Goofball trait

The last three nights I've played in my Vanilla save (the save I play while waiting for mods to update, and only when I have no mods installed), where both parents have the goofball trait.

Yes, there were a lot of pranked toilets and mischief socials, though not so much the buzzers or the airhorns.

But those same sims would go play dolls with their kids, same as always. They would get stuck with the cooking bug (fortunately mom has finished the Chef aspiration). The dad would go and talk to the plants in the garden. They'd chat or play video games as often as they'd troll teh forums. They'd watch TV - and not just comedy. Mom watched a lot of cooking shows. And most of that was autonomous because I was focusing on the Crafty Teenager.

So my experience hasn't had the goofball trait taking over my gameplay. The broken toilets are annoying, and I was seriously considering having the Teenager take a trip to Glimmerbrook just to become a spellcaster and learn Scruberoo and Repario at one point, but overall I found the weight of the autonomous actions to be about right.

None of the sims in my current save have level 10 mischief yet, so I'm not seeing air horns either. Lots of noxious clouds, describing apocalypse, lie about career, that kind of stuff.

Up until I reached the point where I used MCCC Tuner to stop the toilet pranking, I decided to let my sims pee themselves as punishment. I have 3 toilets in the house and as soon as I repaired them, someone would come along and prank it again so I stopped fixing them after a while. :D

My goofball doesn't prank toilets often, but he likes to prank his family. I wonder, when I finish his michief aspiration, will he use sabotage autonomously.

I put the Personality Please mod back in my game last night and the autonomous toilet pranking was a lot with the mod installed. I used MCCC to disable the autonomy of that interaction because I like that the mod makes my sims more lively and if I'm honest I've never really been a fan of things like pranks being autonomous interactions anyway.

Tonight I was playing with my Sim Elya who is a Goofball. I haven’t played her in a while. I decided to see what would happen if I started playing with full autonomy on. The third action she did after loading into the lot was prank the toilet. I thought, oh ok so I guess we’re really doing this. She pranked it again a few days later. She lives alone so she’s just pranking herself. She has the Renaissance aspiration so I’m just like well I guess it’ll get her handiness up some more since she will fix it every time she does that.

She also went out a lot (the flea market, karaoke night, night on the town to the karaoke bar, ancient ruins, club gathering at a cafe, and the gym across the span of maybe two weeks.) and interacted with a lot of Sims, but I never noticed her using any Mischief interactions.

I haven’t seen this yet, thankfully. I’ve always thought of my goofballs as people who just tell a lot of jokes and act silly, and with rare exceptions never do mischief.

Hmm... I think they should make a jokester or prankster trait to be the one who does all the mischievous actions. Or just rename the current one. When I think of goofball I think of someone who is a little silly and is always trying to make people smile by telling jokes or making funny faces, not someone who constantly pranks people.

I got my first pranked toilet today! I'm so excited! I had no idea there was going to be pink smoke!!!

https://i.ibb.co/fMw2jMQ/pranked-toilet-cropped.png

I didn't see who did it, but the most likely culprit is the ghost mopping the floor, Cameron Fletcher. He is a goofball.
This is on maybe the fifth sim-day since the patch. Sounds like he took longer than most of your goofballs to try this?
On the other hand, since he's a ghost, he spends a lot of his day breaking plumbing under normal circumstances.

For those who are bothered with the changed to the goofball trait and play with mods, the pranking toilets issue can be solved by installing my traitoverhaul mod. You can install the file sims4me_traitoverhaul_goofball on it's own if you do not care about the rest of the mod.
https://deichschafblog.de/bienchen/sonstige-mods-misc-mods/ (MM-162, you can use the search bar on the top right to quickly find it)

Got to see if I get a goofball in the game before they nerf it!