinds of borked in alien form in cas, since it'll have their lower half invisible and unable to be edited or have clothing changed (and if you had a fullbody outfit on them, it'll be everything other than head invisible)
vampire/spellcasters also have the issue of only seeing the spellcaster points earned instead of vampire ones (...this didn't bother me so much, as the only vampire i wanted to also be a caster already had all the vampire powers learned, with like 3 exceptions i didn't want for her. however, her new daughter is both a caster and a vampire... so that'll prove fun...)
interestingly, the only occult that pairs nicely with spellcaster without breaking anything is, again, alien... since aliens don't have any unique needs and spellcasters don't have a secondary form. i've got a pair of these in my game and actually enjoy them quite a bit
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