Personality makeover suggestion

I personally would absolutely LOVE a sliding scale on traits rather than it being totally split evenly.

So for example, my outgoing slob could be more on the "outgoing" part and maybe that's why he's so slobbish, because he spends all his time looking for socialization and not staying in to take a shower or clean his house.

But unfortunately, I never see this happening, and just like with everything else in TS4, the Devs would probably run out of time and/or run out of budget, which seems to be their MO when adding/updating anything, just like with these wants/fears ...... they're irrelevant now, they only include the base game, and the new expansion, what about the previous 8 years of packs that we've all bought?

They removed all of the whims and replaced them with "wants" but not for all of the other packs, so now we have even less to make our sims unique.

So yeah, while theoretically I would love the addition of that, I just don't trust the dev teams execution of that, they'd probably only do it for base game traits and remove all other traits cause they didn't have enough time but "They could go back and add more where it makes sense" as was the statement regarding the "wants/fears" and past game packs being updated with them.

However personalities are actually complex. A sarcastic person can be both goofball and gloomy, people who are "bark is worse than they bite" can be both mean and good. A jealous person can be just controlling and headstrong, a self-absorbed person can be the "fragile self-esteem" type, a 闷骚 (Chinese slang, describe the people who are quiet on the outside but wild on the inside) person can be both loner and bro.

But for the "degree", it reminds me that my parents always thinking that I'm slobby because of "no problem with only no odor and obvious stains", but I think one of my primary school classmate who often put unfinished foods in the desk drawer then cause the seat stinks was slobby (he get rid of it after 5th grade). I'm often described as lazy, but I'm usually diligent when it comes to things I'm interested in/want to do.
- I find slob and neat to be a good fit for sliders: for example, very neat sim are very sensitive to dirty, neat sims are generally sensitive, moderate sims are medium (no problem with only no odor and obvious stains), slobby sims can tolerate stains but not odors, very slobby sims... odors can't stop them. I also think more trait slots can be added and remove some trait conflicts.

The following content marked with * means "this might, may, probably needs more traits"

"JAL;d-1002025" wrote:
For younger sims (toddlers and children), they wouldn't have to be set in stone, but be fluid (but less and less as the child grows up. It might even look a bit different:

This is also possible，

- Children and younger without discipline are more undomesticated, such as childish, and even "mental age backwardness"* in extreme cases.
- - I created a Socially Awkward/Childish/Inappropriate/Dramatic/Diva/ sim in TS3, my sim's bio said he was living a near-wild life since he was very young, so he is serious backwardness in mental age.

- Minors who are always severely punished are more likely to be aggressive, such as hot-headed and mean and, in extreme cases, evil.
- - The opposite are more likely to be non-aggressive.

- Minors who experience too much major negative life events tend to have "negative emotional" traits and, in extreme cases, erratic. If it combined with the previous one, they can very easily become mean and/or evil

- Minors who are often complimented tend to be more self-assured. But if it goes too far, they tend to become self-absorbed.
- - The opposite are more likely to be "insecurity"* and/or also self-absorbed (fragile self-esteem).

↑ Are these meaningful??

"JAL;d-1002025" wrote:
Phases:

I think there can be a "calm" and an "over-emotional" traits that will affect the phases to some extent.

"Shadow_Assassin;c-18159891" wrote:
However personalities are actually complex. A sarcastic person can be both goofball and gloomy, people who are "bark is worse than they bite" can be both mean and good. A jealous person can be just controlling and headstrong, a self-absorbed person can be the "fragile self-esteem" type, a 闷骚 (Chinese slang, describe the people who are quiet on the outside but wild on the inside) person can be both loner and bro.

But for the "degree", it reminds me that my parents always thinking that I'm slobby because of "no problem with only no odor and obvious stains", but I think one of my primary school classmate who put unfinished food in the desk drawer then cause the seat stinks is slobby. I'm often described as lazy, but I'm usually diligent when it comes to things I'm interested in/want to do.

I find slob and neat to be a good fit for sliders: for example, very neat sim are very sensitive to dirty, neat sims are generally sensitive, moderate sims are medium (no problem with only no odor and obvious stains), slobby sims can tolerate stains but not odors, very slobby sims... odors can't stop them.


I also think more trait slots can be added and remove some trait conflicts.

Of course in real life people can be utterly complex, and that is really why I prefer sliders over set traits. A sim who is a slob is a slob about everything, but wouldn't some sims be slobs sometimes (dirty dishes, not making their beds) but neat sometimes (flushing the toilet, washing their hands)? Someone can be sarcastic and good, but hardly mean and good. If you are truly mean, as in want bad things for other people, then you are not good. But of course you can be on a scale, somewhere between one and the other.

I do see your point about jealousy, self absorbed and and goofball though. So perhaps not limiting as many personality traits. Or just adding to the sliders. I'd love a serious-goofball, or a habitual-adventurous too, but I was afraid that would be too many, and there weren't icons for those.

I also have some idea about sliders:
- Calm & Over-emotional (it's different from erratic, it just have stronger moodlets and doesn't include behaving oddly. If both calm and erratic, the moodlets will lighter and disappear faster, like the more traits idea I came up with a long time ago)
- Hot-headed & Mild
- Social awkward & Charismatic
- Proper & Inappropriate
- Goofball & Boring
- Rebellious & Well-behaved
- Schmoozing & Blunt

"Shadow_Assassin;c-18159993" wrote:
I also have some idea about sliders:
- Calm & Over-emotional (it's different from erratic, it just have stronger moodlets and doesn't include behaving oddly. If both calm and erratic, the moodlets will lighter and disappear faster, like the more traits idea I came up with a long time ago)
- Hot-headed & Mild
- Social awkward & Charismatic
- Proper & Inappropriate
- Goofball & Boring

I would prefer goofball - serious myself, but overall I like your additions. I would love a "no sense of humor" trait in general as well. My only reason for only choosing 6 is that I wonder at which point it would be too much for the game to handle, but overall yes, I like those.

"JAL;c-18159927" wrote:
If you are truly mean, as in want bad things for other people, then you are not good. But of course you can be on a scale, somewhere between one and the other.

It reminds me that TS3 can both mean and good, those sims like fight and mean to other, but can donate and other "good" interactions (in TS3 only good sims can donate) and have limited mean interactions.
I think Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index (and many of "tsundere" characters) is (are) a typical "both mean and good".