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Maxis has the “Lazy” trait when it comes to... Traits...
KirbySkywalker
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Seriously, I mean look at the Hobby section. There is only 6!!! And “perfectionist” isn’t even a hobby!
Yet we have SO MANY MORE hobbies in the game!
Working out, Swimming, Programming (geek only covers video games and sci-fi books), Yoga, Science stuff (telescope, microscope, chemistry table, etc...), meditating, cooking (foodie covers EATING not cooking, I have friends who cook as an artistic outlet), Singing (not covered by “music lover), trying on clothes, bowling, basketball, Shopping, watching movies, etc...
Sure, you can say “active” covers working out and swimming, but what if you want a specific sim you can often find swimming?
When I was a teen (irl) I played basketball every moment of my free time. Like 80 hours a week. Why can’t I make a sim to represent my teen self? Always shooting hoops?
Little things like this would add SO MUCH to the game!!!
I have relatives who love video editing or building car models. How cool would it be to see the sims I make doing those things when I visit them?
Now we have roller skating and ice skating, but no traits to make a sim who loves those things! I have a friend who wanted to be an Olympic speed skater. How cool would it be to see him ice skating every time I went over???
C’mon Maxis!!!!
How do you make packs like Bowling Night, Movie Hangout, spa day, etc and not make traits related to those things???
DO IT! DO IT NOW!
Yet we have SO MANY MORE hobbies in the game!
Working out, Swimming, Programming (geek only covers video games and sci-fi books), Yoga, Science stuff (telescope, microscope, chemistry table, etc...), meditating, cooking (foodie covers EATING not cooking, I have friends who cook as an artistic outlet), Singing (not covered by “music lover), trying on clothes, bowling, basketball, Shopping, watching movies, etc...
Sure, you can say “active” covers working out and swimming, but what if you want a specific sim you can often find swimming?
When I was a teen (irl) I played basketball every moment of my free time. Like 80 hours a week. Why can’t I make a sim to represent my teen self? Always shooting hoops?
Little things like this would add SO MUCH to the game!!!
I have relatives who love video editing or building car models. How cool would it be to see the sims I make doing those things when I visit them?
Now we have roller skating and ice skating, but no traits to make a sim who loves those things! I have a friend who wanted to be an Olympic speed skater. How cool would it be to see him ice skating every time I went over???
C’mon Maxis!!!!
How do you make packs like Bowling Night, Movie Hangout, spa day, etc and not make traits related to those things???
DO IT! DO IT NOW!
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The sims 3 traits are actually the only thing I miss about sims 3. There were a lot of both small, sillier traits and bigger ones, plus we had five slots, which was enough room to have both bogger traits that covered the main parts of the personality and a one or two smaller, like loves heat, light sleeper and such. 3 are barely enough to cover a whole personality, not to mention that all of them are much broader. I miss the variation.
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I really miss the 'interests' traits sims had in the Sims 2. You know, common interests they can talk about? It would add so much depth to their personalities.
Shy
Proper
Brooding
Virtuoso
Natural-Born Cook
Computer Whiz
Just my two cents
I'd say music lover covers virtuoso pretty well, if they would update to add the singing, but other than that, I fully agree
yes more traits that are actually are evident in the sims rather than having to imagine your sims with a personality.
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A hobby trait can pretty much be unlimited when it comes to how many you select, as it makes a sim better or more inclined to participate in an activity.
An emotional trait is also pretty much unlimited. When a situation occurs, it triggers an emotion on a sim. There may be a few conflicts here and there such as 'cheerful' and 'gloomy'.
Lifestyle and social traits would be a bit more limited in the number you select. If you pick a lifestyle or social trait, it is more likely there will be others that will conflict. That is ok, as this is what makes each sim unique. You would not have someone evil and good at the same time.
I think sims 3 had a pretty good system. My suggestion would be to introduce new traits and increase the number of trait slots per sim to a minimum of 5. I discussed this whole thing Here
This!! And more trait slots!
It's truly my only qualm with the game anymore.
I love the lot traits more would be great to have also.
Totally agree with this. Besides, a lot of the reward traits don't add personality really. Things like not needing to pee as much are hardly something to be considered a part of someone's personality.
really hoping we’d get more traits with an update... it’s not too late..
This is the problem with many of TS4's traits in a nutshell, and it's why the Genius trait is so underwhelming. I want to see traits that boost gains in certain skills, change the way sims respond to events (for example, a hot headed sim could get angry at a time when other sims would usually get sad), change the rate of relationship increase/decrease, etc.
The thing about skill boosts is that emotional traits rely on said emotion for that boost. The genius trait relies on the focused moodlet/emotion to give such boost, but because it can easily be overwhelmed it looses it's impact and effect.
Hot headed sims will rage when a sim is cheated on instead of crying. I wish they'd get angry though, when other sims perform every mischievous interaction on them, giving negative social points. I think some interactions do, but not all. Sadly though, I don't think mischievous interactions are set to autonomous. I have never seen other sims fart on mine (obnoxious cloud interaction) or zap them with the hand shake.