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jj_____

Would you like to have properly working hybrids in game?

* By Hybrid I mean: half normal sim half occult or half occult half other occult mixes. (For example: half vampire half mermaid)

Feel free to share your ideas too, how you would like them to be for example.

LaBlue0314

Yes!

With the help of NRaas in Sims 3, I played with hybrids all the time, and if it were possible I would only if they bring back witches.

nerdfashion

I don't know. / I don't care.

I'm not really sure. I rarely mix two occults, and when I do, I prefer to have one child come out as one thing and the other child come out as another.

MaggieMarley

Yes!

Since aliens seem to have a predilection for abducting vampires and I play a lot of vampires I have 6 vampire alien hybrids in total. I love them and I wish the game fully supported them so that I could, for instance, take them into CAS without them losing one of their 3 forms.

As for how I’d want hybrids to be, I’d want them to be just as they are currently but without the glitches!

Gordy

Yes!

Merpires: they have the hydration need and have a tail in their dark form's swimsuit section. They have he mood songs but can't control weather. They can do vampire things like drink blood, are weak to the sun, and have a smaller perk tree. But they don't inherit weaknesses.

Vampilien: Vampire mermaids with an alien form. The disguise has access to dark mode vampire resources. They get all alien powers, are not harmed by sunlight while disguised, and get a few vampire abilities related to controlling other sims. No perk tree, but they can still drink blood and turn other sims into vampires. Gain positive moodlets at night.

Mermaliens: All the powers and abilities of mermaids and aliens. Their true form is an alien with a mermaid tail. Extra flammable because why not. Get sick from eating fish, as their species can't handle them

jj_____

Yes!

nerdfashion wrote: »

I'm not really sure. I rarely mix two occults, and when I do, I prefer to have one child come out as one thing and the other child come out as another.

I prefer that too, but it doesn't work properly all the time (at least not in my game). Also I would like to have properly working 50/50 hybrids too, personally I don't need any more complex hybrids than that.

MaggieMarley wrote: »

Since aliens seem to have a predilection for abducting vampires and I play a lot of vampires I have 6 vampire alien hybrids in total. I love them and I wish the game fully supported them so that I could, for instance, take them into CAS without them losing one of their 3 forms.

As for how I’d want hybrids to be, I’d want them to be just as they are currently but without the glitches!

Yes, that's why it would be nice if they were supported.

annaliese39

I don't know. / I don't care.

Hybrids aren't at the top of my wish list as I'm more interested in just getting more 'pure' occult types (esp. werewolves and fairies). I wouldn't be opposed to them as an option though as it would open up more possibilities for gameplay and storytelling. So yeah, why not? We already have 'hybrids' now, but they are glitchy so it would be nice to see this fixed somehow. I would also love my vampire sims to be able to be witches too if magic turns out to be a trait and not a skill. Sea witches could work well too, vampire aliens, or werewolf ghosts perhaps... The more I think about it actually, the more fun it sounds! I would still like child sims with different occult parents to sometimes be one or the other as well though.

Nindigo

Yes!

Of course. I would like for everything in the game to work properly. I'm not particularly hopeful that everything will ever be, though.

SimTrippy

Yes!

Hard yes! I so wish I could have alien mermaids or really powerful, undead witches 🥰

phantasmkiss

No. (Comment a reason why not)

If it's even possible, I'd rather the developers put their energy into other things. Hybrids are waaaay down the list of things I want in the game.

Sharonia

I don't know. / I don't care.

I can't really say that I care. I don't have enough interest in occult's even though I do play some.

DoloresGrey

I don't know. / I don't care.

You mean like cars? Or supernaturals?

If cars, then it's a yes from me.

If supernaturals, then I don't care because I don't play with them

jj_____

Yes!

DoloresGrey wrote: »

You mean like cars? Or supernaturals?

If cars, then it's a yes from me.

If supernaturals, then I don't care because I don't play with them

I mean supernaturals, but cars would be nice for sure!

DaWaterRat

I'm not voting since my vote falls more under "other"

I like the idea of Hybrids, but I think they could get out of hand really fast. I know that's an issue at times in TTRPG's where the GM doesn't keep a rein on such things. Working first generation hybrids then becomes a demand by some for second gen hybrids (Alien/Vampire/Mermaid/Witch) and as the programming for first generation hybrids is already glitchy, second gen is bound to be a mess.

I guess I'd just like them to clean up hybrids now with some consistent rule (Baby gets power set A or B, but has some CAS options from the other... maybe?) that they can regularly apply going forward.

jj_____

Yes!

DaWaterRat wrote: »

I'm not voting since my vote falls more under "other"

I like the idea of Hybrids, but I think they could get out of hand really fast. I know that's an issue at times in TTRPG's where the GM doesn't keep a rein on such things. Working first generation hybrids then becomes a demand by some for second gen hybrids (Alien/Vampire/Mermaid/Witch) and as the programming for first generation hybrids is already glitchy, second gen is bound to be a mess.

I guess I'd just like them to clean up hybrids now with some consistent rule (Baby gets power set A or B, but has some CAS options from the other... maybe?) that they can regularly apply going forward.

Yes, some rules needs to be there I think, otherwise its gonna be too much.

Would be maybe better to have only option to have 50/50 mix, and not mix of 4. For example:

Parent 1 (Mermaid/Vampire) + Parent 2 (Normal sim/Alien)
Children of them would only get one of half from their parents, and be for example Mermaid/Alien, Vampire/Alien or so..
Or they could just be just one of those, like it's a dominant trait or something.

I know that that's not how genetics work in real life though, but that could be a way to make those possible.. maybe.

Also like that idea, that CAS options would be there and some set powers/skills/traits.

The point with this is that they don't work properly now and are not supported, but it would be nice if they would make change in that at some point.


(I hope any of this makes sense, English is not my native language and I'm still learning)

Hermitgirl

No. (Comment a reason why not)

They've already mentioned there are too many variables to allow for if they go down that path. I don't play with them enough to expect them to put that much time and effort into hybrids either personally. Besides if they only did two people would expect generational or more to be added in. Nope better to bite the bullet and say no up front.

Kathykins

Yes!

If they had no intention of having hybrids in TS4, then they should have made it impossible. Right now, it is possible to have hybrids, like when a vampire is abducted and have an alien/vampire baby. That baby should be either 100% vampire or 100% alien. Instead we get a glitchy 50/50 mess, and its really not enjoyable.

friendlysimmers

No. (Comment a reason why not)

no for the main reason that i went none ingame

jj_____

Yes!

Kathykins wrote: »

If they had no intention of having hybrids in TS4, then they should have made it impossible. Right now, it is possible to have hybrids, like when a vampire is abducted and have an alien/vampire baby. That baby should be either 100% vampire or 100% alien. Instead we get a glitchy 50/50 mess, and its really not enjoyable.

Totally agree! Better to make it work or don't make it possible at all.

mia_noelle97

I don't know. / I don't care.

I don't really play with occults that much so I don't really care.

ambara

I don't know. / I don't care.

I don't play occults so of course I'd kind of like them to use their time doing something else. But I know lots of people like them and there will probably be more of them anyways so... *shrug*

Hestia

Yes!

Definitely yes. It gives Sims more character, personality and odd quirks! Those 3 words are lacking right now with how Sims behave.

MaggieMarley

Yes!

Hermitgirl wrote: »

They've already mentioned there are too many variables to allow for if they go down that path. I don't play with them enough to expect them to put that much time and effort into hybrids either personally. Besides if they only did two people would expect generational or more to be added in. Nope better to bite the bullet and say no up front.

Sure, if they tried to hybridise more than 2 occult’s together. But really all I’d want is hybrids which combined only 2 occults. With the number of occult’s we have, that’s not many combinations. There would be:

Vampire-Aliens
Vampire-Mermaids
Alien-Mermaids

The above hybrids already can occur in the game without cheats. The main reason why they are buggy is because they have 3 forms rather than 2. This is what makes their CAS glitch up, for example. All they would need to do to fix them would be to enable a third slot in CAS for that third form. They’d also need to make the likelihood of getting them through trying for a baby higher.

Of course, it would get very complicated if we started asking for Vampire-Alien-Mermaids and so forth. So I can understand not implementing those. But, as has already been suggested, they could work the genetics so that, say, when a vampire-alien and a alien-mermaid have a child it can be either a vampire-mermaid, a vampire-alien or an alien-mermaid.

BlueR0se

No. (Comment a reason why not)

The game can barely keep mono-occults not glitched up all the darn time, let alone hybrids.

NATASHAROMANOV99

Yes!

I have a vampire-mermaid children, they where born like townies, brown skin brown eyes and random face shape, etc, ive modify them to make the look like their parents, my older son is a teenager so he can turn into his dark form and when swimming he has a mermaid tail, he can do dark meditation, drink plasma and has his mom hability of emotional incluence, i cant access to his vampire powers nor to the tail modification in CAS, my daughter still a child but so far this is what ive seen of my hybrid children, o yeah, they growl like vampires too and the supernatural needs icon is a fish, he has the vampiric energy bar and thirst bar too, as he where just a vampire and hidratation bar too, am i the only one with this cool problem/bug? Btw i have my game in spanish im gonna post an image if i can.

MaggieMarley

Yes!

@NATASHAROMANOV99 sometimes when a vampire and a mermaid have a baby, they will have a vampire-mermaid child. It is a bug but a cool one. You can also get vampire-alien hybrids if a vampire is abducted by aliens and alien-mermaid hybrids if a mermaid is abducted by aliens. I made one of my vampire-aliens try for a baby with a alien-mermaid and their child is a vampire-alien-mermaid!

The reason why your vampire-mermaid children didn’t look like their parents is not because they are hybrids but because there was a bug (which has only just been fixed) which meant that children with one or more mermaid parents would not inherit their parents’ looks.

Yes, unfortunately with vampire-mermaid hybrids you cannot see their vampire points and select powers for them since that part of the UI is missing for them. You can get around that problem by using cheats to give them the various vampire powers. You can find the cheats here:

https://www.sims4-cheats.com/cheats/sims-4-vampire-cheats

Before using a cheat to give them a certain power (e.g. sun resistance) they need to be at the correct level (e.g. master vampire) but you can also use cheats to level them up.