I was thinking how it would be nice to have more traits of the quirky personality kind. Sure there are a few, but they're either too narrow or broad enough to be stereotypes. Insane sims have a couple of quirks, but how much more fun would they be if they were always rolling wishes and trying things that didn't make any sense? I'd hoped for some drama from the Inappropriate trait, but as far as I can tell, its only push is "be randomly mean to people you like." No flirting with the boss during cocktail hour, no spilling other people's secrets when they've been sworn to secrecy, no gardening in the front yard in their birthday suit. (No telling the daughter-in-law that she's raising their grandchildren wrong. Ahem. No, I didn't say anything. Really.)
Anyway, I'd like more variety and some strangeness, especially in the formative teenage years. Eccentric sims are... good at inventing? Fine, but how about the sim tween who often wears fairy wings and a tiara in public just because she thinks it's funny? (I actually knew someone who did this for a couple of years.) Or how about goths that write in their journals and read age-inappropriate books, new-age types who are into crystals and auras and that kind of thing, or Broadway wannabes who will happily recite the opening monologue of Cabaret in the middle of class? And it shouldn't be necessary to go to University or play with gadgets to gain nerd influence—reading LoTR four or five times or memorizing the first 100 digits of π should do the trick.
Also, it might be a good idea to have the option for sims to grow out of certain traits. Or not, as the case may be.
