Benefits

As you can imagine, there are some significant upsides to becoming a vampire beyond being ultra-cool to sensitive teenagers the world over.

Vampires have a set of special talents they can employ to make the most of the night, such as intelligence boosts that speed skill development or the ability to creep inside the mind of an unwitting Sim.

Vampires run with speed greater than top athletes. They move so fast that the air around them vibrates.

Skill Development

One of the great benefits of being a vampire is that you develop skills almost twice as fast as a normal Sim during the night hours. During daylight, when vampires are typically avoiding the sunshine, their skill development rate is on par with other Sims.

Vampires are not better at developing any particular skill—the acceleration rate is the same for Writing as it is for Mixology.

Dark Romance

Another fun benefit of being vampire is that you can affect the romantic thoughts of other Sims. It is extremely difficult for Sims to resist the natural charms of a nightwalker.

But vampires can place the seed of romantic interest in another Sim by using the vampire-exclusive Think About Me interaction on other Sims.

This forces the target Sim to start imaging the vampire, noted by thought bubbles containing the vamp’s portrait over their head.

Hearts and bats swirl around them, too. During the course of this effect, the relationship between the vampire and the target improves, making it a perfect time to hopefully move a relationship to the next level.

This is also a good interaction to smooth the path to turning a non-player-controlled Sim into a vampire.

Mind Reading

Whereas normal Sims have to, you know, talk to each other in order to learn their likes, dislikes, and personality quirks, vampires have an unfair advantage.

Vamps can read minds. This interaction works on any target Sim. You do not enter into a conversation, so there’s no need to worry about picking the right social to go with a mind reading.

All you need to do is select what kind of information you want to pluck from the target’s brain—traits, favorites, astrological sign, relationships, and career.

Mind reading is not immediate; it takes a few moments. However, it never fails. So as soon as the interaction is complete, you have the desired details about the target Sim.

Now, just reading a mind does not improve a relationship. You must use socials to do that. But the intel gathered by a brain scan is useful for picking appropriate socials.

For example, if you determine that the target has no sense of humor, you know not to bother with jokes and silly faces.

Ageless

Vampires age differently than normal Sims. They can certainly die—and we’ll look at how in the Potential Problems section, but they age up much slower than other Sims.

The Young Adult and Adult sections of the life span stretch out longer. However, the Elder segment of life lasts the same.