I've never been much into vampires, and have very little basic knowledge of their form and preferred environment, etc. But as I was designing the Coat of Arms for one of my two vampire clans, and originally thought red+silver was a cool combo, I suddenly got aware that vampires can be killed by silver and most likely would not have that color on their clan's CofA.
Then I decided to check my vampire lairs, and oh my oh my - I had placed silver objects like candelabras and what-not in most rooms! I decided to have anything silver replaced the next time I play them.
I googled a bit, and found there are also many plants and herbs - even flowers, that vampires should probably avoid. They are not dangerous, but contain substances that are harmful to bloodsucxxxkers. And I'm not only talking about garlic, but innocent stuff as Basil, lavender and lemons - and a lot more... I think my current vampires grow all of those and probably have filled their fridge to eat the harvest. What a bummer - those ingredients might actually harm their ability of sucking blood!!! I'll have a garden redo...
Here's a site I found that explains vampire repellents.
A quick excerpt: "Interestingly, all of the substances that irritate vampires are the very same ones that irritate other blood-sucking creatures, such as mosquitoes. Though the species are not in any way related, there appears to be a very strong connection in that they all seem to be irritated and/or repelled by the same chemicals.
What are these chemicals, you may ask? There are many common plants that have these chemicals in them. Rosemary, peppermint, clove, and cinnamon are all effective bloodsuxxcker repellents. To a slightly lesser extent cedar, geranium, pine, lavender, basil, and thyme also seem to be effective. One of the most effective repellents is anything "lemon" - including some plants related more by name than by genetics. Of course lemons themselves are effective, but also lemon eucalyptus, lemongrass, and citronella are powerful enough that the scent alone repels even the mightiest of bloodsuckers."
So - how are your vampires doing according to this? Do you unintentionally make them suffer on a daily basis?
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I'm a big vampires fan. I've read and watched lots and lots of books, movies and series. What i've noticed (but i can be wrong) is that the lore varies a lot in different places and times, so i don't try to be strict as i think there isn't a consensual and strict set of rules, behaviours and consequences.
So as Telmarina mentioned above I mostly stick to given in-game limitations for what is dangerous to them as depending on source this information can vary. And then I rather try to give them not universal but individual weaknesses like preferring the blood of only blonde women or being that old that they are hard to adapt to modern world and can't use electronics or just being cold-blooded sociopaths )))
Since we are able to create different types of Vampires, I like to use many different lores with them. Some are daywalkers who seem more human, others are the monsters in the night. I just use the game's built in weaknesses and powers to mold each Vampire individually and keep a variety in my game.
I save the silver for Werewolves, I feel like it's more common in pop culture.
Hmm i like this as some kind of goals for a challenge...
I tend to stay within an archetype, which means they vary depending on what I play, but most of the time I play the seductive night hunter type with a scary / ugly dark form.
I don't play vampires at the moment, but when I did, I went with the lore from The dark eye rpg, where vampires are created by getting cursed by a god and express weaknesses related to that deity. Therefore they all had the base package of the ingame limitations plus weaknesses specific to my own lore (one had water and horses from Poseidon, another one babies/toddlers from either Kronos or Grey Lady). The problem here is that the moment the game uses my sims as townies it might put them into dangerous situations that I might have avoided when playing them myself and then, bamm, it's enforced hibernation for them.
i deleted Lilith but will get her back cuz i have something planned for her as well.
i'm not a vampire expert so i have no idea about this really but they're so well done on ts4 that i include them on all my saves.
This was their last happy moment together...
and the end of Cherie Walsh
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In my game there are two clans, one is the bloodsuxxxcking traditional trad lead by House of Straud, while the other is newer, the Modern vamp clan, avoiding feeding from sims and trying to live as normal sims by sleeping at night, leaded by House of Gorgel. The clans have a battle every 15th (?) year that will end by one losing vampire will be sacrificed to sunlight. It's a way to keep the number down as all their children so far have been born vampires, even if their other parent is human.
PS: Here are all my 13 played vampires as from my online sims registry
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LOL, yes I noticed after posting. And even more fun is it that it took this long until it was commented on
i put "realistic" on quotes on my other comment exactly for this reason lol
Garlic doesnt really matter, cuz non of my not-vamp sims use it anyway.
I used to have alot of vampires, that just lived like normal humans, only looking a bit too pale...but in my new game I try using them less, still having variety tho, also I use the lifestate to create occults that are not in game (yet) like a ghoul and a werewolve.
Oh, and I always have their dark form lookin like the normal form...never liked the idea of transforming vamps (other than turning into bats).
I'm into writting my own vampire challenge right now, and this is going to be part of it. Love this ideas!
Who knows...? 🧛♀️🙃
I mostly play buffy's one for Sims 4 (bat face, no brow, yellow/red eye, mostly evil), but Twilight for the previous series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmEuxOBV7Hw
Did you know? The Vampire Outbreak also took place in mostly North East of USA? On that time the cure was burn the heart of the deceased than eat the ash of the heart. The ritual was sponsored by The Local Community Church of Suburbia. Wow, talk about the rewrite of Vampire Diary or Twilight.
I literally play this music above when playing Sims 4! Cozy and Fuzzy
I love vampires and have read soooo many books. I've watched a lot of movies too, but I'm a prolific reader. Lol. There are a lot of similarities between them, but a lot of fun little differences too. Makes it possible to read nothing but vampire books and not have them be identical.
That is incredibly annoying. For my vampires that feed off of other Sims, unless they are evil, I will periodically cheat their reputation back to neutral. And since I delete random townies all the time, there aren't many Sims left around that will hate them.
So far, I had a Sim marry Caleb, and have two kids with him. I made a teen for them in CAS in edit family mode, and a baby born in-game. Both kids are girls. I have most of the family stalk humans and drink plasma when they need it. I made Caleb do it once, but he had a meltdown, so he is now the only Vampire in his family that doesn't go after humans for the plasma. I plan to have his in-game born daughter follow in his footsteps.
For other Vampire Sims, I don't have a set plan for them yet.