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Vampire occult-like gameplay ideas?
SimmerGeorge
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Hey guys,
So I recently started playing with vampires instead of just watching them from afar.
My problem is I just don't know what "vampire" things to do with them after they have read the books, sparred each other and got some powers.
For this particular family I am trying to make them live as much like a vampire as possible so that means no jobs, no going out during the day etc.
But I'm just stuck with 3 vampires at home all day doing nothing and even at night forgotten hollow doesn't offer much other than chess tables.
I did make a "vampire club" but that got old really fast.
How do you play your Vampires? Any ideas for interesting gameplay that seems to suit a vampiric lifestyle?
Thanks in advance!
So I recently started playing with vampires instead of just watching them from afar.
My problem is I just don't know what "vampire" things to do with them after they have read the books, sparred each other and got some powers.
For this particular family I am trying to make them live as much like a vampire as possible so that means no jobs, no going out during the day etc.
But I'm just stuck with 3 vampires at home all day doing nothing and even at night forgotten hollow doesn't offer much other than chess tables.
I did make a "vampire club" but that got old really fast.
How do you play your Vampires? Any ideas for interesting gameplay that seems to suit a vampiric lifestyle?
Thanks in advance!
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this wasn't much of a vampire-exclusive gameplay but i had fun discovering the vampire stuff while villainizing malcolm
for vampire-only gameplay i don't recall making special saves for them, they just coexisted with my other sims and their powers sometimes would be handy
1) Make a male or female Vampire Sim and become a serial romantic (I guess I got inspiration from "Twilight" at some point when I did that).
2) You can make a family of Vampire Sims and have one of them not want to be a vampire and work on turning themselves human to lead a normal life (to make it even more interesting, you can turn their own family against them for not following tradition).
Not sure if either of these would interest you, but it was fun when I did them and I'd suggest maybe trying them if you're bored.
Regarding the vampire life traditionally in folklore, I wouldn't worry too much about sunlight and I give the ones I think of as strongest the ability to day walk. In all the old vampire traditions they were infact dead human beings who rose from the grave to feed off family or neighbours, which made them sick. They weren't damage by light, there was just no need to be out in it as they waited til their victims were sleeping. It was later writers that added the sun element.
I always make mine sleep in coffins, in refence to their origins in myth.
@CelSims Oh okay this is nice. Can you elaborate more on how you make that work? How do they rule? Just financially through retail? And how do these decide who lives and dies? Do you use mods for that?
I use mods for death if I'm feeling lazy, but no mod vampires do have the ability to kill. Tier 3 of the influence emotions ability will kill sims with emotional overload, anger seems to be the easiest. They also own a seafood restaurant with a very bad chef where Zion will take business clients that he is tired of...
Financially, I make all my sims either buy everything for their house from the boys retail, or deduct it from their household funds with a mark up and add that to the vamps coffers if I'm feeling lazy.
Every sim in a career that has useful items or powerful abilities is one of their family, such as scientists, civil designers and engineers. I have them go for meetings with Zion and Joaquin where I'll roll a dice to see if they meet with the boys approval. If not, they may get stripped of vampirism, ostracized or just outright killed. That opens the window for rags to riches with new young adults, as my story can be they are struggling to free themselves of the family influence in some way.
There is some good mods for vampires. I'd recommend checking Zer0. His or her mods add a bit of depth to them, letting sims offer to drink instead of being asked, for example. Or hiding vampirism and then 'coming out' to someone, with various negative or positive results.
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throw epic drinking parties
kidnap some sims and have them join your little bat family
assert dominance
or they could also
try to live alongside normal sims
get job
get human family
try to cure their vampirism
get found out and murdered in sun chamber
I mean there is lot of stuff to do home they could be artists, scientists, celebs, politicians.. anything if you give them a chance
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@Simmingal yeah I was actually in the middle of making a vampire strong enough to beat Vlad in a fight and kill him(with cheats) and then was planning to move in. Once Vlad is out of the way I'm going to host a drinking party. That's settled now.
I also suppose that if you have the Strangeville pack as well as a few other packs that include some of the other occult life states (mermaids, spellcasters, aliens... servo?) you could create a supernatural mystery gang to solve the mystery.
Though that does raise the question, if you have multiple characters who have the detective career, do they all go to work at the same time and do the same cases?
Not going to lie, a lot of the time I redo this family I kind of stay in Forgotten Hollow. I have a specific vampire restaurant there and I added a magic realm gate to the house. Plus it is funny to me to think how Vlad reacts to Caleb and Lillith befriending and dating his daughters (I gave them a little brother and a mischievous fox, too).
When I do really break out, I tend to interact with other occults first and maybe turn some. Using the clubs you can keep track of all your turned children.
A lot of it has to appeal to you and you have to supplement the imagination, but that is nothing new. The Sims in Sims 4 are very much dolls you have to put the effort into to "come alive."
I had started out with a human sim that Vlad took an interest in. Eventually, he turned her and married her. After he turned her she moved in with him, it was only after they were married that he got mean and nasty to her. BUT she was not having any part of it. While he was out, looking for his next meal, she faked an illness and stayed home. After he left she locked all the doors, and not to drag this out any further, he caught fire from the sun and expired. After that, his ghost would show up and he would clean the whole house every night.
Another thing I loved doing was to create a vampire slayer. I would keep garlic in my human sim's personal inventory, and they would hit the vampire over the head with it when fighting with the vampire.
@LaBlue0314 Oh God the cleaning part had me in tears! Thanks
@Calico45 Yes I know this is exactly why I posted this thread cause I was unable to make any of my storylines "come alive" and hoped to see what other people do to make it happen.
A lot of people seem to play with Vlad too which I think is awesome because he gets a lot of hate poor guy.
Thanks for the replies though I can't wait wait for exam period to be over so I can try out all your ideas. If anyone has more please share I'm all ears
I gave one of my earliest vampires the Kleptomaniac trait; he was able to pick up some goodies when he'd break into a house for a midnight snack.
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Unfortunately they don't go to the same workplace, so you have to juggle which one you follow to work and which ones go alone. It's better to have just one in an active career while the rest of the household has normal rabbit hole type jobs.
Now I'm thinking of having a couple, one a vampire and the other a spellcaster since I haven't really done much with RoM (my eyesight went bad and I couldn't play for several months).
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I usually create a male vampire who‘s first goal is to beat Vlad and take over his mansion. Then he’ll travel to each corner of every world in order to find the fairest maiden, and with her consent (because she had a [Removed]childhood) turns her and makes her his bride. They could either go on a rampage and take over the worlds, but often they go into hiding because some mastermind scientist has decided he has other plans for occults.
I really wish different occults could have duels with each other though. That would make gameplay much more interesting for me e.g. Spellcasters vs Vampires vs Aliens, vs Merfolk vs...Grim?
Don’t tell me this is a thing. Is this a thing?
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@CAPTAIN_NXR7 Yes indeed it is though I haven't done it in a while. I have only seen it happen under one condition though, you have to max out the vampire lore skill and create the vampire cure potion, then you can go to a vampire you have a bad relationship with and click on the "slay" interaction under the mean section. The Sim and the vampire will then start fighting and then sim will pull out some garlic and smack the vampire with it.
I don't know if that happens with the normal fight interaction without a vampire cure potion though. Maybe someone here knows.
Ha! I never knew. I'm going to try out this garlic thingy. Thanks for the clarification!
Her hopes were answered when little Eden grew into a normal and happy child but now Bailey is a teen and things have only gotten more difficult. I play with a somewhat randomized aspiration and trait system so this poor girl is trying to balance all the crazy ups and downs of the teen years, her vampirism, her desire to be a top notch fisherman and her love of the island life of Sulani. I haven't quite decided where to take her story yet.