Re: [ARCHIVED] Retraining potion removes additional traits

having this problem too, used a trait remover potion on a sim with 2 self discovery traits and it removed them. hes been able to learn one but doesn't seem to be able to learn anymore. another sim lost all 3 discovery traits and cant seem to learn any at all now. its very frustrating as i liked the original discovery traits and only wanted to remove the CAS ones. now they cant learn any new traits because the games acting like they still have the discoveries for some reason.

I've experienced this issue as well. Also when reloading a saved household into a new save, if you remove any traits, in CAS, theoretically it should open up spaces for acquiring new self-discovery traits, just like it should if a retraiting potion is used. However, the game still treats it as though these sims have maxed out their self-discovery trait slots. 

Via MCCC, I combed through all hidden traits and buffs for a sim I've had this issue with and found that a hidden trait does remain attached to the sim for "max self-discovery." So it appears that even when traits are removed by one method or another, this hidden trait/buff remains on the sim that prevents them from acquiring new traits through gameplay, even when they should have trait slots available.

FYI, I confirmed that removing this hidden trait (via MCCC) does enable the self-discovery events to occur for that sim again, so this is definitely the culprit. 

It still happens to me too. My Sim here has 3 additional traits from the Discovery System and when she drinks the potion to change her main 3 traits the other 3 gets removed. This is so frustrating it's definitely a bug and not by design😞

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@Moozilla13 wrote:

I've experienced this issue as well. Also when reloading a saved household into a new save, if you remove any traits, in CAS, theoretically it should open up spaces for acquiring new self-discovery traits, just like it should if a retraiting potion is used. However, the game still treats it as though these sims have maxed out their self-discovery trait slots. 

Via MCCC, I combed through all hidden traits and buffs for a sim I've had this issue with and found that a hidden trait does remain attached to the sim for "max self-discovery." So it appears that even when traits are removed by one method or another, this hidden trait/buff remains on the sim that prevents them from acquiring new traits through gameplay, even when they should have trait slots available.

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What exactly is this trait called, do you recall?  Cause I had two self-discovery traits, then I decided to swap Overachiever for Family-Oriented, but I was not aware of this bug... So now it seems all I can do is wait for that third self-discovery to pop-up, then re-trait again and remove the max discovery trait to start over.

EDIT: Ah duh! I just searched for it under add trait in MCC, so yea can now verify that it is trait_hidden_selfdiscoverymax for anyone else that wants to use MCCC to fix this bug.

This didn't work for me. The pop-up said no matches found when I tried removing the hidden trait.

My Sim used the retraiting potion to change one of the 3 base traits and lost all 3 self discovery traits.