I played for a awhile with whims off not even realizing they were gone. Then when I turned them back on they actually felt like a huge distraction. They’re gonna stay off in my game for sure.
The title pretty much says it all... my sim is perfectly happy, but she has *no whims* whatsoever. Not even the standard "buy a dishwasher" one! Is this a bug? Is my sim just really unambitious?
*EDIT* Heh heh... didn't know you could deselect "Show Whims" in the options menu, yet somehow I did. Checked the box, and everything is back to normal!
The whims don't really add anything and aren't particular or special to any sim or trait. They are points getters for things, that's all. And they don't work. lol. You can own a dishwasher and it will still come up to buy one. It's just busy work.
They hid them because they're a nuisance and an annoyance.
Do you know how many 1x1 pools I bought, threw the sim in and then fenced them off? lol
But why would you even need whims if you have this: aspirations.complete_current_milestone (its a cheat), also to use cheats, press (or hold) 'CTRL' and 'C' at the same time.
well wouldn't it make more since for on to be default @Cupid
@comicsforlife the devs turned it off after all of us complained for years that the whims were shallow, lacked fears and needed an overhaul. Instead of overhauling, they decided to make it optional so that they had an excuse if we complained about the quality of this feature.
well wouldn't it make more since for on to be default @Cupid
@comicsforlife the devs turned it off after all of us complained for years that the whims were shallow, lacked fears and needed an overhaul. Instead of overhauling, they decided to make it optional so that they had an excuse if we complained about the quality of this feature.
that still wouldn't explain why its off by default after all it could still have been optional with it being on by default @karon
well wouldn't it make more since for on to be default @Cupid
@comicsforlife the devs turned it off after all of us complained for years that the whims were shallow, lacked fears and needed an overhaul. Instead of overhauling, they decided to make it optional so that they had an excuse if we complained about the quality of this feature.
that still wouldn't explain why its off by default after all it could still have been optional with it being on by default @karon
It's off by default because they are no longer updating the whims. Complaints would only get worse in the future if all the whims are old/outdated.
New players will likely not even realize that's an option. And it's always been part of the sims, so I don't get it.
I love that it's optional now - i couldn't stand whims. I think we have enough to work towards with aspirations and careers, so I found whims an irritating extra and I never bothered with them.
I think I would have bothered with them more if there was a negative consequence for ignoring them, like in TS3 with the fulfillment bar.
The option in Gameplay Options is called 'Show Whims' and the tooltip 'Enabling this shows whims over the Sim's head in the bottom left corner of the screen.'
As far as I can tell, it does not actually turn whims off and they still occur and if you happen to satisfy them will still collect reward points.
Although I am an experienced player with TS3 I am new to TS4, only buying the base game in the January Sales when it was cheap and not touching it other than a quick look at the tutorial.
I recently started playing a few days ago after updating the game and this option has always been off for me. However while playing my Sim which I created for the tutorial, she has been collecting reward points and I got the notification that I had completed 100 whims without ever seeing one.
It's probably no coincidence that my Sim is a gardener and probably has a lot of whims related to that. Since I have her do a lot of gardening anyway, there may be a fair chance that it is what she wanted to do, lol
(As an aside, the option being off is a common programming error, when adding something new to a GUI and not considering what value it should have when it wasn't there before.)
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*EDIT* Heh heh... didn't know you could deselect "Show Whims" in the options menu, yet somehow I did. Checked the box, and everything is back to normal!
They hid them because they're a nuisance and an annoyance.
Do you know how many 1x1 pools I bought, threw the sim in and then fenced them off? lol
Why necro an old post, when the issue (whims not showing by default) no longer pertains, and has been resolved?
yes there should
@comicsforlife the devs turned it off after all of us complained for years that the whims were shallow, lacked fears and needed an overhaul. Instead of overhauling, they decided to make it optional so that they had an excuse if we complained about the quality of this feature.
that still wouldn't explain why its off by default after all it could still have been optional with it being on by default @karon
They were hidden by default by the November (I think) patch.
It's off by default because they are no longer updating the whims. Complaints would only get worse in the future if all the whims are old/outdated.
I love that it's optional now - i couldn't stand whims. I think we have enough to work towards with aspirations and careers, so I found whims an irritating extra and I never bothered with them.
I think I would have bothered with them more if there was a negative consequence for ignoring them, like in TS3 with the fulfillment bar.
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As far as I can tell, it does not actually turn whims off and they still occur and if you happen to satisfy them will still collect reward points.
Although I am an experienced player with TS3 I am new to TS4, only buying the base game in the January Sales when it was cheap and not touching it other than a quick look at the tutorial.
I recently started playing a few days ago after updating the game and this option has always been off for me. However while playing my Sim which I created for the tutorial, she has been collecting reward points and I got the notification that I had completed 100 whims without ever seeing one.
It's probably no coincidence that my Sim is a gardener and probably has a lot of whims related to that. Since I have her do a lot of gardening anyway, there may be a fair chance that it is what she wanted to do, lol
(As an aside, the option being off is a common programming error, when adding something new to a GUI and not considering what value it should have when it wasn't there before.)