Goofball trait

I do feel like they took a step in the right direction of making Sims feel more distinguishable and less samey when you play them, although a lot of work still remains to be done. These changes will take a while getting used to, obviously, but I thought it was kind of funny when my Goofball Sim pranked a toilet on his own. He also went off to flirt with his husband after, so mischief was definitely not the only thing on his mind. :)

These changes sound nice to me now they only need to add more things these goofball Sims can do so it does not get repetitive.

@Netzspannung Goofball is definitely more distinguishable and less samey now. I was also reading thread about finding trait improvements and liked it.

@ChadSims2 I was thinking this too. They need more pranking objects. Exploding stuff and scaring sims with it, throwing some colors on sims like in eco lifestyle when fabricator machine goes berserk.

The only thing I want them to change is to not have them "prank" the toilets over and over which is just breaking it! That is just obnoxious.

"alan650111;c-17843273" wrote:
The only thing I want them to change is to not have them "prank" the toilets over and over which is just breaking it! That is just obnoxious.

Agreed. It’s very obnoxious. I disagree with a lot of people here saying that it’s fine because it makes them unique. But I don’t use mischief like it’s a friendly interaction. I use it accordingly to how the mischief aspiration is categorized as criminal. My sim is not like that. Like, I’m fine with making a distinction between sims but they did it obnoxiously wrong.

I have been playing my goofball several sim days and toilet pranking happened twice. I was positively surprised when I saw that.

It's extremely annoying. I actually black listed goofball and neat in MCCC - no new sims will be generated with the traits. Unfortunately this doesn't help existing sims unless I fix them directly.

I don't think it's that ^^ bad.

I'm used to a lot of mischief in general in my game cause I have the Personality Please mod and it makes all sims do it a lot. It's one of the reasons why I keep occasionally removing the mod. Like it's fine for Goofballs to do it, it's expected but not all sims.

I was thinking the reason goofballs don't prioritize funny interactions is due to the possibility of sims becoming hysterical from telling jokes, then dying from laughter.

At least with most mischief interactions sims emotions stay in check.

"Sharonia;c-17843321" wrote:
I don't think it's that ^^ bad.

I'm used to a lot of mischief in general in my game cause I have the Personality Please mod and it makes all sims do it a lot. It's one of the reasons why I keep occasionally removing the mod. Like it's fine for Goofballs to do it, it's expected but not all sims.

I think any trait that completely takes over sim behavior is bad. Constant obsessive cleaning isn't just "neat". It's OCD. And goofball "was" one one my favorite traits before they ruined it with them pranking toilets all the time. To me a goofball likes to be silly and make other people laugh. Pranksters make themselves laugh at others expense. Honestly, I think it should have been its own trait. So, yes I've removed them from my game. I'm starting a new game in a completely empty world I have saved. Well, it has houses and venues but no sims. MCCC will populate it with sims I've saved in my library. Should be interesting to see how this goes.