I recently revisited Sims Medieval after several years and was reintroduced to the idea of Fatal Flaws. Not being able to make a "perfect" sim is sort of fun in a way. Many years ago when I first fired up TS3, I often tried to make perfect sims. I had so many friendly, charismatic, romantic geniuses. Lol. These days, I like giving them a few negative traits like neurotic, grumpy, or kleptomaniac to give them a quirk or two. What about you? How perfect (or imperfect) are your sims?(I realize that "good" and "bad" are subjective. Mostly what I mean is traits that have a generally positive impact or make your sims' lives easier like friendly, lucky, or athletic, vs. ones that can potentially cause problems like loser, mean-spirited, or socially awkward.)

I always give my sims at least one bad trait. Like hot headed, diva, over emotional etc. Because it makes sims have actual personalities and much more fun to play with. The overeactions are hilarious.

My sims are perfect pixels with no blemishes who are pure as the driven snow. https://66.media.tumblr.com/c771d626e62f086826d053772a3475a5/tumblr_pngr91vzL61xq9hdmo1_1280.jpghttps://66.media.tumblr.com/e8cf9ea775f5d5d64b470c97547fb8fe/tumblr_pngr91vzL61xq9hdmo2_1280.jpghttps://66.media.tumblr.com/8d45c907df2275ef863cda78ad89d470/tumblr_pngr91vzL61xq9hdmo3_1280.jpg

It depends on my sim. I use a mixture of all traits except Vehicle Enthusiast which I don't like at all.I have sims who have a majority of "good" traits, and sims that have a majority of negative traits. I find the negative ones to be the most fun and amusing sims to play :D

I mostly play what I consider good traits, although traits that may be considered bad I consider good in certain situations. So I guess really I always pick good traits. There are so many traits I want my sims to have, depending on what I want them to do in the game, that there is no room for useless ones. For example kleptomaniac was a good trait for my thief, but I don't usually pick it for my non-thieves.

Most of my sims are based on characters I either like in media, or have made myself. I try to always pick traits based on those characters. I like to pack my sims with variety, even if that's a bit hard to do with 5 traits.I think if I had a few more trait slots I'd go heavier on the negative traits, as it is I tend to pick the traits that are most dominant in the day to day of the sims.But I do love the grumpy/hot-headed/neurotic traits.

Are your sims Practically Perfect or Fatally Flawed?

king_of_simcity
6 years ago
I have some very perfect and very messy Sims.

This is a perfect Sim named Courtney who has good traits and has completed her life time wish of being friends with 20 Sims and also has graduated from University:

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This is a not so perfect Sim named Sarah who has the inaproirate trait but is not evil. She does not have commitment issues but she still cheats

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kimfoyx
6 years ago
Honestly,it just depends
brandontaylor615
Rising Traveler
6 years ago

My current Sim has mostly perfect traits but she does have the kleptomaniac trait. Her children get whatever I roll.
brionl
6 years ago
"Buttersims;c-16991556" wrote:
I randomize, then pick and choose which would go well with the sim in mind. When a baby is born I will choose a trait from the parents and randomize the other trait - then it's whatever from then on :)

That's pretty much what I do too. Although there are some traits that I just won't use, like Insane and a couple others.

Although pretty frequently, when I have twins, I'll make one good and one evil and then randomize from there.
Keiomestre
6 years ago
To me is all about the personality I want to give the sim, it doesn't matter if the trait is beneficial or disadvantageous to the sim. In my favorite family (the one on my signature picture), everybody but the youngest boy has some "bad" traits: The father is a "loser" and "absent-minded", the oldest daughter is "clumsy" and "mean-spirited", the mother is "insane" and "kleptomaniac" and the youngest daughter is "grumpy". The mother is also a "slob", but this trait is more good than bad, as being able to ignore messy environments and lick plates to satiate the hunger is good.

"Clumsy" and "Absent-Minded" seem to be common on my families.

Sometimes, when the personality of the sim changes too much from what I planned with the traits, I cheat to change the traits.
graceymanors
Rising Hotshot
6 years ago
As Mary Poppins says, "I'm practically perfect in every way."
studio09
6 years ago
Over 7 years ago I wanted to get a mix of traits in my sims, but not randomly since those traits usually don't fit together. So I tried assigning traits according to their zodiac sign. Here is a list I made based on one made previously by another simmer. Since then many more traits have been added to Sims 3 but I never bothered to update the list to include them.
LaBlue0314
Rising Scout
6 years ago
Some of my more interesting sims carried a few negative traits to their personality. I always loved the ones who didn't put up with other sims snarky ways.
jessiemavis
6 years ago
I really would love to give my sims more bad traits but its soooooo hard!!! I do sometimes though. Although, depends on the sims and what I think their traits should be and what route they'll go in life.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
I give my sims a variety of traits. If it's going to be Evil or some other trait that I consider to be negative, I pre plan first. I usually have something specific in mind for them. I find these traits really make the game lots more fun.

I have avoided Socially Awkward trait for years because the one time I tried it was with a Sim that I wanted to become a romantic interest of Haley, one of my more wayward sims, and that Socially Awkward sim was a frustrating disaster so I stopped using that trait after just one negative experience. But I recently had a socially awkward townie interact with my sims and I thought that was hysterically funny so promptly added a new socially awkward sim to my household - if I don't have any plans for that sim other than general entertainment I'm sure he won't frustrate me and all will be good.

I also banned a hot headed sim for years as she picked fights with another sim in the household. Then one day I added her to another household and she hasn't been involved in any fights. I find evil sims are fun too. One of my sims in my Isla Paradiso Bunch videos is evil and her lifetime wish is the see the ghost of her wealthy spouse. She is in a large household and has plenty of free time. Consequently I'm finding her checking out all the new sims in town and finding out if they are wealthy or not. I find her antics very amusing. She's been in my videos for over 60 episodes, just in the background doing her own thing and so far she's not found anyone to marry but I still hold out hope for her - maybe.

I dislike the daredevil trait because I don't like seeing them eat dirt. But do have a few sims with that trait. I don't avoid it totally but do try to not actually see them eating their dirt.

Another thing I consider, sometimes, is the hidden traits. They have an influence over a sim's behaviour and that can add extra variety and fun.