Karma system

LeGardePourpre · February 2022

Hi,

The karma could be the consequence of an accumulation of actions, it would influence the events of the life.

For example a bad karma of parents will cause their baby will become an toddler with negative character values or a vampire toddler.

The karma could also unlock some specific interactions like the Paragon/Renegade system in Mass Effect.

EgonVM · February 2022

The first thing that popped up in my mind were the karma powers in The Sims 3 for console, which had positive effects or negative effects which players can activate. Sometimes the game does it by itself, sometimes depending on household's mood, sometimes a bad one being used after misusing/overusing karma powers. The whole link leads to article about it on The Sims Wiki.

However, it would be great to see more consequences to sims' actions.

redrogue60 · February 2022

I'm uncomfortable with the use of karma in a game as most people have a colonial understanding of the concept. In the Hindu religion the concept of karma is the justification for the caste system and the mistreatment of many people due to disfigurement, disease and disability because it is believed that those people with these issues did something in a past life to deserve their current afflictions. Look up what the untouchable caste was. It goes deeper and more uncomfortably than a simple belief than your actions having consequences.

Now if what we are discussing is just having more consequences for actions than Im absolutely behind that.

EnkiSchmidt · February 2022

I'm sceptic, as the game may be too simple for such a concept. For example, before I got a mod to get rid of them, my sims used to receive phone calls from friends that they had used violence and violence is bad. But sometimes the sim in question got attacked first or was provoked or tried to protect their family from a vampire. I'm afraid the game cannot take circumstances into account when dishing out consequences for "bad" actions. It goes the same for positive actions: Sim A gifted Sim B something? Great, what a nice sim! However, the game cannot know that the gift in question was a bribe, so the action wasn't that nice, after all.

Elliandre · February 2022

I always thought there should be some kind of vampirism disease outbreak that if a pregnant Sim caught it she would have a Vampire kid. Or like if you swim in polluted Sulani water you will have a mermaid kid. Alien babies if you eat the alien fruit. Spellcaster babies if you travel to glimmerbrook and interact with something magical. I would love the surprise of ordinary Sims having occult Sim babies.

As for Karma, I would prefer they stay away from religion but I would love a more simple good luck / bad luck system and also add some fun consequences for actions. Maybe add some 4 leaf clovers and leprechauns. Bad pet owners who don’t pick up their dog poop could get fined and a bad reputation.

It would be so cute if Sims, especially kids, could search for clovers and get good luck for the day.

It would be funny if Sims got magically turned into cow plants or animals as a consequence of some bad magic.

Sims that do a lot of good things already get fame and a reputation boost. They could also win some awards or get extra traits like good neighbour, charitable, etc.

StrawberryYogurt · February 2022

There ia a karma system in TS3 console. Then you could spend Karma points to do good for sims or a group of sims or send disaster.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Karma_power

Lulu29 · February 2022

Elliandre wrote: »

I always thought there should be some kind of vampirism disease outbreak that if a pregnant Sim caught it she would have a Vampire kid. Or like if you swim in polluted Sulani water you will have a mermaid kid. Alien babies if you eat the alien fruit. Spellcaster babies if you travel to glimmerbrook and interact with something magical. I would love the surprise of ordinary Sims having occult Sim babies.

As for Karma, I would prefer they stay away from religion but I would love a more simple good luck / bad luck system and also add some fun consequences for actions. Maybe add some 4 leaf clovers and leprechauns. Bad pet owners who don’t pick up their dog poop could get fined and a bad reputation.

It would be so cute if Sims, especially kids, could search for clovers and get good luck for the day.

It would be funny if Sims got magically turned into cow plants or animals as a consequence of some bad magic.

Sims that do a lot of good things already get fame and a reputation boost. They could also win some awards or get extra traits like good neighbour, charitable, etc.

This is a great idea and would add more gameplay to occult Sims which I find to be lacking in The Sims 4. Personally I'm a lover of occult Sims but minus the odd witch in-game I don't actually have that many because of the fact that their interactions within worlds are pretty limited.

Hopefully this can be improved on.

Elliandre · February 2022

Lulu29 wrote: »

Elliandre wrote: »

I always thought there should be some kind of vampirism disease outbreak that if a pregnant Sim caught it she would have a Vampire kid. Or like if you swim in polluted Sulani water you will have a mermaid kid. Alien babies if you eat the alien fruit. Spellcaster babies if you travel to glimmerbrook and interact with something magical. I would love the surprise of ordinary Sims having occult Sim babies.

As for Karma, I would prefer they stay away from religion but I would love a more simple good luck / bad luck system and also add some fun consequences for actions. Maybe add some 4 leaf clovers and leprechauns. Bad pet owners who don’t pick up their dog poop could get fined and a bad reputation.

It would be so cute if Sims, especially kids, could search for clovers and get good luck for the day.

It would be funny if Sims got magically turned into cow plants or animals as a consequence of some bad magic.

Sims that do a lot of good things already get fame and a reputation boost. They could also win some awards or get extra traits like good neighbour, charitable, etc.

This is a great idea and would add more gameplay to occult Sims which I find to be lacking in The Sims 4. Personally I'm a lover of occult Sims but minus the odd witch in-game I don't actually have that many because of the fact that their interactions within worlds are pretty limited. Hopefully this can be improved on.

I would like more occult gameplay too.

Lulu29 · February 2022

Elliandre wrote: »

Lulu29 wrote: »

Elliandre wrote: »

I always thought there should be some kind of vampirism disease outbreak that if a pregnant Sim caught it she would have a Vampire kid. Or like if you swim in polluted Sulani water you will have a mermaid kid. Alien babies if you eat the alien fruit. Spellcaster babies if you travel to glimmerbrook and interact with something magical. I would love the surprise of ordinary Sims having occult Sim babies.

As for Karma, I would prefer they stay away from religion but I would love a more simple good luck / bad luck system and also add some fun consequences for actions. Maybe add some 4 leaf clovers and leprechauns. Bad pet owners who don’t pick up their dog poop could get fined and a bad reputation.

It would be so cute if Sims, especially kids, could search for clovers and get good luck for the day.

It would be funny if Sims got magically turned into cow plants or animals as a consequence of some bad magic.

Sims that do a lot of good things already get fame and a reputation boost. They could also win some awards or get extra traits like good neighbour, charitable, etc.

This is a great idea and would add more gameplay to occult Sims which I find to be lacking in The Sims 4. Personally I'm a lover of occult Sims but minus the odd witch in-game I don't actually have that many because of the fact that their interactions within worlds are pretty limited. Hopefully this can be improved on.

I would like more occult gameplay too.

Let's hope that this year will be the year that they listen to players who want these things.

Usually if I have witches in my game; I try and make use of the Paranormal game pack too to try and make the witches seem a bit more "witchy" I suppose lol.

CordovaFamilyValues · February 2022

> @LeGardePourpre said:
> Hi,
>
> The karma could be the consequence of an accumulation of actions, it would influence the events of the life.
>
> For example a bad karma of parents will cause their baby will become a toddler with negative character values or a vampire toddler.
>
> The karma could also unlock some specific interactions like the Paragon/Renegade system in Mass Effect.

I like the idea of a Karma system. I don't think the idea is any more religious than witches and the occultic aspects of the game.
And I'd like more action/adventure aspects to the game. I get bored of doing laundry, going to school, and vacuuming.

A Karma system sounds like something I can add to an action/adventure game...if It's implemented the way I think it would be.

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