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FlyingPotato659's avatar
7 years ago

How to discover traits?

This may be a common knowledge question but I am just curious on how do you discover traits of another sim?

Is there a certain interaction? I don't want to end up marrying a never nude sim or something like that lol!

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  • The best way I know is to use lifetime happiness points to buy the 'Observant' LTR. That makes it much easier to discover traits. It costs 5,000 points.

    You can use the 'get to know' interaction but that's better for finding out favorite foods etc. It usually takes ages to find out traits

    If you use mods, Master Controller can also tell you that and a whole lot more
  • Honestly it is rather simple,like a quick job interview.I sometimes go to an apartment lot which houses all the "Pudding sims" used to fill roles in town and it also includes standby generated sims that have no role yet.Anyway my intention is not to always just hook up with a sim I made or always a townie but mix it up.The thing with pudding townies is not that they share the same features but what makes them fun is like the clothing hair eye and skin color the personality is also random and a mystery.

    Now here is how you do it in a nutshell since I like "Interviewing sims"


    Your interactions are the questions and will give you fast answers.


    Say you want to know if they have Sense of humor trait or No sense of humor trait one simple thing answers both....


    Tell a joke.....yep that's it then the popup in corner will give your answer trait discovered "Linda has a good sense of humor"

    Which tells you that she does not have the No sense of humor trait


    Want to know if a sim is flirty....simple do a flirty interaction ....trait discovered "Sally is flirty" which answered also that she is most definately not unflirty

    If you can ask favorite book for example you will get a popup ,trait discovered "Gretchen is a bookworm" if she has the trait

    Talk about cooking if the trait is there you will get trait discovered "Brad is a natural cook"


    This goes for it all and knowing the interactions that are not only interactions but questions that will be answered is fun.I have done it so long that it comes natural but knowing what I said you will figure them out too and in a few days or even a day you will know how to get the answers and be on your way to picking a suitable wife or whatever it may be.




  • I see you already have some good answers. But for many of us, with or without mods, the method we use varies as to whether we are trying to see the other sim's traits displayed on the screen for ourselves (the player) or trying to get our sim to learn about them so they recognize the traits for their own benefit. The two goals may sound similar, but are actually very different from each other.
  • Upping you own Sims’s charisma helps too. But I very much agree with buying Observant as soon as possible!
  • @Finbar659 Also wanted to point out watching a sim doing nothing is a dead giveaway to traits.I do not know how long you have been playing but all traits have specific idles.These are animations that occur when a sim is loafing around with no interaction currently in progress.

    Just say you have yours eyes on that blonde blue eyed beauty by the snowcone machine watch her for a moment....


    Did she just choke herself She is insane trait

    Did she just Turn her hands into sock puppets attacking each other Childish trait

    Did she just take her hand and gaze out like a pirate captain scanning the horizon Adventurous trait

    Did She just ..................... insert any animation you know when making a sim for every trait there is and you have your answer even from across the street


    So if you want that handy chick that can fix your shower if you see her pull out a wrench and spin it while hanging by town hall go get her she is handy.Study each next time in CAS picking a trait some have only one animation some have multiples but they will ONLY!!! be done by sims possessing those traits.


    You can find out alot by doing nothing but going to the park and watching.
  • When you have the Observant LTR, you can learn around 3 of sims traits by just introducing yourself to them. Having a high Charisma skill does make it a lot easier to make friends and it gives you motivation to send your sims out since you need to make friends to be able to increase that skill.
  • I usually use get to know, ask sign, ask if single, ask about career.Get to know works the best for me, but occasionally the others work as well.

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