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Do you/would you use whims?
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Do you/would you use whims? 247 votes
I use whims and I like them as they are
I use whims but I wish they were more significant in ___ way (explain in comments)
I dont use whims and wouldn't use them even if they were changed
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I would like to have whims based on traits, likes, skills and most importantly relationships.
I wish they would keep updating it (RIP) and also fixing old ones (text or/and functionality)
I use Bienchen’s whim overhaul and it makes my gameplay so much more interesting.
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However, as others have said, I do wish whims were more relevant to a sim's personality or now that we have likes/dislikes, that they would reflect them. ie) a Sim who likes painting, wants to create a painting. Or a sim who likes cooking wants to a cook a meal. As opposed to getting so many "buy xyz."
I don't feel chained to them, however, and freely dismiss whims that I am not especially interested in fulfilling.
Same !
more bigger lifestyle whims like for adopting a child as well as the "try for baby" one, moving out of house when a sim ages up, quitting a job or switching careers as well as starting one when their unemployed (especially for the non-committal sims
fewer "buy" whims, and nixing buy whims completely when off the home lot, as often the sim has already bought the thing its just waiting for them at home
and then revamping them to be more tailored to traits and such (for instance, it should be less common for a happy loner sim to get the "meet someone new" whim, and there should be more diversity in the possible "happy" moodlet whims over all so they can better suit the different character traits available)
Also, when a whim gets "x-ed" out and canceled, there should be cool down period of, like, least a few sim hours if not a full sim day before it can re-appear again.
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Teens have repeated whims that involve doing homework or extra credit because. Why? Because they boost Fun not skills.
Children seem to have whims that involve social interactions, so they talk too much.
Likes and Dislikes have expanded verbal social options for Sim which is good since they like to talk so much. Speaking of Likes/Dislikes for hobbies - where's knitting?
One more thing - When I have a Sim that "Likes" Electronica Music then why does a song from the Pop category play over and over and over again? On the radio, at skating rinks, and on venue speakers? It should annoy my Sims as much as it does me, but no, they're blissfully unaware.
To me their a minor thing to do now and then, that I sometimes go after and sometimes don't.
More than the whims, I would like to see expansion of the likes / dislikes system. Major expansion of this system to include for every thing in the game sims can get up to - and hooks for modders to add more or disable some/all.
- AND THEN... have that system be used to trigger whims.
but honestly I would have much rather had its ts2 ancestor:
Wants and Fears.
I was so obsessed with those and sims having different reactions to things due to them
but whims just... meh cause there isn't really negative reactions no aspiration failures and the tasks are boring and aspirations are so easy you don't even really need the extra points for reward store... just no reason to really be that into whims and do them
for after all thats all they are, whims. nothing more impactful.
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All that to say, I would love them to overhaul the system, but I can't say whether that would get me to use it more or not.