Character Values

My kids all get high character values and earn the permanent positive rewards traits when they age up to young adult.

Wow that's insanely bad. I mean, I can see job performance and mood issues but that sim just seems dawned to a life of never EVER getting a break...EVER. I definitely don't want that. What if this sim tried an evil job? Does he even suck at being bad?

How does he survive???

Yeah, I guess. Of course neither Corbin nor Rohan (his husband) have ever had a traditional job. They make all of their money on gardening. They make 16k to 18k per day just on gardening. But still, it just seems beyond extreme.

Like I did in RL with my own three kids, I try to bring out the best in each of my Simmies. So, yes, I do attempt to get their values in. With the Toddlers, they just seem to level up on their skills without much help. But, you do have to work at teaching them to say sorry and learn to say please and thank you.

I've yet to play a Sim who is downright evil. I used to give each Sim in my household one negative trait. It was far easier when we had five slots in Sims3. For instance, my Sim is a Genius, but he's also a Goofball. In Sims three this same Sim had the added attraction of being clumsy. Yet, he rose to the top of his chosen career. He became a World Renown Surgeon. (And I can hear you asking, how can a clumsy Sim become a surgeon, let alone a World Renown one?) LOL That's the Sims for you. Oh, and he was also Childish.

I would love for them to have some negative character values but it is almost impossible to achieve that. You'll get the positive ones in the blink of an eye though.

I have 3 brothers. None of us are perfect. Each of us have different characteristics. One brother has a very high irresponsible trait. And yeah, he does struggle keeping a job and relationship.

So that's the reason for this post; to see if people do have sims with negative characteristics for the challenge of real life. I never EVER give my sims anything negative but it's been very predictable, safe gameplay.

Predictable + Safe = Boring. Not to mention that the kids come out like cookie-cutter kids.

Haha I have never had all the negative character value traits, but I do like to give my sims one or two negative or positive value traits (sometimes it requires a lot of grinding :sweat_smile:). It makes them more interesting to play.

I also haven't tried all of them yet. My favourite so far has probably been uncontrolled emotions, because my erratic spellcaster got it and I played her as quite a whimsical, vindictive and wild person :)

I try but generally my Sims end with some character traits and without another ones because it didn't reach either positive or negative score lol

I always make them do those negative Parenthood emotional whims whenever it shows up so they can have a shot to get a bad character trait.

Maybe only Sims with really bad traits like Evil, living with Evil parents on a lame house with a lame life will reach easily those bad character ones. :open_mouth:

"haisin;c-18150115" wrote:
Haha I have never had all the negative character value traits, but I do like to give my sims one or two negative or positive value traits (sometimes it requires a lot of grinding :sweat_smile:). It makes them more interesting to play.

I also haven't tried all of them yet. My favourite so far has probably been uncontrolled emotions, because my erratic spellcaster got it and I played her as quite a whimsical, vindictive and wild person :)

This is what I wad wondering about. If people do try to actively balance things out. This is a good example.

I've had a game where a teen got the rebellious trait.. It wasn't too bad. That being said, I havent too much with trying to raise kids wrong, even if I tend to age up fast.