I agree. There are practically no downsides to the game. Everything is so bright and cheerful 100% of the time.
How can you have good story telling without conflict?
The "Scared" debuff is a good start. I LOVE how you can get scared, scream at another sim and get THEM scared. That's AWESOME. But we need a WHOLE LOT more. Like one bad for every positive buff. And make existing ones stronger.
It would make for much better story telling if the negative traits acted as such. I mean... to some degree my positive traits at least bore sims or create tedious conversations or more often "cheered to death" but none of them mind the bragging, self absorbed, insulting jeers or naked showers in the rain. Okay they might gasp at the last one
My favorite is using the sim ray to freeze my neighbors in San Myshuno when they bang at my door about the noise... they don't care for that at all.
