Sim Traits
I'd love if Sims could have more than just 3 traits. People irl are so much more complex and interesting and I think the same should go for Sims. It was so hard to choose which 3 traits to give my ...
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There are cheats to easily add extra traits to a sim outside of CAS. The stated reason- by a former dev who kinda screwed Sims 4 up in a lot of ways due to personal preference- that we only have 3 is because if you give a sim too many CAS traits they start to homogenize. 3 core traits makes one sim different from another with 3 other core traits, but if you give each one two more that match, they become a lot more similar. Which is fair enough, but also should be my choice, right?
At the end of a Sim's life, depending on how much content you do with them, they can end up with well over 125 traits. So the 4 you get out of CAS (3 selected + Aspiration) aren't bogging them down for sure. A jump to 5 would be appreciated.
To an extend that makes sense but not completely. Some traits are almost throwaway, and other's just really are skill/craft/career/enter specific pack feature boosting that don't overly mold or unmold an individual Sim's personality if stacked.
If auto generated or done by the user a Sim can easily have 0-1+ traits for each key emotional/lifestyles/social/etc. traits, each yielding up to 4-8 assigned traits (10+ if optionals included).
- Emotional 1+ trait (pretty much all the emotional traits)
- Emotional 1-2 trait (as long as not conflicting) romantic aimed, optional (Romantic, Commitment Issues (though under "Social"), Jealous (though under "Social"), Romantically Reserved, Lovebug, Unflirty)
- Hobby 0-1+ trait (honestly is having 0-2+ of these really going make or break a Sim?)
- Lifestyle trait 1-2+ could still yield uniqueness (pretty much all)
- Lifestyle trait diet aimed, optional (Foodie (though under "Hobby"), Glutton, Lactose Intolerant, Vegetarian)
- Social 1+ trait (pretty much all the social traits)
You still might want to soft cap emotional/lifestyle/social traits to be no more than 6-8 total used, but hobby and lifestyle-dietary aimed, should be as many or as few as one wants (as long as there isn't conflicts).
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