Do you usually change the traits of the premade sims if there is one you cannot handle?

I changed Palmira Medina's Insane trait to Unstable Trait, seems more fitting in my eyes.

Palmira in my game is Unstable, Excitable, Diva, Snob, Loser

I find a lot of sims get into a strong determined habit of repeating some really annoying animation. Preside over royal court is just one of them. Since I tend to play huge households I tend to ignore them. I only interrupt if I want them to do something else, usually work on a skill.

I did get really annoyed with a sim with the proper trait. Fortunately I found a mod to stop them from constantly changing into their formal clothes.

I mostly play my own sims but there are a few premades that I love using for their genetics although I do change them a little because they usually have too many zero slider settings for my taste. Because I play for genetics and don't want drama in my families, I will give sims whatever traits I need to keep the peace.

As for kids presiding over royal court, I have had many who didn't have either the excitable or insane traits who would do it non-stop. I use Nraas Retuner to get rid of many autonomous behaviours that I found annoying.

All comments here are really insightful.

Let her play what she wants or you can send her to that submarine bath. They spend the whole day in the bathtub.
Hmmm maybe it's a bad idea if your sims are eco friendly.

Another possibility is to buy her the costume chest and a tree house (maybe the castle one) and send her away when she annoys you.
"Go to the tree house Palmira and don't throw water on me!"

Pretty much as annoying as Sandi French in SV - she constantly does royal court too. At least in my legacy she isn't. But then again, I micromanage her and her party-animal mother.

I use a mod that prevents children from autonomous 'preside over royal court'.
(I like to play with families and with a lot of kids, no matter what their traits are - they just won't stop doing it, and it's annoying).

Regarding premades in general - I tend to play with them without changes (most of the time), but sometimes I do tweak their looks a little bit, and a trait or two if I think it's more suitable for the character and my story.

Examples - Iqbal Alvi's unibrow - I changed to two (still thick) brows. Boyd Wainwright is in Journalism career (as a blogger) instead of Science. I did change Connor Frio's trait from unflirty to family oriented once so I could have him married to one of my sims. Xander Clavell has a different voice in my game.

I don't hesitate from changing traits if I can come up with a reasonable explanations for a sudden change in personality :) Though if I would be tired of an action itself I would probably use mod to get rid of it as it was already suggested.

I just generally don't play the characters that have traits that annoy me. Or...I put them through The Watcher's Torture Gauntlet. :mrgreen:

@izecson Good combination of traits but I couldn't endure that royal court thing, I removed excitable and changed her trait to heavy sleeper. She has never performed royal court thing any more. It was like a magic. :D But now she is playing with this toy very often. I don't know why..

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Now this is her new hobby, instead of that royal court thing. I have another kid,Diego, Rubisel's son. He got the couch potato since he was born in the Scott family house. Now he always watches TV stuck on sofa, Palmira always rides on a bee spring horse. They rarely play together. :( I wish they will be the best friend each other but don't seem to be.


@Karritz I agree. I misunderstood about proper trait. They criticize other sim about 'not being mannered' or something and change to formal suit so often. It's actually, annoyed. So I set the formal suit the same as everyday clothes so that he can changed his clothes to the same clothes again. :D But nowadays, I don't usually give this proper trait to my sims any more.

@Mikezumi I understand that you avoid some annoying traits for your own sims. I'm the same but now I have a small issue with that. Most of my own sims have mostly same traits or similar traits. When they meet firstly each other on street, they clap their hands for having the same traits a lot. :D I noticed a few sims my own, they had 3 same traits and they were clapping hands 3 times. :D I didn't realize it until they met on street.

@thuggishsplicer The main reason I posted this issue here is she never stop that royal court thing with ONE time command. I cancel it, the X sign shows over the chair icon, then X sign disappears and chair icon is still going on. I cancel that chair again, then only X sign has gone and still going. I eventually, cancel 2 chairs and then she stops. That's why it's annoying. It doesn't matter if she stops it with my one time command and I can ask her to do something else, but she never stops with my ONE time command. At least 2 or 3 times I have to cancel, then she stops. This is annoying me. I couldn't endure this any more. I changed her trait to heavy sleeper, and that royal court hobby has disappeared like a magic.

@Nikkei_Simmer Yes it was really annoying. I understand you with Sandy French. :) I changed her trait to heavy sleeper, now that performance has gone like a magic. :D

@Avatarit Yes that sounds a good idea but trying to reduce mods now as I'm using quite a lot of mods. :) thanks.

@Potsae Yes I had no choice. Thank you. :)

"Jeansoo;c-17769474" wrote:
@izecson Good combination of traits but I couldn't endure that royal court thing, I removed excitable and changed her trait to heavy sleeper. She has never performed royal court thing any more. It was like a magic. :D But now she is playing with this toy very often. I don't know why..

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5c3wlL9gQO4/X_nGSznjGWI/AAAAAAAAC-A/cgzo2B6huoY6nDay1lMcNoh6F9tSrbUkgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h396/Untitled-89.png

Now this is her new hobby, instead of that royal court thing. I have another kid,Diego, Rubisel's son. He got the couch potato since he was born in the Scott family house. Now he always watches TV stuck on sofa, Palmira always rides on a bee spring horse. They rarely play together. :( I wish they will be the best friend each other but don't seem to be.

@Jeansoo Yeah pretty much, those combination of traits is due to her difficult upbringing except the snob which she got from enrolling at Smuggsworth Prep School. Palmira in my game usually always keep begging another sims to compliment her thanks to her Diva trait, I think the traits work just as fine but i noticed that lifestyle trait tend to be stronger in term of autonomous interactions, couch potato is not an exception to this. my Palmira and her brother Santiago always play together, maybe it's because Santiago has Friendly trait.