Morality & The Sims
windy_moon:
No, I'm not Jack Thompson. 8)
I find I've developed a pattern of playing Pleasantview (my main hood) with a certain (twisted) moral standard, and I'm curious if other people have their own "rules" for Sim behavior.
So far, no divorces other than Mary Sue & Daniel Pleasant when I first started playing.
Cheating, yep, there's some... I created more Romance Sims to start than I might have if I'd known what I was in for. :P
I seem to have no boundries for Elders, especially elder women. Maybe I figure they should get what they can get when they can get it! I have the sweetest elder woman married to Mortie, family Sim, and yet she still finds herself in these situations where she ends up cheating on him. All of the elder men in the neighborhood pine for her. Mortie has no clue and it's best if he remains in the dark, yes?
Teens and unmarried Sims seem to bounce around a bit...how like life is that....but my married with children Sims, nun uh, there's no cheating and there won't be while this Sheriff is in town. ;D
I tend to be overly introspective as to what my Sims play is revealing about my own nature. I'm a faithful, relatively happily married woman with two children. When I'm Mama Goth's age, will I be jumping in and out of hot tubs with anybody who asks? :D
(I am also a hypocrite. When my 13 year old wanted to change somebody's spouse, I did it in SimPe for him because I didn't want him to act out an affair and divorce.)
How does your neighborhood run?
J. M. Pescado:
Very mechanistically, purposefully, and directedly. If I set out to do something, no matter what it is, I will succeed, invariably with formulaic precision. About the only thing that DOESN'T happen is something going wrong, because I am too awesome for that.
dizzy:
I don't act as "censor" in my neighborhoods, but I also don't encourage a lot of romantic behavior. I find the sims to be childish and brutish in their social expressions in general, so romance tends to be a frequent eyesore.
I am most disturbed, I think, by the highly aggressive nature of sims. This has become compounded in Nightlife where sims can go from being good-natured and amiable to being furious enemies in literally seconds. My initial reaction to this is to want to make the sims get along, but I realize that this is all just part of making the sims more marketable than it is playable. It simply isn't possible for me to expect the Sims to play like a Simulation, I guess. :P ::)
Gus Smedstad:
I vacillate a bit on this. Most of the time everyone but Romance sims sticks to their first relationship. Until Nightlife I was running the "Teens Keep Loves" mod, so generally everyone settled down with their childhood sweetheart. I'm debating reinstalling this mod since it's supposed to be Nightlife compatible. The problem is that it kills much of Nightlife's dating gameplay if Sims never develop a second relationship. The first relationship sets their sexuality, so you can't let them pick their own interests initially.
All of my Sims are heterosexual, by the way. I don't play gay sims for the same reason I don't watch gay romance films. I'm not wired to enjoy that.
Sometimes my Sims seem to completely lose interest in their partner. They stop rolling "Talk With...", "Flirt With..." etc. Wants for that Sim. When that happens, I occasionally will have them start pursuing someone who they do roll Wants for. In that case I'll break off the old relationship rather than have them cheat.
Naturally the main exception to all this straight-laced monogamy is my alter-Sim, who got 3 wives when I first started playing The Sims 2. OK, 1 wife and 2 live-in girlfriends. The problem was that getting any WooHoo in was a nerve-wracking exercise, since the other two had to be asleep or off the lot. I started developing a Pavlovian response where I practically expected the "Bwong!" jealousy noise and a round of slapping every time he got any WooHoo. After a while I dropped 2 of the 3 because it was just so much more pleasant to WooHoo anytime he got the urge.
Jealousy seems like a more serious issue now that Nightlife is here. Not only do they get Furious, but the LTR relationship now drops to -50 or worse, instead of cheating just hurting DR and keeping the Love flag. Plus they start hitting and arguing with the cheater autonomously. I'm toying with doing the 3-wives thing again with a new alter-Sim just for the challenge under the new rules.
- Gus
Inge:
Along the lines of the wrong sim getting the apologise option, how come both sims become furious with *each other*? Why isn't it just the wronged party who gets angry and refuses to sleep with the other?
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