As a rimworld player I fear sims players. Rimworld has a certain degree of violence inherent to it, it's part of the game. The Sims though? Particularly unmodified Sims? It inspires creativity. Horrifying, horrifing, creativity.

Can confirm. I play Rimworld. (Though, tbh, my worst habit is accumulating way too many animals. Like, pages worth of named or trained dogs and wolves, plus quail.)

So if you bomb everything does it get rebuilt over time?

No. The closest any of the games have to buildings evolving/changing on their own is Sims 4's Eco Lifestyle world where the neighbourhoods change depending on the neighbourhood's eco footprint.

Is the game worth getting into a recent version?

💰 No
🏴‍☠️ Absolutely

I’ve stayed away because it sounded like they started charging for a bunch of crap after buying the game

That's always been the model, though. The Sims 1 had several expansions. The Sims 2 added stuff packs. The Sims 3 had the store with digital currency. The Sims 4 removed the store and added kits.

When Sims 4 launched it was very meagre in terms of content, they'd started development in the middle of the "social networks are cool" era and pivoted when SimCity 5 failed. They tossed together an underwhelming mess, but over the years they've fleshed out the base game. There's a lot of expansions now, to the point that they're starting to cover similar themes they've already covered.

Given EA's proclivities I wouldn't recommend buying the game. In light of their recent acquisition by Trump and the Saudi Arabian government, I would urge against buying the game. But it can be an enjoyable experience.

The sims don’t really build anything on their own. I play the Sims 2, because it’s got decades of mods available at this point. The newer games don’t really seem worth it - the Sims 4 is very much focused on parcelling our everything as DLC.

Basically, I have a bunch of STALKER and Fallout 3 assets ported into the game and use them to decorate my little post apocalyptic setting. I try to destroy/rebuild in a way that looks sorta organic - having them squat in abandoned bowling alleys and the like.

Imho the Sims 2 is worth getting into. We’ve reached the point in the nostalgia cycle where the ridiculous early 00’s clothing is endearing. It’s a really open ended story telling tool, and with modding you can do things like historical simulations or weird sim cults or prisons… but even just playing the vanilla game has a lot of charm of its own.

Most stick to 2 I was told, it has the most custom content out there and other reasons. I think it’s 3 that’s basically broken without a patch players made.

I've seen memories, the drop kick guy does not miss a chance to throw one lol

and you can make said sims do the violence out of free will.

I think I just had a brain aneurism reading that :p

So was it actually triggering the violence and it happened to not be present or does it have a higher chance/ only trigger when the player is involved? Or would it just....stay home existing and not capable of triggering until it was called to the gathering?

Thanks for the explanation!