Do CAS stories seem useless?

No cause I hate having to choose traits for sims, I want to create small stories for them but I always pick the same traits, atleast with this the traits are permanent and will be different. Also neat that there’s a chance for some skills to have points in them already.

I can see them being beneficial to the way some people tell stories. I think its a neat idea, its a cool alternative way to create a sim, also kind of gives you a direction to go in if you don't already have one. I kind of hope there is a way to randomize the story without answering the questions, I never have an idea of what my sims will do I tend to randomize their traits dress them up in accordance with their traits and get to know them through the game. So I will only likely use this feature if I stream on twitch with audience input to create a fan sim or use it to make more accurate fan character sims like making a Prowl from Transformers or Lockdown from Transformers or something.

Useless? In general, no. I mean, to me personally, the randomise button is already useless, and this is just a more creative, albeit more restricting version of that, but people who don't like or care to assign traits and aspirations themselves might find it great.

So far they haven't said if you can also assign starting skills and a job to sims that were created the old-fashioned way, because that would be somewhat useful for me... Not much, because getting a job and getting a skill to level 3 is a matter of minutes, but at least it would add some more customisation to CAS. I'll just wait and see before I judge.

I'm excited to try it out, see what different things they start with, answer questions in odd ways too, to create some interesting sims and their lives will be too

The idea is to give grown sims a bit of background, rather than them reaching adulthood with no life experience.

You have an idea of a character in mind, and answer/skip irrelevant questions how you believe the character would. By the end of the quiz you end up with some skills, job and savings that they might have acquired in their life up to that point based on your answers.

So say you wanted a sim that lived on Sulani, hates roughing it and is a well-off artist: Skip or answer in the negative any questions related to JA/OR or Off The Grid, answer ones from Sulani/IL positively, answer any money related questions in a way that would be profitable (selling artifacts etc) and any hobby/skill questions that mention painting should be anwered appropriately too. Any question you feel the sim wouldn't have a strong opinion about, skip.

"sims2freak737;d-962798" wrote:
I'm not too sure of why CAS stories are being added as it seems no different than randomizing your traits and using simple cheats to start your Sim off with the skills, career and funds. It also doesn't seem like it will affect your Sims personality in anyway. You can choose any traits for your Sims and none of that changes the way your Sim behaves.

For me, it feels like a completely unnecessary addition.

I think it could be an interesting way for some people to start off a sim. I won't use it much because I usually start off playing a teen for the good manners, responsible, etc., traits.

I do wish they would work on some of the traits affecting character behavior more. Traits like "outgoing" don't seem to make them more sociable, it just makes them stress out quicker because they're actually not any more outgoing than any other sim. I want to see them go out of their way to be sociable and not start reading a book when other sims are over visiting them at home.

Anyway, I'm getting off track. The stories could be fun. I really hope they use the system to generate townies so they all have various skills and aren't all just blank slates.

I'd rather have the option to add the skills and careers without the quiz.

Want the stories without the boring quizzes

I don't believe it's useless.
My first thought when I first saw it was:

Are today's simmer such doorknobs that they get flustered when they see a list of traits and can't make a decision?
They need to be hand-held through the process?

But if you use the old randomizer, I can see this being a better alternative because you can have some randomness, but it has a bit of purpose as you will be more likely to make a sim you like and not have to make so many attempts. I hope we can use it on the homeless sims in the world manager. It might be a fun way to edit them.

I might not use it much, but it should be useful to someone new to the game.

Not gonna say useless, but rather poorly implemented. To me it just comes across as a more annoying trait randomizer with less freedom since you're stuck with whatever you get even if you don't like the result. Getting different funds, skills, and careers is nice, but I hate that you're forced to use the traits that result from that stupid quiz.

The whole thing would have been better implemented imo if in addition to the traits randomizer, they allowed the option to randomize a career, skills, and starting funds with no silly little quiz AND the OPTION to edit the results you get if you don't like them.