Morality & The Sims
windy_moon:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 September 24, 09:56:46
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.
LOL, that is your morality, I do suspect....above all, be productive and logical at all times. You make your mods to that end and even though productivity isn't necessarily my end, they are great for my kind of game play. I don't know how I ever threw a party without 'bathroom uses you', for instance. All those annoyances get in the way of making nice happy stories.
Quote from: dizzy-two on 2005 September 24, 10:03:37
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 ::)
*concerned look*
I know. I don't have NL installed yet, but all of this talk of enemies and fighting, I'm squirming in my seat just reading the threads (which I can't stop reading of course ::) )
I'm hoping there are mods that I can use to tone down that behavior when I do install. I welcome a little game imposed drama, like the chance cards (which I play faithfully and accept the outcome), but I don't want half my neighborhood enemies with the other half, not fun.
The game started off with Lillith & Angela enemies. I've worked hard to turn them around and it's made a great storyline, but I don't want to have to do that for 50 sims, repeatedly.
Oy!
Gus Smedstad:
Quote from: Inge on 2005 September 24, 11:59:34
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?
It's the slapping. No one likes being slapped. Though this seems to vary, I've had a few jealousy episodes recently, and the cheater doesn't always seem to get furious.
Since you mention it, the apologize option really bugs me. The way the wounded party has to apologize and the cheater can't apologize is completely whacked. It's like they're dogs. If you accidently step on a dog's foot, they get all apologetic - "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! You hurt me, I must have done something wrong!" ??? Sigh, dogs are such doormats.
- Gus
sadiebutterfly:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 24, 13:05:25
It's the slapping. No one likes being slapped.
The slapping is the only aspect of sim behaviour that really squicks me. I don't care if you caught your girlfriend flirting with someone else, hitting her round the head is WRONG. I wish there were non-violent ways of ending relationships in-game, so couples could break up amicably without me having to mess around in SimPE.
My Romance Sims tend to be completely amoral and have affairs and random children all over the place. Most of the others are monogamous. I've only had one divorce (Dina and Don, after she found out he'd fathered Nina's baby). Daniel and Mary-Sue were living apart when he died, but a divorce would have put their grandchildren into aspirational failure so I didn't bother.
rohina:
I've been playing the cheating according to my sims' wants recently. It's kind of a morality experiment. So the romance sims do lots of cheating, but last night I was astonished when a previously faithful family sim rolled up a want to flirt with her best friend, and then wanted to make out, then woohoo (so she did) three times in a row at a comminity lot. It was as if she had suddenly decided to have a passionate affair. The guy was science, and had the romantic wants too (at least to start with. I think she wore him out.)
I have also found there are sims who are apparently quite content to live their entire lives without any romantic interaction wants whatsoever. One I am playing is a male popularity sim, the other is fortune. They're both single although they have lots of friends. The fortune sim wants to marry money, but he doesn't have any desire for romantic interactions which might help with the attraction of a spouse.
nothingbutsims:
I find myself enjoying content neighborhoods. I rarely create a romantic sim, nor do I play their households (Don Lothario or the Caliente sisters). I even got Lilith Pleasant and her sister to be friends :-\. There's so much crazy fighting and flirting in the background already that I don't want to add to it. I like to have as much peace in my families as I possibly can. If a sim rolls a crazy want to have an affair or flirt with someone else while they are married, I certainly won't give in to that. Yea, maybe it sounds boring to some but I hate all that slapping too and the fuming for weeks over someone cheating. Lilith Pleasant's fiance was flirted with by the damn cow mascot at college before I could stop HIM. They have since graduated and gotten married and she still stomps her feet in her husband's face and fumes about a broken promise and he didn't even do anything! It was the stupid cow's fault. No, I don't like families and neighborhoods like that. Give me peaceful anytime.
Edit: Rohina - I love your picture - he/she looks like one of my cats :D
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