More Emotional & Hobby traits

Which kind of emotional traits would you like to see ? Each one of them is linked to one of the emotions that exist currently, so that limits the possibilities.

I fully agree more hobbies trait would be great too !

Maybe an insecure trait that leads to sims being embarassed more often than others

Some ideas:

Prudish - Your sim becomes embarrassed or uncomfortable around PDAs, and sims clad in underwear/swimsuit.
Ennui - These sims become bored often, and need a wide variation of activities to relieve their moodlet. Friendly social interactions do not affect them strongly, and they can "share apathy" to either make sims bored or sad.

Fashion-Lover: These Sims are constantly updating their looks and become tense if they wear the same outfit/hairstyle for too long. They can discuss fashion and make snide comments about what other people are wearing with the appropriate amount of mischief skill.

Dull - These Sims can bore others easily with mundane stories and jokes about soup, and humor is often lost on them. Comedy takes longer to gain levels.

I also feel like emotional traits should have stronger moodlets. My hot-headed sims are almost always calmed just by being in a well-decorated room. This is rarely the case in reality. :)

"mauvejinjo;14904156" wrote:
Fashion-Lover: These Sims are constantly updating their looks and become tense if they wear the same outfit/hairstyle for too long. They can discuss fashion and make snide comments about what other people are wearing with the appropriate amount of mischief skill.

Dull - These Sims can bore others easily with mundane stories and jokes about soup, and humor is often lost on them. Comedy takes longer to gain levels.

I also feel like emotional traits should have stronger moodlets. My hot-headed sims are almost always calmed just by being in a well-decorated room. This is rarely the case in reality. :)

Absolutely agree !! Lovely ideas and emotional traits should have longer moodlets

I agree I wish there were more traits. I also wish there were genetic traits and stuff that you can only control in the parent sim you make. That'd be cool to me. I know most people would hate not being able to control it but I mean I'd love it. You should still be able to choose some traits obviously. Like a nature and nurture type of thing, lol.

Yeah I think more hobby traits would be fun, considering the current options kind of bore me and 9/10 my sims have the same traits.

I was actually thinking of posting a thread about the concept of 'expanded' traits but it makes sense to just bring it up here.

I was comparing about how the first two Sims games handled 'Simology' versus how the most recent two have handled the same and thinking about how to possibly obtain the best of both worlds. As those who are familiar with the older games - or just have their wikifu on - will know, the first two games didn't have traits but instead had things like the Personality and Interest systems which worked similar to how skills still work with a numerical ranking- so instead of having a 'Neat' trait you might have anywhere from one to five points on the 'Neat side' of a Neat-to-Slob scale or instead of a 'Bookworm' trait you would have anywhere from one to ten points in the Book interest.

Now, overall, I like the trait system that the series ended up going with. For a relatively casual franchise and one that focuses more on charm an aesthetics having a single descriptive feature works better (imo) than a spreadsheet of numbers. That being said, the trait system does lose a lot of variability over it's predecessors. Take again the concept of a 'Neat' Sim for example. In the Sims 4 you either simply have a Neat trait that gives you certain bonuses/penalties and behaviors or you don't; in the Sims 1 and 2 on the other hand your Sim could range anywhere from someone who slightly favors cleanliness over dirtiness to someone who is absolutely obsessed with all the appropriately more extreme behaviors. The former system is effectively all-or-nothing while the latter allows for a much greater range of variety.

I think a cool compromise would be to keep the trait system but have certain traits come in multiple levels- several traits that have a similar effect on a Sim but in differing amounts of extremity. (For anyone playing Stellaris, think about the Ethos system.) I think three 'levels' - and I would like to add that even though I use that term these traits would probably have individual names rather than just being labeled Trait 1/2/3 - for each trait 'class' would be a good amount that gives a good deal of variety without being too unwieldy.

I feel like this would definitely help with what TC/OP (I don't know the term this particular forum uses) wants in terms of expanded emotional and hobby traits. For example, there might be several traits relating to the Energized emotion but only the most extreme one would involve the Sim becoming Sad or Angry when they haven't exercised recently while at lower 'levels' they would just get Tense or even merely Bored. Someone with a low 'level' of the Geek class of trait might bring up geeky things occasionally while someone with a high 'level' will bring it up all the time and so on and so forth.

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"doicky96;14909485" wrote:
Some great "emotional" traits could be:

Insensitive - These sims would 'tell it how it is' and have no concern for others feelings.
Insecure - These sims could be shy, not confident and anxious.
Brave/Cowardly - Brave sims would be confident, outgoing and reckless. Cowardly sims would be more introverted and easily scared- for example, brave sims would happily approach ghosts whilst cowardly sims would run screaming!

I would love to see these traits in action !!