"Lavenderlights;c-16258943" wrote:
"SimTrippy;c-16257921" wrote:
"Lavenderlights;c-16257851" wrote:
I honestly think there should just be a stronger tie between emotions and traits. As of now, the only tie between them are the occasional trait-based moodlets that sims with certain traits sometimes get (i.e. feeling flirty, etc.), other than that, traits don't really influence emotions that much and hence all sims get pretty much the same moodlets to everything regardless of traits as a result. There should be more trait-specific moodlets (like, for example have the hot-headed sims receive an exclusive angry buff in reaction to things being broken in the house) so that each sim would have a unique reaction to the same thing depending on their traits. It's already set in stone that emotions pretty much govern this game, so there's no way to work around that other than to make the best use of it - i.e. Use it as a platform for sims to display their traits.
BTW, this thread should totally go into the ideas section. It's probably more likely to catch the attention of gurus there.
Actually hot headed sims do get angry emotional buffs from things that other sims will never get them from. For example, hot headed sims often wake up angry, and also get strong angry buffs from wind chimes (really I had to remove them at some point or else all my sim's workouts would have been very discomforting experiences), crying / difficult toddlers, cleaning if they're also lazy (instead of only getting tense), etc. I think the hot headed trait is actually one of the better ones because they truly are hot headed. Jealous I myself don't like so much because it's annoying to play (but I know others like it because it's also rather strong). Still, I agree that some traits could be a lot better, and I still wish they had given us a "hates animals" and "scares easily" trait along with a scared emotion :)
Really? :o Lol I didn't know that, I guess it's because I don't play with the hot-headed trait much. Thanks for pointing those details out, that trait does sound like one of the better ones. If only all traits were that impactful...*sigh*
I've noticed that most of the emotion based traits usually have a big impact on the sims behaviour, probably because emotions 'rule' the sims behaviour and these traits influence their emotions directly.
Back to the thread I would love an expanded range of personality, I would really like to see sims with different traits have different ways of acting on specific emotions. So a sim with (trait) when sad would act differently than sim with (trait) does when sad. Variation in how sims display their emotions would go a long way I believe to make them more distinct.
