Self Discovery & Getting New Traits Bug?

@cmurray71490 

I'm not sure about the retraiting potion having anything to do with the pop-ups as I have used it only a few times and not at all since the discovery traits were added.  But each sim only gets three discovery traits.  Once you get the third one, there is a wall post that tells you that the sim has the max they can have but it easy to miss sometimes.  So, if your sim has gotten three additional traits through self-discovery, you won't get the pop-ups anymore, except for the pop-up that gives you the option to swap traits.  And even then, that one doesn't come up very often in my experience.

Hope this helps.

Gotcha. For one sim I had a very similar experience. I got three additional traits and the occasional option to swap. Everything was going well until I used the re-traiting potion. After that the three bonus traits disappeared, and I got no further option to add/swap anything. I got no pop-ups, notifications, nothing. I completely forgot about the feature until I randomly played a different sim character and almost immediately got the pop-up. I started to notice a pattern that sims I used the potion for stopped getting pop-ups while sims that didn't use the potion did and now, I'm wondering if others had a similar experience or if it's all just in my head. If you use the re-traiting potion and lose the three bonus traits are they gone for good?

@cmurray71490 

I have no idea if they are gone for good.  One thing you can try is take the sim to CAS with the cheat active.  Then randomize the traits.  That will get rid of all the discovery traits.  Then put the traits you had or want to have back on the sim.  The discovery trait pop-ups should come back so you can add the traits again.  They might be different than the ones you have as they seem to depend on what you have your sim doing when they pop up.  This is the way I change traits on my sims, so I know it works, at least if you just want to change/get rid of one or more of the discovery traits.  But it should also reset what you seem to have going on (hopefully).  It's also the work around for a bug that was happening right after the discovery traits were introduced.  I'm not sure if that bug has been fixed but what happened was when you changed a regular trait in CAS on a sim that had at least one discovery trait, it would corrupt the sim.  So to avoid that, you have to get rid of the discovery traits first.  Randomizing the traits does that and gives you a clean slate so you can reset the traits without corrupting the sim.

Hope this helps.   

Edit:  Since I last posted, I have been made aware of the thread for the bug I mentioned above.  It is here:  https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Retraining-potion-removes-additional-traits/m-p/12469945 .  Since your issue is fairly close to what is in the thread, you might want to me too it.

That thread sounds extremely close to what I'm experiencing. I don't know if anyone at EA will fix it but, In the meantime, I may backup my save file and give your method a shot. Hopefully, like you said it may work.