Morality & The Sims
Hook:
I almost never think in terms of moral and immoral. Sims are electrons and pixels, and any "morallity" is enforced upon them by the players.
I prefer to think in terms of "efficient" and "inefficient." Having a smoothly running neighborhood is efficient. Having everyone slapping and fighting is inefficient. I'm a Virgo, I prefer efficiency. :)
I have enough neighborhoods and families that there are many families that I'll never play again. In those cases, I don't care if their relationship goes south and my romance and pleasure Sims pursue them the same way they do townies. Some of my existing families are off-limits to such behavior tho... except by autonomous townies, of course. :)
Hook
Regina:
It sounds like many of us have the same mindset when it comes to playing: we don't want a neighborhood that is chaos because it takes too much time to try to fix everything, so we all try to prevent it to begin with! :)
I also tend to add my own moral base to my game. I've been happily married for 21 years and I'm also old-fashioned enough I don't believe in divorce (if two sims can't get along the one can move out and live on their own--but they aren't going to get involved with anyone else unless they don't have a spouse).
I do tend to think single sims should be able to play the field, so to speak, as long as they don't get too carried away in their relationships. I don't mind at all when some of them grow up and marry their childhood sweethearts, but that shouldn't happen all the time.
I don't find it very practical to fulfill all of my sims' wants all the time. I much prefer spouses who spin up wants for interaction with their spouses, and if they have a want for an interaction with someone else I consider it much like I do my own real life. Just because I'm married doesn't mean I can't look--I just prefer not to act on those feelings.
sanmonroe:
I don't understand theis "morality" thing?
Inge:
I like to see my sims doing things I would hate to see humans doing. I definitely don't think it is right for a man to beat up his wife for any reason even having an affair. But I laugh like anything when I see the Sims doing it. They really are like undisciplined children with an IQ less than half that of an undisciplined child, and that's part of what I enjoy about them. I find myself saying things like "well why don't you try going *that* way" and it gives me a laugh when I see the sticky situations they get themselves into during periods when I am not controlling them. I mean, there is always the no autonomy mode if you have very fixed ideas about what they should be doing.
Motoki:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 September 24, 17:43:22
Having everyone slapping and fighting is inefficient. I'm a Virgo, I prefer efficiency. :)
LOL Well good luck keeping things efficient with Nighlife then. Since I installed it, my whole neighborhood has been slap happy and it usually happens with 2 sims that I don't have control of on that particular lot (but may well be my own playable sims from another lot) and they just go at it constantly. I swear now if these sims look at another one cross eyed it ends up in a multiple fights and as arch enemies. I think my neighborhood has more enemies than friends now.
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